Invest In The Social Aspects of Biosolids Management

2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Goldstein ◽  
N. Beecher
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Effective Strategies ◽  
The Social

Social factors, such as public outrage, commonly interfere with effective biosolids management. This is especially true with programs that involve recycling biosolids to soils. Obstacles to public support of biosolids recycling are understood by application of social science research regarding risk perception, outrage factors, and risk communication. This paper covers background, summarizes past research, and presents short case studies regarding utilizing understanding of such social factors in particular biosolids management programs. Evaluations of these efforts are presented, providing improved understanding of how biosolids managers can implement cost-effective strategies to more effectively address the social aspects of biosolids management.

Pease Porridge in a Pot: The Social Basis of Health and Healing in Africa

1993 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 43-51
Author(s):  
Bruce Fetter
Keyword(s):  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Monographs And Collections ◽  
Social Basis ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Press ◽  
Health And Healing ◽  
The Many

Pease porridge hot, pease porridge coldPease porridge in the pot nine days oldSome like it hot, some like it coldBut none like it in the pot nine days old.The recent flurry of monographs and collections relating to the social aspects of medicine and disease in Africa and elsewhere ensures that collections of essays on this topic will receive much attention and will be concomitantly influential. Under the circumstances it is particularly regretable that the volume under review has been published so many years after most of the essays in it were written, precluding their referring to the many recent advances in the field. Of the 21 articles and introductory essays in Steven Feierman and John Janzen, eds., The Social Basis of Health and Healing in Africa (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), six (amounting to 24% of the text) are reprints, seven (35%) are revisions whose originals date from 1979 and 1981, and eight (41%) are originals. Of these latter, two chapters date from 1983, and two of the reprints have been supplanted by book-length monographs. One must therefore ask of the editors, the press, and the Joint Committee on African Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council whether such unusually delayed publication is justified.

scholarly journals Enhancing and accelerating social science via automation: Challenges and opportunities

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tal Yarkoni ◽  
Dean Eckles ◽  
James Heathers ◽  
Margaret Levenstein ◽  
Paul Smaldino ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Data Access ◽  
The Social ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Core Areas ◽  
Near Term ◽  
Machine Readable

Automation plays an increasingly important role in science, but the social sciences have been comparatively slow to take advantage of emerging technologies and methods. In this review, we argue that greater investment in automation would be one of the most effective and cost-effective ways to boost the reliability, validity, and utility of social science research. We identify five core areas ripe for potentially transformative investment, including (1) machine-readable standards, (2) data access platforms, (3) search and discoverability, (4) claim validation, and (5) insight generation. In each case, we review limitations associated with current practices, identify concrete opportunities for improvement via automation, and discuss near-term barriers to progress. We conclude with a discussion of practical and ethical considerations researchers will need to keep in mind when working to enhance and accelerate social science progress via automation.

scholarly journals Evolución de la investigación psicosocial del dopaje en el deporte de competición: una revisión narrativa (Evolution of doping in elite sport from the perspective of social sciences: a narrative review)

Retos ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena García-Grimau ◽  
Arturo Casado ◽  
Ricardo De la Vega
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Elite Sport ◽  
Prevention Strategies ◽  
The Social ◽  
El Sistema ◽  
Specific Factors

  Considerando que los ejes básicos que conforman el sistema antidopaje son el legislativo, el biomédico y el psicosocial, la investigación en esta última ha sido la más tardía en aparecer. El objetivo principal de este estudio se centra en realizar una revisión bibliográfica en profundidad sobre el estudio del dopaje en el deporte de competición desde la perspectiva de las ciencias sociales e identificar nuevos desafíos de investigación antidopaje para mejorar las estrategias de prevención en España. La revisión indica que existen diferentes modelos teóricos aplicados para comprender las actitudes, intenciones y conductas hacia el dopaje. Del mismo modo, son muchos los factores individuales, sociales y específicos del deporte que pueden influir en el dopaje. En España en particular, la evolución de la lucha contra el dopaje ha sido tardía y es necesario el impulso de una mayor investigación científica en el eje psicosocial, con una mayor coordinación entre los investigadores, los organismos antidopaje y las federaciones deportivas nacionales.  Abstract. Considering that legislative, biomedical and psycho-social factors could be the cornerstones in antidoping research, the latter has been the latest to be developed. The aim of this study is to carry out an in-depth bibliographic review on the study of doping in elite sport from the perspective of the social sciences and to identify new anti-doping research challenges to improve prevention strategies in Spain. The review indicates that there are different theoretical models used to understand attitudes, intentions and behaviors towards doping. Similarly, there are many individual, social and sport-specific factors that can influence doping practice. Particularly in Spain, the evolution of the fight against doping has been quite late and it is necessary to promote more social science research, with greater coordination between researchers, anti-doping organizations and national sport federations.

