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Methodological Usefulness of Content Analysis in Social Science Research
African Research Review, 2019 The thrust of this paper was to crystallize the methodological value of content analysis as a tool in social science research. In order to achieve that, it sets out to do a conceptualization of content analysis and situate it within the operational rubrics common to other research designs.
Ikponmwosa Ebomoyi +1 more
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EIRP Proceedings, 2020 Most research practice constructs in social sciences are predominantly well defined and constructed, yet many authors hold different interpretations of certain key terms and concepts, causing a degree of confusion, overlap and uncertainty.
Norbert E Haydam, Pieter Steenkamp
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Embracing New Perspectives in History, Social Sciences, and Education [PDF]
, 2022 This book provides a collection of articles resulting from the International Conference on History, Social Sciences, and Education (ICHSE), which was held on 11 September 2021.
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Short text classification with machine learning in the social sciences: The case of climate change on Twitter [PDF]
PLoS ONE 18(9): e0290762 (2023), 2023 To analyse large numbers of texts, social science researchers are increasingly confronting the challenge of text classification. When manual labeling is not possible and researchers have to find automatized ways to classify texts, computer science provides a useful toolbox of machine-learning methods whose performance remains understudied in the social
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Data-driven Computational Social Science: A Survey [PDF]
Big Data Research, 2020, 2020 Social science concerns issues on individuals, relationships, and the whole society. The complexity of research topics in social science makes it the amalgamation of multiple disciplines, such as economics, political science, and sociology, etc. For centuries, scientists have conducted many studies to understand the mechanisms of the society.
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SOCIAL SCIENCES’ TRANSFORMATION IN LIGHT OF COVID-19 [PDF]
, 2021 Transformations in social sciences accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic remain under-explored. The aim of the article is to analyse scientific literature on social sciences’ transformation in light of COVID-19 underpinning the elaboration of implications
Ahrens, Andreas, Zascerinska, Jelena
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Methodological monotheism across fields of science in contemporary quantitative research [PDF]
Quantitative Science Studies (2024) 5 (2): 426-446, 2022 The importance of research teams' diversity for the progress of science is highlighted extensively. Despite the seemingly hegemonic role of hypothesis testing in modern quantitative research, little attention has been devoted to the diversity of quantitative methods, epitomized by the linear model framework of analysis. Using bibliometric data from the
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Social Fröhlich condensation: Preserving societal order through sufficiently intensive information pumping [PDF]
Kybernetes, 51, N 13, 138-155 (2022), 2021 Purpose: This paper aims to present the basic assumptions for creation of social Frohlich condensate and attract attention of other researchers (both from physics and socio-political science) to the problem of modelling of stability and order preservation in highly energetic society coupled with social energy bath of high temperature.
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A systematic review of the use of an expertise-based randomised controlled trial design [PDF]
, 2015 Acknowledgements JAC held a Medical Research Council UK methodology (G1002292) fellowship, which supported this research. The Health Services Research Unit, Institute of Applied Health Sciences (University of Aberdeen), is core-funded by the Chief ...
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Qualitative Research Methodology in Social Sciences
International Journal of Scientific Research and Management (IJSRM), 2023 The objective of this study is to provide a guide to qualitative research methodology in social sciences. It is the result of the observation that research in Management Sciences in most Universities in Cameroon is still dominated by the quantitative approach supported by economists who handle most research methodology courses.
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