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Complexity Theory: An Overview with Potential Applications for the Social Sciences
Systems, 2019 Systems theory has been challenged in the recent literature due to its perceived disconnection from today’s research and practice demands. Moving away from the reductionist frameworks and the complicated domain predominated by known unknowns and ...
John R. Turner, Rose M. Baker
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What have the social sciences ever done for equity in health policy and health systems?
International Journal for Equity in Health, 2018 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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Investigating Software Usage in the Social Sciences: A Knowledge Graph Approach [PDF]
Extended Semantic Web Conference, 2020 Knowledge about the software used in scientific investigations is necessary for different reasons, including provenance of the results, measuring software impact to attribute developers, and bibliometric software citation analysis in general ...
David Schindler +2 more
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The theory of social games: outline of a general theory for the social sciences
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 Sociological general theories (or “grand theories”) have been criticized for being too abstract to be of any practical use for empirical sociological work.
Jörg Stolz
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How Brazilian social scientists responded to the pandemic [PDF]
Horizontes Antropológicos, 2021 In this article, we propose a critical and situational assessment of Brazilian social scientists’ production on the COVID pandemic. We take stock of production within the context of the pandemic, yet also go further to sketch out some of the general ...
Rodrigo Toniol, Miriam Grossi
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The Information of Public Sciences: Definitions
Knygotyra, 1988 Many different conceptions are noticed in defining information: mathematical, cybernetic, philosophical, philological, and bibliographical directions.
Žiedonė Zaveckienė
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The general social survey-national death index: an innovative new dataset for the social sciences
BMC Research Notes, 2011 Background Social epidemiology seeks in part to understand how social factors--ideas, beliefs, attitudes, actions, and social connections--influence health.
Smith Tom W +4 more
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Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Language, 2021 It can be said that there are two different factors that determine social behavior. One of them is motor movements, that is, hand and mimic movements, while the other one is language.
Seyat Polat
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Energy research and social sciences: thinking outside the box [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2021 This paper aims at explaining the universality and broadness of the research in energy studies. Specifically, it wants to show that the energy research is not a solely engineering or natural sciences field and how it can be done in social sciences.
Strielkowski Wadim
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THEORY OF FAMILY EDUCATION IN THE GENERAL THEORETICAL CONTEXT OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
RUDN journal of Sociology, 2018 The article considers the challenges for the development of the theory of family education as one of the youngest and most promising branches of the contemporary science.
I F Dementieva, Z T Golenkova
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