Презентация на тему European Forum Research Methodologies

Format
Course Plan
Text books and Course Requirements
Why and

What is European Studies ?
Study case: Migration.

on ‘burning’ topics that will probably be in the

center of your current or future research, e.g. Migration, Islam in Europe, Globalization, Glocalization, Nationalism etc.

The meaning of Science and Research.

Within and Between the Humanities and the Social Sciences
But Mainly Historical, Sociological and Cultural emphasis.
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ideologies.

Developing research tools – or preparing the path towards

your Research Question

parts:
1) Methods and Research Ideologies
2) 'Doing Research'

(26.3. 18)
The Meaning of Science (9.4.18)
Contingency and Determinism (16.4.18)
Positivism

and its Critics (23.4.18)
Annales (30.4.18)
Cultural Turn and Postmodernism (7.5.18)
Rafael Y. Lewis, One for all and all for one: History, Archaeology, Environment and the Battle of Arsuf (28.5.18)
The Research Question (4.6.18)
The Creative Mind (11.6.18)
Finding the Source (18.6.18 )
Concluding Session (25.6.18)

of European Studies , Sage, 2009.

The Crafts of Research

, Chicago UP, 2003.

European Review (Journal), 26 volumes, Cambridge University Press, 1993,.

and Biographical Summary (30%)

Participation/Reading – Based on Core Questions

(10%)

Attendance – (10%)

Concluding Assignment – (50%)

study Europe? (Methodologies, Ideologies, Meanings.)

What is included (excluded) in

European Studies?

What is our time-frame?

Studies [IS] is focused on the study of EU

institutions, EU Policy Making and Law (Bureaucracy and Treaties)

Mainly dominated by scholars of International Relations and Political Science

with
Culture’
(Jean Monnet)

but not only with the study of Identities; Nationalism;

Cultural and Social factors. Europe includes more states/spheres than the EU- Different geographical, cultural and national sphere

ES is at least as important (if not more) as IS- Exploring the current and past transformations of Europe. Delving into meanings.

Different Literature – ES Literature is far more ‘rich’


The global aspect – different from the inward look

Not only institutions but also the transformation of other entities – the study of the processes.








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INTEGRATION STUDIES AND GLOBALIZATION?
Economic focus (ignoring other facets e.g.

culture).
Recent phenomena, despite its long history.
Concerned with states while disregarding NGOs and other non-State entities.

a region , but always complexly interwoven with ideas

about modernity , the West , Christendom , democracy , and civilization itself (Calhoun, 2003)

EUROPEAN STUDIES APPROACH
Europe, especially, with the current migration

‘waves’ is linked to other, various and sometimes distant geographical and cultural spheres.

How many of you are focusing or intend to focus on the migration to Europe?

Migration as one of the main themes of present and future research in European Studies.

time, countries are ranked not just for the happiness

of their overall populations (as measured by the average life satisfaction of their residents), but also by the happiness of their foreign-born populations, people who have been born in countries other than where they now live.

the migration to Europe https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/sep/12/the-turmoil-of-todays-world-leading-writers-respond-to-the-refugee-crisis

they different?

The nomothetic/positivistic vs. the hermeneutic modes of inquiring

about the world

regimes of truth” (Foucault)- Any word has an ideological meaning