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Quantitative Social-Scientific History [PDF]

open access: yes, 1979
I want to thank my colleagues John F. Benton, Lance E. Davis, Nicholas Dirks, Daniel J. Kevles, and Terrence McDonald for comments on this essay, although they would not want to be held responsible for the resulting document. My general viewpoint and many specific points so closely parallel those in the excellent set of review essays edited by Allan G.
Kousser, J. Morgan
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Public Preferences about Fairness and the Ethics of Allocating Scarce Medical Interventions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This chapter examines how social- scientific research on public preferences bears on the ethical question of how those resources should in fact be allocated, and explain how social-scientific researchers might find an understanding of work in ethics ...
Persad, Govind
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The uniting of Europe and the foundation of EU studies: revisiting the neofunctionalism of Ernst B. Haas [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This article suggests that the neofunctionalist theoretical legacy left by Ernst B. Haas is somewhat richer and more prescient than many contemporary discussants allow. The article develops an argument for routine and detailed re-reading of the corpus of
Balassa B.   +29 more
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Immanent Anthropology: A Comparative Study of 'Process' in Contemporary France [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper presents a comparative critique of the ‘processual temporalities’ which infuse both social-scientific theorizing and selected Western cultural practices.
Adam   +74 more
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Measuring attitude toward theistic faith : assessing the Astley-Francis Scale among Christian, Muslim and secular youth in England [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Empirical research within the social scientific study of religion in general and within the psychology of religion in particular remains very conscious of the complex nature of its subject matter. Empirical research in this field needs to take cognisance
DeVellis R. F.   +25 more
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Globalization and Orthodox Christianity: A Glocal Perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This article analyses the topic of Globalization and Orthodox Christianity. Starting with Victor Roudometof’s work (2014b) dedicated to this subject, the author’s views are compared with some of the main research of social scientists on the ...
Guglielmi, Marco
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Ontological Investigations of a Pragmatic Kind? A Reply to Lauer [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This paper is a reply to Richard Lauer’s “Is Social Ontology Prior to Social Scientific Methodology?” (2019) and an attempt to contribute to the meta-social ontological discourse more broadly.
Lohse, Simon
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Theoretical Procedures and Elder-Vass's Critical Realist Ontology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This article scrutinizes some theoretical procedures prevalent in the philosophy of social science. These procedures are exemplified in Elder-Vass’s critical realism, which promises to place the social sciences on a sound ontological footing. The article
Archer M.   +7 more
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Sociology and science: the making of a social scientific method [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Criticism against quantitative methods has grown in the context of Bbigdata^, charging an empirical, quantitative agenda with expanding to displace qualitative and theoretical approaches indispensable to the future of sociological research.
Au, Anson
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Choreography, controversy and child sex abuse: Theoretical reflections on a cultural criminological analysis of dance in a pop music video [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This article was inspired by the controversy over claims of ‘pedophilia!!!!’ undertones and the ‘triggering’ of memories of childhood sexual abuse in some viewers by the dance performance featured in the music video for Sia’s ‘Elastic Heart’ (2015).
Adshead J   +33 more
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