[{"id":106,"date":"2018-05-07T14:31:46","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T18:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/?p=106"},"modified":"2018-05-07T14:31:46","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T18:31:46","slug":"mentorship-post-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/2018\/05\/07\/mentorship-post-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Mentorship Post #10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Thank you, Dr. Shinko for being such a supportive mentor, and I appreciate all of your guidance in my research process. Your feedback was extremely valuable, and your advice was crucial in helping me through my research journey. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>On May 7, 2018, I had my final thirty-minute mentor meeting with Dr. Shinko to wrap up the year, ask for some advice on my final research paper, and thank her for her mentorship throughout the semester.<\/p>\n<p>I started the meeting by asking the best way to establish burden-sharing discourse in my paper, and Dr. Shinko recommended citing 3-4 major sources which illustrate the discourse. I expressed worries about my methodology section in describing my methodological approach, and Dr. Shinko advised me to include the specifics of the database I used and keywords I searched. She explained that while neopositivist researchers must justify their case choices, my methodology section, as an interpretivist researcher, must include why my approach is trustworthy and provided enough exposure.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to struggling to establish the discourse I analyzed, I also sought advice on how to establish the dominant discourse. There are two components to dominancy, explained Dr. Shinko, the power of the countries involved in the discourse and the frequency of an actor\u2019s use of the discourse. Dr. Shinko encouraged me to look at who is driving the policy and which countries voted for the quota system. To explain the dominant discourse, I will need to answer why a specific state is a discourse leader in terms of the policy, what makes these actors dominant, and what are the markers of dominancy within the discourse.<\/p>\n<p>When I asked her what to include in my conclusion, Dr. Shinko responded that I should look at interesting questions I did not have time to answer during my research, lessons I learned, where my research should go next, further implications, and overall methodological limitations. Additionally, I asked Dr. Shinko for advice on how to make sure my writing and paper flow, and she suggested making sure that the last sentence of my previous paragraph foreshadows the idea of the next paragraph. She compared writing a paper like taking someone by the hand and being careful not to drop their hand throughout the way. I aim to make these changes as I finish writing my final paper and submit it. I am grateful for all of Dr. Shinko\u2019s help, and I will incorporate her recommendations in my final paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you, Dr. Shinko for being such a supportive mentor, and I appreciate all of your guidance in my research process. Your feedback was extremely valuable, and your advice was crucial in helping me through my research journey. On May&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/2018\/05\/07\/mentorship-post-10\/\">Continue Reading 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Symposium Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winner of the Best Oral Presentation Award at the 2018 SIS Research Symposium!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winner of the Best Oral Presentation Award at the 2018 SIS Research 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Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the annual\u00a0SIS Advanced International Studies Research Poster Conference, where I had the chance to present my poster for\u00a0classmates, professors, graduate students, and others who were interested in hearing about my research.<\/p>\n<p>PDF Version of my poster:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/997\/2018\/04\/Final-Map-Poster.pdf\">The Politics of Perception: Refugee Burden-Sharing in the EU<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the annual\u00a0SIS Advanced International Studies Research Poster Conference, where I had the chance to present my poster for\u00a0classmates, professors, graduate students, and others who were interested in hearing about my research. PDF Version of my poster:\u00a0The Politics of&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/2018\/04\/20\/poster-conference\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2307,"featured_media":100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","category-sisolson","category-sisolson-17"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":96,"date":"2018-04-18T15:58:04","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T19:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/?p=96"},"modified":"2018-04-18T15:58:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T19:58:04","slug":"mentorship-post-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/2018\/04\/18\/mentorship-post-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Mentorship Post #9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Shinko and I had a thirty-minute meeting on April 18, 2018 to discuss my research presentation and poster for the Poster Conference on April 20, 2018 and the Research Symposium April 25, 2018. I shared the comments Professor Esser and Ambassador Shelton-Colby made during my presentation in class with Dr. Shinko. She concurred that my research question was vague, and my title did not fit my research. Thus, we spent the first part of our conversation discussing my research question and possible titles, and Dr. Shinko explained that my title should answer my research question. Partly through our meeting, Professor Esser passed by Dr. Shinko\u2019s office and joined us in discussing my research.