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Social Sciences and Social Change
American Journal of Islam and Society, 1991 The second decade of the association's existence culminated in a very encouraging conference in Dearborn, Michigan this year. The conference highlights included a keynote address by Ali Mazrui, Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities, State ...
Dilnawaz A. Siddiqui
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Development and expansion in the marine social sciences: Insights from the global community
iScience, 2022 Summary: The importance of understanding the complexities of societal relationships with our global ocean, and how these influence sustainable management and effective, equitable governance, is crucial to addressing ocean challenges.
Emma McKinley +5 more
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Divining for Water: Considerations for Methodology
International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2011 The authors explore the steps between conceptualizing a qualitative study based on Charmaz's definition of grounded theory and carrying it out in the field. We reflect on how the reality of the vulnerable population to be studied (individuals living with
Kerstin Roger PhD (Toronto) +1 more
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Citizen science in the social sciences and humanities: the power of interdisciplinarity
Palgrave Communications, 2020 Citizen science evolved through multiple disciplinary manifestations into a new field of study and a participatory method of enquiry. While most citizen science projects take place within problem-focused natural sciences, social sciences and humanities ...
L. Tauginienė +8 more
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Societies, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic (caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2, SARS-CoV-2) is having profound effects on all dimensions of life, such as the individual, social, cultural, public health, and economic dimensions [...]
Carlos Miguel Ferreira, Sandro Serpa
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Information Science: Science Or Social Science?
, 2017 Collection, selection, processing, management, and dissemination of information are the main and ultimate role of Information Science and similar studies such as Information Studies, Information Management, Library Science, and Communication Science and so on.
Sreeramana Aithal +2 more
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iScience, 2023 Summary: The need for a compound risk governance system and management practice is argued in this paper. We find that, historically, risk management strategies have been developed for single hazards and are often subject to path dependency.
Thomas Thaler +3 more
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The science in social science [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012 A recent poll showed that most people think of science as technology and engineering—life-saving drugs, computers, space exploration, and so on. This was, in fact, the promise of the founders of modern science in the 17th century. It is less commonly understood that social and behavioral sciences have also produced technologies and engineering that ...
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OpenSesame: An open-source, graphical experiment builder for the social sciences
Behavior Research Methods, 2011 In the present article, we introduce OpenSesame, a graphical experiment builder for the social sciences. OpenSesame is free, open-source, and cross-platform. It features a comprehensive and intuitive graphical user interface and supports Python scripting
S. Mathôt, Daniel Schreij, J. Theeuwes
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Predicting party switching through machine learning and open data
iScience, 2023 Summary: Parliament dynamics might seem erratic at times. Predicting future voting patterns could support policy design based on the simulation of voting scenarios.
Nicolò Meneghetti +6 more
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