Jodey Castricano investigates the role of stories in structuring our social and cultural reality.

Catherine Dauvergne probes the global pressures that are challenging the state of immigration laws in Canada and around the world.

As Ciências Sociais e Humanas tiveram um papel relevante na constituição do campo da Saúde Coletiva e da ABRASCO. E desde então, têm trazido abordagens conceituais e metodológicas para a compreensão e a interpretação dos aspectos socioculturais ligados ao processo saúde-doença, dentre esses, destacam-se as relações de gênero. A presente pesquisa analisou os trabalhos com enfoque nas relações de gênero nos Congressos Brasileiros de Ciências Sociais e Humanas em Saúde, promovidos pela ABRASCO, no período de 1995 a 2011, apresentados sob a forma de resumos em Anais. Os trabalhos foram selecionados a partir de alguns critérios estabelecidos e analisados segundo: o tipo de estudo, a abordagem metodológica, a autoria, a população estudada e os temas abordados. Na segunda fase, os assuntos abordados nesses trabalhos foram sistematizados em oito áreas temáticas. Os resultados mostraram um aumento expressivo da produção com enfoque nas relações de gênero ao longo dos cinco Congressos, totalizando 489 resumos, sendo 90,6 por cento resumos de pesquisas que utilizavam a metodologia qualitativa nas suas análises (68,4 por cento ). Quanto à autoria: houve o predomínio de grupos exclusivamente femininos (64,3 por cento ), oriundos da região Sudeste (52,9 por cento ) e filiados às universidades públicas (70,8 por cento ). Em relação à população estudada: 51,7 por cento eram mulheres, em idade produtiva e/ou reprodutiva e 41,9 por cento eram usuárias/os e/ou profissionais dos serviços de saúde. Os recortes por estratos sociais, raça/etnia e/ou orientação sexual foram pouco utilizados. Os temas mais abordados foram: reprodução e/ou sexualidade (30,3 por cento ), violência (25,8 por cento ) e masculinidades e saúde dos homens (16 por cento ). Considerando o período analisado, a pesquisa revelou parte da história de um campo de estudos marcado pela conquista de espaço institucional, pela interlocução com os serviços e as políticas de saúde e pelo amadurecimento e pela diversificação das temáticas abordadas / Social and Humanities Sciences played an important role in the formation of the field of Collective Health and ABRASCO. And since then they have brought conceptual and methodological approaches to the understanding and interpretation of the sociocultural aspects related to the health-illness process, among these, it is highlighted gender relations. This study analyzed the papers based on a gender relations perspective in the Brazilian Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities in Collective Health, sponsored by ABRASCO, from 1995 to 2011, presented in the form of abstracts in the annals of the Congresses. The works were selected from some established criteria and analyzed according to: the type of study, the methodological approach, the authors, the study population and the themas covered. In the second phase, the matters discussed in this work were organized into eight thematic areas. The results presented a significant increase in production related with gender relations perspective throughout the five Congresses, totaling 489 abstracts, of which 90.6 per cent summaries researches that used qualitative methodology in their analysis (68.4 per cent ). Considering authorship: there was a predominance of groups exclusively female authors (64.3 per cent ), from the Southeast (52.9 per cent ) and affiliated to public universities (70.8 per cent ). Regarding the study population, 51.7 per cent were women of productive and/ or reproductive age, and 41.9 per cent were users of occupational health services. The clipping by social strata, race /ethnicity and sexual orientation was not widely used. The themes discussed were: reproduction and/ or sexuality (30.3 per cent ), violence (25.8 per cent ), and masculinities and men\'s health (16 per cent ). Considering the analyzed period, the survey revealed part of the history of a field of study marked by the achievement of institutional space by the dialogue with health services policies, its maturity and diversification of the subjects addressed

