Journal Of Social Sciences

Author : Phillip C. Shon
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781473933637

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How to Read Journal Articles in the Social Sciences by Phillip C. Shon Pdf

This superb guide teaches you how to read critically. Its no-nonsense, practical approach uses a specially developed reading code to help you read articles for your research project; this simple code enables you to decipher journal articles structurally, mechanically and grammatically. Refreshingly free of jargon and written with you in mind, it’s packed full of interdisciplinary advice that helps you to decode and critique academic writing. The author’s fuss free approach will improve your performance, boost your confidence and help you to: Read and better understand content Take relevant effective notes Manage large amounts of information in an easily identifiable and retrievable format Write persuasively using formal academic language and style. New to this edition: Additional examples across a range of subjects, including education, health and sociology as well as criminology Refined terminology for students in the UK, as well as around the world More examples dealing specifically with journal articles. Clear, focused and practical this handy guide is a great resource for helping you sharpen your use of journal articles and improve your academic writing skills. ‘I have used the book over the last five years with my students with great success. The book has helped students to develop their critical thinking, reading and writing skills and when it comes to writing a dissertation they have used the code sheet in their own writing.’ - Pete Allison, Head of the Graduate School of Education, University of Edinburgh The Student Success series are essential guides for students of all levels. From how to think critically and write great essays to planning your dream career, the Student Success series helps you study smarter and get the best from your time at university. Visit the SAGE Study Skills hub for tips and resources for study success!

Author : Simon Bastow,Patrick Dunleavy,Jane Tinkler
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781446293256

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The Impact of the Social Sciences by Simon Bastow,Patrick Dunleavy,Jane Tinkler Pdf

The impact agenda is set to shape the way in which social scientists prioritise the work they choose to pursue, the research methods they use and how they publish their findings over the coming decade, but how much is currently known about how social science research has made a mark on society? Based on a three year research project studying the impact of 360 UK-based academics on business, government and civil society sectors, this groundbreaking new book undertakes the most thorough analysis yet of how academic research in the social sciences achieves public policy impacts, contributes to economic prosperity, and informs public understanding of policy issues as well as economic and social changes. The Impact of the Social Sciences addresses and engages with key issues, including: identifying ways to conceptualise and model impact in the social sciences developing more sophisticated ways to measure academic and external impacts of social science research explaining how impacts from individual academics, research units and universities can be improved. This book is essential reading for researchers, academics and anyone involved in discussions about how to improve the value and impact of funded research.

Author : Andreu Casero-Ripollés
Publisher : Mdpi AG
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3036531610

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Journalism and Politics by Andreu Casero-Ripollés Pdf

Digital media have become an indispensable element of a growing number of human practices that depend on these platforms to a great extent. In consequence, they have been configured as central infrastructures in our lives, with the ability to shape society and politics. These technologies have changed how contemporary politics are performed. This affects the relationship between journalism and politics, which has always played a central role in democratic societies. It is essential for setting the agenda, defining social frames of problems and issues related to the public interest, promoting public debates, as well as shaping public opinion. The emergence of social media has led to many alterations in the communication environment and is redefining the power distribution between journalism and politics. We are immersed in a time characterized by the introduction of large-scale changes that alter what we have taken for granted. This book examines the processes that transform the relationship between journalism and politics in the digital landscape and the nature and consequences of this new scenario in political communication, democracy and society. Through 12 chapters, it explores the core values ​​of political journalism in the digital age, new communication formats and technological platforms for political actors, and the impact of the far right on communication and journalism. This collection of investigations offers an exciting and rigorous vision of one of the main transformations that our society is now facing.

Author : Mark Solovey
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262358750

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Social Science for What? by Mark Solovey Pdf

How the NSF became an important yet controversial patron for the social sciences, influencing debates over their scientific status and social relevance. In the early Cold War years, the U.S. government established the National Science Foundation (NSF), a civilian agency that soon became widely known for its dedication to supporting first-rate science. The agency's 1950 enabling legislation made no mention of the social sciences, although it included a vague reference to "other sciences." Nevertheless, as Mark Solovey shows in this book, the NSF also soon became a major--albeit controversial--source of public funding for them.

