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Jim Smith
A Human Science Approach to Engaging in Transformational Social Chang JoAnn McAllister, PhD Abstract This essay outlines a framework grounded in the Human Science tradition for sensitive and engaged participation in addressing today’s critical environmental and social justice challenges. Elements of this tradition – acknowledgment of multiple perspectives, appreciation of the meaning of ordinary human…
Read MoreLanguage and Culture “To put it simply, culture is about ‘shared meanings.’ Now, language is the privileged medium in which we ‘make sense’ of things, in which meaning is produced and exchanged. Meanings can only be shared through our common access to language. So, language is central to meaning and culture and has always been…
Read MoreIt’s time for March Madness again, the scrambling tournament to determine the number one men and women’s National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I collegiate basketball teams in the United States. Teams from universities all over the U.S. will compete for 19 days, and every game will be televised. For the men’s division 68 teams…
Read MoreAs human science’s project is to transform the world, so is it the task of persons who are engaged in the pursuit of human science. I would go so far as to say that if you are a human scientist, you are by definition a revolutionary intellectual. As Edward Said so eloquently stated, “the challenge…
Read MoreIf you look at a testimony of love from 2,000 years ago it can still exactly speak to you, whereas medical advice from only 100 years ago is ridiculous. – Jennifer Michael Hecht, on poetry versus science It would seem that human sciences emerged as a rejection of the philosophical, methodological and epistemological underpinnings…
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