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	Social science fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Social science fiction is a term used to describe a subgenre of science fiction concerned less with gadgets and space opera and more with speculation about human society.
		Frederik Pohl's series Gateway combined social science fiction with hard science fiction, but perhaps the finest modern exponent of social science fiction in the Campbellian/Heinlein tradition is L.
		Today, social science fiction has fallen largely out of favor, although Joss Whedon's Firefly (and it sequel Serenity) certainly conjured a world were freedom, rebellion against centralized authority, and western as well as Chinese cultural influences shape a society 500 years in the future.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Social_science_fiction (473 words)

	Fictionchange
		The social impact of these fictions, having recounted the hopelessness and despair systemic of modern culture without attempting to explore crucial causal factors may even be largely regressive, discouraging action or deeper thought.
		If contemporary fiction is to weave some transformative poetry into the inhospitable fabric of much of our corporate-ruled culture and lives, it may need to gain a better grip on systemic analysis and social change to reveal and re-vision our increasingly authoritarian and militarized society.
		Dominant social systems and networks and behaviors must not only be scrutinized for the inhospitable affects they produce systematically on people, they must be both explored and re-visioned so that people may better produce more hospitable consequences in the public and culture generally.
	www.socialit.org /fictionchange.html (4904 words)

	The Fiction of Social Security Bonds - Mises Institute
		Social Security, of course, is just another federal welfare program that is funded out of general revenues.
		Yes, the social security statute provides that on the face of the "bonds" memorializing the spent surplus there shall be a notation that they are "supported by the full faith and credit of the United States." But this provision can only kick in if the bonds are actually issued by the U.S. to another party.
		Whichever side one is on in the social security personal account debate, or whether one advocates abolishing social security altogether, there needs to be a common understanding of how the current system is structured, to include an appreciation that the social security "bonds" are not real bonds.
	www.mises.org /story/1820 (534 words)

	Imaginative Literature and Social Change
		Fiction can debunk harmful propaganda and taboos; it can help energize, motivate, inspire and all the while maintain a vital literary quality by staying focused in part on fiction's core strengths, the plumbing of the depths of the human condition through character—psychology, personality, motivation, mindset...
		Such fiction is both intensely personal and social in its exploration of the nature of relations between the private and the public in ways that can enrich and enable our individual lives and society.
		I suggest that in the field of literature the formula ‘All art is propaganda’ be replaced by another: ‘Literature is an instrument of social influence’….
	www.socialit.org (787 words)

	Social and Political Novel III
		Wood thinks novelists should use less information and less social reality and abstraction because such phenomena do not function aesthetically in fiction, since they are not closely related to the essence and depths of character and the human condition, at least not in revealing ways.
		In the last analysis, what we ask of the social novelist is not so much that he should reflect our view of society, but that he should make us see society his way…[and that such novelists] look beyond [the national experience] to the universal human experience of which it is inevitably a part….
		This is great writing, great art, great satire, as far as it goes, lively and deeply social engaged, and important in ways that Edmund Wilson and scores of other critics and novelists have understood fiction to be effective, as a living, enlightening and influential mode of knowledge and experience.
	www.politicalnovel.org /socialandpoliticalnovelIII.html (3234 words)

	Political and Social-Themed Science Fiction
		Science fiction is typically considered a branch of the more general speculative fiction, which includes horror and fantasy.
		Science fiction is fiction written in a universe which does not actually exist, and is not intended to be confused with the "real world".
		This distinguishes science fiction from ordinary fiction, in that ordinary fiction is meant to have a setting in the real world, such as present-day America or 19th century Russia.
	acm.cs.umn.edu /~look/book-collection-essay.html (4798 words)

	U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee
		Of this $4 trillion, $1.8 trillion is owed to the Social Security trust fund as interest on its accumulating balance of excess revenues over outlays; however, since this money simply shifts from one set of government books to another, it remains part of the overall federal government surplus.
		Social Security fraud: Clinton takes credit for the $2.8 trillion I.O.U. to Social Security, and then uses this to claim he's extending the trust fund solvency date by 17 years -- from the currently projected 2032 to 2049.
		If Clinton's fiscal fiction is allowed to stand, it renders meaningless the government's attempt to budget at all...or to seriously address Social Security and the other long-term financial pressures facing our nation's economic security.
	www.senate.gov /~rpc/releases/1999/bd020199.htm (1466 words)