Author : Cosmas Uchenna Nwokeafor
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1099061989

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International Journal of Communication & Social Sciences by Cosmas Uchenna Nwokeafor Pdf

The International Journal of Communication and Social Sciences (IJCSS), an official publication of the Mass Communication Department at Godfrey Okoye University, Enugu, Nigeria, is edited in collaboration with the Dean of Graduate School at Bowie State University, Bowie Maryland, USA. The Journal publishes articles and book reviews that examine a broad range of social sciences, but most importantly, issues relevant to communication theory, research practice, policy and methodological approaches, information communication technology (ICT), development communication paradigms and ethical conducts and standards in journalism and communication. Since the Journal seeks to be a general forum for communication scholarship, internationally published, we are especially interested in research whose significance crosses disciplinary and sub-field boundaries such as the social sciences.

Author : Wendy E. Pentland,M. Powell Lawton,Andrew S. Harvey,Mary Ann McColl
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1999-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780306459511

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Time Use Research in the Social Sciences by Wendy E. Pentland,M. Powell Lawton,Andrew S. Harvey,Mary Ann McColl Pdf

This collection demonstrates the use and variety of applications of time use methodology from multidisciplinary, multinational, and multicultural perspectives. A distinguished roster of contributors from such fields as psychology, occupational therapy, sociology, economics, and architecture examines the complex relationship between human time utilization and health and well-being and evaluates the future of time use analysis as a research tool in the social sciences.

Author : Jaap Bos
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030484156

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Research Ethics for Students in the Social Sciences by Jaap Bos Pdf

This open access textbook offers a practical guide into research ethics for undergraduate students in the social sciences. A step-by-step approach of the most viable issues, in-depth discussions of case histories and a variety of didactical tools will aid the student to grasp the issues at hand and help him or her develop strategies to deal with them. This book addresses problems and questions that any bachelor student in the social sciences should be aware of, including plagiarism, data fabrication and other types of fraud, data augmentation, various forms of research bias, but also peer pressure, issues with confidentiality and questions regarding conflicts of interest. Cheating, ‘free riding’, and broader issues that relate to the place of the social sciences in society are also included. The book concludes with a step-by-step approach designed to coach a student through a research application process.

Author : Mark Addis,Peter C. R. Lane,Peter D. Sozou,Fernand Gobet
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030237691

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Scientific Discovery in the Social Sciences by Mark Addis,Peter C. R. Lane,Peter D. Sozou,Fernand Gobet Pdf

This volume offers selected papers exploring issues arising from scientific discovery in the social sciences. It features a range of disciplines including behavioural sciences, computer science, finance, and statistics with an emphasis on philosophy. The first of the three parts examines methods of social scientific discovery. Chapters investigate the nature of causal analysis, philosophical issues around scale development in behavioural science research, imagination in social scientific practice, and relationships between paradigms of inquiry and scientific fraud. The next part considers the practice of social science discovery. Chapters discuss the lack of genuine scientific discovery in finance where hypotheses concern the cheapness of securities, the logic of scientific discovery in macroeconomics, and the nature of that what discovery with the Solidarity movement as a case study. The final part covers formalising theories in social science. Chapters analyse the abstract model theory of institutions as a way of representing the structure of scientific theories, the semi-automatic generation of cognitive science theories, and computational process models in the social sciences. The volume offers a unique perspective on scientific discovery in the social sciences. It will engage scholars and students with a multidisciplinary interest in the philosophy of science and social science.

Author : National Institute of Social Sciences (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Social sciences
ISBN : LCCN:16003326

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Journal of the National Institute of Social Sciences by National Institute of Social Sciences (U.S.) Pdf

Author : Anol Bhattacherjee
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 1475146124

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Social Science Research by Anol Bhattacherjee Pdf

This book is designed to introduce doctoral and graduate students to the process of conducting scientific research in the social sciences, business, education, public health, and related disciplines. It is a one-stop, comprehensive, and compact source for foundational concepts in behavioral research, and can serve as a stand-alone text or as a supplement to research readings in any doctoral seminar or research methods class. This book is currently used as a research text at universities on six continents and will shortly be available in nine different languages.

