Research on the Literature Guarantee Assessment of the Social Science Discipline Based on Dissertations Analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 692-704
Author(s):  
Kun Huang ◽  
TingYu Qin ◽  
YingMei Wu ◽  
Jing Huang
Social Change ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 436-441
Author(s):  
Pulin B. Nayak

Social Change, a journal that has a publishing history of 47 years, has always strived to create a platform for scholars, researchers and practitioners to debate and discuss issues of pivotal importance to the social science discipline. As part of this initiative, we invited Professor Pulin B. Nayak, former Director of the Delhi School of Economics and Professor Vibhuti Patel associated with the Centre for Women's Studies, TISS Mumbai, to comment on the seminal paper presented by Professor M.A. Oommen, entitled ‘The Meaning of Development: Reflections of an Octogenarian Teacher of Economics’. Though the paper was published in Social Change in 2012 it still draws thoughtful comments from those connected with the discipline of Economics. The original paper can be accessed from the SAGE website through the following link http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0049085712454051?journalCode=scha


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miftakhuddin Miftakhuddin

This quantitative study was conducted to identify the misconception between social studies and social sciences among pre-service elementary teachers. Data were collected from 122 respondents drawn by cluster sampling in Yogyakarta. Aiken's validity and Cronbach Alpha were then employed to examine the instrument's quality. Collected data were analyzed using descriptive techniques to examine the level of misconception. The popular misconceptions between social studies and social sciences were identified through the criteria developed by Abraham, Grzybowski, Renner, & Marek (1992). The results of the study show that there was a greater understanding of social studies and social sciences for the specific fields of geography, anthropology, and politics. The fields that were misconceived included economics, geography, and history. Therefore, the main emphasis should be placed on these fields.The implications of this research will eventually become the basis and guideline for social studies lecturers to give emphases on the fields of study belonging to social studies,helping students distinguish these disciplines from those of social sciences. In addition, each social science discipline adopted into social studies must receive special attention, given the greater level of misconception among the pre-service teachers in these fields.


This publication is an authoritative volume on planning, a long-established professional social science discipline in the United States and throughout the world. Edited by professors at two planning institutes in the United States, it collects together over forty-five noted field experts to discuss three key questions: Why plan? How and what do we plan? Who plans for whom? These questions are then applied across three major topics in planning: States, Markets, and the Provision of Social Goods; The Methods and Substance of Planning; and Agency, Implementation, and Decision Making. This text covers the key components of the discipline.


2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Quinn Patton

Culturally and politically science is under attack. The core consequence of perceiving and asserting evaluation as science is that it enhances our credibility and effectiveness in supporting the importance of science in our world and brings us together with other scientists to make common cause in supporting and advocating for science. Other consequences include communicating our role more clearly and credibly to those who value science. Viewing evaluation as science may affect how we are viewed, treated, and positioned in academia, government, and by funders and users of evaluation. The ramifications of evaluation science for evaluation’s status as a profession, branch of applied social science, discipline, and transdiscipline are reviewed. The conclusion offers implications, caveats, and cautions regarding the identity and practice of evaluation science.


Author(s):  
Mark Elliot ◽  
Ian Fairweather ◽  
Wendy Olsen ◽  
Maria Pampaka

Over 400 entriesThis new dictionary offers succinct, clear, expert explanations of key terms from both method and methodology in social research. It covers the whole range of qualitative, quantitative, and other methods, and it ranges from practical techniques like correlation up to methodological approaches such as ethnography. This wide-ranging approach enables it to cover terms needed by every social science discipline along with business and management, education, health, and other areas that encompass social research within their remit. This is an invaluable resource for students, academics, and professional researchers who undertake social research, or need to evaluate and present its results.


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