<\/p>\n<p>My original title was \u201cThe Ignored Victims of the Syrian Refugee Crisis,\u201d but Professor Esser and Dr. Shinko reminded me that the focus of my research was the host countries and their identities. My research highlights how countries perceive themselves and how others perceive them, in other words, perception versus representation. The identities do not matter as much as which countries are acknowledged. Professor Esser further described how he understood my research as three categories of countries, where the first embraces its identity, the second is very defensive, and the final category represents countries that are uncertain and do not have a \u201cpredictable position.\u201d Together, we created several titles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Marginalization of Refugee Host Countries Within the European Union<\/li>\n<li>The Representational Practices and Politics of Refugee Burden-Sharing in the EU<\/li>\n<li>The Politics of Acknowledging Refugee Burden-Sharing in the European Union<\/li>\n<li>Perception vs. Representation: Identities of Host Countries in the European Union<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I eventually decided to use \u201cThe Politics of Representation: Refugee Burden-Sharing in the European Union.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After Professor Esser left, Dr. Shinko and I discussed the comments I received on my analysis draft. I explained that the main problem with my research was that my methodology section was unclear and did not explain a systematic approach. Dr. Shinko advised that I explain how I followed different trails as I read articles and how each article intellectually led me to keep raising questions and continue searching through other articles. She also suggested I describe how I reached my point of saturation in my research to confirm I had sufficient exposure. However, she advised that the best way to prove my trustworthiness and validity of my research be to list the variety of sources, which support the claims I make, in my footnotes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Shinko and I had a thirty-minute meeting on April 18, 2018 to discuss my research presentation and poster for the Poster Conference on April 20, 2018 and the Research Symposium April 25, 2018. I shared the comments Professor Esser&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/2018\/04\/18\/mentorship-post-9\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6,5,3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mentor","category-mentorship","category-research","category-sisolson","category-sisolson-17"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":95,"date":"2018-04-18T15:24:06","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T19:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/?p=95"},"modified":"2018-04-18T15:24:06","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T19:24:06","slug":"mentorship-post-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/2018\/04\/18\/mentorship-post-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Mentorship Post #8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 17, 2018, I gave my final research presentation for Professor Daniel Esser and Ambassador Sally Shelton-Colby. The first criticism of my presentation they had was the title, and Professor Esser explained that it was unclear by whom the victims were ignored. In addition, he said that the title was misleading, for it appeared to be referring to refugees as victims, while my project focuses on host countries. A second criticism was with the clarity of my research question. Professor Esser could follow my research and understand my findings, but the wordiness and vagueness of my research question made the start of my presentation confusing.<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Shelton-Colby expressed a similar concern with the title, and she suggested rephrasing some of the ways I present my research. For example, I said countries were \u201cbeing given identities,\u201d which fails to capture the fact that identities are constructed through discourse and not merely assigned. Professor Esser also recommended I change some of the wording in my topic. He pointed out that when I said, \u201cwestern Europe is dominant,\u201d I was stating an obvious fact. Instead, I should be clearer that I am referring to dominant <em>discourse<\/em>, rather than state hegemony. Finally, both praised my presentation for being easily accessible and well presented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 17, 2018, I gave my final research presentation for Professor Daniel Esser and Ambassador Sally Shelton-Colby. The first criticism of my presentation they had was the title, and Professor Esser explained that it was unclear by whom the&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/2018\/04\/18\/mentorship-post-8\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6,5,3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mentor","category-mentorship","category-research","category-sisolson","category-sisolson-17"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":94,"date":"2018-04-18T13:12:53","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T17:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/?p=94"},"modified":"2018-04-18T13:12:53","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T17:12:53","slug":"class-presentation-recording","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/2018\/04\/18\/class-presentation-recording\/","title":{"rendered":"Class