As Ciências Sociais e Humanas tiveram um papel relevante na constituição do campo da Saúde Coletiva e da ABRASCO. E desde então, têm trazido abordagens conceituais e metodológicas para a compreensão e a interpretação dos aspectos socioculturais ligados ao processo saúde-doença, dentre esses, destacam-se as relações de gênero. A presente pesquisa analisou os trabalhos com enfoque nas relações de gênero nos Congressos Brasileiros de Ciências Sociais e Humanas em Saúde, promovidos pela ABRASCO, no período de 1995 a 2011, apresentados sob a forma de resumos em Anais. Os trabalhos foram selecionados a partir de alguns critérios estabelecidos e analisados segundo: o tipo de estudo, a abordagem metodológica, a autoria, a população estudada e os temas abordados. Na segunda fase, os assuntos abordados nesses trabalhos foram sistematizados em oito áreas temáticas. Os resultados mostraram um aumento expressivo da produção com enfoque nas relações de gênero ao longo dos cinco Congressos, totalizando 489 resumos, sendo 90,6 por cento resumos de pesquisas que utilizavam a metodologia qualitativa nas suas análises (68,4 por cento ). Quanto à autoria: houve o predomínio de grupos exclusivamente femininos (64,3 por cento ), oriundos da região Sudeste (52,9 por cento ) e filiados às universidades públicas (70,8 por cento ). Em relação à população estudada: 51,7 por cento eram mulheres, em idade produtiva e/ou reprodutiva e 41,9 por cento eram usuárias/os e/ou profissionais dos serviços de saúde. Os recortes por estratos sociais, raça/etnia e/ou orientação sexual foram pouco utilizados. Os temas mais abordados foram: reprodução e/ou sexualidade (30,3 por cento ), violência (25,8 por cento ) e masculinidades e saúde dos homens (16 por cento ). Considerando o período analisado, a pesquisa revelou parte da história de um campo de estudos marcado pela conquista de espaço institucional, pela interlocução com os serviços e as políticas de saúde e pelo amadurecimento e pela diversificação das temáticas abordadas / Social and Humanities Sciences played an important role in the formation of the field of Collective Health and ABRASCO. And since then they have brought conceptual and methodological approaches to the understanding and interpretation of the sociocultural aspects related to the health-illness process, among these, it is highlighted gender relations. This study analyzed the papers based on a gender relations perspective in the Brazilian Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities in Collective Health, sponsored by ABRASCO, from 1995 to 2011, presented in the form of abstracts in the annals of the Congresses. The works were selected from some established criteria and analyzed according to: the type of study, the methodological approach, the authors, the study population and the themas covered. In the second phase, the matters discussed in this work were organized into eight thematic areas. The results presented a significant increase in production related with gender relations perspective throughout the five Congresses, totaling 489 abstracts, of which 90.6 per cent summaries researches that used qualitative methodology in their analysis (68.4 per cent ). Considering authorship: there was a predominance of groups exclusively female authors (64.3 per cent ), from the Southeast (52.9 per cent ) and affiliated to public universities (70.8 per cent ). Regarding the study population, 51.7 per cent were women of productive and/ or reproductive age, and 41.9 per cent were users of occupational health services. The clipping by social strata, race /ethnicity and sexual orientation was not widely used. The themes discussed were: reproduction and/ or sexuality (30.3 per cent ), violence (25.8 per cent ), and masculinities and men\'s health (16 per cent ). Considering the analyzed period, the survey revealed part of the history of a field of study marked by the achievement of institutional space by the dialogue with health services policies, its maturity and diversification of the subjects addressed

