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Generalizations in the Social Sciences
American Journal of Sociology, 1953There is a tendency to overgeneralize in sociology and social psychology, and the logical conditions for extension of conclusions outside the data are not fulfilled. As a result, replications often do not verify the original studies. Some suggestions for improving research design to achieve consistent replications are discussed: the use of theory ...
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A general framework for social science
Policy Sciences, 1972It is possible to construct a basic framework that potentially accommodates the interactions of all biological, biosocial, cultural and situational determinants of behavior. While specific problems will require changes of detail, a single structure of interactions for all problems increases the additive possibilities of the field, and makes feasible ...
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Historical Generalization and Social Science Education
The Social Studies, 1975(1975). Historical Generalization and Social Science Education. The Social Studies: Vol. 66, No. 5, pp. 214-217.
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Social networks generate interest in computer science
ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, 2006For forty years programming has been the foundation of introductory computer science. Despite exponential increases in computational power during this period, examples used in introductory courses have remained largely unchanged. The incredible growth in statistics courses at all levels, in contrast with the decline of students taking ...
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Dialectic as a General Method of Social Science: Varieties of Social Science Experience
1981There can be little doubt that what we have come to call scientific method has undergone significant transformation and development in this century and the last. Nowhere has this been more apparent than in the social sciences. If the essence of method be identified with control, quantification, and measurement, then the ability of the social sciences ...
Ian I. Mitroff, Richard O. Mason
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Social science studies get a ‘generous’ test
Science, 2018New replication effort aimed to detect effects overstated in the original reports.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE, HUMANITIES, NEWS AND GENERAL (ISSUE 6)
Online and CD-Rom Review, 1995This is the sixth article on social science, humanities, news and general (SSH) databases in a continuing series of articles summarising and commenting on new database products. There are two companion articles, one covering science, technology and medicine (STM) which appeared in the August 1995 issue (Online & CDROM Review, vol.
Martha E. Williams +2 more
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Agent_Zero: Toward Neurocognitive Foundations for Generative Social Science
2014This book introduces a new theoretical entity: Agent_Zero. This software individual, or “agent,” is endowed with distinct emotional/affective, cognitive/deliberative, and social modules. Grounded in contemporary neuroscience, these internal components interact to generate observed, often far-from-rational, individual behavior.
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General Conclusion: What Can Social Science Practitioners Learn from Philosophies of Science?
2019This volume was born in a six-semester collective teaching effort in Norway, but its implications go far beyond the mundane expectations of a “mandatory course” on philosophy of science to any cohort of social science aspirants for Ph.D. degrees. What is at stake in our twenty-first century is the new nature of knowledge construction in the social ...
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Social Science in General Education.
Journal of Educational Sociology, 1961George G. Dawson, Lewis B. Mayhew
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