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Dear list,
Please find below the CfP: Empirical Evidence from COMPASO - *Journal of
Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology* (http://compaso.ro/).
Postgraduate student contributions *are highly encouraged*. Feel free to
forward this call to people you know who might be interested.
many thanks,
Simona Ciotlaus
http://compaso.ro/2011/04/09/call-for-papers-empirical-evidence/
Call for papers: Empirical
evidence<http://compaso.ro/2011/04/09/call-for-papers-empirical-evidence/>
Deadline for submission of papers: May 30th, 2011
Send articles, research notes and book reviews to:
journal[dot]compaso[at]gmail[dot]com
The Journal invites contributions to its fourth issue: *Empirical evidence*.
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Sociology and anthropology assume various epistemologies that inform the
process of knowledge production. Frequently, yet seldom acknowledged,
disciplinary protocols are premised on the idea that to do science means to
employ a depersonalizing gaze on the social data that, simultaneously,
evacuates the so-called subjective influence in the constitution of a
research object.
The forthcoming issue of *Compaso* aims to interrogate polished accounts of
social research by focusing on the idea that disciplinary protocols frame
empirical evidence, which is, thus, relational and socially embedded.
Contributors are invited to reflect on the possibilities to bring
experiences and data emerging in particular research situations to bear on
our inquiries. Relevant questions to this discussion include, among others:
- How are research questions related to the empirical evidence that
we mobilize to discuss them? How do questions shape experiences and data,
and how are questions, in turn, shaped or created by our engagement in
empirical pursuits?
- What are we to make of the quantitative versus qualitative
distinction? Is it, or not, a helpful tool to orient research?
- What hidden realities may be pursued empirically? What are the
assumptions, limits, risks and hopes in the investigation of *un-observables
* – such as *implicit *meanings, *true* motives, *intimate *experiences, *
latent* variables, or*shared* social norms?
- In particular, can we investigate rationality empirically? How
can we observe rationality and its evil twin – irrationality? On the other
hand, can we rely on an assumption of human rationality as an instrument for
our empirical inquiries? After all, how can the rationality concept be
useful in empirical research?
- What are the strategies to convert a collection of evidence
assembled for one research question into empirical data for other inquiries?
How can empirical evidence be “recycled”?
Articles that engage in a comparative approach, connecting different
concepts, materials, methods, situations, pieces of research or other social
realities, are particularly welcome.
Please check the Journal’s website for guidelines on manuscript submission:
http://compaso.ro/instructions-for-authors/
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our own creative involvement in the world is by taking ourselves out of it"
(Tim Ingold)
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