School of Humanities and Social Science Division of Humanities 221 Korean War Prisoners Oral History Interview Transcription Supervisor: CHANG David Cheng / HUMA Student: TANG Yidan / GCS-IHSS Course: UROP 3100, Fall This study is based on an interview with Mr. Hong Guangkui (Kwang Kwei) (洪光煃), an interpreter for the U.S. Army Liaison Group during the Second World War and the Korean War. The purpose of this article is to summarise the progress of the interview so far, as well as to provide the reader with a general overview of what is involved in this phase of the research. This interview mainly includes Mr. Hong Guangkui’s experience in work, family and social changes since he gave up his job at the Chongqing Engineering Bureau after the Liberation War and applied to the Railway Bureau and worked as a chief engineer on many railways. (Including Chengdu-Chongqing Railway, Baoji-Chengdu Railway, Duyun-Guiding Railway, Neijiang-Kunming Railway, Chengdu-Kunming Railway, Sichuan-Henan Railway, Guangwang Railway, Sichuan-Guizhou Railway). This paper consists of five different parts for the readers, including the introduction to the project, the required tasks, the preparations of transcription, the content compilation and summarization and the difficulties I encountered together with what I have learned through the project. Understanding and Progress in the Social Sciences Supervisor: SHAN Yafeng / HUMA Student: CHEUNG Ching Yan Justin / QFIN Course: UROP 1100, Fall This paper proposes a new account of scientific progress by drawing elements from the semantic account and the functional account. I argue that this account provides a consistent view of the fallibilist development in science as well as the positivist feature of scientific inquiry. The main tools that are pointed to are the tendency to de-idealise during the progression of frameworks and the restrictiveness of scientific concepts. With this account, we can also speak of progress in positivist-tilted social science, like economics. I will illustrate how the devised standard can be applied to oversee a transition from neoclassical economics to New Institutional Economics. Understanding and Progress in the Social Sciences Supervisor: SHAN Yafeng / HUMA Student: HUI Sam Ching / ECON Course: UROP 1100, Fall UROP 2100, Spring This report aims to defense for the new noetic account of progress in social sciences that social sciences progress if and only if the scientists understanding of the world increases which is driven by increase in adequacy of explanation. The argument starts by defining the adequacy in explanation for social sciences in positivism as the criteria of adequacy in Deductive-Nomological (DN) Model. Then, I illustrate my argument by the progress in the sociological inquiries on suicide. At the end, I will address to an objection that adapting DN model in the new noetic account of scientific progress cannot cover the scientific progress in social sciences in interpretivism.
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