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This book addresses the epistemological, ethical and methodological challenges faced by African scholars in their research practices. The epistemological domain addresses three interrelated topics: how African university students� ethnocentric choice of research topics hampers the production of knowledge; researchers� adaptation of their research methods to improve validity; and the challenge of knowledge production on community museums plagued by gross inertia, irregularities, uncooperative gatekeepers and inadequate funding. The methodological domain foregrounds issues around scientific rigour, the criteria for what counts as quality research, and reporting standards. Contributors contend that the use of mixed methods provides the best scope for the effective study and evaluation of social issues. They also detail how better-funded projects tend to improve the respect of ethical standards especially as they pertain to the protection of subjects� confidentiality. Self-financed researchers on the other hand tend to be less compliant, a challenge that afflict especially younger and inexperienced researchers. This volume thus contributes not only to a critical understanding of the challenges faced by social scientists in contemporary Africa, but also the prospects and mechanisms on how to improve knowledge production processes.

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African Studies

Social Science

Sociologie, société et politique

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Publié par	Spears Media Press
Date de parution	11 février 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781942876915
Langue	English
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Production des Connaissances en Sciences Sociales en Afrique
COMITÉ SCIENTIFIQUE
Pr Idrissou ALIOUM (Université de Maroua), Pr Valentin NGA NDONGO (Université de Yaoundé I), Pr Saibou ISSA (Université de Maroua), Pr Jean NZHIÉ ENGONO (Université de Ngaoundéré), Pr Lisbet HOLTEDALH (Université de Tromsø), Pr Artsen BJØRN (Université de Tromsø), Pr Bernard GONNÉ (Université de Maroua), Pr Trond WAAGE ( Université de Tromsø), Pr Luc MEBENGA TAMBA (Université de Yaoundé I), Pr Antoine SOCPA (Université de Yaoundé I), Pr Joseph Pierre BIKANDA (Université Catholique d’Afrique Centrale), Pr Natali KOUSOUMNA LIBA’A (Université de Maroua), Pr Emanuel YENSHU VUBO (Université de Buéa), Pr Armand LEKA ESSOMBA (Université de Yaoundé I), Pr Anatole FOGOU (Université de Maroua), Pr Sarriette BATIBONAK (Université Adventiste), Pr Charles OSSAH EBOTO (Université de Maroua), Pr Martin SANGO NDEH (Université de Buéa), Pr Paul ABOUNA (Université de Yaoundé I), Pr Bachir BOUBA (Université de Maroua), Pr Yves Bertrand DJOUDA FEUDJIO (Université de Yaoundé I), Pr Fabrice MENYE NGA (Université de Ngaoundéré), Pr Henri MOUSSIMA (Université de Ngaoundéré), Pr Ignace Bertrand NDZANA (Université de Ngaoundéré), Pr Ibrahim Bienvenu MOULIOM MOUNGBAKOU (Université de Maroua), Pr François WASSOUNI (Université de Maroua), Pr Jean GORMO (Université de Maroua), Pr Alain Roger BOULA MEVA’A (Université de Dschang), Pr Adder Abel GWODA (Université de Maroua), Pr Armel SAMBO (Université de Maroua), Pr Paul AHIDJO (Université de Maroua), Pr Paul Ulrich OTYE ELOM (Université de Maroua).
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Pr Anatole FOGOU, Pr Jean GORMO, Pr Bachir BOUBA, Pr Alain Roger BOULA MEVA’A, Pr Armel SAMBO, Pr Ousmanou ADAMA, Pr Ibrahim Bienvenu MOULIOM MOUNGBAKOU, Pr François WASSOUNI, Pr Martin SANGO NDEH, Pr Paul AHIDJO, Pr Paul Ulrich OTYE ELOM, Pr Robert TEFE TAGNE, Pr Jacques YOMB, Pr Charles NGADIFNA, Dr Robert NANCHE BILLA, Dr Michel OYONO TADJUIDJE, Dr Paul Basile Odilon NYET, Dr Luc Stéphane MASSOMA, Dr Jean-Pierre NGUEDE NGONO.
Production des Connaissances en Sciences Sociales en Afrique Enjeux et Défis
Knowledge Production in the Social Sciences in Africa Stakes and Challenges
Sous la direction de Ibrahim Bienvenu MOULIOM MOUNGBAKOU Robert NANCHE BILLA

