Methodological Issues in Social Science Research for Bioresource Conservation and Livelihood Development Under Global Climate Change

2016 ◽  
pp. 65-81
Author(s):  
B. K. Narayana Swamy ◽  
Y Nagaraju
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Methodological Issues

scholarly journals Social science perspectives on drivers of and responses to global climate change

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. e554 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew K. Jorgenson ◽  
Shirley Fiske ◽  
Klaus Hubacek ◽  
Jia Li ◽  
Tom McGovern ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate

Welcome Frustrations with the Climate: Comment on Redclift

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 183-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Gross
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Environmental Sociology ◽  
The State ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Climate Research ◽  
Disciplinary Problems

Abstract: Redclift (2011) provided a timely and perhaps deliberately provocative overview of sociological writings on climate change and the disciplinary problems of a post carbon world for environmental sociology. This comment emphasizes that he never actually clarifies what exactly are those problems that sociology faces in its attempt to open up a space for itself in the field of climate research. This omission also leads to unnecessary claims regarding the state of social science research on climate change as well as unspecified calls for more interdisciplinarity in sociological analysis of contemporary societies’ carbon dependence.

scholarly journals Tracing Paths from Research to Practice in Climate Change Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 4779
Author(s):  
Anne K. Armstrong ◽  
Marianne E. Krasny
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Professional Development ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Practice Change ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Climate Change Education ◽  
Education Practice ◽  
High Level

The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate the incorporation of climate change social science research into climate change education practice. Semi-structured interviews with 19 educators from five climate change related professional development programs and networks revealed a high level of awareness of climate change social science research. Educators accessed research through a variety of means and reported both practice change and a sense of validation as a result of the research. They reported shifting toward programs that focused less on climate facts to programs that focused on solutions and that integrated their understanding of audiences’ values and identities. They also reported feeling a conflict between their practice knowledge and the knowledge they gained through professional development and accessing research. This work begins to fill a gap both in our understanding of how nonformal educators communicate about climate change and in how they use research in their practice.

scholarly journals Is Voter Fraud Like Littering?: Empirical and Methodological Considerations

2012 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 233-243
Author(s):  
David Schultz
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Reliable Data ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Voter Identification ◽  
Methodological Considerations ◽  
Voter Fraud ◽  
Social Science Evidence ◽  
Science Evidence

The dispute over the extent of voter fraud and voter identification is certain to affect to the 2012 elections. But this debate is muddled in a methodological and evidentiary mess, conducted with little or no reliable data. This article examines the methodological issues in studying voter fraud. The basic argument is that arguments about fraud are often made without reference to a methodology dictated by good social science research. In effect, assertions of voter fraud often invoke untestable claims. Second, inference that the few reported instances of fraud are proof of more extensive occurrences is baseless to the extent that parallels are drawn to speeding or littering. The latter do not pro- vide an analogy to voter fraud. Thus, assertions about voter fraud have generally failed to provide serious social science evidence or testable propositions to test claims.

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