	Science Fiction
		Science fiction, sometimes referred to with the broader term of speculative fiction, finds its roots in the mists of antiquity, claiming the Epic of Gilgamesh, the rapture of Elijah, and Greek and Egyptian mythology as its predecessors.
		His work illustrates that science fiction arises when the rate of technological progress accelerates to the degree that consciousness of the changes within one's lifetime develops, and flourishes only when industrialisation brings the knowledge that the future will not be like the present to the common awareness.
		Speculative fiction is important for its message, because regardless of whether the actual story takes place in the past, present, or future, it demands that we open our eyes and acknowledge the possibilities that lay before us.
	www.sccs.swarthmore.edu /users/06/powen/populaer/ScienceFiction.htm (4752 words)

	Donald F. Theall- The Art of Social-Science Fiction: The Ambiguous Utopian Dialectics of Ursula K. Le Guin
		Although concern with social and cultural questions has always been a central feature of the utopian tradition within SF, a conscious use of concepts from the social sciences has been considerably slower to develop in SF than that of concepts from the natural sciences.
		Such juxtapositions of fictional societies are a feature of all of her Hainish novels; her only non-Hainish SF novel, The Lathe of Heaven, is a psychological study of dreams which materialize, providing a variety of modes of life within the same culture.
		Foretelling within the social structure of Karhide is a basic education in the values of the society.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/backissues/7/theall7art.htm (5099 words)

	ED285797 1987-03-00 Children's Fiction as a Source for Social Studies Skill-Building. ERIC Digest No. 37.
		This ERIC Digest (1) defines the connection of social studies to children's fiction, (2) argues for adopting this teaching strategy, and (3) examines factors a teacher should consider before implementing it.
		Social studies in grades K-6 consists of a series of experiences designed to transmit citizenship skills to children.
		Believing that children's fiction can contribute activities that build citizenship skills is a first step in making this teaching strategy an integral part of an elementary social studies program.
	www.thememoryhole.org /edu/eric/ed285797.html (1790 words)

	Microproject 2: Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The outcome and conclusions draawn in social science are ostensibly decided by those being questioned but the questions and context are directed and colord by the researcher in such a way to make the outcome effectively predetermined.
		Social scientists, although they are much more closely linked to writers of literary fiction, have been trying to label themselves as scientists due to the prestige that comes along with creating concrete facts rather than metaphors and archetypes.
		Social science is not like science however in that it does not produce "facts".
	www.msu.edu /user/hannumch/195h/micro2.html (547 words)

	Flatline_Constructs 4.4 Social Science/Social Science Fiction (How the True World Became a Simulation)
		As Baudrillard is quick to notice, in both the Ballard essay and his other essay on science fiction, the expansion of fiction into theory – an inevitable consequence, he thinks, of the emergence of cybernetics – has an ambivalent effect on theory.
		The becoming-fiction of theory is necessarily accompanied by the becoming-real of fiction.
		Baudrillard’s most provocative challenge to social science concerns not only its claim to be a science, but, more radically perhaps, its claim to have a legitimate object of study: i.e.
	www.cinestatic.com /trans-mat/Fisher/FC4s4.htm (2193 words)

	North American College Courses in Science Fiction, Utopian Literature, and Fantasy
		A course intended to acquaint the student with a selection of major authors of science fiction and their works, with several of the major themes to be found in sf, with the history of sf, and with the interrelationship between sf as an art form and science as a mode of perceiving reality.
		Neither a history of science fiction, nor a survey of its varieties, this course concentrates on the phenomenon of the alien and the distinctive capacity of sf to extend our consciousness through the encounter with the ambiguities, possibilities, and participation in the at-first unfamiliar.
		Speculative fiction is a rather wide-ranging genre that includes not only science fiction in the strictest sense of the term, but also a variety of fictional narratives that are not necessarily science-based (e.g., socio-political fantasies).
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/backissues/70/courses70.htm (14928 words)

