{"id":1460,"date":"2011-08-02T00:12:27","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T05:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"Dr. Jon Camp examines how the social sciences -- broadly: communication, psychology, sociology, and economics -- use information that might be considered more subjective in nature than that of the \"hard\" sciences.\u00a0 He defined the social sciences as a set "},"modified":"2012-09-04T14:24:06","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T19:24:06","slug":"perspectives-from-social-science","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef12\/spotlight-schedule\/perspectives-from-social-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Perspectives from Social Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Jon Camp examines how the social sciences &#8212; broadly: communication, psychology, sociology, and economics &#8212; use information that might be considered more subjective in nature than that of the &#8220;hard&#8221; sciences.\u00a0 He defined the social sciences as a set of analytical tools to help us explore the complexity of human experiences.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->What counts as evidence in the social sciences? Must the evidence always be quantifiable? How might the social sciences be prophetic in terms of challenging the status quo?<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/vimeo.com\/48808849<\/p>\n<p>Some specific questions that Dr. Camp asked in his Spotlight were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What are the Social Sciences?<\/li>\n<li>What counts as evidence in the Social Sciences?<\/li>\n<li>How do the Social Sciences help us think critically?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>\u00a0<em>Reading<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>In preparation for this Spotlight session, please read the following excerpt and view the short video from <em>Heart Broken in Half<\/em>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/webfiles.acu.edu\/departments\/General%20Education\/CORE%20110\/Readings\/Little-Perspectives_from_the_Social_Sciences.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Little &#8211; Objectivity, Truth and Method: A Philosopher&#8217;s Perspective on the Social Sciences<\/a>.<br \/>\n(<em>Note: myACU login required to access reading)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Daniel Little, &#8220;Objectivity, Truth and Method: A Philosopher&#8217;s Perspective on the Social Sciences,&#8221; <em>Anthropology Newsletter <\/em>(November 1995), 1-5.<\/p>\n<p>This reading contains several terms specific to the discipline of Anthropology, one of the Social Sciences.\u00a0 This <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef12\/files\/2011\/08\/Summary-and-Glossary-for-Little_Perspectives.pdf\">summary and glossary<\/a> might be a helpful reference before you read it.<\/p>\n<p>More about Daniel Little on his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.changingsociety.org\/ChangingSociety\/Welcome.html\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><em>Join the Conversation<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>If you have a question for this week&#8217;s speaker or would like to share a conclusion of your own, please post it as a comment below. We welcome off-campus voices to the public Cornerstone dialogue as long as they are respectful and contribute meaningfully to these curricular discussions. See the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/terms-of-use\/\" target=\"_blank\">ACU Blogs Terms of Use<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef12\/about\/\">About Cornerstone<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n<p><!--sidebar--><\/p>\n<h1>Spotlight Resources<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef12\/spotlight-schedule\/gods-idols-terrorists-jesus\/a-book-burning-jesus\/\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef12\/amazing-statistics\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1675\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef12\/files\/2011\/08\/rosling-stats-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef12\/files\/2011\/08\/rosling-stats-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef12\/files\/2011\/08\/rosling-stats-92x92.jpg 92w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef12\/files\/2011\/08\/rosling-stats-60x60.jpg 60w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef12\/files\/2011\/08\/rosling-stats-32x32.jpg 32w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef12\/files\/2011\/08\/rosling-stats-174x174.jpg 174w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef12\/files\/2011\/08\/rosling-stats-78x78.jpg 78w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef12\/files\/2011\/08\/rosling-stats-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef12\/amazing-statistics\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Amazing Statistics<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef12\/spotlight-schedule\/perspectives-from-social-science\/the-heart-broken-in-half\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1831\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef12\/files\/2011\/09\/heart-broken-in-half.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef12\/files\/2011\/09\/heart-broken-in-half.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef12\/files\/2011\/09\/heart-broken-in-half-92x92.jpg 92w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef12\/files\/2011\/09\/heart-broken-in-half-60x60.jpg 60w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef12\/files\/2011\/09\/heart-broken-in-half-32x32.jpg 32w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef12\/files\/2011\/09\/heart-broken-in-half-78x78.jpg 78w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef12\/files\/2011\/09\/heart-broken-in-half-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef12\/spotlight-schedule\/perspectives-from-social-science\/the-heart-broken-in-half\/\">The Heart Broken In Half\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef12\/spotlight-schedule\/gods-idols-terrorists-jesus\/the-shack-vision-or-heresy\/\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>BIOGRAPHY<\/h3>\n<p>Dr. Jonathan W. Camp is an Assistant Professor of Communication and Director of the MS in Organizational and Human Resource Development. Much of Camp&#8217;s research has focused on protecting human rights in medical research, having published articles in <em>The Lancet<\/em>, <em>Developing World Bioethics<\/em>,\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Qualitative Health Research<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Jon Camp examines how the social sciences &#8212; broadly: communication, psychology, sociology, and economics &#8212; use information that might be considered more subjective in nature than that of the &#8220;hard&#8221; sciences.\u00a0 He defined the social sciences as a set of analytical tools to help us explore the complexity of human experiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3167,"featured_media":1554,"parent":10,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1460","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1460"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1558,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1460\/revisions\/1558"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}