Presentation Recording"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BeptrVOIdNE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sisolson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":92,"date":"2018-04-10T16:12:52","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T20:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/?p=92"},"modified":"2018-04-10T16:12:52","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T20:12:52","slug":"portfolio-post-6-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/2018\/04\/10\/portfolio-post-6-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Portfolio Post #6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aldon Morris\u2019 point of view supports the coexistence of scholarship and activism, where scholarship has a \u201cpolitical purpose\u2026to change the world.\u201d (1) Morris based his view on Du Bois\u2019 work studying and exposing whiteness as a social construct. (2) Because science purposely being used to campaign for a specific point of view carries a negative association, Morris admits that it is \u201crisky being an activist sociologist,\u201d limiting his career mobility. (3) However, by combining scholarship with activism, it reinforces the causes\u2019 credibility and legitimacy as well as links it to scholarly and scientific backing. In class, we discussed the possible hierarchy with politics, bureaucracy, and science (in order from top to bottom), which implies that politics and activism are separate from science. Morris disputes this hierarchy by proposing politics and science join, blurring the separation in the hierarchy outlined in class.<\/p>\n<p>Foucault, on the other hand, maintains the political-activism separation in his explanation, where the top oppresses the bottom through power relations. Foucault defines power as being an oppressive set of relations, which shape people\u2019s behaviors. (4) He warns that the institutionalization or crystallization of power constrains innovation, and as a proponent of innovation, Foucault encourages humans to accept their right to freedom in being able to rise up against power and challenge or overthrow it.\u00a0(5) While Foucault does not explicitly make a connection between activism and scholarship, his\u201cmorals,\u201d as he refers to them, call for activism, where individuals work to keep deconstructing power to avoid living under oppression.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Weber, who has more extreme philosophy than Foucault and Morris, maintains as strict separation between science and other\u00a0spheres of thought, asserting that science cannot attain any moral ends. (6) In this way, Weber preserves each respective school of thought, and because science\u00a0has no place in morality, it would not play any role in activism. Activism typically arises from discrepancies in moral beliefs, but according Weber, scholarship should not touch morals and therefore should not provoke any activism. Because\u00a0Weber&#8217;s\u00a0strict separation, his philosophy fails to explain where spheres of thought overlap.<\/p>\n<p>Morris\u2019 argument is a critical approach to scholarship because his activism promotes the integration of thoughts which are absent in the political sphere, and I think his philosophy is integral in promoting activism backed by scholarly sources. While I think some politicians earn a reputation as twisted, by using science as a tool to make their political platforms more favorable, Morris\u2019 point is different.\u00a0 Even though\u00a0it is possible to confuse Morris&#8217; point as using science to justify protest, he prioritizes scholarship. In addition, there is a fine line between manipulating science to support arguments or political platforms and doing research in hopes making discoveries to create a better future. Blurring the line between scholarship and politics can get messy, for it is possible that unfounded or misinformed thoughts can become popular and widespread. However, the harmony and coexistence of politics and science can also be a strong platform to promote positive change in the world.<\/p>\n<p>(1) Aldon Morris, \u201cFrom Du Bois to Black Lives Matter,\u201d\u00a0<em>Berkley Journal of Sociology\u00a0<\/em>(January 2016): http:\/\/berkeleyjournal.org\/2016\/01\/from-du-bois-to-black-lives-matter\/.<br \/>\n(2)\u00a0<em>Ebid.<\/em><br \/>\n(3)\u00a0<em>Ebid.<br \/>\n<\/em>(4) Michael Bess, \u201cInterview with Michel Foucault,\u201d (November 1980): https:\/\/www.michaelbess.org\/foucault-interview\/.<br \/>\n(5) Max Weber, \u201cScience as a Vocation,\u201d 10.<br \/>\n(6)\u00a0<em>Ebid<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aldon Morris\u2019 point of view supports the coexistence of scholarship and activism, where scholarship has a \u201cpolitical purpose\u2026to change the world.