Ouvrage honoré du soutien financier de la Faculté des Arts, Lettres et Sciences Humaines de l’Université de Maroua
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Table des matières
Foreword
Emmanuel Yenshu Vubo
Introduction Générale
Ibrahim Bienvenu Mouliom Moungbakou
PREMIÈRE PARTIE
Épistemologie de la Recherche
Chapitre 1
Lieux d’origine, choix de sujets de recherche et effort de distanciation
Luc Stéphane Massoma
Chapter 2
The Challenges of Studying Poverty: Its Methodological Dynamics and Applicability in the Douala Metropolis of Cameroon
Robert Nanche Billa
Chapter 3
Inventorying and Cataloguing Cameroon’s Community Museums
Victor Bayena Ngitir
Chapitre 4
Musées communautaires au Cameroun : remembrement et repositionnement épistémologique
Hugues Heumen Tchana
DEUXIÈME PARTIE
Collecte des Donnees
Chapter 5
Essential Guide to Thesis and Dissertation Writing in the Social Sciences: Putting Scientific Methodology in Context
Margaret Besin-Mengla Mendong
Chapitre 6
Les méthodes mixtes dans la recherche-intervention en Sociologie : le cas de l’approche qualimétrique dans l’évaluation de la performance organisationnelle
Paul Basile Odilon Nyet
Chapitre 7
Tribulations des méthodes de recherche en Sciences Sociales et consolidation du continuum quantitatif/qualitatif
Paulette Mappi Dzukou & Michel Oyono Tadjuidje
TROISIÈME PARTIE
Éthique de la Recherche
Chapitre 8
Respect de l’éthique de la recherche en Sciences Sociales dans les universités camerounaises : règles, contraintes et stratégies des chercheurs
Ibrahim Bienvenu Mouliom Moungbakou
Chapitre 9
Le consentement éclairé dans la recherche en Sciences Sociales : exigence éthique et atout méthodologique
Yadji Mana
General Conclusion
Knowledge Production in the Social Sciences: An interrelationship between the epistemological, ethical and methodological dimensions.
Robert Nanche Billa
Contributeurs
About the Editors
Index alphabétique
FOREWORD
Emmanuel YENSHU VUBO
Professor of Sociology, University of Buea, Member of the Cameroon Academy of Sciences
I t is a great pleasure for me to write a foreword to a book written by a relatively younger generation of sociologists and edited by their peers. The contributions of the book were presented in a study group discussion “ journée d’étude ” run by the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Sciences for Development of the University of Maroua. I am doubly honoured to provide a guiding statement to this initiative. Firstly, this is because I was contacted by the lead actors in this project who happen to have been our mentees over the years and after one of them had been our student before. This reminds me that the job of training, mentorship and guidance is an on-going process that does not end with the classroom, when former students graduate and become colleagues. By looking up to us, they maintain the essential inter-generational link that is supposed to keep academia in Cameroon alive and lively.
This initiative itself by young lecturers who have had the singular challenge of working almost detached from the rest of the country given that the older and larger community of sociologists is situated further to the South of the country, practically in four universities (Buea, Dschang, Douala, Yaounde 1), is laudable. This is not new. At its own time, the new universities outside of Yaounde in the 1990s started sociology units (departments and programmes) with new and young staff emerging from scratch into some sort of “self-made” academics. That the Maroua group associated colleagues from the Arts Institute of Nkongsamba (University of Douala) and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of the University of Buea is a very positive step. This shows that the community in Maroua is not only alive but connected in its own way to the rest of the community of sociologists of Cameroon.
My second interest in this initiative is thematic. The three announced themes of epistemology, methodology (especially discussions on procedures of data collection) and ethics have always occupied an important place within our own perspective in the teaching and practice of Sociology and related disciplines. These are questions with a philosophical import which makes of the contributions essentially reflections although they are anchored in some references to field research. We can also remark a fourth preoccupation that runs through some of the articles, an ontological one, reflected in the question of objects that one can find in the discussions on poverty and museums. In a way, this relatively young generation of scholars is making the point that practice should not just go on in some mechanical fashion. Professional practice should always be accompanied by a reflection on the practices, the nature of the practice (epistemology and methodology), the question of proper practice (ethical/axiological), and the objects. I have always felt that reflections are an integral part of scientific production which can come before or accompany empirical research at all moments (Yenshu Vubo 2009: 77). I am inspired by Bachlard in this regard when he declares that : “L’observation a besoin d’un corps de précautions qui conduisent à réfléchir avant de regarder/Observation needs to be accompanied by a body of safeguards that lead to the fact that one has to think before looking… (italics and translation mine).
To have opted to think the practice of scientific production is both rare and challenging. It is easy to find collective works of a thematic nature, essays with more or less no critical look at the objects, the philosophical underpinnings of the works, the methods and the respect for ethics. Such critical examinations should not be taken to be a critique of others (students, researcher, and colleagues) only. It is first of all a necessary collective self-examination, the type of self-analysis proposed by Pierre Bourdieu when he holds that : “… [l]auto-analyse … permet à chacun de comprendre mieux ce qu’il est, en lui donnant une compréhension de ses propres conditions sociales de production…/ self-analysis … enables everyone to understand whom s/he is when it provides an understanding of one’s social conditions of production … ” (Bourdieu 1987: 11). I cannot but appreciate the