Author : Andrea Bonaccorsi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319685540

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The Evaluation of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities by Andrea Bonaccorsi Pdf

This book examines very important issues in research evaluation in the Social Sciences and Humanities. It is based on recent experiences carried out in Italy (2011-2015) in the fields of research assessment, peer review, journal classification, and construction of indicators, and presents a systematic review of theoretical issues influencing the evaluation of Social Sciences and Humanities. Several chapters analyse original data made available through research assessment exercises. Other chapters are the result of dedicated and independent research carried out in 2014-2015 aimed at addressing some of the debated and open issues, for example in the evaluation of books, the use of Library Catalog Analysis or Google Scholar, the definition of research quality criteria on internationalization, as well as opening the way to innovative indicators. The book is therefore a timely and important contribution to the international debate.

Author : Taylor Dotson
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262551229

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Technically Together by Taylor Dotson Pdf

Why we should not accept “networked individualism” as the inevitable future of community. If social interaction by social media has become “the modern front porch” (as one sociologist argues), offering richer and more various contexts for community and personal connection, why do we often feel lonelier after checking Facebook? For one thing, as Taylor Dotson writes in Technically Together, “Try getting a Facebook status update to help move a couch or stay for dinner.” Dotson argues that the experts who assure us that “networked individualism” will only bring us closer together seem to be urging citizens to adapt their social expectations to the current limits of technology and discouraging them from considering how technologies could be refashioned to enable other ways of relating and belonging. Dotson characterizes different instantiations of community as “thick” or “thin,” depending on the facets and manifestations of togetherness that they encompass. Individuating social networks are a form of community, he explains, but relatively thin in regard to several dimensions of communality. Dotson points out that current technological practices are not foreordained but supported by policies, economic arrangements, and entrenched patterns of thought. He examines a range of systems, organizations, and infrastructures—from suburban sprawl and smartphones to energy grids and “cry-it-out” sleep training for infants—and considers whether they contribute to the atomization of social life or to togetherness and community vibrancy. Dotson argues that technology could support multifaceted communities if citizens stopped accepting the technological status quo and instead demanded more from their ever-present devices.

Author : Stanislav Andreski
Publisher : Saint Martin's Griffin
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Social sciences
ISBN : 0312735006

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Social Sciences as Sorcery by Stanislav Andreski Pdf

Author : Marilyn Lichtman
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781483320670

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Qualitative Research for the Social Sciences by Marilyn Lichtman Pdf

Focusing on the integral role of the researcher, Qualitative Research for the Social Sciences uses a conversational writing style that draws readers into the excitement of the research process. Lichtman offers a balanced and nuanced approach, covering the full range of qualitative methodologies and viewpoints about the field, including coverage of social media as a tool to facilitate research or as a venue for study. After presenting theoretical concepts and a historical overview, Lichtman guides readers, step by step, through the research process, addressing issues of analyzing data, presenting completed research, and evaluating research. Real-world examples from across the social sciences provide both practical and theoretical information, helping readers understand abstract ideas and apply them to their own research.

Author : Judy Eaton,David N. Morris
Publisher : Canadian Scholars
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773380919

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Academic Literacy in the Social Sciences by Judy Eaton,David N. Morris Pdf

Academic Literacy in the Social Sciences is a practical introductory guide that supports students through the process of understanding and critically evaluating research in the Social Sciences. This essential text develops and strengthens students’ ability to develop research paper topics, conduct thorough literature searches, critically evaluate research, and effectively summarize and share information. The textbook is broken down into ten chapters, focusing on topics such as theory and research methods in the social sciences, citing APA style, ethics and integrity, and statistics. This is an ideal resource for all students in undergraduate courses based in the social sciences.