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On Social Research and Its Language

Author : Paul F. Lazarsfeld
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226469614
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book On Social Research and Its Language written by Paul F. Lazarsfeld and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-11-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighteen essays in On Social Research and Its Language illustrate the diversity of Lazarsfeld's substantive, methodological, and organizational interests. Spanning the years 1933 to 1972, they encompass his own works of social research, as well as writings on methodology and the history and sociology of social research. Articles on methodology--observing, classifying and building typologies, analyzing the relations between variables, qualitative analysis, and macrosociology--form the bulk of the book. In addition, Raymond Boudon provides a revealing biography of Lazarsfeld and his influence on sociology.--Publisher description.

Continuities in the Language of Social Research

Author : Paul Felix Lazarsfeld
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Continuities in the Language of Social Research written by Paul Felix Lazarsfeld and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Language of Social Studies Education

Author : Jason Endacott
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004546960
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book The Language of Social Studies Education written by Jason Endacott and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-03-20 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social studies is a discipline unique to K-12 education and tasked with the preparation of democratic citizens. Social studies educators work with concepts, theories, and ideas from multiple disciplines across the social sciences and humanities, which makes discourse through shared language complex. Specialization in content areas that comprise the social studies can further complicate shared understanding of essential terms. The Language of Social Studies Education offers essential information for key concepts organized to reflect the contemporary context of K-12 social studies education. The concepts found within this volume reflect the breadth of the discipline while also providing the foundational knowledge needed to develop deeper understanding. Each entry is based on multiple sources that invite the reader to pursue their interests through further inquiry. This book will appeal to those who are looking for concise information based on respected scholarship from disciplines across the social studies. Even seasoned social studies practitioners will find its entries helpful for incorporating new concepts, ideas, and approaches into their discourses on citizenship education.

Qualitative and Quantitative Social Research

Author : Robert King Merton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0029209307
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book Qualitative and Quantitative Social Research written by Robert King Merton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1979 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Language Loyalty, Continuity and Change

Author : Rakhmiel Peltz
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1853599026
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book Language Loyalty, Continuity and Change written by Rakhmiel Peltz and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This short volume provides a comprehensive and synoptic view of Joshua A. Fishman's contributions to international sociolinguistics. The two integrative essays provide readers with the essential understandings of Fishmanian sociolinguistics and his contributions to Yiddish scholarship. An up-to-date comprehensive bibliography prepared by Gella Schweid Fishman, as well as Fishman's own concluding sentiments, complement the integrative essays.

Continuities in Cultural Evolution

Author : Margaret Mead
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351526081
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Continuities in Cultural Evolution written by Margaret Mead and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Mead once said, "I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples--faraway peoples--so that Americans might better understand themselves." Continuities in Cultural Evolution is evidence of this devotion. All of Mead's efforts were intended to help others learn about themselves and work toward a more humane and socially responsible society. Scientist, writer, explorer, and teacher, Mead brought the serious work of anthropology into the public consciousness. This volume began as the Terry Lectures, given at Yale in 1957 and was not published until 1964, after extensive reworking. The time she spent on revision is evidence of the importance Mead attached to the subject: the need to develop a truly evolutionary vision of human culture and society. This was desirable in her eyes both in order to reinforce the historical dimension in our ideas about human culture, and to preserve the relevance of historical and cultural diversity to social, economic, and political action. Given the present state of academic and public discourse alike, this volume speaks to us in a language we badly need to recover.

Change and Continuity in Applied Linguistics

Author : British Association for Applied Linguistics. Meeting
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 9781853595264
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book Change and Continuity in Applied Linguistics written by British Association for Applied Linguistics. Meeting and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume are a selection from those given at the 1999 BAAL Annual Meeting, held at Edinburgh, whose theme was 'Change and Continuity in Applied Linguistics'. As well as offering a varied sample of current applied linguistics research, they provide a stimulating discussion of a wide range of views on fundamental questions about the nature and development of the discipline: What is applied linguistics? Where has it come from? What are its interests, data and methods? Who is it for? And how is it changing, especially in its views of language, learning, society and teaching?

Understanding and Prediction

Author : S. Nowak
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401099308
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Understanding and Prediction written by S. Nowak and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the more characteristic features of contemporary sociology is an increasing interest in theories. More and more theories are being developed in various areas of social investigation; we observe also an increasing number of verificational studies aimed primarily toward the verification of various theories. The essays presented in this volume deal with theories too, but they approach this problem from a methodological perspective. There fore it seems worthwhile in the preface to this volume to make a kind of general declaration about the author's aims and his approach to the subject of his interest, and about his view of the role of methodological reflection in the development of sciences. First let me say what methodology cannot do. It cannot be a substitute for the formulation of substantive theories, nor can it substitute for the empirical studies which confirm or reject such theories. Therefore its impact upon the development of any science, including the social sciences, is only indirect, by its undertaking the analysis of research tools and rules of scientific procedures. It can also propose certain standards for scientific procedures, but the application of these standards is the domain of substan tive researchers, and it is the substantive researchers who ultimately develop any science. Nevertheless the potential impact-of methodological reflection, even if only indirect, should not be underestimated.

