Trends in Ethnography have changed over the years, and just as in the initial years, fieldwork and the Participant Observation method replaced armchair ethnography, shorter-duration in locales close to the…
Arts and Culture
Presenting the art and the science of Qualified Historiography: Anchoring history-writing in the event of uncertainty and unreliability of narratives
By: Sujay Rao Mandavilli
Published: 2023-05-10
This paper presents and articulates the art and the science of Qualified Historiography, that is, History-writing in cases of uncertainty and unreliability of the narrative– where narratives are not absolute…
Advocacy
Unveiling the Sociological Ninety-ten rules for Social Sciences research: Towards better hypothesis formulation in the Social Sciences in the interests of higher quality research and intellectual multi-polarity
By: Sujay Rao Mandavilli
Published: 2023-02-09
The Sociological Ninety ten rules that are proposed in this paper, are based on the fundamental premise that various branches of social sciences like sociology, anthropology and economics are human-centric…
Arts and Culture
Operationalizing cross-cultural research design: Practical, cost-effective, and a minimalistic application of cross-cultural research design to minimize cultural bias in research and reconcile diverse viewpoints
By: Sujay Rao Mandavilli
Published: 2023-05-04
We begin this paper by providing a brief overview of the history of science in different civilizations and cultures around the world since ancient times, in order to show that…
Arts and Culture
Elucidating the Certainty uncertainty principle for the Social Sciences: Guidelines for hypothesis formulation in the Social Sciences for enhanced objectivity and intellectual multi-polarity
By: Sujay Rao Mandavilli
Published: 2022-07-22
This paper is the second in our series on scientific method for the social sciences, and is presented in relation to what we call the “Globalization of science”. It is…
Arts and Culture
Social Responsibility over Academic freedom: Emphasizing Ethics and Codes of Conduct geared for a Scholar’s duties towards science, society and the education system in Twenty-First Century Science
By: Sujay Rao Mandavilli
Published: 2022-05-12
This paper explores the twin issues of Academic Freedom and Social Responsibility among researchers and scholars, and gaps in theory and praxis as well. It also discusses the current application…