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Maria Pratt - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The utility of Human Sciences in nursing inquiry.
    Nurse researcher, 2012
    Co-Authors: Maria Pratt
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    AIM This paper targets novice nurse researchers to highlight how the perspectives of Human Sciences are useful in understanding people's experiences. BACKGROUND There is a need to address the utility of Human Sciences or the Humanistic philosophy that values the understanding of subjective experiences in nursing, given that the mainstream development of nursing knowledge is still influenced by the positivist and post-positivist research paradigms. DATA SOURCES Discussion papers on Heideggerian hermeneutic phenomenology, Human Sciences, and qualitative research were accessed through the databases Cinahl and Medline over the past 30 years. Seminal works on phenomenology were addressed in this paper. DISCUSSION Using Heideggerian hermeneutic phenomenology as a commonly referenced Human philosophy and methodology, this paper discusses how Heidegger's (1962) perspective may be used in nursing practice and research. Van Manen's (1990) descriptions of phenomenological science are discussed to address the perspective's value in nursing inquiry and to reveal the biases associated with this Humanistic approach. CONCLUSION The limitations of Human Sciences should not deter nurse researchers from using this type of nursing inquiry as it can provide an important framework in nursing research, practice and knowledge development. IMPLICATIONS FOR RESEARCH/PRACTICE The author's perspective as a graduate student highlights the importance of Human Sciences in exploring the experiences of people vital in the delivery of nursing practice. However, researchers wishing to undertake Humanistic inquiry should learn the philosophical and methodological underpinnings of their chosen Humanistic approach.

Joel Isaac - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • working knowledge making the Human Sciences from parsons to kuhn
    2012
    Co-Authors: Joel Isaac
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    The Human Sciences in the English-speaking world have been in a state of crisis since the Second World War. The battle between champions of hard-core scientific standards and supporters of a more Humanistic, interpretive approach has been fought to a stalemate. Joel Isaac seeks to throw these contemporary disputes into much-needed historical relief. In "Working Knowledge" he explores how influential thinkers in the twentieth century's middle decades understood the relations among science, knowledge, and the empirical study of Human affairs. For a number of these thinkers, questions about what kinds of knowledge the Human Sciences could produce did not rest on grand ideological gestures toward "science" and "objectivity" but were linked to the ways in which knowledge was created and taught in laboratories and seminar rooms. Isaac places special emphasis on the practical, local manifestations of their complex theoretical ideas. In the case of Percy Williams Bridgman, Talcott Parsons, B. F. Skinner, W. V. O. Quine, and Thomas Kuhn, the institutional milieu in which they constructed their models of scientific practice was Harvard University. Isaac delineates the role the "Harvard complex" played in fostering connections between epistemological discourse and the practice of science. Operating alongside but apart from traditional departments were special seminars, interfaculty discussion groups, and non-professionalized societies and teaching programs that shaped thinking in sociology, psychology, anthropology, philosophy, science studies, and management science. In tracing this culture of inquiry in the Human Sciences, Isaac offers intellectual history at its most expansive.

  • Introduction: The Human Sciences and Cold War America
    Journal of the history of the behavioral sciences, 2011
    Co-Authors: Joel Isaac
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    Studies of the history of the Human Sciences during the Cold War era have proliferated over the past decade--in JHBS and elsewhere. This special issue focuses on the connections between the behavioral Sciences and the culture and politics of the Cold War in the United States. In the recent literature, there is a tendency to identify the Cold War Human Sciences with two main paradigms: that of psychocultural analysis, on the one hand, and of the systems Sciences, on the other. The essays in the special issue both extend understanding of each of these interpretive frameworks and help us to grasp their interconnection.

