[spectre] call for papers Graduate Journal for Social Science

[Ward Rennen]

The Graduate Journal of Social Science is pleased to announce its first call
for papers .

Deadline for submission is the 1st of May, 2003.  For information on
submission, check www.gjsocialscience.org.

The GJSS welcomes the submission of articles, book reviews, comments and
feedback by advanced MSc/MA students, PhD students and recently graduated
postdoctoral students.

Publications are expected to investigate methodological issues of
interdisciplinary relevance in social science. Social science methodology is
understood to
encompass all analytic, theoretical, interpretive, instrumental and physical
tools used for the acquisition of empirical data in research.
Contributors can draw upon quantitative issues (e.g. the choice of
measurement indicators, the production and use of statistics, the relevance
of quantitative data gathered by the natural sciences) and qualitative ones
(including for instance the use of narrative and discourse analysis; the
meaning, practice and value of objectivity in field work and interpretation;
the role of the social scientist as subject of the investigation and
bearer/creator of knowledge). Essays will also be welcomed regarding the
interplay between knowledge production/ interpretation and methodology, the
possibility of maintaining a distinction between normative and descriptive
research and the (possibility/impossibility of) interaction between natural
and social science methodologies.


For further information <http://www.gjsocialscience.org/>