Editorial: A Plea for Ethical Autonomy as a Transdisciplinary Social Science

Authors

  • Antonio SANDU Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava, Romania
  • Ana FRUNZA PhD Researcher, LUMEN Research Center in Social and Humanistic Sciences, Iasi, Romania & Associated Assistant PhD, Stefan cel Mare University from Suceava, Romania

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18662/jess/01

Keywords:

Professionalization of ethics, applied ethics, ethics of research in social sciences,

Abstract

The approach of ethics from the perspective of epistemic autonomy comes to bring together the professional concerned with the ethical reflection on his own practice and his own epistemological, ethical and ethical horizon, with those of the professional ethic who are addressing the ethical significance of practice in the various fields of social research, no more. This editorial proposes a number of directions of interest in the field of ethics in social science research, as the preferred domains, without being exclusive to the on-going Journal of Ethics in Social Studies.

Author Biographies

Antonio SANDU, Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava, Romania

Professor PhD at ?Stefan cel Mare? University of Suceava, Romania, and Senior Researcher at LUMEN Research Center in Social and Humanistic Sciences, Iasi, Romania. His main areas of interest include ethics, bioethics, social? work and social philosophy. The original contributions of the author?s scientific activities? start from the social construction of reality and social constructionism as seen from a semiological perspective. He analyses the social construction of reality by developing his very own version of social constructionism operating at the intersection between the constructionist paradigm and the theory of communicative action.? He is the author of the book: Social Construction of Reality as Communicative action, to be published at Cambridge Scholar Publishing this year, and also of ?Social Work Practice: Research Techniques and Intervention Models: From Problem Solving to Appreciative Inquiry?, ?Appreciative Ethics: A constructionist version of ethics? and ?Social-Constructionist Epistemology: A transmodern overview?, all three published by Lap Lambert between 2012 and 2013. He has also authored more than 10 volumes in Romanian, published by national publishing houses.

Ana FRUNZA, PhD Researcher, LUMEN Research Center in Social and Humanistic Sciences, Iasi, Romania & Associated Assistant PhD, Stefan cel Mare University from Suceava, Romania

Ana Frunz? obtained a PhD in philosophy at Al. I. Cuza University of Iasi, in 2014, presenting a thesis entitled ?A deconstructive approach to ethical values. Ethics expertise?. She obtained an MA degree in Supervision and Social Planning in 2011, with a Bachelor?s degree in Social Work in 2009.

She is Scientific Researcher III at the LUMEN Center for Social and Humanistic Research. Her main scientific interests are applied ethics, applied philosophy, social work, supervision and ethics expertise. She is associated university assistant PhD

"Stefan cel Mare" University from Suceava, Faculty of Law & Administrative Sciences, Romania.

Ana Frunza is currently working on defining a new model of ethics expertise ? the supervision of ethics, in conjunction with Professor Antonio Sandu, Doctor in Philosophy at LUMEN Center for Social and Humanistic Research from Iasi, Romania.

She is the author of three books, ?Etica ?i dezvoltarea comunitar?/ Ethics and community development? and ?C?tre o nou? expertiz? etic?. Deconstruind valorile etice/ Towards a new ethics expertise ? deconstructing the ethical values?, ?Supervizarea??i dezvoltarea profesional? a asisten?ilor sociali/ The supervision and the professional development of the social workers ? published by LUMEN Publishing House between 2013 and 2017.

Her research interests are ethics, research ethics, ethics expertise, supervision of ethics, applied philosophy.

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Published

2018-06-07

How to Cite

SANDU, A., & FRUNZA, A. (2018). Editorial: A Plea for Ethical Autonomy as a Transdisciplinary Social Science. Journal for Ethics in Social Studies, 1(1), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.18662/jess/01

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2017): Journal for Ethics in Social Studies

Section

Editorial

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