  • THE Human Sciences IN COLD WAR AMERICA
    The Historical Journal, 2007
    Co-Authors: Joel Isaac
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    ABSTRACTThe last fifteen years have witnessed an explosion of interest in the history of the Cold War. Historical attention has focused not only on the diplomatic and military aspects of the conflict, but also, increasingly, on its cultural, intellectual, and technological dimensions. One of the fruits of this widening of scope in Cold War studies is a burgeoning literature on the development of the post-Second World War American Human Sciences. Studies of the Cold War career of the Human Sciences, however, have often been inflected by moralistic, and sometimes tendentious, claims about the relationship between the state and the academy. This article seeks to explain the chief characteristics of the historiography of the Human Sciences in Cold War America by describing its formation in the interstices of three distinct lines of inquiry: the history of science, the cultural turn in Cold War studies, and the history of the birth of the Human science professions in the United States. It argues that historians of the post-war American Human Sciences have absorbed some features of these literatures, whilst neglecting others that offer more nuanced perspectives on the relationship between scientific research and its patrons during the Cold War era. Moreover, it suggests that the best prospects for the future maturation of the field lie in the recovery of ‘middle-range contextualizations’ that link post-war trends in the Human Sciences to interwar and turn-of-the-century developments, thereby making the Cold War context less all-encompassing than it has sometimes appeared.

  • THE Human Sciences IN COLD
    2007
    Co-Authors: Joel Isaac
    Abstract:

    The lastfifteen years have witnessed an explosion of interest in the history of the Cold War. Historical attention has focused not only on the diplomatic and military aspects of the conflict, but also, increasingly, on its cultural, intellectual, and technological dimensions. One of the fruits of this widening of scope in Cold War studies is a burgeoning literature on the development of the post-Second World War American Human Sciences. Studies of the Cold War career of the Human Sciences, however, have often been inflected by moralistic, and sometimes tendentious, claims about the relationship between the state and the academy. This article seeks to explain the chief characteristics of the historiography of the Human Sciences in Cold War America by describing its formation in the interstices of three distinct lines of inquiry: the history of science, the cultural turn in Cold War studies, and the history of the birth of the Human science professions in the United States. It argues that historians of the post-war American Human Sciences have absorbed some features of these literatures, whilst neglecting others that offer more nuanced perspectives on the relationship between scientific research and its patrons during the Cold War era. Moreover, it suggests that the best prospects for the future maturation of the field lie in the recovery of'middle-range contextualizations' that link post-war trends in the Human Sciences to interwar and turn-ofthe-century developments, thereby making the Cold War context less all-encompassing than it has sometimes appeared.

Monroe Friedman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Research on Consumer Protection Issues: The Perspective of the “Human Sciences”
    Journal of Social Issues, 1991
    Co-Authors: Monroe Friedman
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    This article gives an overview of consumer protection issues and the body of scholarly research in the Human Sciences that addresses these issues. A consumer rights approach is adopted for defining consumer protection issues, and the various articles in this journal issue are briefly described in the context of this approach. Next, overviews are presented of consumer protection issues in the consumer movement, and of consumer protection research relating to consumer behavior and to the societal contexts in which this behavior occurs. Finally, a typology of consumer protection research areas is proposed, based on the Human effects of consumer policy initiatives.

Julia Rodriguez - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Beyond Prejudice and Pride: The Human Sciences in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Latin America
    Isis; an international review devoted to the history of science and its cultural influences, 2013
    Co-Authors: Julia Rodriguez
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    ABSTRACTGrappling with problematics of status and hierarchy, recent literature on the history of the Human Sciences in Latin America has gone through three overlapping phases. First, the scholarship has reflected a dialogue between Latin American scientists and their European colleagues, characterized by the “center/periphery” model of scientific diffusion. Next, scholars drew on postcolonial theory to undermine the power of the “center” and to recover the role of local agents, including both elites and subalterns. In the wake of numerous studies embracing both models, the way has been cleared to look at multiple dimensions simultaneously. Histories of the Human Sciences in the complex multicultural societies of Latin America provide an unusually direct path to integration. Moreover, this dynamic and multilayered approach has the potential to address ambivalences about authority and power that have characterized previous analyses of the production and application of knowledge about the Human condition.

Shannon M. Jackson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.