Book Reviews : Using the Internet for Social Science Research and Practice. Edward P. Kardas and Tommy M. Milford. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1996. 221 pp., $26.50 (softcover

1997 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-334
Author(s):  
P.A. Dee Southard
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Research And Practice

Theoretical Context of Cybercrime

2021 ◽  
pp. 174-191
Author(s):  
Tansif Ur Rehman
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Innovative Development ◽  
Social Facts ◽  
Social Theories ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

The internet is conceivably today's most innovative development as it proceeds to change everyday life for almost everyone globally. Billions of individuals are using the internet, and thousands enter the online world each day. Not merely has the internet revolutionized the way people connect and learn; it has eternally changed the way people live across the globe. As the internet and computer advances, offenders have originated ways to utilize these innovations as intended for their criminal acts. In social science research, social theories are of great significance. Without a theoretical direction, social facts are like a snuffed-out candle that cannot determine its bearer's path. Social theories contribute to the development of sound scientific foundations for resolving issues in any social inquiry. Theories guide our observations of the world. Digital technology has an impact and has numerous challenges. The respective work has its significance in helping and exploring this dilemma via a multifaceted theoretical approach.

Recovering Meaning by Reforming Academic Identities and Practices

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mats Alvesson ◽  
Yiannis Gabriel ◽  
Roland Paulsen
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Academic Identities ◽  
Group Research ◽  
Practice Teaching ◽  
Academic Citizenship ◽  
The Individual

Part II offers a number of proposals and suggestions for recovering meaning in social science research at the individual, institutional, and policy levels. These measures offer the prospect of many small ‘wins’ through which the system can be reformed, rather than one sweeping programme for change. This chapter addresses the identities of individual researchers and the research methodologies they use in their work, and encourages a different approach at the level of individual and group research practices and its outcomes. It argues for new scholarly identities and many different ways of fashioning them, in which research is one, but not the only, important practice. Teaching, outreach activities, and academic citizenship, it is argued, are also important aspects of scholarship. So too are thinking and reading in depth and breadth, writing textbooks and book reviews, journalistic pieces and blogs. Chapters 7 and 8 will address institutional and policy issues.

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