This study considers the relationship between an academic elite and its political socio-cultural context, in the case of ‘mizraḥanut’ in Israel. That is, a field, a network and a Hebrew discourse that produce knowledge about a vague conflation of the Middle East, Arabs, ‘Arabness,’ Islam, and ‘Islamness,’ an object that I call ‘the Arab/Muslim,’ and which mirrors the ethno-lingual-national-religious bind that Zionism advocates for Jews. Where other studies focus on either orientalist criticism or everyday academic capitalism, I argue that this field manifests an overdetermination of both ideologies, as it is poised at the junction of academia, orientalism and Zionism. The study looks at the way that the cultural import of ‘mizraḥanut’ in Jewish-Israeli society manifests through resourceful agencies of power-knowledge in and out of academia. At the same time, the field’s ties with, and dependency on, local and global (particularly American) academia are also significant to its discourse and praxis, and the trends there often pull in different political and philosophical directions. The academics in the field try to settle these potentially conflicting influences and work despite their tensions. The study draws on multiple scholarly traditions and offers new evidence for, and insights in, the various historical and cultural-discursive discussions with which it engages. From contributions to methodology and the different understandings of orientalism, through cultural-historical arguments about the origins and evolution of the local field and its colonial entanglements, to inferring the presupposed and the unsaid, this multi-layered anthropological study draws on, and develops the understanding of, broader political conditions, such as colonialism and neoliberalism.

