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Author : Pablo González Casanova
Publisher : Pergamon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)
Download or read book The Fallacy of Social Science Research written by Pablo González Casanova and published by Pergamon. This book was released on 1981 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gerard Simon Guthrie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780473677930
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (779 download)
Download or read book Basic Research Methods written by Gerard Simon Guthrie and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gary King
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691034710
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Designing Social Inquiry written by Gary King and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1994-05-22 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designing Social Inquiry focuses on improving qualitative research, where numerical measurement is either impossible or undesirable. What are the right questions to ask? How should you define and make inferences about causal effects? How can you avoid bias? How many cases do you need, and how should they be selected? What are the consequences of unavoidable problems in qualitative research, such as measurement error, incomplete information, or omitted variables? What are proper ways to estimate and report the uncertainty of your conclusions?
Author : Susan Haack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781591024583
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (245 download)
Download or read book Defending Science--within Reason written by Susan Haack and published by . This book was released on 2007-01 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sweeping in scope, penetrating in analysis, and generously illustrated with examples from the history of science, this new and original approach to familiar questions about scientific evidence and method tackles vital questions about science and its place in society. Avoiding the twin pitfalls of scientism and cynicism, noted philosopher Susan Haack argues that, fallible and flawed as they are, the natural sciences have been among the most successful of human enterprises-valuable not only for the vast, interlocking body of knowledge they have discovered, and not only for the technological advances that have improved our lives, but as a manifestation of the human talent for inquiry at its imperfect but sometimes remarkable best. This wide-ranging, trenchant, and illuminating book explores the complexities of scientific evidence, and the multifarious ways in which the sciences have refined and amplified the methods of everyday empirical inquiry; articulates the ways in which the social sciences are like the natural sciences, and the ways in which they are different; disentangles the confusions of radical rhetoricians and cynical sociologists of science; exposes the evasions of apologists for religious resistance to scientific advances; weighs the benefits and the dangers of technology; tracks the efforts of the legal system to make the best use of scientific testimony; and tackles predictions of the eventual culmination, or annihilation, of the scientific enterprise. Writing with verve and wry humor, in a witty, direct, and accessible style, Haack takes readers beyond the "Science Wars" to a balanced understanding of the value, and the limitations, of the scientific enterprise.
Author : Martin Gardner
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486131629
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science written by Martin Gardner and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fair, witty appraisal of cranks, quacks, and quackeries of science and pseudoscience: hollow earth, Velikovsky, orgone energy, Dianetics, flying saucers, Bridey Murphy, food and medical fads, and much more.
Author : Maria K. E. Lahman
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1506328636
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Ethics in Social Science Research written by Maria K. E. Lahman and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethics in Social Science Research: Becoming Culturally Responsive provides a thorough grounding in research ethics, along with examples of real-world ethical dilemmas in working with vulnerable populations. Author Maria K. E. Lahman aims to help qualitative research students design ethically and culturally responsive research with communities that may be very different from their own. Throughout, compelling first person accounts of ethics in human research—both historical and contemporary—are highlighted and each chapter includes vignettes written by the author and her collaborators about real qualitative research projects.
Author : Divya Sharma
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040048226
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Illustrated Guide to Social Science Research written by Divya Sharma and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-09 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible and engaging textbook helps students to get to grips with key concepts, issues, and practices in social science research through the use of fun and informative illustrations and examples. Written and illustrated by an experienced teacher of research methods in the social sciences, each chapter explains research concepts while using everyday examples and illustrations to make applied research comprehensive to students. It explains the step-by-step process for carrying out research through a range of topics and approaches, including survey research, research ethics, sampling, and experimental research. Chapters also include learning objectives, class activities, key terms, helpful hints, and suggestions for further reading. This book will be essential reading for any undergraduate research methodology class in the social sciences.
Author : Stephen Gorard
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826465862
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Quantitative Methods in Social Science Research written by Stephen Gorard and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003-03-02 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This clever scheme builds on Gorard's previous book, Quantitative Methods in Educational Research. He has revised the original book in the light of experience and feedback, and has reworked it so that it includes more social science examples. Four chapters are entirely new.
Author : Aubrey Clayton
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231553358
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Bernoulli's Fallacy written by Aubrey Clayton and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a logical flaw in the statistical methods used across experimental science. This fault is not a minor academic quibble: it underlies a reproducibility crisis now threatening entire disciplines. In an increasingly statistics-reliant society, this same deeply rooted error shapes decisions in medicine, law, and public policy with profound consequences. The foundation of the problem is a misunderstanding of probability and its role in making inferences from observations. Aubrey Clayton traces the history of how statistics went astray, beginning with the groundbreaking work of the seventeenth-century mathematician Jacob Bernoulli and winding through gambling, astronomy, and genetics. Clayton recounts the feuds among rival schools of statistics, exploring the surprisingly human problems that gave rise to the discipline and the all-too-human shortcomings that derailed it. He highlights how influential nineteenth- and twentieth-century figures developed a statistical methodology they claimed was purely objective in order to silence critics of their political agendas, including eugenics. Clayton provides a clear account of the mathematics and logic of probability, conveying complex concepts accessibly for readers interested in the statistical methods that frame our understanding of the world. He contends that we need to take a Bayesian approach—that is, to incorporate prior knowledge when reasoning with incomplete information—in order to resolve the crisis. Ranging across math, philosophy, and culture, Bernoulli’s Fallacy explains why something has gone wrong with how we use data—and how to fix it.