New Developments in Categorical Data Analysis for the Social and Behavioral Sciences

Author : L. Andries van der Ark
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1135704848
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book New Developments in Categorical Data Analysis for the Social and Behavioral Sciences written by L. Andries van der Ark and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005-01-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Categorical data are quantified as either nominal variables--distinguishing different groups, for example, based on socio-economic status, education, and political persuasion--or ordinal variables--distinguishing levels of interest, such as the preferred politician or the preferred type of punishment for committing burglary. This new book is a collection of up-to-date studies on modern categorical data analysis methods, emphasizing their application to relevant and interesting data sets. This volume concentrates on latent class analysis and item response theory. These methods use latent variables to explain the relationships among observed categorical variables. Latent class analysis yields the classification of a group of respondents according to their pattern of scores on the categorical variables. This provides insight into the mechanisms producing the data and allows the estimation of factor structures and regression models conditional on the latent class structure. Item response theory leads to the identification of one or more ordinal or interval scales. In psychological and educational testing these scales are used for individual measurement of abilities and personality traits. The focus of this volume is applied. After a method is explained, the potential of the method for analyzing categorical data is illustrated by means of a real data example to show how it can be used effectively for solving a real data problem. These methods are accessible to researchers not trained explicitly in applied statistics. This volume appeals to researchers and advanced students in the social and behavioral sciences, including social, developmental, organizational, clinical and health psychologists, sociologists, educational and marketing researchers, and political scientists. In addition, it is of interest to those who collect data on categorical variables and are faced with the problem of how to analyze such variables--among themselves or in relation to metric variables.

Multilevel Modeling of Social Problems

Author : Robert B. Smith
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9048198550
Total Pages : 565 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Multilevel Modeling of Social Problems written by Robert B. Smith and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-02-26 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uniquely focusing on intersections of social problems, multilevel statistical modeling, and causality; the substantively and methodologically integrated chapters of this book clarify basic strategies for developing and testing multilevel linear models (MLMs), and drawing casual inferences from such models. These models are also referred to as hierarchical linear models (HLMs) or mixed models. The statistical modeling of multilevel data structures enables researchers to combine contextual and longitudinal analyses appropriately. But researchers working on social problems seldom apply these methods, even though the topics they are studying and the empirical data call for their use. By applying multilevel modeling to hierarchical data structures, this book illustrates how the use of these methods can facilitate social problems research and the formulation of social policies. It gives the reader access to working data sets, computer code, and analytic techniques, while at the same time carefully discussing issues of causality in such models. This book innovatively: •Develops procedures for studying social, economic, and human development. • Uses typologies to group (i.e., classify or nest) the level of random macro-level factors. • Estimates models with Poisson, binomial, and Gaussian end points using SAS's generalized linear mixed models (GLIMMIX) procedure. • Selects appropriate covariance structures for generalized linear mixed models. • Applies difference-in-differences study designs in the multilevel modeling of intervention studies. •Calculates propensity scores by applying Firth logistic regression to Goldberger-corrected data. • Uses the Kenward-Rogers correction in mixed models of repeated measures. • Explicates differences between associational and causal analysis of multilevel models. • Consolidates research findings via meta-analysis and methodological critique. •Develops criteria for assessing a study's validity and zone of causality. Because of its social problems focus, clarity of exposition, and use of state-of-the-art procedures; policy researchers, methodologists, and applied statisticians in the social sciences (specifically, sociology, social psychology, political science, education, and public health) will find this book of great interest. It can be used as a primary text in courses on multilevel modeling or as a primer for more advanced texts.

Constructing Narratives of Continuity and Change

Author : Hazel Reid
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317909291
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Constructing Narratives of Continuity and Change written by Hazel Reid and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, academics and researchers across disciplines including education, psychology and health studies come together to discuss personal, political and professional narratives of struggle, resilience and hope. Contributors draw from a rich body of auto/biographical research to examine the role of narrative and how it can be constructed to compose a life story, considering the roles of significant others, inspirational, educational and fictional characters, and those in myth and legend. The book discusses how personal narrative, often neglected in social and psychological enquiry, can be a valuable resource across a range of settings. Reference is made to the evolving role of narrative in education and health care, medicine and psychotherapy. This includes how particular narratives are hardwired into culture in ways that stifle personal and social understanding. Rather than providing a ‘how to’ guide, the book illustrates the range and power of narrative, including poetry, to re-awaken senses of self and agency in extremis. Each chapter draws on specific research, describing the context, explaining the methodology, and illuminating important findings. Discussing implications for research and practice, this book will be key reading for postgraduate and doctoral students in auto/biographical and narrative studies, and across a range of disciplines, including education, health and social care, politics, counselling and psychotherapy. It will be of interest to academics teaching research methods, and those developing biographical and auto/biographical narrative research.