\u201d (1) Morris based his view on Du Bois\u2019 work studying and exposing whiteness as a social construct. (2) Because&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/2018\/04\/10\/portfolio-post-6-2\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","category-sisolson","category-sisolson-17"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":90,"date":"2018-03-30T21:19:05","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T01:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/?p=90"},"modified":"2018-03-30T21:19:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-31T01:19:05","slug":"mentorship-post-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/2018\/03\/30\/mentorship-post-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Mentorship Post #7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 29, 2018, I met with my mentor for thirty minutes to discuss my analysis and how I should compose my final narrative paper. Earlier in the semester, Dr. Field and I discussed how the interpretivist process is not as linear as the neo-positivist approach and how it could affect the layout of my paper and research explanations. Dr. Shinko advised that I start with my literature review to lay the groundwork for my paper and to have a comprehensive understanding of the body of my paper before writing my introduction and conclusion. Dr. Shinko also recommended that my introduction begin by discussing my puzzle then explain my interests and holes in the current literature.<\/p>\n<p>One of the concerns I had with my research was sufficiently addressing reflexivity, for my current reflexivity section is minimal. Dr. Shinko suggested being straight-forward with the limitations of my project, specifically my lack of access due to translations, not being a victim of the Syrian Refugee Crisis, and being a resident outside of the EU. While I had placed my reflexivity section in my analysis originally, Dr. Shinko recommended I include it in my methodology section to preface my analysis. Another difficulty I had was including the extent of my exposure and sources in my final narrative paper without having excessively long footnotes. Dr. Field suggested using an appendix approach to show the entirety of sources I used. Dr. Shinko concurred with this recommendation, but she also mentioned citing the major sources in the footnotes, rather than including all of the sources I found in an appendix.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I asked Dr. Shinko for advice on creating a poster and presentation for the research symposium, and she advised me to start by deciding what text I will put on my poster before creating visuals or forcing irrelevant images. Overall, I am satisfied with my progress, and my next challenge is piecing the drafts of all my sections together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 29, 2018, I met with my mentor for thirty minutes to discuss my analysis and how I should compose my final narrative paper. Earlier in the semester, Dr. Field and I discussed how the interpretivist process is not&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/2018\/03\/30\/mentorship-post-7\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6,5,3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mentor","category-mentorship","category-research","category-sisolson","category-sisolson-17"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":88,"date":"2018-03-20T22:36:51","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T02:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/?p=88"},"modified":"2018-03-20T22:37:39","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T02:37:39","slug":"portfolio-post-7-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/2018\/03\/20\/portfolio-post-7-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Portfolio Post #5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To understand Max Weber and Francis Bacon\u2019s reasoning for the separation between science and ethics, it is important to know the historical background of each philosopher. For Bacon, he was writing during a time when religion was the dominant source of truths, and he witnessed the result of those who challenged the church, such as Galileo. Therefore, Bacon\u2019s doctrine draws a careful division between science and religion, where scientists seek truth and knowledge with God\u2019s help. (1) He is deliberate in clearly stating that science cannot overshadow the divine, and science is a tool of showing charity and worshipping God. (2) Bacon asserts that society has become stagnant, simply improving on existing learning without producing any original ideas, so he proposes a revival of science as a way of obtaining truth, in conformity with God\u2019s (the church\u2019s) law. Bacon\u2019s philosophy advocates a hierarchical coexistence between science and religion, explaining science as a form of respect to God. Bacon argues that science is not for personal benefit, \u201claying the foundations not of a sect or of a dogma, but of human progress and empowerment.\u201d (3)<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Weber\u2019s work was a reaction to skepticism produced by Foucault and Nietzsche, who do not believe in moral truths and promote philosophies which contest any divide between science and morality. In response to this skepticism, Weber argues that science is limited in its ability to conduct normative assessments and obtain moral truths. Weber argues that science is in constant motion where \u201cevery scientific &#8216;fulfilment&#8217; raises new &#8216;questions&#8217;; it asks to be &#8216;surpassed&#8217; and outdated.\u201d (4) Weber posits that science cannot answer normative questions, so people must choose an end among a variety of investigable means, for science is limited in its ability to investigate these ends. (5) Weber\u2019s philosophy ultimately leaves the spheres of ethics, religion, morality, and values preserved for individuals to decide amongst them. His philosophical approach maintains other spheres by constraining science from answering normative questions.