The segregated scholars: black social scientists and the creation of black labor studies, 1890-1950

The ways in which local normative systems and processes of decision-making in Third World states have been interpreted and transformed by colonial and postcolonial lawyers, administrators and social scientists have received much scholarly attention. During the past 15 years in particular, the “creation of traditional law” in Africa and the “myth of adapt” in Indonesia have became a special topic in the writing of legal anthropologists, largely influenced by scholars such as Asad arid Said. In recent years analyses have increasingly focussed upon the economic and political forces and purposes behind the transformations and on their consequences rather than on their underlying ethnocentric conceptual biases.In his paper “Traditionalism and Traditional Law” in this volume Peter Fitzpatrick presents an elegant, sophisticated and critical account of the main strands of analysis in the discussions about the creation of customary or traditional law. In my comment upon his views and those of other authors which he discusses I am not so much concerned with a critique; I would rather like to expand and amend these views by enlarging the analytical framework in which they should be seen. My concern is with the selectivity of these analyses. Firstly, I think that they usually tend to generalize from a limited (set of) context(s) in which the creation of customary law has been observed, such as adjudication in colonial courts or academic writing and teaching in colonial law.

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Labor Scholarship and/as Labor Activism

Perspectives on Politics ◽

10.1017/s1537592716000116 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

pp. 432-441 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Michael McCann

Keyword(s):

Political Activism ◽

Social Scientists ◽

Labor Studies ◽

Labor Activism ◽

Political Struggles ◽

Labor Activists ◽

Campus Organizations ◽

Research And Education ◽

The University ◽

Oriented Research

Do public engagement and political activism enhance or compromise the research enterprise of social scientists? I offer a personal reflection on the benefits and challenges of grounding scholarship about labor and workers’ political struggles in praxical engagement with labor activists, including with actual subjects of research. While scholars engage non-academic publics in many different ways, I underline how ongoing direct collaboration with labor activists can be facilitated by participation in campus organizations whose mission is labor-oriented research and education. My own involvement with the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies at the University of Washington provides one example of how this linkage between labor scholarship and labor activism can be sustained in routine, mostly complementary, and productive ways.

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LOCUS OF CONTROL, nAch AND VALUES OF COMMUNITY ENTREPRENEURS

Social Behavior and Personality An International Journal ◽

10.2224/sbp.2003.31.8.739 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 31 (8) ◽

pp. 739-747 ◽

Cited By ~ 19

Author(s):

Francisco Díaz ◽

AndréS Rodri´guez

Keyword(s):

Locus Of Control ◽

Achievement Motivation ◽

Social Scientists ◽

Psychological Attributes ◽

Community Economy ◽

Similarities And Differences ◽

The Creation ◽

Qualified Worker

Over the last two decades social scientists have paid greater attention to the phenomenon of the creation of companies and, especially, to the personality of entrepreneurs. This article examines the prevalence of a range of psychological attributes in a sample of entrepreneurs from Andalusian cooperatives. These attributes are locus of control, assessed by a version of the I-E Rotter Scale (1966); need of achievement, using Lynn's Achievement Motivation Questionnaire – LAMQ – (Lynn, 1969) and Values, assessed by the Rokeach (1973) Value Survey. We have analyzed the similarities and differences of this kind of entrepreneurship compared with other entrepreneurs who do not operate within the community economy. Our results show the double profile of the cooperative entrepreneur, halfway between the manager and the qualified worker.

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Reformist Paths, 1960–1964

Forgotten Peace ◽

10.1525/california/9780520293922.003.0006 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Robert A. Karl

Keyword(s):

Scientific Knowledge ◽

State Agencies ◽

Social Scientists ◽

Perceived Needs ◽

New Class ◽

Causes Of Violence ◽

The Creation

This chapter examines how, although various indicators of violence continued to fall, the practice of peace proceeded differently at the local, regional, and national levels after 1960. In Bogota, a fresh vision of convivencia took hold, the creation of a new class of letrado. Led by the sociologist Orlando Fals Borda, social scientists pioneered developmentalist policies that picked up where the Lleras administration's initiatives to “rehabilitate” rural Colombia had left off. By cataloging the country's social realities and designing state agencies to meet the perceived needs of the pais nacional—thus hopefully eliminating the structural causes of violence—these social scientists advanced their own variant of convivencia. Their applied scientific knowledge and role in a growing government apparatus moreover placed them at the forefront of global developmentalism.

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Changing Perceptions of the "Other": A Field Experiment

Practicing Anthropology ◽

10.17730/praa.28.3.q53mr45155080q28 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 28 (3) ◽

pp. 4-7

Author(s):

S. Kalifon ◽

M. Mollov

Keyword(s):

Field Experiment ◽

Ethnic Minority ◽

State Violence ◽

The Other ◽

Social Scientists ◽

Divided Societies ◽

Nation States ◽

The Federalist ◽

The Creation ◽

Definition Of

It has been noted that the vast majority of nation states today are no longer (if ever they were) ethnically homogenous (see for example, Kymlicka 1995). This is especially apparent in Israel which is a nation of immigrants and also has a large ethnic minority. To reduce intra-state violence and moderate internal tensions, the federal model of institutions has been advanced by many social scientists to cope with tensions in such divided societies. It is generally agreed by political scientists that there is no precise and universally accepted definition of federalism. However the federalist idea and concept clearly have found expression in the creation of political structures designed to ensure the co-existence of different and potentially conflicting political authorities within larger political entities.

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