	Social and Political Novel V
		Fiction is now perceived for the most part as a separate and specialized discourse that has been canonized and valorized as aesthetic, and therefore removed from the world of public events.
		The price we have paid for pure fiction is that now novels are regarded as supplementary, and authors who openly profess to be writing fictions are treated as people who are in a major sense not telling the truth.
		Social realists like Dickens and Balzac seemed so often to delight in realism pure and simple that it was held against them throughout their careers.
	www.politicalnovel.org /socialandpoliticalnovelV.html (2312 words)

	Social Studies: Fiction - Youthful Readers
		Margaret Volpert, whose Pennsylvania family is firmly in the rebel camp during the American Revolution, and Christian Molitor, newly arrived from Germany as part of the Hessian mercenary troops, meet when Christian, wounded and taken prisoner, is paroled into the custody of Margaret's father.
		The story is set in Pittsburgh and Braddock in the year 1908 and is rich in social life and customs of the period.
		Social Studies assignment leads to an explanation at a deserted farm.
	www.pde.state.pa.us /social_studies/cwp/view.asp?a=202&Q=62807&social_studiesNav=\|4562\| (1662 words)

	Invitation to Psychology Chapter 1 -- Web Reading (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Scientists understand that a study is only one fragment of the mosaic; this is why they are at pains to cite other research, both confirming and critical, along with their own.
		She may even be right in her analysis; to say she is writing social science “fiction” doesn’t mean her argument is untrue.
		By obscuring the truth that what we know depends on how we know it, social science fiction contributes to the uncritical and mindless attitude that one study is as good as another, that evidence is intellectually unnecessary for one’s argument.
	cwx.prenhall.com /bookbind/pubbooks/wade3/chapter1/custom7/deluxe-content.html (788 words)

	Social Science Fiction -- A Web Magazine
		No subscriptions will be accepted until a server is in place, but we will notify anyone who responds to the current email address when this occurs.
		Social science fiction as defined for this publication is not restricted to time, place, species, or belief system.
		No "hard science" need be involved -- but the social science must primarily set up strong, dramatic situations revealing human character and emotion as well as social ideas or fears.
	www.socialsciencefiction.com (159 words)

	RECOLLECTION USED BOOKS: Proletarian Literature, Social & Radical Fiction...
		DJ is bright and clean but the rear panel has a small piece missing bottom and a short tear top at the top.
		Fictional treatment of the last days in the life of Sebastian Rosales, El Lobo, a veteran of the Spanish Revolution of 1936-39.
		Fictional sendup of the network news media and 1st, 2nd and 3rd world nations; of a demi-United Nations organization where envy reigns supreme and every nation is out to betray its neighbors.
	www.eskimo.com /~recall/cats/radlit.htm (7706 words)

	Journal of Social History: Fiction as social fantasy: Europe's domestic crisis of 1879-1914.@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Fiction as social fantasy: Europe's domestic crisis of 1879-1914.
		This article begins by itemizing the harsh grievances against the family that informed European fiction from Henrik Ibsen's A Doll House of 1879 until World War I even as Europe's old stream of direct sectarian or libertarian challenges to the family all but dried up.
		The article then derives that sudden, bitter fictional indictment of the family from Europe's concurrent generalization of marital birth control, itself a defense against an imminent threat of overpopulation.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:16108100&refid=holomed_1 (225 words)

	Utopia today SF
		The "social fiction" concept strives to go back to the roots of "utopias" more closely related to the tradition of Thomas Morus.
		For "social fiction", however, man comes definitely first (critics may express their protest, but nobody has shown yet how to overcome anthropocentrism).
		The example of a dual economy also shows that "social fiction" is not going to be instrumentalized by existing institutions.
	www.social-fiction.de /Utopia-today.html (558 words)

