Intersectionality of Caste, Gender and Occupation: A Study of Safai Karamchari Women in Maharashtra

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 130-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hemangi Kadlak ◽  
Pradeep S. Salve ◽  
Payal Karwade
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Preferential Treatment ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
The People ◽  
The Family ◽  
And Gender

The issues of women safai karamcharis are less discussed in academic sphere compared to male safai karamcharis and given minimum importance. These women face multiple problems at the family level, at the working places and in the society; their problems are largely unheard. In the light of this limitation, the present study aimed to give visibility to their problems and their coping mechanisms. It is a collaborative work of three different surveys conducted with 115 safai karamcharis women in Nagpur (60), Kalyan (30) and Mumbai (25) cities applying qualitative and quantitative methods in Maharashtra. The results revealed that women aged 19 years to 46 years are engaged in safai kam and majority of them are widowed or currently married. Almost three-fourths of women resumed this occupation through preferential treatment (PT) case and those of direct recruitment are because of their Scheduled Caste background. Health problems and discrimination at the workplace are common and most of the time neglected. There is a need to establish a strong bridge between workers and academicians who form the policies and welfare programmes for safai karamcharis in order to realize their real conditions and needs. In social sciences, theories of knowledge production have to be utilized for the upliftment or betterment of the people irrespective of the caste and gender.

Data as representations: contextualizing qualitative and quantitative research strategies

2000 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaan Valsiner
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Main Issue ◽  
Research Strategies ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
The Social ◽  
New States

The opposition between “quantitative” and “qualitative” perspectives in contemporary social science is an organizational limitation that directs discussions of the topic away from the main issue - the adequacy of any kind of data in respect to the phenomena they represent. This is particularly complicated if the phenomena are known to include inherent dynamics, are modifiable by the research encounter, or develop towards new states of existence. It is often assumed that qualitative and quantitative methods are mutually exclusive alternatives within a methodological process that is itself unified. The article shows that quantitative methods are derivates of a qualitative process of investigation, which itself can lead to the construction of inadequate data. The issue of the representativeness of the data - qualitative or quantitative - remains the central unresolved question for the methodology of the social sciences. Errors in representation can be diminished by correction of methods through direct (experiential) access to the phenomena, guided by the researcher's educated intuition.

scholarly journals EFL STUDENT’S PROBLEMS WITH PARAGRAPH WRITING AT TAY DO UNIVERSITY, VIETNAM

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thi Tra My Ly ◽  
Thi Thuy Hang Nguyen ◽  
Thi Minh Uyen Phan ◽  
Thi Thuy Ha Dinh ◽  
Thuy Vi Huynh
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Grammatical Structures

This paper studied problems in EFL students’ paragraph writing. The research participants were first-year students of English in Tay Do University (TDU). To achieve the desired aims of the current study, the researcher combined both qualitative and quantitative methods, using questionnaires, interviews, and observations as the main instruments. The researcher used the package of social sciences (SPSS) for analysis. Research results showed that the freshmen at TDU often encountered problems in writing paragraphs. These accounted for grammatical structures, vocabulary, and coherence. Basing on the research results, students could recognize their difficulties when writing and find some new ways to overcome them. It is suggested that teachers should find and update some new teaching methods so as to develop students’ paragraph writing skills. <p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0920/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

scholarly journals Support Group Therapy untuk Menurunkan Kecemasan pada Care Giver Odgj di Desa Srigading

PSYCHE 165 ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 139-147
Author(s):  
Wiwik Lestari ◽  
Triantoro Safaria
Keyword(s):  
Group Therapy ◽  
Support Group ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Form Analysis ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Care Givers ◽  
The Family ◽  
Approach Group

The purpose of this study group was to see the effect of group therapy in reducing cholesterol in ODGJ care givers. There were 6 participants in the group therapy which was a recommendation from the soul cadres of Srigading village. This therapy is carried out in a form analysis using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods, with a psychodynamic-oriented approach. Group participants are drawn based on the same problem, namely the conclusion. In carrying out the obligations of the ODGJ giver, he is also a direct member of the family who also feels and feels uncomfortable while accompanying ODGJ. The results show that seen from statistical data there is a decrease in the level of attention of the giver after being given group therapy support. The results of the qualitative data also showed a decrease which was known through individual interviews after being given group therapy support 

scholarly journals Are Children Interviewees Just Like Any Others?

2020 ◽  
Vol 146 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-98
Author(s):  
Alice Simon
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Social Characteristics ◽  
Age Difference ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Research Relationship ◽  
The Social ◽  
Key Issues

Based on a study combining qualitative and quantitative methods on children’s relation to politics, this article discusses the specificities of childhood as a research object in the social sciences. It raises two key issues. The first relates to the aptitudes required to participate in research (and thus the reliability of children’s responses) and the second relates to the potential imbalance in the research relationship. The article demonstrates that the difficulties encountered depend on the social characteristics of the children and are not specific to this age group. They primarily result from the distance between the interviewer and the interviewee, in this case stemming from the age difference sometimes accentuated by social distance. Children can be considered social beings like any others, and their specificities can be usefully analysed using the traditional tools of the social sciences.

