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The social sciences are flourishing. As of 2005, there were almost half a million professional social scientists from all fields
The social sciences are flourishing. As of 2005, there were almost half a million professional social scientists from all fields
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2018-07-30
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The social sciences are flourishing. As of 2005, there were almost half a million professional social scientists from all fields in the world, working both inside and outside academia. According to the World Social Science Report 2010, the number of social-science students worldwide has swollen by about 11% every year since 2000.
Yet this enormous resource in not contributing enough to today’ s global challenges including climate change, security, sustainable development and health.
【R1】______ Humanity has the necessary agro-technological tools to eradicate hunger, from genetically engineered crops to artificial fertilizers. Here, too, the problems are social: the organization and distribution of food, wealth and prosperity.
【R2】______ This is a shame—the community should be grasping the opportunity to raise its influence in the real world. To paraphrase the great social scientist Joseph Schumpeter: there is no radical innovation without creative destruction.
Today, the social sciences are largely focused on disciplinary problems and internal scholarly debates, rather than on topics with external impact.
Analyses reveal that the number of papers including the keywords "environmental changed" or "climate change" have increased rapidly since 2004, 【R3】______.
When social scientists do tackle practical issues, their scope is often local; Belgium is interested mainly in the effects of poverty on Belgium for example. And whether the community’ s work contributes much to an overall accumulation of knowledge is doubtful.
The problem is not necessarily the amount of available funding. 【R4】______This is an adequate amount so long as it is aimed in the right direction. Social scientists who complain a-bout a lack of funding should not expect more in today’ s economic climate.
The trick is to direct these funds better. The European Union Framework funding programs have long had a category specifically targeted at social scientists. This year, it was proposed that system be changed: Horizon 2020, a new program to be enacted in 2014, would not have such a category. This has resulted in protests from social scientists. But the intention is not to neglect social science; rather, the complete opposite. 【R5】______That should create more collaborative endeavors and help to develop projects aimed directly at solving global problems.
[A] It could be that we are evolving two communities of social scientists; one that is discipline-oriented and publishing in highly specialized journals, and one that is problem-oriented and publishing elsewhere, such as policy briefs.
[B] However, the numbers are still small; in 2010, about 1,600 of the 100,000 social-sciences papers published globally included one of these Keywords.
[C] the idea is to force social to integrate their work with other categories, including health and demographic change food security, marine research and the bio-economy, clear, efficient energy; and inclusive, innovative and secure societies.
[D] the solution is to change the mindset of the academic community, and what it considers to be its main goal. Global challenges and social innovation ought to receive much more attention from scientists, especially the young ones.
[E] These issues all have root causes in human behavior, all require behavioral change and social innovations, as well as technological development. Stemming climate change, for example, is as much about changing consumption patterns and promoting tax acceptance as it is about developing clean energy.
[F] Despite these factors, many social scientists seem reluctant to tackle such problems. And in Europe, some are up in arms over a proposal to drop a specific funding category for social-science research and to integrate it within cross-cutting topics of sustainable development.
[G] During the late 1990s, national spending on social sciences and the humanities as a percentage of all research and development funds—including government, higher education, no-profit and corporate—varied from around 4% to 25%; in most European nations, it is about 15%.
【R5】
选项
答案
C
解析
本题是顺接关系题。该句位于第八段中间。空格之前提到欧洲联盟框架资助项目“2014年将开始实行一个全新的项目:地平线2020,这个项目将不再设有这项专项基金。这个决定导致了社会科学家的抗议。但是,这个决定的意图并非忽视社会科学;相反,是想要推动社会科学”,由此可以推测下文即将解释为什么这个决定将要推动社会科学的发展。空格之后韵部分则提到“让社会科学更多地与其他领域合作”,暗示加强学科间合作是其中一个原因。浏览各个选项发现,C项中force social science to integrate their work with other categories正是对空格之后collaborative endeavors的同义复现,同时该句也解释了为什么这个决定将要推动社会科学的发展。
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