The Role of Social Sciences Research in University Development

1. The Role of Social Sciences Research in University Development Dyah Hapsari ENH FISIP SRIWIJAYA UNIVERSITY

2. Introduction • Social sciences research role as one of the pole in development still debates in decades. • Inability to make the balance with the knowledge production compare with the natural sciences research

3. The situation gradually changed, since the realism that not all the live problem can be solved satisfaction by the natural science. • Social sciences research give the bone to the systematical problem solving, with its systematical approach

4. The Role of Social Science: • Social sciencecan be stand equally with normal science through the develop of new paradigm such as: • Based on the community structure • Constellation of Group Commitments. • The arena of Shared Examples. • Give the chance for tacit knowledge and Intuition. • Provide the exemplars, Incommensurability, and revolutions.

5. In the next stage of its development, social science finally finds its own format in knowledge production, and finally claims its superiority over the tradition, rumor and hearsay, journalistic knowledge and the common sense. • The problem is after the development of many competing theories, its seem quite difficult how to explain the particular phenomenon around the social problems themselves, until different models of reality lead some differences in problem solving.

6. In term of application, social science plays the board role in the context of: • Developing economy and the needs for reformation. • NGO and lobbyist in advocating from the hard or even advocacy by the purse. • Social scientist research application. • Policy-makers based on a well-applied research study.

7. Social science role develop toward to the more applicable and has the great role in answering the daily needs of the mankind, through its ability in: • Promoting public interests vise versa with the personal/private interests through research and training. • Identifying key issues of the problems.

8. Undertaking scientific and empirical analyze, and assessments (such as: cost-benefit analysis, econometrics, etc.) • Undertaking stakeholder analysis and political economy types of studies (such as: the policy process) • Undertaking institutional analysis (such as: organizational development) • Undertaking behavioral analysis (such as: role of incentives, norms, etc.)

9. Social Science Research: • Structural Functionalist Perspective • Conflict Perspective • Consensus Perspective • Interactionist Perspectives • Postmodernism/Post Structuralist Perspectives

10. Social Science and Development: • In social science, one of the most suitable methods and models in development is participatory development, start the theories and models of an empowerment-oriented people-centered development. • This method and model make a sharp break with the assumption that scientific positivism and conventional development theories in recognizing the complexity of human affairs and accepting instability, openness, fluctuation, disorder, and creativity as the natural order of things are fail.

11. University development is a method and model of development inside of the university; in their interaction to the internal and the external interaction. • The successful of this action depend on how internal institution condition itself, started from the leaderships, strategic planning, costumer focus, workforce focus, measurement, analysis and knowledge management, and process management, and the results will be combine with the external factor such as environment, relationships, challenges. • These internal and external factor will interact as the stakeholders..

12. Stakeholder become a serious topic to discuss when the problem of development was not merely how to attaint its goal and the process to attaint it, but more at the emphasizing how to recall every helpful contribution in it process and who will get the greater benefit from it.

14. The Role of Social Science Research in University Development: • Scientific methods and the positivism is not a guaranty that they can produce the better development. • Participatory Development Research is the bridge between social science knowledge production of development and the action. • Social Scientist through its research plays the role as the part of national building force, mediator, the facilitator in community development, and the creator of knowledge production.

15. Conclusion • Social science research at macrosocial level issues has the strong obligation to keep their inherent values and moral, and to maintain its utopia and ideals without the illusions. • The advance stage of social science research contributes to the social engineering with its piecemeal and systemic approach. The new dimension and horizon of development planning gives the biggest portion of social science research to enact equally with the natural science.

16. Recommendation • We can spur and move the excellence of social science research collaboration and education between Indonesia especially Sriwijaya University and the Universities in Thailand to follow up the agenda of the improvement of the scientific standing of social studies base on the fact the need systemism approaches in ontology, methodology, scientific adopt realism, dig-up, analyze, systematize, and review of presupposition social studies