Las interacciones entre los agentes del sistema de innovación son una pieza clave para el fomento del intercambio de conocimiento, los procesos de aprendizaje y el proceso innovador. El análisis de las interacciones entre universidades y organismos públicos de investigación (ciencia) y los agentes del entorno social (sociedad) ha recibido una gran atención en la comunidad científica, entre otras razones, porque los resultados de estas interacciones pueden tener implicaciones en el diseño de las políticas de ciencia e innovación y en la gestión de la organización. En esta tesis se analizan las interacciones entre los investigadores del área de ciencias sociales y humanidades (CCSSHH) y los agentes sociales, dado que es un colectivo que ha sido escasamente estudiado desde esta perspectiva y presenta características específicas respecto a otros ámbitos científicos. Los tres estudios que componen la tesis abordan aspectos diferentes del tema objeto de estudio y se basan en datos empíricos obtenidos mediante encuestas y entrevistas realizadas en el Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). El primer estudio pretende averiguar si la utilidad del conocimiento producido en las CCSSHH es menor que en las STEM (acrónimo inglés para ciencia, tecnología, ingeniería y matemáticas), tal como los enfoques de las políticas científicas al uso parecen presuponer al establecer medidas basadas en indicadores difíciles de aplicar a este colectivo (licencias de patentes, contratos de I+D con empresas, creación de spin off). El análisis empírico realizado muestra que los resultados de las investigaciones en CCSSHH no son menos útiles que los de las STEM porque, en ambos casos, hay agentes sociales interesados en ellos. Sin embargo, se aprecia que el tipo de mecanismo de colaboración varía entre áreas del conocimiento, al igual que el tipo de agente social con el cual los investigadores interactúan. Las empresas predominan entre los agentes sociales con los cuales colaboran los investigadores de las STEM mientras que los de CCSSHH colaboran con un grupo más variado de agentes sociales (i.e. administraciones, organizaciones no gubernamentales, etc.). El segundo estudio explora en qué medida los grupos de investigación del área de CCSSHH se relacionan con una variedad de agentes sociales mediante cauces no formalizados. Para ello, se realizan dos análisis complementarios (cuantitativo y cualitativo). Los resultados obtenidos ponen de manifiesto que la mayoría de las relaciones no se formalizan institucionalmente, lo cual significa que la institución no las identifica, registra o valora. Sin embargo, la participación en este tipo de colaboraciones informales, que no tienen necesariamente una contrapartida económica, resulta atractiva por su coste relativamente bajo (en términos económicos y de tiempo), por la ausencia de condiciones restrictivas (p. ej. derechos de propiedad, confidencialidad) y por la existencia de beneficios intangibles para el investigador. El tercer estudio analiza en qué medida los grupos de investigación de CCSSHH interactúan con su entorno mediante diferentes actividades de transferencia de conocimiento (TC) ¿consultoría, investigación contratada, investigación conjunta, actividades de formación e intercambio de personal¿ e identifica los determinantes de cada una de ellas. Los resultados indican que las actividades de TC más frecuentes son la consultoría y la investigación contratada, mientras que el intercambio de personal representa una actividad marginal entre las analizadas. El estudio de los factores que determinan la participación en estas actividades de TC muestra que considerar el potencial uso social de los resultados desde el principio aumenta la participación de los grupos de investigación en todas las actividades de TC analizadas. En conjunto, los tres estudios permiten concluir que la investigación en CCSSHH produce conocimiento y resultados que son de interés para la sociedad. Sin embargo, se diferencian de otras áreas científicas en los mecanismos de interacción predominantes y en la variedad de agentes sociales con los que interactúan. Estas conclusiones pueden tener utilidad práctica para el diseño de políticas destinadas a fomentar el amplio conjunto de interacciones identificadas, para la mejora de las prácticas de gestión y para tratar de evaluar las citadas interacciones mediante indicadores capaces de recoger el amplio espectro de mecanismos identificados en esta tesis. / Interactions among agents in the innovation system are critical for the promotion of knowledge exchange, learning processes and the innovation process. The analysis of interactions between universities or public research organisations (science) and social agents (society) has received great attention in the scientific community because, among other reasons, the results of these interactions can have implications for the design of science and innovation policies and organisation management. This thesis analyses the interactions between researchers in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) and social agents. The SSH community is a collective that has been little studied from this perspective and presents particular characteristics as compared to other scientific fields. The three studies included in the thesis address different aspects of the topic and are based on empirical data obtained through surveys and interviews conducted in the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC). The first study explores whether the knowledge produced by the SSH is less useful than that produced in STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), as science policy seems to presume when establishing measures based on indicators (patent licenses, R&D contracts with companies, creating spin off) that are difficult to apply to the SSH community. The empirical analysis shows that SSH research outputs are no less useful than those from STEM because, in both cases, there are social agents interested in them. However, the preferred type of collaborative mechanism varies across fields, as does the type of agent with whom researchers interact. Firms are the prevailing type of agent collaborating with STEM researchers whilst SSH researchers collaborate with a varied group of social agents (i.e. government, NGOs, etc.). The second study explores the extent to which SSH research groups engage with a variety of social agents through non¿formalized collaborations. To do this, two complementary analyses (quantitative and qualitative) are conducted. Results show that most of the collaborations are not institutionally formalized, which means that the research organisation does not identify, record or value them. However, engagement in these informal collaborations, that do not necessarily have an economic counterpart, are attractive due to the relatively low cost (in time and economic terms) of many such activities, the absence of restrictive conditions (e.g. IPR, confidentiality) and other intangible benefits accruing to the researcher. The third study examines the extent to which SSH research groups interact with social agents through different knowledge transfer (KT) activities ¿consultancy, contract research, joint research, training and personnel mobility¿ and identifies the determinants of each. Results show that the most frequent KT activities are consultancy and contract research, while personnel exchange is a marginal activity among those analysed. The study of the factors determining the engagement in these activities shows that consideration of the social uses of the research outputs from the beginning enhances research groups¿ engagement in all the knowledge transfer activities analysed. Overall, the three studies support the conclusion that SSH research produces knowledge and outputs that are of interest to society. However, differences from other scientific fields are found in terms of the prevalent type of interaction mechanisms used and the variety of social agents with whom interactions are established. These findings may have practical utility for the design of policies aimed at encouraging and enhancing the range of interactions, for improving managerial practices and for the assessment of these interactions through indicators able to capture the type of interactions identified in this thesis. / Olmos Peñuela, J. (2013). Science-Society interactions in the social sciences and humanities:empirical studies of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research [Tesis doctoral]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/31653 / Premios Extraordinarios de tesis doctorales

