Since the number of academic specializations and disciplines has consistently been increasing, it has become necessary to supplement present classifications and categorizations, as well as come up ...with new ones, on a regular basis. Therefore, it has become feasible to distinguish a new branch of science as well as to assign the existing disciplines to different branches. It is owing to such a process that political sciences have been reassigned in Poland. Before September 30, 2011, political sciences had been categorized as the humanities, but later on they were encompassed by a new branch of social sciences, created as a result of the division of the humanities. I adopt the thesis that this decision was substantially justified since, given current legal status quo, political sciences as a discipline have more in common with other disciplines assigned to social sciences than the humanities. Additionally, by way of developing a new register of disciplines, the administrative divisions in Polish science were to a large extent aligned with the classification of branches and disciplines adopted by the OECD, UNESCO and Eurostat, which will facilitate the internationalization of academic collaboration. The above organizations and institutions, and – consequently – some of their member states, have already divided the humanities, sometimes also named social sciences, into two separate branches: social sciences and humanities. In order to justify the above‑mentioned thesis it was necessary to determine how academic specialization, discipline, branch and field of science are perceived today; to indicate the determinants of divisions in science and basic criteria for such divisions; to attempt to define the specific nature of the humanities versus social sciences; and to present the factors confirming the relation of political science to the latter category.
A tale of two cultures Goertz, Gary; Mahoney, James
2012., 20120909, 2012, 2012-09-09, 20120101
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Some in the social sciences argue that the same logic applies to both qualitative and quantitative methods. InA Tale of Two Cultures, Gary Goertz and James Mahoney demonstrate that these two ...paradigms constitute different cultures, each internally coherent yet marked by contrasting norms, practices, and toolkits. They identify and discuss major differences between these two traditions that touch nearly every aspect of social science research, including design, goals, causal effects and models, concepts and measurement, data analysis, and case selection. Although focused on the differences between qualitative and quantitative research, Goertz and Mahoney also seek to promote toleration, exchange, and learning by enabling scholars to think beyond their own culture and see an alternative scientific worldview. This book is written in an easily accessible style and features a host of real-world examples to illustrate methodological points.
Artykuł przedstawia fakty dotyczące nierozpatrzonego dotąd „Wniosku o korektę punktacji czasopisma Studia Historiae Scientiarum z 20 punktów na 70 punktów” (z 9 września 2019 i 15 stycznia 2020 r.) ...skierowanego do Komisji Ewaluacji Nauki MNiSW. Analizuje on publicznie dostępne informacje na temat obecności polskich czasopism z dyscyplin „historia”, „historia nauki” oraz „historia i filozofia nauki” w bazach indeksacyjnych lub biblioteach czasopism i ich wskaźników bibliometrycznych. Informacje te są porównane z przyznanymi punktami w ministerialnej ewaluacji czasopism z 2019 r. Ponieważ ministerialna punktacja nie ma związku z rzeczywistym dorobkiem czasopisma Komisji Historii Nauki PAU, podniesiono kwestię pilnej zmiany punktacji tego czasopisma. The case of the “Complaint calling for a correction of the score given to the journal Studia Historiae Scientiarum from 20 to 70 points” The article presents facts about the hitherto pending “Complaint calling for a correction of the score given to the journal Studia Historiae Scientiarum from 20 to 70 points” (of September 9, 2019 and of January 15, 2020) addressed to the Science Evaluation Commission of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Polish Government. It analyzes publicly available information on the presence of Polish journals on ‘history’, ‘history of science’ and ‘history and philosophy of science’ in indexation databases or journal libraries and their bibliometric indicators. This information is compared with the scoring awarded in the ministerial evaluation of journals in 2019. Since the ministerial scoring is not related to the actual achievements of the journal of the Commission on the History of Science, Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, urgent change in the scoring of this journal has been demanded.
W artykule opisano typy czasopism z historii nauki, kryterium wyboru czasopism z historii nauki, transparentne kryteria ewaluacyjne czasopism naukowych przyjęte w „Wykazie czasopism Pracowni ...Naukoznawstwa IHN PAN” (2022) oraz podano punktację czasopism z historii nauki w Wykazach czasopism MNiSW (25.01.2017), MEiN (21.12.2021) oraz Pracowni Naukoznawstwa IHN PAN (2022).The article describes the types of journals from the history of science, the criterion for selecting journals from the history of science, the transparent evaluation criteria of scientific journals adopted in the “List of journals of the Unit for Science of Science and Science Studies at the Institute for History of Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences” (2022) and the scorings of journals from the history of science on the Lists of journals of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Poland (January 25, 2017), the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Poland (December 21, 2021) and the Unit for Science of Science and Science Studies at the Institute for History of Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2022).
The Origins of Polish Language Studies at Poznań University Linguistic studies on the Polish language and literature were first conducted at the Faculty of Philosophy of Poznań University ...(established in 1919). Studies on literary theory were pursued in the Department of History of Polish Literature, whereas linguistic studies in the Department of Slavic Philology and Indo-European Linguistics. Initially, these studies were supervised by scholars who came from the Jagiellonian University in Cracow: Mikołaj Rudnicki and Tadeusz Lehr-Spławiński, as well as Stanisław Dobrzycki who was active in two fields, theory of literature and linguistics. It was only in 1922 that the Department of the Polish Language was established thanks to the efforts of Edward Klich, who also came from Cracow. At first, Polish language studies at Poznań University concentrated on two fields: onomastics (with components of etymology), and dialectology. More comprehensive research was conducted since the establishment of the Department of the Polish Language which was joined by a new generation of linguists, including graduates of Poznań University.
As the political science has been assigned to new field and domain of social science in 2011 instead of being assigned to humanities, it has caused astonishment and some kind of discomfort in many ...centres of political science. It was similar to introducing of a new field called public policy science. Assessment of the environment was quiet diverse. As far as by the public policy science one can notice lack of interest, by the new assignment of policy science one can distinguish three contentions: inclusion of the political sciences in the domain of social science, renewed assignment of policy sciences to humanities and assignment of the political sciences to both domains (management studies alike). The third solution is the most supported one in the environment of political scientists. On the same time statements of politicians about reportedly demanded education of welders instead of political scientists and diminished interest with political studies have made the environment of policy analysis anxious. It is to be emphasised that we are not newly formed field of science and any discussions about status of our domain are an ancient history. At the present day staff of the centres of political sciences is outweighed by people, who graduated political studies and their scientific development together with their tittles of professor have been connected with investigations on the field of political studies. This way the environment grows stronger. A few dangers to political science can be pointed out. First of all there is an aspiration to autonomy of some subfields. Second, there is lack of scientific discussion in the environment. Third, there is a western technique of mechanical “scaling”, “measuring” and other ways of evaluation of one’s academic background, which does not fit to Polish reality and also pervert valuable academic backgrounds.
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