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.

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.

Search engines: From social science objects to academic inquiry tools

First Monday ◽  
2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filippo Trevisan
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Search Engine ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Google Trends ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Field Of Inquiry

This paper discusses the challenges and opportunities involved in incorporating publicly available search engine data in scholarly research. In recent years, an increasing number of researchers have started to include tools such as Google Trends (http://google.com/trends) in their work. However, a central ‘search engine’ field of inquiry has yet to emerge. Rather, the use of search engine data to address social research questions is spread across many disciplines, which makes search valuable across fields but not critical to any one particular area. In an effort to stimulate a comprehensive debate on these issues, this paper reviews the work of pioneering scholars who devised inventive — if experimental — ways of interpreting data generated through search engine accessory applications and makes the point that search engines should be regarded not only as central objects of research, but also as fundamental tools for broader social inquiry. Specific concerns linked to this methodological shift are identified and discussed, including: the relationship with other, more established social research methods; doubts over the representativeness of search engine data; the need to contextualize publicly available search engine data with other types of evidence; and the limited granularity afforded to researchers by tools such as Google Trends. The paper concludes by reflecting on the combination of search engine data with other forms of inquiry as an example of arguably inelegant yet innovative and effective ‘kludgy’ design (Karpf, 2012).

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.

Navigating research methods: qualitative methods

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Quantitative Research Methods ◽  
Research Paradigms ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Selection Of

This chapter reviews qualitative research methods and specifically focuses on educational research as an example thereby explaining the position of educational research within an accessible social research framework. It provides an overview of research paradigms, and relationships between research approaches and methodologies. Furthermore, the chapter compares and contrasts the qualitative and quantitative research methods and illustrates how the mixed methods approach blends these two individual approaches. The key characteristics of the following mixed methods methodological approaches are presented: case studies, evaluation, ethnography, action research, ideology critique, biography/narrative. Selection of the method is discussed.

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