scholarly journals Dealing with measurement error in list experiments: Choosing the right control list design

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 205316802110131
Author(s):  
Mattias Agerberg ◽  
Marcus Tannenberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Measurement Error ◽  
Theoretical Argument ◽  
Mixed Control ◽  
The Social ◽  
List Experiment ◽  
The Right ◽  
Random Responses ◽  
And Control ◽  
Biased Estimates

List experiments are widely used in the social sciences to elicit truthful responses to sensitive questions. Yet, the research design commonly suffers from the problem of measurement error in the form of non-strategic respondent error, where some inattentive participants might provide random responses. This type of error can result in severely biased estimates. A recently proposed solution is the use of a necessarily false placebo item to equalize the length of the treatment and control lists in order to alleviate concerns about respondent error. In this paper we show theoretically that placebo items do not in general eliminate bias caused by non-strategic respondent error. We introduce a new option, the mixed control list, and show how researchers can choose between different control list designs to minimize the problems caused by inattentive respondents. We provide researchers with practical guidance to think carefully about the bias that inattentive respondents might cause in a given application of the list experiment. We also report results from a large novel list experiment fielded to over 4900 respondents, specifically designed to illustrate our theoretical argument and recommendations.

Stabilizing American Society: Kenneth Boulding and the Integration of the Social Sciences, 1943–1980

2010 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippe Fontaine
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
World War ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Main Determinant ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
American Society ◽  
The Right

ArgumentFor more than thirty years after World War II, the unconventional economist Kenneth E. Boulding (1910–1993) was a fervent advocate of the integration of the social sciences. Building on common general principles from various fields, notably economics, political science, and sociology, Boulding claimed that an integrated social science in which mental images were recognized as the main determinant of human behavior would allow for a better understanding of society. Boulding's approach culminated in the social triangle, a view of society as comprised of three main social organizers – exchange, threat, and love – combined in varying proportions. According to this view, the problems of American society were caused by an unbalanced combination of these three organizers. The goal of integrated social scientific knowledge was therefore to help policy makers achieve the “right” proportions of exchange, threat, and love that would lead to social stabilization. Though he was hopeful that cross-disciplinary exchanges would overcome the shortcomings of too narrow specialization, Boulding found that rather than being the locus of a peaceful and mutually beneficial exchange, disciplinary boundaries were often the occasion of conflict and miscommunication.

The Right of Philosophy and the Facts of History: Foucault, Derrida, Descartes

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel Rockhill
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Per Se ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter proposes a counter-history of a seminal debate in the transition from structuralism to post-structuralism. It calls into question the widespread assumption that Derrida rejects Foucault’s structuralist stranglehold by demonstrating that the meaning of a text always remains open. Through a meticulous examination of their respective historical paradigms, methodological orientations and hermeneutic parameters, it argues that Derrida’s critique of his former professor is, at the level of theoretical practice, a call to return to order. The ultimate conclusion is that the Foucault-Derrida debate has much less to do with Descartes’ text per se, than with the relationship between the traditional tasks of philosophy and the meta-theoretical reconfiguration of philosophic practice via the methods of the social sciences.

scholarly journals Integrating the social sciences into the COVID-19 response in Alberta, Canada

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (7) ◽  
pp. e002672
Author(s):  
Myles Leslie ◽  
Raad Fadaak ◽  
Jan Davies ◽  
Johanna Blaak ◽  
PG Forest ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Infection Prevention ◽  
Interdisciplinary Team ◽  
Infection Prevention And Control ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Social ◽  
Policy Communication ◽  
And Control

This paper outlines the rapid integration of social scientists into a Canadian province’s COVID-19 response. We describe the motivating theory, deployment and initial outcomes of our team of Organisational Sociologist ethnographers, Human Factors experts and Infection Prevention and Control clinicians focused on understanding and improving Alberta’s responsiveness to the pandemic. Specifically, that interdisciplinary team is working alongside acute and primary care personnel, as well as public health leaders to deliver ‘situated interventions’ that flow from studying communications, interpretations and implementations across responding organisations. Acting in real time, the team is providing critical insights on policy communication and implementation to targeted members of the health system. Using our rapid and ongoing deployment as a case study of social science techniques applied to a pandemic, we describe how other health systems might leverage social science to improve their preparations and communications.

