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This book brings together renowned scholars from four continents to celebrate the lifelong and seminal contribution of Professor Sam Moyo to the social sciences. The late Prof. Moyo was a Zimbabwean scholar whose intellectual trajectory was part and parcel of the emergence of a critical scholarship from the 1970s onward based in the realities and traditions of Africa and the Third World. His work influenced the global research agenda on diverse issues related to Africa and the South, and especially from the 2000s when he actively defended the importance of research on land and agrarian questions at a time when such issues were being dismissed as passe. He went on to become a leading force in the creation of a South-South dynamic in research collaboration, in defense of the intellectual autonomy and epistemic sovereignty of the South

This important book examines how social science is applied now and how it might be applied in the future in relation to social transformation in a time of crisis.

A look at the historical relationship between science, social attitudes and public policy as it pertains to environmental issues from the 17th century to the present. The book features biographical sketches of major contributors to the study of human/environment interaction

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Ce texte prend appui sur la tradition processualiste afin d'identifier les facteurs susceptibles de produire rapidement un changement dans les sciences sociales. Le plus important est le décalage qui existe entre les dimensions empirique et normative des sciences sociales. L'article défend l'idée qu'un tel décalage entre la diversité des ontologies empiriques à notre disposition et l'éventail plus réduit des ontologies normatives sur lesquelles nous nous appuyons est problématique. De fait, la plupart des sciences sociales ont recours à un « contractualisme normatif ». Ontologie normative la plus courante dans les sciences sociales, ce dernier n'est cependant pas en mesure d'appréhender correctement les problèmes normatifs soulevés par les notions de « particularité », d'« historicité » et de « diversité des valeurs ». Pour conclure, ce texte appelle de ses voeux une analyse normative du monde social qui se démarque du contractualisme et pose les jalons d'une approche proprement processualiste.

After placing the soc & human sci's in the sci' fic system as a whole, the methodology of soc sci as framed by Soviet scholars is examined. Current techniques & methods are described, & a classification of the soc sci's set out. The principal res trends in the USSR are summarized. HA.