Social Science.

"Australia, since the early 1980s, has been a leading advocate and practitioner of the
neo-liberal economic model, also known as the Anglo-Saxon (or Anglo-American) model due to its
geographical origins in the UK and the US, and its subsequent ascendancy in Australia, New Zealand
and Canada, prior to its global hegemony (Bayari 2012a). A major component of this model has
been the deregulatory market policies that have come to dominate all aspects of life. There are prior
discussions of Australia’s deregulation dogmas and practices that this paper does not cover (Bayari
2012c, Bayari 2012d). Interestingly, Australia was a pioneer of a proto-regulatory economic model
at the turn of the twentieth century. The emergence of the federal state in Australia in 1901 led to a
level of hitherto unseen level of intervention in the market. Australia, like Canada, the US and New
Zealand inherited the political, legal and other institutions of the UK. However, the Australian state
followed a different path by regulating capital and labour relationship through the enforcement of
compulsory conciliation and arbitration, which eventually led to the creation of a continuous system
of minimum wage determination for unskilled labour, and skilled occupational categories (Bayari
2012b). This proto-regulatory state model of the Antipodes preceded the post-Second World War
regulatory state in the West by decades. This paper does not argue that a proto-regulatory model of
state continued to develop which is a question that is outside the discussion here, however the
1941-1949 Labor governments, under John Curtin and Ben Chifley, created new institutions for
welfare, and health care provision, and attempted to create a new society, such as in terns of defining
the content of citizenship, and creating the notion of entitlement to non-market wage, while the
governments of the period from thereafter until 1972 can be characterised as calculatingly inert. This
paper however focuses on the period ending with the1907 Harvester judgment."

"African scholarly research is relatively invisible globally because even though research production on the continent is growing in absolute terms, it is falling in comparative terms. In addition, traditional metrics of visibility, such as the Impact Factor, fail to make legible all African scholarly production. Many African universities also do not take a strategic approach to scholarly communication to broaden the reach of their scholars’ work.

To address this challenge, the Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme (SCAP) was established to help raise the visibility of African scholarship by mapping current research and communication practices in Southern African universities and by recommending and piloting technical and administrative innovations based on open access dissemination principles. To do this, SCAP conducted extensive research in four faculties at the Universities of Botswana, Cape Town, Mauritius and Namibia.

SCAP found that scholars:
• carry heavy teaching and administrative loads which hinder their research productivity
• remain unconvinced by open access dissemination
• find it easier to collaborate with scholars in the global North than in the rest of Africa
• rarely communicate their research with government
• engage in small, locally-based research projects that are either unfunded or funded by their universities
• produce outputs that are often interpretive, derivative or applied due, in part, to institutional rewards structures and funding challenges
• do not utilize social media technologies to disseminate their work or seek new collaborative opportunities.

All of these factors impact Africa’s research in/visibility at a time when scholarly communication is going through dramatic technical, legal, social and ethical changes.

“Seeking Impact and Visibility” shares the results of SCAP’s research and advocacy efforts. It not only analyses these four universities’ scholarly communication ecosystems, but illuminates the opportunities available for raising the visibility of their scholarship. It concludes with a series of recommendations that would enhance the communicative and developmental potential of African research.

This study will be of interest for scholars of African higher education, academically linked civil society organizations, educationally affiliated government personnel and university researchers and managers."

This qualitative study examines the role of clients in petty corruption by analyzing actual corrupt exchanges between ordinary citizens and low level public and private employees in post-communist Hungary. Using a grounded theory approach, interviews reveal how clients from different social strata deal with low-level agents in corrupt situations. Findings suggest two contrasting forms of low-level corruption: transactions where the client and the agent do not have a prior relationship and where external factors dominate the relationship; and cases with stronger social ties between the actors, where the client has more freedom to structure the transaction. However, a client's social background frequently determines the form of corrupt transaction and the form of resources illegally exchanged in the deal.

How do people feel during extreme collective rituals? Despite longstanding speculation, few studies have attempted to quantify experiences by ritual participants. We investigated physiological arousal (heart rates) and affect during a fire-walking ritual among a Hindu community in Mauritius. We compared changes in levels of happiness and fatigue among high-ordeal participants (fire-walkers), low-ordeal participants (with familial bonds to the fire-walkers) and spectators. We found that fire-walkers were more aroused and reported greater happiness post-ritual compared to low-ordeal participants and spectators, supporting long-standing speculations about collective effervescence. However, low ordeal participants showed an increase in fatigue post-ritual. This suggests that roles and relationships between participants are important in shaping affective states in collective rituals. Perceiving apparent ritualistic suffering of related others can be more exhausting than experiencing suffering oneself.

The link between social science and public policy has been one of the most important issues for the policy – making research. In this context, the language and the communication ways between researchers and policy makers are decisive for the approaches. This paper analyzed the previous subject taking as example the relationship between Science and public policy in Colombian economy.     

This paper seeks to explore the nature of well-being by considering Luke 8.40-56 from an interdisciplinary perspective. Drawing a socio-rhetorical analysis of this passage together with a more broadly social-scientific approach, this paper hopes to enrich our reading of the juxtaposed healing of Jairus’ daughter and the haemorrhaging woman by reflecting on how this episode re-imagines what is meant by well-being. What emerges from our analysis, is a thick reading of this healing text that invites a more integrated and holistic understanding of well-being. Our approach acknowledges the multilayered nature of the text and seeks to draw into conversation the insights of the social sciences in order to appropriate the text in ways that pay careful attention to the issues of power, marginalisation, exclusion, political and religious hegemony in relation to women and children. In so doing, the paper considers how this text can be read with ordinary/pre-critical readers—especially those who are economically and socially marginalised—as a text that not only speaks to the issue of well-being, but serves to empower and facilitate well-being and healing.