* " Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity " by Alan Sokal, ( Spring / Summer 1996 issue of Social Text ).

The awards are sometimes veiled criticism ( or gentle satire ), as in the two awards given for homeopathy research, prizes in " science education " to the Kansas and Colorado state boards of education for their stance regarding the teaching of evolution, and the prize awarded to Social Text after the Sokal Affair.

The journal Social Text published the paper in its Spring / Summer 1996 issue, whereupon Sokal publicly revealed his hoax.

In 1996, Sokal submitted an article to Social Text, an academic journal of postmodern cultural studies.

The article " Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity ", published in the Social Text Spring / Summer 1996 " Science Wars " issue, proposed that quantum gravity is a social and linguistic construct.

The resultant academic and public quarrels concerned the scholarly merit, or lack thereof, of humanistic commentary about the physical sciences ; the influence of postmodern philosophy on social disciplines in general ; academic ethics, including whether Sokal was right or wrong to deceive the editors and readers of Social Text ; and whether the journal had exercised the appropriate intellectual rigor before publishing the pseudoscientific article.

Sokal submitted the article to Social Text, whose editors were collecting articles for the " Science Wars " issue.

Later, after Sokal's self-exposure of his pseudoscientific hoax article in the journal Lingua Franca, the Social Text editors explained in a published essay that they had requested editorial changes that Sokal refused to make, and had had concerns about the quality of the writing, stating " We requested him ( a ) to excise a good deal of the philosophical speculation and ( b ) to excise most of his footnotes.

" Nonetheless, despite designating the physicist as a " difficult, uncooperative author ," and noting that such writers were " well known to journal editors ", Social Text published the article in acknowledgment of the author's credentials in the May 1996 Spring / Summer " Science Wars " issue.

In 1996, Social Text did not conduct peer review because its editors believed that an editorial open policy would stimulate more original, less conventional research.

After the Sokal Hoax, Social Text established an article peer review process.

In the May 1996 issue of Lingua Franca, in the article " A Physicist Experiments With Cultural Studies ", Sokal revealed that his " Transgressing the Boundaries " was a hoax and concluded that Social Text " felt comfortable publishing an article on quantum physics without bothering to consult anyone knowledgeable in the subject " because of its ideological proclivities and editorial bias.

In their defense, the Social Text editors said they believed that " Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity " " was the earnest attempt of a professional scientist to seek some kind of affirmation from postmodern philosophy for developments in his field " and that " its status as parody does not alter, substantially, our interest in the piece, itself, as a symptomatic document.

" Besides criticizing his writing style, the Social Text editors accused Sokal of behaving unethically in deceiving them.

* Alan Sokal Articles on the Social Text Affair Alan Sokal's own page with very extensive links ; includes the original article

* Text of International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

( 2008 ) " Putting Social Context into Text: The Semiotics of Email Interaction.

One of the most prominent critiques of Cultural Studies came from physicist Alan Sokal, who submitted an article to a Cultural Studies journal, Social Text.

" Social Text 16 ( 1986 – 87 ): 38-80.

* Social Life in the Insect World Scanned book, Project Gutenberg Full Text

To illustrate what he believed to be the intellectual weaknesses of social constructionism and postmodernism, in 1996, physics professor Alan Sokal submitted an article to the academic journal Social Text that was written purposely to be incomprehensible, but included phrases and jargon typical of articles published in the journal.

He is best known for his criticism of postmodernism, resulting in the Sokal affair in 1996 when his deliberately nonsensical paper was published by Duke University's Social Text.

Curious to see whether the then-non-peer-reviewed postmodern cultural studies journal Social Text ( published by Duke University Press ) would publish a submission which " flattered the editors ' ideological preconceptions ," Sokal submitted a grand-sounding but completely nonsensical paper entitled " Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity.

* Jonathan M. Feldman, " From Warfare State to " Shadow State ": MILITARISM, ECONOMIC DEPLETION, AND RECONSTRUCTION, Social Text, 25: 143-168.

Anita Faye Hill ( born July 30, 1956 ) is an American attorney and academic, currently a professor of social policy, law and women's studies at Brandeis University's Heller School for Social Policy and Management.

In 1996, Lomborg's paper, " Nucleus and Shield: Evolution of Social Structure in the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma ", was published in the academic journal, American Sociological Review.

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** Social science – field of academic scholarship that explores aspects of human society.

** Social science – field of academic scholarship that explores aspects of human society.

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* Science, Technology and Medicine as a collective name for these academic disciplines ( as opposed to HSS, Humanities and Social Sciences )

** Social science – field of academic scholarship that explores aspects of human society.

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With a motto of Self-Discipline and Social Commitment, Tsinghua University describes itself as being dedicated to academic excellence, the well-being of Chinese society and to global development.

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At the beginning of the 2011-2012 academic year The Faculty of Education and The Faculty of Health & Social Care merged to create a new faculty called, The Faculty of Health, Social Care & Education.

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