Contents

#### **Preface XIII**

	- Chapter 2 **Karl Popper and the Social Sciences 19**  Sylvain K. Cibangu
	- Chapter 3 **Historicism, Hermeneutics, Second Order Observation: Luhmann Observed by a Historian 39**  Jaap den Hollander
	- **Section 2 Communities and Their Representations 59**
	- Chapter 4 **The Significance of Intermediality in the Immortalization of the French Republican Nation (1789-1799) 61**  Montserrat Martínez García
	- Chapter 5 **Western and Eastern Ur-Topias: Communities and Nostalgia 77**  Anjan Sen and Asun López-Varela
	- Chapter 6 **Social Science as a Complex and Pluri-Disciplinary System: Economics as Example 105**  David John Farmer
	- **Section 3 Citizenship Participation and Sustainable Communities 121**
	- Chapter 7 **Sustainability Science and Citizens Participation: Building a Science-Citizens-Policy Interface to Address Grand Societal Challenges in Europe 123**  Carlo Sessa

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**Section 6 Multilingual Settings and Integration 323** 

**in a Multilingual Setting 325** 

Chapter 19 **International Higher Education Rankings**

Chapter 20 **Scientific Publishing in the Field** 

Akiyoshi Yonezawa

Thomas Hansson

**Section 8 Quality Assessment 441**

Şendil Can

Beban Sammy Chumbow

Chapter 18 **Creative Expression Through** 

Chapter 17 **The Challenge of Linguistic Diversity and Pluralism:** 

**Contemporary Musical Language 347**  Barbara Sicherl-Kafol and Olga Denac

**Section 7 Public Knowledge: Transference and Dissemination 355** 

José M. Gómez-Sancho and Carmen Pérez-Esparrells

**at a Glance: How to Valorise the Research in Social Sciences and Humanities? 357**

**and Humanities Under Globalization 397** 

**Perspectives for an Embodied Spirituality in the** *Annus virtualis* **and Beyond 429** 

Chapter 24 **The Effects of Environment and Family Factors on**

Chapter 25 **Social Engineering Theory: A Model for the Appropriation**

Muhamad Saiful Bahri Yusoff and Ab Rahman Esa

**Pre-Service Science Teachers' Attitudes Towards Educational Technologies (The Case of Muğla University-Turkey) 443** 

**of Innovations with a Case Study of the Health MDGs 455**

**of Social Medicine in Slovenia 375** Petruša Miholič and Dorjan Marušič

Chapter 21 **Japan's University Education in Social Sciences**

Chapter 22 **ICT, Learning Objects and Activity Theory 411**

Chapter 23 **An Anthropology of** *Singularity***? Pastoral**

Jan-Albert van den Berg

Beban Sammy Chumbow

Chapter 26 **Stress Management for Medical Students: A Systematic Review 477**

**The Tier Stratification Model of Language Planning**

#### **Section 6 Multilingual Settings and Integration 323**

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Chapter 8 **Social Science, Equal Justice and Public Health Policy: Translating Research into Action Through the Urban Greening Movement 155** 

> **Object-Oriented Information Extraction and Schedule-Oriented Monitoring 179**

**Theoretic Framework to Shed Light on** 

**in Hybrid and Autocratic Regimes 205** 

**The Legacy of Anglo European Feminist Theory to Social Sciences-Humanities 219**

**of Teaching Cyberfeminist Literature 243**

**Outline of an Analytical Framework 265**

**from the Perspective of Young People 281** 

**The ICTY and the Growth of International Law 299**

**Inmates Write Stories of Life and Redemption 317** 

**the Relationship Between Repression and Protest** 

Zhuowei Hu, Hongqi Liu and Lai Wei

Robert García and Seth Strongin

Chapter 9 **Environmental Effect of Major Project:** 

**Section 4 Social Sectors and Integration 203**

Daniel Stockemer

Xiana Sotelo

Katrine Fangen

**Section 5 Security and Justice 279** 

Mary J. Gallant

Diane Ketelle

Chapter 16 **The Power of Words:**

Chapter 14 **The Conceptualising of Insecurity** 

Riitta Vornanen, Maritta Törrönen, Janissa Miettinen and Pauli Niemelä

Chapter 15 **War, Genocide and Atrocity in Yugoslavia:** 

Chapter 11 **Embracing Intersectional Analysis:** 

Maya Zalbidea Paniagua

Chapter 12 **Cyberfeminist Theories and the Benefits** 

Chapter 13 **Social Exclusion and Inclusion of Young Immigrants in Different Arenas –** 

Chapter 10 **When do People Protest? – Using a Game** 


Preface

parts of the world.

human relations and socio-cultural practices.

The umbrella term Social Sciences and Humanities refers to a plurality of fields outside the Natural or Physical Sciences. Disciplines as different as anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art, cultural studies, economics, education, geography and environmental studies, history, law, languages and linguistics, political science, philosophy, psychology, sociology or translation studies, all share the concern for

In the ancient world, the alliance between political and religious power had guaranteed the interdisciplinary dialogue between the Natural Sciences, the Social Sciences and the Humanities, all closely associated to institutional control. The move towards anthropocentric approaches took place at different times in different regions of the world, alongside the socio-cultural, political, economical and technological forces that shaped each territory, from the establishment of the first learning centers and universities, to the discovery of new ways of looking at worlds beyond our own by means of the telescope. But our world not only changed at the pace humans marked through their changing practices and innovations. Environmental issues, such as the fact that papyrus could not be used in the wet climates of Northern Europe, shaped the way human technologies were used and where. From Chinese paper and the printing press, to contemporary digital communication and networked society, the complexity of human life is such that knowledge divisions are there to set the foundations for groundbreaking innovations across all fields. To say that the growth of the Social Sciences took place mostly in the 18th Century, coinciding with political and economic reforms, sometimes in the form of violent revolutions, that sought national and territorial cohesion in Europe, would be to cast aside similar changes in other

There are many difficulties involved in writing an introduction to a series of volumes that seek to provide an overall picture of human society and cultural habits across differing disciplines, various nations, distinct methodologies and, in some cases, diverse time spans. The volumes oscillate between 'positive' approaches to knowledge, based sense experience and statistical analysis, focused on deduction and description, and interpretative positions, more inductive and prescriptive. Specialization and interdisciplinarity walk hand in hand in a dialogue that seeks to speak across the bio-physical, the socio-cultural and the artistic, under the common
