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Indigenous policy is a complex domain motivated by a range of social, cultural, political and economic issues. The Council of Australian Governments 'closing

An investigation of 178 Austrian social science research organizations established from before 1945 to 1973, & the types of research projects they carried out between 1970 & 1974 included about 700 projects. The major source of data was a government compilation & the areas included: psychology, pedagogy, sociology, political science, economics, industrial management, town-planning, regional research, or a combination of fields. Both the number & contents of projects are analyzed to test several propositions. Social science research in Austria today is the expression of a certain type of state intervention policy which seeks legitimacy by claiming to be a policy of liberal reform. It is thus not directly concerned with serving the interests of capital, as other forms of research are, but its main use is to solve the government's problems & legitimize its action. This has brought about a substantial increase in the direction of research toward specific aims & its orientation toward practical problem-solving, partly at the expense of purely descriptive-analytical work. The distribution of projects among different types of institutes (ie, U, public, & private) is dictated by various factors, including differences in the importance placed upon problem-solving as compared with legitimation on the part of clients. Since a policy of stability has taken over from the liberal reformist policy owing to increasing difficulties in the full use of capital, the increased need for legitimation can no longer be satisfied by research possessing liberal traits, which is being relegated to the background by the very practical needs of control. 6 Tables. Modified Author's Summary.

Cover Page -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Queer Methods and Methodologies: An Introduction -- 1 Queer in the Field: On Emotions, Temporality and Performativity in Ethnography -- 2 Intimacy with Strangers/Intimacy with Self: Queer Experiences of Social Research -- 3 Brown, Queer and Gendered: Queering the Latina/o 'Street-Scapes' in Los Angeles. -- 4 The 'Outness' of Queer: Class and Sexual Intersections -- 5 Queer Methods and Queer Practices: Re-examining the Identities of Older Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Adults -- 6 Queer(ing) Communication in Research Relationships: A Conversation about Subjectivities, Methodologies and Ethics -- 7 The Trouble with Fieldwork: Queering Methodologies -- 8 Queer Conversations: Old-time Lesbians, Transmen and the Politics of Queer Research -- 9 Femme on Femme: Reflections on Collaborative Methods and Queer Femme-inist Ethnography -- 10 Queer(y)ing the Ethics of Research Methods: Toward a Politics of Intimacy in Researcher/Researched Relations -- 11 Method Matters: Ethnography and Materiality -- 12 Autoethnography is a Queer Method -- 13 Queer Techne: Two Theses on Methodology and Queer Studies -- 14 Queer Quantification or Queer(y)ing Quantification: Creating Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Heterosexual Citizens through Governmental Social Research -- Bibliography

The project assesses the use of Big Data in teaching in the social sciences.

In recent years, social scientists have turned their critical lens on the historical roots and contours of their disciplines, including their politics and practices, epistemologies and methods, institutionalization and professionalization, national development and colonial expansion, globalization and local contestations, and their public presence and role in society. The Social Sciences in the Looking Glass offers current social scientific perspectives on this reflexive moment in the social sciences. Examining sociology, anthropology, philosophy, political science, legal theory, and religious studies, the volume's contributors outline the present transformations of the social sciences, explore their connections with critical humanities, analyze the challenges of alternate paradigms, and interrogate recent endeavors to move beyond the human. Throughout, the authors, who belong to half a dozen disciplines, trace how the social sciences are thoroughly entangled in the social facts they analyze, and are key to helping us understand the conditions of our world.Contributors. Chitralekha, Jean-Louis Fabiani, Didier Fassin, Johan Heilbron, Miriam Kingsberg Kadia, Kristoffer Kropp, Nicolas Langlitz, John Lardas Modern, Álvaro Morcillo Laiz, Amín Pérez, Carel Smith, George Steinmetz, Peter D. Thomas, Bregje van Eekelen, Agata Zysiak