Download or read book Three Essays on Measuring Social Context in the Social Sciences written by Paul Zachary and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most social science theories attempt to explain the ways in which social interactions affect human behavior. Inferences therefore depend upon a researchers' ability to measure and characterize these interactions. In this dissertation, we highlight several inferential challenges in measuring social interactions and show how geographical data can be used to address them. One such challenge is posed by exposure to various treatments; many treatment variables of interest are difficult to measure in a coherent and unified way. Chapter 2 illustrates the way in which public records can be used to overcome this challenge. Another challenge is post-treatment sorting. Once social conflict begins, one of the first things that groups do is segregate themselves into smaller sub-groups. Chapter 3 introduces a new instrumental variable to correct for this bias in census data. Lastly, Chapter 4 introduces a novel method for estimating where social media users spend time during their day. These findings and novel methods will contribute to social scientists' ability to study contextual effects on behavior.
Download or read book Social Science Research written by Anol Bhattacherjee and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Unmeasured Information and the Methodology of Social Scientific Inquiry written by Donald W. Katzner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have three reasons for bringing out the ensuing collection of essays. First, since analysis without measurement (this is generally not the same thing as what is commonly referred to as "qualitative methods" or "qualitative research" in the social science literature) is a relatively new scholarly endeavor, I am striving to enhance its visibility by attracting a wider audience than what would normally be possible with single, narrowly-focused essays published in scat tered journals. Second, several of these essays may, in the minds of potential readers, appear to have been published in places that, if not obscure, are at least inconvenient to locate. Collecting them in a single anthology, then, will help to increase their accessibility. Third, I am trying to suggest, as strongly as I can, that analysis without measurement is a viable intellectual enterprise that ought to be taken seriously in social science. This last point will clearly be en hanced if the whole that follows turns out, as I hope and suspect it does, to be greater than the sum of its parts. All the same, each reader will have to judge for himself or herself the extent to which I have, through the present collection, successfully made the case for taking up analysis without measurement. The partitioning of these essays into two groups is somewhat, though by no means completely arbitrary.
Download or read book Comparative Methods in Sociology written by Ivan Vallier and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-04-29 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume are intended to help social scientists do better comparative research and thereby to improve our possibilities for creating more satisfactory explanations or theories. These broad aims are advanced throughout the book in serval ways: (1) by an identification and assessment of the methodological strategies of exceptionally important comparativists, past and present; (2) by an explication and refinement of logics of procedure that are central to many types of comparative research; (3) by a presentation of new research models that link or bridge heretofore separate lines of comparative inquiry; and (4) by the definition of methodological criteria by which theories and conceptual frameworks can be more fruitfully related to and qualified by comparative studies. Specific problems such as comparability, causal inference, conceptualization, measurement, and sampling are addressed in various sections of particular essays. --From the Preface This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1971.
Download or read book The Social Context of Helping written by Merlin A. Taber and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Sciences written by Lawrence Boudon and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The one source that sets reference collections on Latin American studies apart from all other geographic areas of the world.... The Handbook has provided scholars interested in Latin America with a bibliographical source of a quality unavailable to scholars in most other branches of area studies." —Latin American Research Review Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research under way in specialized areas. The Handbook of Latin American Studies is the oldest continuing reference work in the field. Lawrence Boudon, of the Library of Congress Hispanic Division, has been the editor since 2001, and Katherine D. McCann has been assistant editor since 2000. The subject categories for Volume 59 are as follows: Anthropology Economics Geography Government and Politics International Relations Sociology Electronic Resources for the Social Sciences
Download or read book Three essays on linguistic diversity in the Spanish speaking world written by Jacob Ornstein-Galicia and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Methodology and Epistemology for Social Sciences written by Donald T. Campbell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1988-10-27 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selections from the work of an influential contributor to the methodology of the social sciences. He treats: measurement, experimental design, epistemology, and sociology of science each section introduced by the editor, Samuel Overman. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Download or read book Communities in Action written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.
Download or read book Three Essays on Semiparametric Methods for the Evaluation of Social Programs written by Matias Busso and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book ICTES 2018 written by Robbi Rahim and published by European Alliance for Innovation. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 739 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The technical program of The First ICTES 2018 consisted of 114 full papers. Aside from the high-quality technical paper presentations we also held workshop and clinic manuscript that was carried out before the main track aims to strengthen the ability to write scientific publications. Coordination with the steering chairs, Dr. Kadek Suranata, S.Pd, M.Pd.,Kons., and the members of organizing committee is essential for the success of the conference. We sincerely appreciate all the Advisory Boards for the constant support and guidance. It was also a great pleasure to work with such an excellent organizing committee team for their hard work in organizing and supporting the conference. In particular, the Scientific Committee, led by Cand(Dr) Robbi Rahim, M.Kom have completed the peer-review process of technical papers and made a high-quality technical program. We are also grateful to Students Conference chairs were leading by Ida Ayu Made Diah Paramiswari for their support and all the authors who submitted their papers to the First ICTES 2018. We strongly believe that ICTES conference provides a good forum for all academicians, researchers, and practitioners to discuss all Educational science and technology aspects that are relevant to issues and challenge for sustainability in the 4th industrial revolution. We also expect that the future ICTES conference will be as successful and stimulating, as indicated by the contributions presented in this volume
Download or read book Choice Welfare and Measurement written by Amartya Sen and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Choice, Welfare and Measurement contains many of Amartya Sen's most important contributions to economic analysis and methods, including papers on individual and social choice, preference and rationality, and aggregation and economic measurement. A substantial introductory essay interrelates his diverse concerns, and also analyzes discussions generated by the original papers, focusing on the underlying issues."--P. [4] of cover.
Download or read book Reader s Guide to the Social Sciences written by Jonathan Michie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 2166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2-volume work includes approximately 1,200 entries in A-Z order, critically reviewing the literature on specific topics from abortion to world systems theory. In addition, nine major entries cover each of the major disciplines (political economy; management and business; human geography; politics; sociology; law; psychology; organizational behavior) and the history and development of the social sciences in a broader sense.
Download or read book Conservation Social Science written by Daniel C. Miller and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-01-19 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Groundbreaking book that examines the essential contribution of the social sciences to understanding and conserving biodiversity across the globe Authored by leading scholars at the nexus of social science and biodiversity conservation, Conservation Social Science addresses the growing realization that biodiversity conservation is, at heart, a social phenomenon. Threats to biological diversity are influenced by a wide range of political, economic and cultural factors. The conservation of biodiversity is conceived and carried out by people. Biodiversity conservation is a manifestation of human beliefs and values. Choices about which species and habitats to conserve, how to prioritize efforts, and how to conserve them are inherently social − with consequences not just for wildlife but also human lives and livelihoods. Key topics covered in this thought-provoking text include: An introduction to key social science disciplines and how each field specifically relates to biodiversity conservation How to make social sciences an integral part of conservation strategies and initiatives How social science theories and analytic approaches can explain and help predict patterns of human behavior How biodiversity conservation as a ubiquitous societal phenomenon can provide insights into human society in general Conservation Social Science is an essential, one-of-a-kind survey of novel approaches to explaining and fostering more effective, just, and enduring conservation of biodiversity. It is academically rigorous and comprehensive in scope, yet sufficiently nontechnical and concise to be accessible to a global audience of students, faculty, and environmental professionals and policymakers.
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