Esta pesquisa e um estudo exploratorio e descritivo que analisa periodicos científicos brasileiros da area de Ciencias Sociais e de Humanidades indexados na base SciELO. A metodologia adotada consistiu na aplicacao parcial do modelo de avaliacao de periódicos desenvolvido por Bomfa (2003). A analise, realizada com os 73 titulos, foi ancorada, principalmente, em criterios de qualidade extrinsecos dos periodicos. No entanto, tambem foi realizada caracterizacao dos periodicos com base em indicadores qualitativos, tais como idioma de publicacao, indexacao em bases de dados e classificacao Qualis; bem como, por indicadores quantitativos relacionados aos periodicos, como: fator de impacto, vida media, citacoes concedidas, citacoes recebidas, numero de fasciculos, numero de artigos e numero de acessos aos periodicos. Os resultados mostram que com relacao as caracteristicas extrinsecas, esses periodicos tem evoluido significativamente e ja nao estao mais tao distantes, em termos de aspectos formais, dos periodicos de outras areas com maior tradicao de publicacao em periodicos cientificos. / This research is an exploratory and descriptive study that analyzes Brazilian scientific journals in the social sciences and humanities, indexed by SciELO database. The methodology adopted consisted of the partial implementation of the assessment model developed by Bomfa (2003). The 73 journals were analyzed, mainly in their aspects of quality extrinsic criteria. However, the study was also conducted to analyze qualitative aspects, such as publication language, indexing in databases and Qualis classification, as well as, quantitative indicators related to journals impact factor, Half-life, granted citations, received citations, issues number, articles number and number of articles journals requests. The results show that considering extrinsic aspects, these journals has improved significantly and in terms of formal aspects, are no longer so far apart from journals which have strong tradition of communicating scientific results in scholarly journals.

Interpretation of international law can vary from culture to culture. Pitman Potter is investigating new models that respond to these cross-cultural differences.

Esta pesquisa e um estudo exploratorio e descritivo que analisa periodicos científicos brasileiros da area de Ciencias Sociais e de Humanidades indexados na base SciELO. A metodologia adotada consistiu na aplicacao parcial do modelo de avaliacao de periódicos desenvolvido por Bomfa (2003). A analise, realizada com os 73 titulos, foi ancorada, principalmente, em criterios de qualidade extrinsecos dos periodicos. No entanto, tambem foi realizada caracterizacao dos periodicos com base em indicadores qualitativos, tais como idioma de publicacao, indexacao em bases de dados e classificacao Qualis; bem como, por indicadores quantitativos relacionados aos periodicos, como: fator de impacto, vida media, citacoes concedidas, citacoes recebidas, numero de fasciculos, numero de artigos e numero de acessos aos periodicos. Os resultados mostram que com relacao as caracteristicas extrinsecas, esses periodicos tem evoluido significativamente e ja nao estao mais tao distantes, em termos de aspectos formais, dos periodicos de outras areas com maior tradicao de publicacao em periodicos cientificos. / This research is an exploratory and descriptive study that analyzes Brazilian scientific journals in the social sciences and humanities, indexed by SciELO database. The methodology adopted consisted of the partial implementation of the assessment model developed by Bomfa (2003). The 73 journals were analyzed, mainly in their aspects of quality extrinsic criteria. However, the study was also conducted to analyze qualitative aspects, such as publication language, indexing in databases and Qualis classification, as well as, quantitative indicators related to journals impact factor, Half-life, granted citations, received citations, issues number, articles number and number of articles journals requests. The results show that considering extrinsic aspects, these journals has improved significantly and in terms of formal aspects, are no longer so far apart from journals which have strong tradition of communicating scientific results in scholarly journals.

(in English): This thesis performs a descriptive bibliometric analysis of science production in 17 fields of social sciences and humanities in the Czech Republic, successfully verifying the usability of institutional data for this purpose. It focuses on the central areas of scientific production research: publishing strategies, scientific cooperation and the degree of internationalization of the R&D results. The thesis compares the monitored indicators within two ten-year periods: 1998-2007 and 2008-2017. Through the analysis of the R&D results, it reveals not only significant institutional differences, but above all, distinctive field specifics, which point to considerable diversity of the fields of social sciences and humanities. At the same time, it confirms an increase in the number of R&D results and a higher degree of internationalization and scientific cooperation between the analysed periods. The contribution of the work lies not only in the provided characteristics and detailed assessment of the usability of data, but also in pointing out the breadth of the uses of institutional resources for the analysis of scientific production, which far exceeds the capabilities of the IS VaVaI system.