Background In the last decades, the relationship between social networking sites (SNSs) and older people’s loneliness is gaining specific relevance. Studies in this field are often based on qualitative methods to study in-depth self-perceived issues ...
G. Casanova +3 more
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The Polish Trial of Kafka. On the Reception of Franz Kafka and So-Called “Dark Literature” by the Censorship Board [PDF]
The article discusses the reception of Franz Kafka’s novels and the so-called “dark literature”, popular after 1956, by the censorship board. It presents the discussions around Kafka’s work and various interpretational strategies used to secure this ...
Mojsak, Kajetan
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From St. Augustine and St. Denys to Olier and Bérulle’s Spiritual Revolution : Patristic and Seventeenth-Century Foundations of the Relations between Church and State in Québec [PDF]
By way of statutes on the façade of L’Hôtel du Parlement de Québec (especially Marie de l’Incarnation, Jean-Jacques Olier, and François de Laval), we explore the Augustinian and Pseudo-Dionysian foundations of the spirituality of New France.
Hankey, Wayne J.
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Social Data: Biases, Methodological Pitfalls, and Ethical Boundaries
Social data in digital form—including user-generated content, expressed or implicit relations between people, and behavioral traces—are at the core of popular applications and platforms, driving the research agenda of many researchers.
Alexandra Olteanu +3 more
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Rigor, Transparency, and Reporting Social Science Research [PDF]
Dissemination of research is the most challenging aspect of building the evidence base. Despite peer review, evidence suggests that a substantial proportion of papers leave out details that are necessary to judge bias, consider replication, or initiate meta-analyses and systematic reviews. Reporting guidelines were created to ensure minimally adequate
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The Difficult Reception of Rigorous Descriptive Social Science in the Law [PDF]
Mutual disdain is an effective border patrol at the demarcation lines between disciplines. Social scientists tend to react with disdain when they observe how their findings are routinely stripped of all the caveats, assumptions and careful limitations once they travel into law.
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Rigor y calidad metodológicos: Un reto a la investigación social cualitativa
En la investigación en ciencias sociales, la discusión acerca de la pertinencia de procesos que permiten asegurar la calidad de los resultados obtenidos, resguardando el rigor en la metodología y el tratamiento de los datos, ha cobrado gran relevancia en la última década. Dentro de la investigación social cualitativa, esta discusión ha estado presente,
Cornejo, Marcela, Salas, Natalia
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How the theory of self-organized criticality explains punctuated equilibrium in social systems
Punctuated equilibrium is a characteristic of some natural and social systems that occasionally generate bursts of activity at different scales following periods of stagnation of different durations. This phenomenon can be formalized as pink noise, which
D. Zhukov
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Reproducibility in the Social Sciences.
Concern over social scientists' inability to reproduce empirical research has spawned a vast and rapidly growing literature. The size and growth of this literature make it difficult for newly interested academics to come up to speed.
James W. Moody, L. Keister, M. C. Ramos
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Social media marketing research: a bibliometric analysis from Scopus
The purpose of this review is to provide a comprehensive bibliometric analysis to enhance understanding of the academic landscape of social media marketing research in the last decade.
H. Shaheen
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