scholarly journals The use of social science methods in agricultural research: the case of late transplanting of rice in the Dominican Republic.

1989 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-105
Author(s):  
E. Doorman
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Dominican Republic ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Agricultural Technology ◽  
Science Methods ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Social Science Methods ◽  
Yield Information ◽  
Substantial Change

This article aims to show how social science methods can be combined with agronomic research to yield information directly relevant to the development of agricultural technology for small farmers. First, problems identification and definition are worked out through reconnaissance and case studies. Then, quantitative estimates of the prevalence and impact of those problems can be obtained through the execution of a survey and trials. The combination of qualitative and quantitative methods can result in a substantial change in outlook on a specific problem, as is indicated for the case of rice tranplanting in the Dominican Republic. (Abstract retrieved from CAB Abstracts by CABI’s permission)

scholarly journals Editorial

Focaal ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 2005 (45) ◽  
pp. v-vi
Author(s):  
Monique Nuijten
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Science Methods ◽  
Development Research ◽  
Big Business ◽  
Extreme Poverty ◽  
Social Science Methods

Poverty is ‘big business’. Donor funds are set to increase substantially as the UN millennium targets—to eradicate extreme poverty and halve the number of people suffering from hunger by 2015—seem ever more out of reach. Small wonder that social science methods to assess levels of poverty and the results of development projects have become a hot issue, too. As much of the research on poverty directly feeds into policy making and donor strategies, people are rightly concerned about its quality. Anthropology has a stake in this debate: despite the hegemony of quantitative methods in development research, participatory rural appraisals and poverty assessments have always drawn upon anthropological methods. One might wonder what happens to these qualitative methods in research that aims to establish quantitative levels of poverty.

Introduction to the Special Issue “Causal Complexity and Qualitative Methods”

2006 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 223-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Goertz
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
The Other ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Political Analysis ◽  
Empirical Social Science ◽  
Causal Complexity

This special issue of Political Analysis engages in a dialogue between qualitative and quantitative methods. It proposes that each has something to say to the other and more generally has a contribution to make to empirical social science.

Conclusions, Responses to Objections, and Scholarly Recommendations

2019 ◽  
pp. 240-256
Author(s):  
Michael C. Desch
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Real World ◽  
Vested Interest ◽  
Science Methods ◽  
Intellectual Culture ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Social Science Methods ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
To Come ◽  
Policy Problems

This concluding chapter evaluates the increasing tendency of many social scientists to embrace methods and models for their own sake rather than because they can help people answer substantively important questions. This inclination is in part the result of the otherwise normal and productive workings of science but is also reinforced by less positive factors such as organizational self-interest and intellectual culture. As a result of the latter, many political scientists have committed themselves to particular social science methods not so much because they believe they will illuminate real-world policy problems but because they serve a vested interest in disciplinary autonomy and dovetail with a particular image of what a “science” of politics should look like. In other words, the professionalization of social science is the root of the enduring relevance question. The chapter then offers some concrete suggestions for how to reestablish the balance between rigor and relevance in the years to come.

Reflections on the Achievements of Sidney Verba

The Forum ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristi Andersen
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Representative Democracy ◽  
Science Methods ◽  
Complex Theory ◽  
Social Science Methods ◽  
Distinguished Career ◽  
Democratic Systems

AbstractSidney Verba’s distinguished career, particularly his books, demonstrate a talent for finding superb collaborators, a deep normative concern about the health of civil society, and a commitment to using social science methods to understand the working of democratic systems. A re-reading of these books shows the development of an increasingly complex theory of political participation undergirding a complex portrait of American representative democracy, with all its flaws and strengths.

scholarly journals SENGKETA TANAH EKS KERAJAAN DI KOTAWARINGIN BARAT PROVINSI KALIMANTAN TENGAH

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
I Gusti Ayu Gangga Santi Dewi
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
The State ◽  
Land Policy ◽  
Science Methods ◽  
Social Science Methods ◽  
And Shifts

Conflicts that ended in court disputes often occurred in the former Kotaringin Kingdom related to the former kingdom lands. Phenomenon of substantive injustice related to former kingdom land policy in the Dictum Fourth letter A UUPA which abolishes former kingdom land and shifts to the State, is an injustice felt by  former kingdom parties. Research with the Socio Legal approach with social science methods and theories about law. This research was focused on looking at the facts of the conflict that ended in court disputes and the solution to prevent the disputes of former kingdom land in Kotawaringin Barat.

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