Theory and Methods in Sociology

Author : John Hughes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137111607
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (371 download)

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Download or read book Theory and Methods in Sociology written by John Hughes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a guide to sociology that explores its theoretical and methodological dimensions. Aiming to provide the reader with a sense of the reasoned character of the discipline, it traces how different theories and methods relate to one another, exploring the particular problems they spawn and the debates that have arisen in response.

Justifying Historical Descriptions

Author : C. Behan McCullagh
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521318303
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Justifying Historical Descriptions written by C. Behan McCullagh and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1984-10-25 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In common with history, all the social sciences crucially rely on descriptions of the past for their evidence. But when, if ever, is it reasonable to regard such descriptions as true? This book attempts to establish the conditions that warrant belief in historical descriptions. It does so in a non-technical way, analysing numerous illustrations of the different kinds of argument about the past employed by historians and others. The author concludes that no historical description can be finally proved, and that we are only ever justified in believing them for certain practical purposes. This central question has not been addressed in such a thorough and systematic manner before. It draws on recent philosophy of history and will interest philosophers. But the wealth of material and accessibility of the presentation will also make it very valuable for historians and other social scientists concerned with the logic of their disciplines.

Pioneers of Sociological Science

Author : John H. Goldthorpe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108934404
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Pioneers of Sociological Science written by John H. Goldthorpe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goldthorpe reveals the genealogy of present-day sociological science through studies of the key contributions made by seventeen pioneers in the field, ranging from John Graunt and Edmond Halley in the mid-seventeenth century to Otis Dudley Duncan, James Coleman and Raymond Boudon in the late twentieth. Goldthorpe's biographies of these figures and analyses of their work reveal clear lines of intellectual descent, building towards the author's model of sociology as the study of human populations across time and place, previously outlined in his book Sociology as a Population Science (Cambridge, 2015). The extent to which recent developments such as computational sociology and analytical sociology are in continuation with the efforts of these influential thinkers is also critically examined. Pioneers of Sociological Science will appeal to students and scholars of sociology and to anyone engaged in social science research, from statisticians to social historians.

Japanese Americans and Cultural Continuity

Author : Toyotomi Morimoto
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135578974
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Japanese Americans and Cultural Continuity written by Toyotomi Morimoto and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the United States is a nation of immigrants, few Americans are familiar with the ethnic community mother-tongue schools that nurtured and maintained the immigrants' language and culture. This book records the history of the schools of Americans of Japanese ancestry, focusing on the efforts of the Japanese community in California to maintain their linguistic and cultural heritage. The main focus of the book is on the period from the early 20th century to World War II, but it also surveys conditions during the war and in the postwar era up to the present. The coverage examines the difficulties experienced by the ancestors of the model minority, from the San Francisco Japanese school-children segregation incident in the early part of this century to private school control laws in the 1920s. The book also surveys the lives of Japanese Americans as college students in Japan in the 1930s, as well as looks at Japanese communities in Hawaii and Brazil.

Continuities in the Language of Social Research

Author : Paul Felix Lazarsfeld
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Continuities in the Language of Social Research written by Paul Felix Lazarsfeld and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Social Structure and Voting in the United States

Author : Robert B. Smith
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9401774870
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Social Structure and Voting in the United States written by Robert B. Smith and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes practical and moral influences on voting decisions. Undermining the widespread assumption that economic self-interest is the key determinant of voting choices, it discovers that moral considerations rooted in religious traditions are often the more decisive. This finding is confirmed through a close analysis of tangible problems, such as child neglect and crime, problems which one would expect to trouble practical voters. Further, this book suggests that political ideologies influence party affiliation, rather than the other way around. It defines four categories of states in terms of human development and income equality—South, Heartland, postindustrial, and “balanced.” It then explains why political color (red, purple, or blue) and societal problems vary across these categories. Voters’ moral ideologies, it shows, combine with a state’s measure of income equality and human development to shape a state’s readiness to pursue practical solutions to societal problems. Finally, it shows that moral ideologies of the religious right and authoritarianism, two very different concepts, are in fact intertwined empirically. This book thus suggests that education—a key driver of human development, anti-authoritarianism, and deliberative voting—should begin in preschools that are both nurturant and instructive.