	Reviews
		In seeking to survey fifty years of recent and near-recent fiction, Head desires to go the distance, and be as all-inclusive as possible.
		Ironically, in a critical analysis dedicated to outlining the evolution of the social novel over the last 50 years, his own prose is most effective when he indulges in lyrical outbursts.
		Here Head’s interest might be typed as concern for the genre of the social novel as it unfolds in the second half of the twentieth century.
	www.cercles.com /review/r8/head.html (1350 words)

	The Science Fiction of Jack London
		By positing extreme cases of social order or disorder, he hopes to convey how human suffering based in economic inequality may be eliminated.
		Social Darwinism with its emphasis upon the rise of the superior Anglo-Saxon race.
		London's science fiction shows the influence of such horror fantasy writers as Mary Shelley and Edgar Allen Poe, and the popular science fiction writers of the late 19th century, H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, H. Rider Haggard, and Stanley Waterloo.
	sunsite.berkeley.edu /London/Essays/scifi.html (758 words)

	Abstract Dynamics: Amplification and Stratification, tracing the linkflow in blog space
		In Social Fiction's post it was noted that they found the site via the web page for an application called Social Circles.
		The Social Circles link to the article is notable because instead of linking to the main page for the article, it linked to a page meant to be contained inside a frameset, that contained the full article, but no information about the journal that published it.
		During this process the link also showed up in the "social bookmark management" system, del.icio.us and the link was duplicated on an even more popular (381 inbound blogs) site Many 2 Many.
	www.abstractdynamics.org /archives/2004/01/21/amplification_and_stratification_tracing_the_linkflow_in_blog_space.html (1561 words)

	03/10/97 COMMENTARY: WHEN SCIENCE FICTION BECOMES SOCIAL REALITY
		Of all the worrisome scenarios the genetic age has conjured, none is more deeply embedded in the popular psyche than the Frankenstein myth, with its moral that dire consequences await the scientist who dares to play God.
		For at least 20 years, scientists and biotech entrepreneurs have dismissed the fears of man-made life as science fiction, saying that whole-mammal cloning was impossible and would be until well into the 21st century.
		But when Dolly, the cloned sheep, preened for her first photographs last week, the public learned that all sorts of genetic mischief, including mammal cloning, in fact is quite possible.
	www.businessweek.com /1997/10/b35175.htm (591 words)

	TomDispatch - Tomgram: Politics in an Age of Fiction
		He's a shape-shifting, fictional "individual" imposed on and meant to harness the vastness and complexity of reality.
		The men who were creating the fiction of the Reagan presidency were also gaining a certain news parity with the man who was president without somehow destroying the idea of the President himself.
		But if George and Laura Bush would under any circumstances be fictions of a sort (as well as living, breathing human beings), the nature of this presidency has clearly been pushed to inhumanly fictional extremes.
	www.tomdispatch.com /index.mhtml?pid=2428 (4063 words)

	Ernest Kaiser, "A Critical Look at Ellison's Fiction..."
		These critics and their disciples, who had competition during the socially conscious 1930's, gained complete control of the literature departments of the universities and the literary quarterlies after World War II in the 1940's, and are still in control today.
		Allen Tate, in Reason in Madness (1941), attacks the social sciences as a fundamental menace in general, and the use of history and the physical, biological, social and political sciences as a danger to criticism in particular.
		It is the antithesis of progressive writing and art committed to and concerned with the people's problems and struggles and dedicated to throwing some light on helping to solve the people's problems and to ushering in a better society shaped to human needs rather than to exploitation, profits, poverty and wars.
	www.writing.upenn.edu /~afilreis/50s/kaiser-on-ellison.html (1348 words)

	The Social Security Fraud (September 2001)
		Anything left over after the current retirees are paid off goes into the general treasury where it is used, first, to make up any operating shortfall, and then to pay the government’s creditors.
		The Social Security Trust Fund is credited for that money in the form of nonnegotiable bonds that purportedly earn interest.
		From the start, Social Security propagandists, led by Franklin Roosevelt, have tried to make the American people believe the system was like any private-sector pension program.
	www.fff.org /comment/ed0901j.asp (658 words)

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