Navigating the social sciences: interdisciplinarity and ecology

Interdisciplinarity and Peirce’s classification of the Sciences: A Centennial Reassessment

This paper discusses the American scientist and philosopher Charles S. Peirce’s (1839–1914) classiacation of the sciences from the contemporary perspective of interdisciplinary studies. Three theses are defended: (1) Studies on interdisciplinarity pertain to the intermediate class of Peirce’s classiacation of all science, the sciences of review (retrospective science), ranking below the science...

faculty of psychology and social sciences group of anthropology master thesis in major of anthropology

چکیده پایان نامه (شامل خلاصه، اهداف، روش های اجرا و نتایج به دست آمده): کار جمع آوری گو یش های محلی در سال های اخیر شتاب امیدوار کننده ای به خود گرفته است. شاید از بارزترین اهداف جمع آوری گویش های مختلف، ثبت و ضبط آن، جلوگیری از نابودی و مهمتر از همه حل مشکلات دستوری زبان رسمی باشد. دقت در فرآیند های زبانی گویش های محلی نوع ارتباط مردم نواحی مختلف با پیرامون نشان را به ما نشان خواهد داد. از س...

Navigating Social Spaces

Behaviour of robots within a human-populated space can be disruptive, as robot motion does not necessarily conform to social norms. Typical movement models are oblivious to social expectations, and so easily violate personal space and other social rules, magnifying the unnatural behaviour of robot agents and causing discomfort to human occupants. This paper presents a navigation algorithm that ...

NEW ECOLOGY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: What Prospects for a Fruitful Engagement?

n Abstract This review asks the question: What new avenues of social science enquiry are suggested by new ecological thinking, with its focus on nonequilibrium dynamics, spatial and temporal variation, complexity, and uncertainty? Following a review of the emergence of the “new ecology” and the highlighting of contrasts with earlier “balance of nature” perspectives, work emerging from ecologica...

Navigating Social Life: on Social Cognition