scholarly journals Áhrif mismunandi hugtakanotkunar á viðhorf almennings

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-124
Author(s):  
Viðar Halldórsson
Keyword(s):  
Public Support ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Public ◽  
A Value ◽  
Political Perspective ◽  
Political Discourse Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University

Politicians deliver their messages through the use of language with the intention of creating public support for their ideas and actions. Politicians, therefore, apply certain concepts, in preference to others, to mark certain phenomena in a specific way in the common discourse. Therefore, concepts utilized by politicians need to be analyzed critically from a sociological and political perspective. This paper is built on a political discourse analysis of the strategic “normalization” of political concepts by Icelandic politicians. The Social Science Research Institute at the University of Iceland conducted a questionnaire survey on the attitudes of Icelanders towards three debated issues in contemporary Icelandic society: the legitimization of casinos, ways to finance major road constructions, and new laws on the abortion rights of women. To account for the effects of the politicians’ utilization of concepts, half of the respondents received a question with a “neutral” concept and the other half got a question with a “value-laden” concept on each of the issues. The hypotheses assumed that the more neutral concepts would gain more general support than the more value-laden concepts. The results indicate that the attitudes towards the three issues were mixed and, furthermore, that the use of different concepts does not seem to make much of a difference, since only one hypothesis was supported, whereas the other two were rejected. It can also be argued that the circulation of concepts and the conceptual literacy of the public are important issues in this context.

A Tale of Two Cultures

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Goertz ◽  
James Mahoney
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Measurement Data ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Quantitative Research Methods ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
The Social ◽  
Scientific Worldview ◽  
Different Cultures

Some in the social sciences argue that the same logic applies to both qualitative and quantitative research methods. This book demonstrates that these two paradigms constitute different cultures, each internally coherent yet marked by contrasting norms, practices, and toolkits. The book identifies and discusses major differences between these two traditions that touch nearly every aspect of social science research, including design, goals, causal effects and models, concepts and measurement, data analysis, and case selection. Although focused on the differences between qualitative and quantitative research, the book also seeks to promote toleration, exchange, and learning by enabling scholars to think beyond their own culture and see an alternative scientific worldview. The book is written in an easily accessible style and features a host of real-world examples to illustrate methodological points.

Factor Analysis among the variables relating to purpose of using social media websites and nonacceptance of social media in recruitment

2020 ◽  
pp. 245-248
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Recruitment Strategies ◽  
Job Seeking ◽  
Hiring Process ◽  
To Come ◽  
New Strategies

In the era of Globalization, advancement of technology and stiff competition, particularly, in the I.T. Industry, companies have to adopt new H.R. strategies and practices so as to constantly evolve and grow. In this context, existing recruitment strategies have to be replaced by new strategies. Many companies are now extensively depending on the internet to connect to larger audiences globally. Organizations are in a position to attract profiles, resumes from potential candidates by announcing their vacancies on their own websites. E-recruitment is evoking interest among the companies typically over the last few years. The spread of information technology and growth of Internet has paved way for companies willing to hunt for talent on the job seeking websites. In the years to come, social networking will soon be an indispensable part of the hiring process. It is cost effective, does not require setting up an office and forms an effective tool for recruiters. The main purpose of this study was to understand the application of factor analysis in social science research and to reduce a large number of variables into manageable smaller factors for further analysis of the employers’ perception on social media recruitment with reference to the I.T. Sector in Bangalore.

Designing and Evaluating Survey Instruments for Research in Human Issues in Horticulture

HortScience ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 554c-554
Author(s):  
Sonja M. Skelly ◽  
Jennifer Campbell Bradley
Keyword(s):  
Survey Research ◽  
Survey Methodology ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Survey Instrument ◽  
Measurement Tool ◽  
The Social ◽  
Survey Instruments

Survey research has a long precedence of use in the social sciences. With a growing interest in the area of social science research in horticulture, survey methodology needs to be explored. In order to conduct proper and accurate survey research, a valid and reliable instrument must be used. In many cases, however, an existing measurement tool that is designed for specific research variables is unavailable thus, an understanding of how to design and evaluate a survey instrument is necessary. Currently, there are no guidelines in horticulture research for developing survey instruments for use with human subjects. This presents a problem when attempting to compare and reference similar research. This workshop will explore the methodology involved in preparing a survey instrument; topics covered will include defining objectives for the survey, constructing questions, pilot testing the survey, and obtaining reliability and validity information. In addition to these topics some examples will be provided which will illustrate how to complete these steps. At the conclusion of this session a discussion will be initiated for others to share information and experiences dealing with creating survey instruments.

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