<\/p>\n<p>By defining a division between science and morality, Bacon and Weber uphold different sects of belief and prevent potential clashes among scholars. Bacon and Weber\u2019s separation is beneficial, for it helps clarify meaning and offer insight into the means to a given ends. Weber\u2019s philosophy, in particular, demonstrates respect for the other fields while still allowing researchers to check the internal validity of ideas. Without this division, philosophers, religious advocates, and scientists would have to grapple with their differences and confront opposition. This separation forces scientific inquiries to be narrow in nature and leaves normative questions unanswered or left without a systematic method of discovery. Thus, in the case of my research, if the separation were eliminated, I could expand my inquiry or potentially implement a variety of methodological techniques.<\/p>\n<p>(1) Francis Bacon, \u201cThe Great Renewal,\u201d <em>New Organon, <\/em><em>,<\/em> 11.<br \/>\n(2) Ebid., 12.<br \/>\n(3)\u00a0<em>Ebid.,<\/em> 13.<br \/>\n(4) Max Weber, \u201cScience as a Vocation,\u201d 3.<br \/>\n(5)\u00a0<em>Ebid.<\/em>, 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To understand Max Weber and Francis Bacon\u2019s reasoning for the separation between science and ethics, it is important to know the historical background of each philosopher. For Bacon, he was writing during a time when religion was the dominant source&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/2018\/03\/20\/portfolio-post-7-2\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","category-sisolson","category-sisolson-17"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":86,"date":"2018-03-08T15:08:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T20:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/?p=86"},"modified":"2018-03-08T15:08:33","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T20:08:33","slug":"mentorship-post-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/2018\/03\/08\/mentorship-post-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Mentorship Post #6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the criticisms I received on my most recent literature review draft was that I didn\u2019t clearly distinguish between burden-sharing discourse and burden-sharing policy. To help with this distinction, I met with my research mentor Dr. Shinko for 30 minutes on March 7, 2017. Her first comment was that discourse is the sea that affects policy, explaining that the discourse impacts policy, and policy emanates out of the discourse. Dr. Shinko reminded me that, through my literature review, I will observe and conclude which concepts scholars have only partially explored or not explored at all.<\/p>\n<p>From my literature review, we moved to the research I had started, and I showed Dr. Shinko the primary source databases I was using. She recommended I also go to news sources directly, and I told her I was looking at reported quotations within news articles to avoid including media interpretations in my analysis. She reminded me to keep track of dates, for even though my research is not centered around a shift in discourse over a time period, I need to be aware of potential shifts within my context and how the dominant discourse originated from the initial use of it.<\/p>\n<p>From there, we discussed how I\u2019ve been noticing a large discussion on the divides between east vs. west and right vs. left. Because I was unsure whether to include this in my analysis and project, Dr. Shinko advised me to be aware of them and track them as well as include them in my literature review as a potential driver of the burden-sharing discourse. Even though the divisions are more prominent in policy discussion, discourse tracks identity divisions. For example, how did the European Union quota system emerge to handle the Syrian Refugee Crisis? It was a majority western countries\u2019 decision, while eastern countries disagreed and were outvoted. Situating this policy within the context of power relations helps explain how certain players were marginalized and why certain host-country identities may be dominant.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, because my focus is the European Union, I may have to discard my focus on Middle Eastern country identities because of the amount of content on national identity in conjunction with burden-sharing in Europe. Burden-sharing is situated in a national security discourse which is linked to the broader concept of national identity. Therefore, I may have to address the fact that national security could link to the vulnerability being perpetuated in host country identities.<\/p>\n<p>From my current research, I have noticed the dominant discourse is encouraging burden-sharing, while the coalescing discourse is against burden-sharing. However, before I begin my analysis, I will be doing more research to gain more exposure and see what seems to be dominant strands of discourse, where are they located, and what country they are coming from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the criticisms I received on my most recent literature review draft was that I didn\u2019t clearly distinguish between burden-sharing discourse and burden-sharing policy. To help with this distinction, I met with my research mentor Dr. Shinko for 30&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/2018\/03\/08\/mentorship-post-6\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6,5,3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mentor","category-mentorship","category-research","category-sisolson","category-sisolson-17"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gwenythszabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}]