Mass communication research as a social science discipline Status, problems and opportunities

1998 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fazal Rahim Khan ◽  
Hashmat Ali Zafar ◽  
Abdus Sattar Abbasi
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Social Science Discipline ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Science Discipline

scholarly journals Misconceptions between Social Studies and Social Sciences among Pre-Service Elementary Teachers

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miftakhuddin Miftakhuddin
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Elementary Teachers ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Quantitative Study ◽  
Cluster Sampling ◽  
Social Science Discipline ◽  
Science Discipline ◽  
Fields Of Study ◽  
Main Emphasis

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.

The Oxford Handbook of Urban Planning

2012 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Social Science ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Science Discipline ◽  
Science Discipline ◽  
The World ◽  
Social Goods ◽  
Key Questions

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.

Evaluation Science

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Quinn Patton
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Science Discipline ◽  
Common Cause ◽  
The Core ◽  
Science Discipline ◽  
Applied Social Science

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.

A Dictionary of Social Research Methods

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Elliot ◽  
Ian Fairweather ◽  
Wendy Olsen ◽  
Maria Pampaka
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Social Science Discipline ◽  
Science Discipline ◽  
Need To Evaluate ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Key Terms ◽  
Business And Management

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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