What have the social sciences ever done for equity in health policy and health systems?
Background The social sciences can be defined as the scientific study of human society and social relationships. Main text A number of underpinning disciplines within the social sciences, notably sociology, social psychology and anthropology, as well as ...
Trisha Greenhalgh
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One Direction? A Tutorial for Circular Data Analysis Using R With Examples in Cognitive Psychology
Circular data is data that is measured on a circle in degrees or radians. It is fundamentally different from linear data due to its periodic nature (0° = 360°). Circular data arises in a large variety of research fields.
Jolien Cremers, Irene Klugkist
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Personalizm jako perspektywa teoretyczna nauk o polityce
PERSONALISM AS AN APPROACH IN POLITICAL SCIENCES Social sciences such as political sciences, psychology, and sociology formulate two types of theories: more general approaches and specific theories build within this domain.
Janusz Węgrzecki
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Development of Grounded Theory in Social Sciences: A Qualitative Approach
Grounded theory (GT) is a general research method that provides the efficient generation of theory from data, which are collected by a strong, sound, and fair research method.
Devajit Mohajan, H. Mohajan
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Evaluating and Ranking of Psychological Journals Based on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) [PDF]
IntroductionThis study evaluates and ranks the scientific journals of psychology using the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a linear programming-based technique for measuring the relative performance of ...
Maryam Karami +2 more
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Philosophy of Science Meets the Scientific Research: Metatheorizing expertise theories in Cognitive Psychology [PDF]
An obvious feature of the development of the philosophy of science during the past decades is an increasing specialization and fragmentation that have led to reduced impact of philosophy of science outside the sphere of its own discipline.
Alireza Monajemi
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Tackling AMR from a multidisciplinary perspective: a primer from education and psychology
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is currently one of the most concerning threats in public health. The efforts to tackle the problem require a global One Health approach, using multidisciplinary approaches and a thorough understanding of the topic both by ...
Alicia Calvo-Villamañán +2 more
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A Global Community Psychology of Mobility [PDF]
This special issue heralds the coalescence of a new field in social sciences – the psychology of global mobility. This field whilst distinctive is certainly not insular.
Stuart C. Carr
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The Relationship between Family Functioning and High-Risk Sexual Behaviors and Substance Use in Women: Mediation of Psychological Capital [PDF]
Introduction: One of the dangers and crises of today's societies is the tendency of women to engage in risky behaviors. The aim of this study was to investigate family performance with a tendency to high-risk sexual behaviors and substance use mediated ...
mahbobeh karbalaie +2 more
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Replication and Reproduction: Crises in Psychology and Academic Labour
Discussions of the replication crisis in psychology require more substantive analysis of the crisis of academic labour and of social reproduction in the university.
F. Callard
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