scholarly journals Comparação dos valores de irregularidade longitudinal medidos com o perfilômetro a laser com variação do arranjo das posições dos sensores

TRANSPORTES ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sérgio Armando de Sá e Benevides ◽  
Laura Maria Goretti da Motta
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
The State ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Regression Equations ◽  
Normal Position ◽  
International Roughness Index ◽  
Road Profile ◽  
The Social ◽  
Microsoft Office ◽  
The Right

<p><strong>Resumo: </strong>Este estudo tem como objetivo analisar a correlação entre os valores de irregularidade longitudinal efetuados com o perfilômetro inercial a laser com 3 sensores dispostos em 3 posições diferentes, em rodovias estaduais do Ceará. Na posição normal foram selecionados 72 trechos na Região Metropolitana de Fortaleza (RMF), dentre estes trechos iniciais foram selecionados 42 com os sensores dispostos no lado direito (LD) e no lado esquerdo (LE). O <em>Software Ciberlogger </em>foi utilizado para a coleta dos dados e para a determinação dos perfis longitudinais dos pavimentos, enquanto que o <em>Software Cibershell </em>foi usado para o cálculo do Índice de Irregularidade longitudinal (IRI). Nas equações de regressão estabelecidas, foram utilizados os programas <em>Microsoft Office Excel </em>e SPSS (<em>Statistical Package for the Social Sciences</em>), usando a Análise da Variância (ANOVA). Os resultados mostram que há correlação entre os valores do IRI medidos nas trilhas interna e externa, IRIint x IRIext, obtidos com a localização dos sensores na posição normal. As análises mostram também que há correlação entre estes mesmos valores e os obtidos com os sensores dispostos no LD e LE.</p><strong>Abstract: </strong>The purpose of this study is to analyze the correlation between the values of the International Roughness Index – IRI, measured with an inertial laser profilometer with 3 sensors in 3 different positions. The pavements investigated were from roads of the state of Ceará. In the normal position, seventy two sections of the state road network were selected, from Fortaleza Metropolitan Region (RMF), among these, 42 were selected with the sensors placed in the right (LD) and in left (LE) side. The <em>Softwares Ciberlogger and Cibershell </em>were used for data collection and for determining the longitudinal road profile The programs <em>Microsoft Office Excel </em>and SPSS (<em>Statistical Package for the Social Sciences</em>) were used for the regression equations and analysis of variance. The results indicate a correlation between IRI values measured from the inbound and outbound wheel path, obtained with the sensors located in normal position. The analysis also suggests a correlation between these values and results obtained with the sensors placed in LD and LE.

scholarly journals Public Participation in the Social Science: A Systematic Literature Review

PERSPEKTIF ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 728-738
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ainul Usama ◽  
Ulung Pribadi ◽  
Al Fauzi Rahmat
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Government Information ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Right

Public participation is the right and obligation of citizens to contribute to development by contributing to initiative and creativity. Public participation has also attracted a lot of attention from academia as a concept of public policy. The authors conducted a systematic literature review of published articles in the social sciences to enhance our understanding of public participation. Some of the main issues are explained in this area through the NVIVO 12 plus software that qualitative analysis tool. The main issues are community, development, government, information, and interests. This article raises several propositions on the matter. This article suggests some new topics for further research.

scholarly journals Assessing Interdisciplinary Research in the Social Sciences: Are we on the right track?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Eykens
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Research Assessment ◽  
Seven Principles ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Right

In this chapter we first discuss how interdisciplinarity is perceived in research policy making and in applied bibliometric research. We put forward a processual view on disciplines and interdisciplinarity in the social sciences which emphasizes the changing nature of disciplines and the heterogeneity of individual fields. This view challenges the current status quo in the development of bibliometric indicators as well as qualitative research assessment exercises. We propose a stance in which the focus is shifted to the changing dynamics of the social sciences in order to develop a better understanding of interdisciplinarity. We point out that the cognitive and socio-cultural diversity of disciplines makes it difficult to transfer current disciplinary peer review practices to the evaluation of interdisciplinarity. We reiterate seven principles proposed by Klein which might guide more appropriate evaluation practices suitable for the assessment of interdisciplinarity in the social sciences.

scholarly journals Images and constructs: can the neural correlates of self be revealed through radiological analysis?