Retroductive Theorizing: A Contribution of Critical Realism to Mixed Methods Research

2021 ◽  
pp. 155868982110498
Author(s):  
Ferdinand C. Mukumbang
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Critical Realism ◽  
Pragmatic Approach ◽  
Hypothesis Formation ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Broad Complex

Mixed methods studies in social sciences are predominantly employed to explore broad, complex, and multifaceted issues and to evaluate policies and interventions. The integration of qualitative and quantitative methods in social sciences most often follows the Peircean pragmatic approach—abductive hypothesis formation followed by deductive and inductive testing/confirmation—with limited theorizing properties. This paper contributes to the field of mixed methods research in social sciences by explicating a two-way interaction process between mixed methods data and [social] theory in a pluralistic inferencing approach espoused by critical realism—retroductive theorizing. The paper further illustrates how through retroductive theorizing, critical realism offers a more epistemologically and ontologically grounded alternative for integrating qualitative and quantitative methods compared to pragmatism.

Sprache und Geschlecht im universitären Diskurs

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Schleef
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Initial Response ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Speech Styles ◽  
Language And Gender ◽  
Global Discourse ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Communicative Role

AbstractBased on a qualitative, discourse-analytic and a quantitative, sociolinguistic analysis, this article investigates four sets of linguistic features and their occurrence in recordings of 36 lectures and interactional classes collected at a university in Germany. It examines how structural markers, questions, question tags, and turn-initial response tokens contribute to variations of style in response to academic division, speech mode, communicative role in academic discourse and gender. Of these four factors, the latter appears to be the least influential in the use of the structures investigated, due to, as is argued, global discourse restrictions in academic speech. Qualitative analysis shows that global restrictions can be overridden locally as certain discourse contexts are amenable to the appearance of features that contribute to more interactional and cooperative speech styles, frequently linked to females. The article concludes that a foundational understanding of relevant discourse genres and their constraints and a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods can make an important contribution to a better understanding of the dynamics of language and gender.

scholarly journals Patterns of Consonant Clusters in Word Initial, Medial, and Final Positions in Yemeni Arabic

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-51
Author(s):  
Muhammed Jubran AL-Mamri
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Word List ◽  
Consonant Clusters ◽  
Standard Arabic ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Short Vowels ◽  
Statistical Support ◽  
Modern Standard

Yemeni Arabic (YA) has a significant number of consonant clusters in word initial, medial, and final positions. However, their frequency of usage is not uniform. This study aims to investigate the patterns of consonant clusters in word initial, medial, and final positions in YA and also to find out the most and least frequent clusters in terms of their percentage. Qualitative and quantitative methods were used in data analysis in this study. All the words were analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). There are features of consonant clusters in Yemeni Arabic which differ from Modern Standard Arabic and some other Arabic dialects. In Yemeni Arabic, there are 29 consonants and 10 vowels, 5 long and 5 short vowels. The maximum number of onset cluster is three (e.g. /∫tsu:q/ “she will drive” while coda cluster is two (e.g. /satˤħ/ “roof”). Furthermore, the maximum number of medial clusters are also two (e.g. /muχ.lsˤu/ “sincere”. The analysis undertaken will throw light on the frequency and percentages of the occurrences of the consonant clusters on the basis of a word list, which is justified with the help of statistical support.

Socio-Economic Impact of Villagization, in Assosa Zone, WesternEthiopia

2021 ◽  
pp. 143-153
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Economic Impacts ◽  
Host Community ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
The People ◽  
The Government ◽  
Socio Economic Impact ◽  
To Come ◽  
Western Ethiopia

The mainaim of thisresearch istoinvestigatethe socio economic impacts ofvillagization;in the western Ethiopia . In order to come up with intended aim ofthestudy descriptive surveyresearch design and mixedresearch approach was employed.The study used questionnaires, interviews, document reviewing and FGD for data collection. Around one hundred sixty eight sample respondents were selected and determined by using Yemane formula.Theresearch intendsto identify the socio-economic impacts of villagization on the host communities, environment and socio-economic aspects of the people who dwell around villagization site.Both qualitative and quantitative methods of data analysis supported by statistical package for social science wereused.The bestthing about the life of villagers wasagriculture sincepeople had fertile lands. The result portrayedthat program was came into groundvoluntarily and based on the agreementof the villagers and host communities.The results also reveal that the villagized rural communitieswere highly affected by communicable and non-communicable diseases. Finally, the researcher recommended the government, health institution and villagers and host community should support the dislocated community as they will adapt to the new villagization site.

scholarly journals Ramifications of ostracism as a consequence of revelation of HIV positive status: its effect o individuals and families in Botswana

2003 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 179
Author(s):  
Tabitha T. Langeni
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Hiv Positive ◽  
Aids Patients ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Positive Individual ◽  
The Family ◽  
Hiv Aids

Using primary data and a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods the study looks into ramifications of ostracism as a factor influencing people’s behavior towards the spread of HIV/AIDS, which have devastating effects on the structure and composition of the family in Botswana. The study showed that the highest proportion of respondents who would abandon an HIV positive partner (58.4%) occurs among young people aged 15 to 19 years; and that the propensity to abandon an HIV positive partner diminishes with advancement in age. In-depth inquiries on why HIV positive partners would be abandoned produced responses that revolved around fear of exposure, vulnerability and association with an HIV positive individual. The study showed that the highest proportion of respondents who would not reveal their HIV positive status occurs among those who have lost a relative or a friend to AIDS. Fear of being isolated, rejected, stigmatized and unwanted featured among the top reasons why respondents would not reveal their HIV positive status. Society’s reaction towards HIV positive individuals and families with HIV/AIDS patients appeared strong enough to drive individuals to hide their positive status and to go ahead and take the risk of onward transmission of the virus.

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