Author : Thomas R Black
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761973690
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (736 download)
Download or read book Understanding Social Science Research written by Thomas R Black and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2002 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ability to read published research critically is essential and is different from the skills involved in undertaking research using statistical analysis. This New Edition of Thomas R Black's best-selling text explains in clear and straightforward terms how students can evaluate research, with particular emphasis on research involving some aspect of measurement. The coverage of fundamental concepts is comprehensive and supports topics including research design, data collection and data analysis by addressing the following major issues: Are the questions and hypotheses advanced appropriate and testable? Is the research design sufficient for the hypothesis? Is the data gathered valid, reliable and objective? Are the statistical techniques used to analyze the data appropriate and do they support the conclusions reached? Each of the chapters from the New Edition has been thoroughly updated, with particular emphasis on improving and increasing the range of activities for students. As well, coverage has been broadened to include: a wider range of research designs; a section on research ethics; item analysis; the definition of standard deviation with a guide for calculation; the concept of `power' in statistical inference; calculating correlations; and a description of the difference between parametric and non-parametric tests in terms of research questions. Evaluating Social Science Research An Introduction 2nd Edition will be key reading for undergraduate and postgrduate students in research methodology and evaluation across the social sciences.
Author : Michael Lewis-Beck
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761923633
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (236 download)
Download or read book The SAGE Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods written by Michael Lewis-Beck and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2004 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring over 900 entries, this resource covers all disciplines within the social sciences with both concise definitions & in-depth essays.
Author : Stephen Gorard
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1446290859
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (462 download)
Download or read book Research Design written by Stephen Gorard and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research design is of critical importance in social research, despite its relative neglect in many methods resources. Early consideration of design in relation to research questions leads to the elimination or diminution of threats to eventual research claims, by encouraging internal validity and substantially reducing the number of alternative explanations for any finite number of research ′observations′. This new book: discusses the nature of design; gives an introduction to design notation; offers a flexible approach to new designs; looks at a range of standard design models; and presents craft tips for real-life problems and compromises. Most importantly, it provides the rationale for preferring one design over another within any given context. Each section is illustrated with case studies of real work and concludes with suggested readings and topics for discussion in seminars and workshops, making it an ideal textbook for postgraduate research methods courses. Based on the author′s teaching on the ESRC Doctoral Training Centre "Masters in Research Methods" at the University of Birmingham, and his ongoing work for the ESRC Researcher Development Initiative, this is an essential text for postgraduate researchers and academics. There is no book like Research Design on the market that addresses all of these issues in an easy to comprehend style, for those who want to design research and make critical judgements about the designs of others.
Author : Thomas R. Black
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9781446227763
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (277 download)
Download or read book Evaluating Social Science Research written by Thomas R. Black and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1993-11-22 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers students a basic introduction to assessing the meaning and validity of research in the social sciences and related fields. The ability to "read "published research critically is essential and is different from the skills involved in "undertaking "research using statistical analysis. Thomas R Black explains in clear and straightforward terms how students can evaluate research, with particular emphasis on research involving some aspect of measurement. The coverage of fundamental concepts is comprehensive and supports topics including research design, data collection and data analysis by addressing the following major issues: Are the questions and hypotheses advanced appropriate and testable? Is the research design sufficient for the hypothesis? Are the data gathered valid, reliable and objective? Are the statistical techniques used to analyze the data appropriate and do they support the conclusions reached?
Author : Alfred P. Rovai
Publisher : Watertree Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 0978718682
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (787 download)
Download or read book Social Science Research Design and Statistics written by Alfred P. Rovai and published by Watertree Press LLC. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book integrates social science research methods and the descriptions of over 40 univariate, bivariate, and multivariate tests to include a description of the purpose, key assumptions and requirements, example research question and null hypothesis, SPSS procedures, display and interpretation of SPSS output, and what to report for each test. It is classroom tested and current with IBM SPSS 22. This expanded second edition also features companion website materials including copies of the IBM SPSS datasets used to create the SPSS output presented in the book, and Microsoft PowerPoint presentations that display step-by-step instructions on how to run popular SPSS procedures. Included throughout the book are various sidebars highlighting key points, images and SPSS screenshots to assist understanding the material presented, self-test reviews at the end of each chapter, a decision tree to facilitate identification of the proper statistical test, examples of SPSS output with accompanying analysis and interpretations, links to relevant web sites, and a comprehensive glossary. Underpinning all these features is a concise, easy to understand explanation of the material.
Author : Drew Palmer
Publisher : Scientific e-Resources
ISBN 13 : 183947338X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Research Methods in Social Science Statistics written by Drew Palmer and published by Scientific e-Resources. This book was released on 2019-01-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Deborah J. Chavez
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1437926193
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (379 download)
Download or read book Fire Social Science Research from the Pacific Southwest Research Station written by Deborah J. Chavez and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fire events often have a large impact on recreation and tourism, yet these issues had not been addressed from a social science perspective. There are three distinct lines of research to address: examine values/attitudes and behaviors of recreation residence owners and year-round residents in the wildland-urban interface; examine recreationists¿ perceptions about fire suppression and postfire forest health issues; and examine perceptions and beliefs about recreation activities and impacts to fire-prone ecosystems in the wildland-urban interface. This report includes 17 of these studies grouped into four major topical headings: recreation use research, commun. research, program eval. and interface residents research, and trust research. Charts and tables.
Author : Chava Frankfort-Nachmias
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781429202992
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Study Guide for Research Methods in the Social Sciences written by Chava Frankfort-Nachmias and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-03-21 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The guide includes chapter objectives, key terms and concepts, and main points for each chapter, plus self-evaluation quizzes, review tests, exercises and projects.