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 117-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanley B. Klein
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Neural Correlates ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Right ◽  
Radiological Analysis ◽  
Conceptual Difficulties

In this paper I argue that radiological attempts to elucidate the properties of self -- an endeavor currently popular in the social neurosciences -- are fraught with conceptual difficulties. I first discuss several philosophical criteria that increase the chances we are posing the “right” questions to nature. I then discuss whether these criteria are met when empirical efforts are directed at one of the central constructs in the social sciences – the human self. In particular, I consider whether recent attempts to map the neural correlates of self and its assumed properties using brain scanning technology satisfy the conceptual conditions minimally required to ask well-formed, theoretically satisfying questions of nature. I conclude that much theoretical work remains to be done.

Interpersonal Freedom and Freedom of Action

1955 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 353-363
Author(s):  
Felix E. Oppenheim
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Power And Control ◽  
The Social ◽  
Conversational Language ◽  
And Control ◽  
Freedom Of Action

When speaking of freedom, La Bruyère's word comes to mind—that everything has been said and that we come too late to add anything. Yet an analysis of the concept of freedom may be warranted for the very reason that it is being used by everyone to refer to whatever he considers valuable, from obedience to law (positive or natural) to autonomy and economic abundance. I believe that it is possible to assign to “freedom” in its different aspects meanings which are emotively neutral and operationally testable, and thereby to rescue for the social sciences generally and for political science in particular an important set of concepts, closely related as they are to those of power and control.One would have to start with disentangling the widely different senses in which “freedom” is being used indiscriminately. I shall deal with freedom in only two of its many meanings, interpersonal freedom and freedom of action. One of the difficulties will be to steer a middle course between the vagueness of conversational language and the awkwardness of a precise terminology; but I hope to demonstrate that such an endeavor is no idle exercise in semantics but a necessary prerequisite for the fruitful investigation of social and political phenomena.

Inquiry Teaching in Social Studies and the Social Sciences: A Critical Review of Research Findings 1967–1972

1975 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 276-283
Author(s):  
Colin J. Marsh
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Inquiry Teaching ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
And Control ◽  
Research Studies

In this paper, twenty-eight recent research studies on inquiry teaching in social studies and the social sciences are reviewed. Although a number of statistically significant results were claimed by the respective researchers, methodological deficiencies in many of the studies greatly reduce the importance of their efforts. Reference is made to a number of research deficiencies, including unsuitable evaluation instruments, lack of comparability of groups, lack of comparability of tasks and instructors for experimental and control groups and inadequate research designs. Although inquiry teaching has become widely espoused as a teaching method in schools, there are few substantial research studies to support its superiority over other teaching methods.

Qui a le droit d’étudier le genre et comment ? Réflexions sur le point de vue situé et la catégorisation du sexe à partir d’une enquête par méthodes mixtes sur les trans’

2021 ◽  
pp. 075910632199572
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Beaubatie
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Mixed Method Study ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Trans People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Refusal To Participate ◽  
The Right ◽  
Social Profiles

Who Has the Right to Study Gender and How ? Reflections on the Situated Point of View and the Categorisation of Sex Based on a Mixed Method Study of Trans People. Trans people are often reticent when it comes to research. Looking back over a mixed method study, this article analyses the causes of this phenomenon. There are two main reasons for trans people’s distrust. The first relates to expert opinion and more specifically the point of view of professional experts, insofar as trans people have often already been objectivized by non-trans medical and legal experts. The second concerns the categorisation of sex. Some people do not recognise themselves in the man/woman binary applied by professional experts. However, the trans population is heterogeneous: criticism and refusal to participate were more common with certain social profiles than others, varying according to sex assigned at birth, age, generation, and level of education. By paying attention to this plurality, this article provides avenues for allowing researchers to navigate the trans field and also contributes to reflections on the situated point of view and the categorisation of sex in the social sciences.

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