World Social Science Report: knowledge divides

Social science. Ignorance, knowledge, and outcomes in a small world.

eter (panel E, green regions) and flow vertically , driven by molecular diffusion of heat. Similarly, where warm, salty water lies underneath cool, fresh water (panel D, blue areas), diffusive convection causes enhanced upward heat flux (panel F). The fluxes from these phenomena cause density changes in the intrusive layers (panel C) that can both create intrusions and drive them horizontally. ...

Digital Divides in the Knowledge Society

The Hybridization of Social Science Knowledge

A TWOFOLD PROCESS CAN BE SEEK in the growth of science: the fragmentation of formal disciplines and a recombination of the specialties resulting from this fragmentation. The division of disciplines into specialized subfields has led to the development of hybrid specialties. The process of hybridization consists, first of all, of borrowing and lending concepts, methods, theories, and praxes. The...

Social Science Knowledge and Economic Development

The closing decades of the twentieth century witnessed a sharp transition in the grand themes that had provided the context for development thought and practice during the previous half century. The process of political decolonization was followed by concerns about the implications of the globalization of economic activity. The fall of the Berlin Wall, which signaled the end of the Cold War, el...

Bridging knowledge divides: internet-based academic research in Saudi Arabia

Information Technology is commonly referred to as a powerful tool which can provide many opportunities for developing countries. It is seen in particular as a prime enabler for many societies to become ‘knowledge societies’, and to integrate into the ‘global economy .In Saudi Arabia, government authorities as well as academics and their institutions have very positive attitudes towards the impo...