Methods and Status of Scientific Research with Particular Application to the Social Sciences

1931 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 334
Author(s):  
John D. Black ◽  
Walter Earl Spahr ◽  
Rinehart John Swenson
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals Scientific research: methodological guidelines for the social sciences

2003 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-40
Author(s):  
Paul H. Möller ◽  
Vladimír Vurm ◽  
Petr Petr
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Methodological Guidelines

scholarly journals SIOR: An Egalitarian Scientific Agora

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (8-9) ◽  
pp. 955-961
Author(s):  
Esther Oliver ◽  
Andrea Scharnhorst ◽  
Joan Cabré ◽  
Vladia Ionescu
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
International Level ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Unique Data ◽  
The Social ◽  
Data Source

The Social Impact Open Repository (SIOR) has become a unique data source at the international level in which researchers can display, quote, and store the social impact of their research results. SIOR arises from the social and political needs to know and connect with scientific projects to assess their social impact, promoting transparency of science and open-access systems. This repository has been designed to allow researchers to link their social impacts with research institutions and citizens. In short, SIOR reveals possibilities for transforming scientific research through means such as developing a qualitative tool as an egalitarian scientific agora that enables assessment of social improvements derived from social sciences and humanities (SSH) research. SIOR is a qualitative and open peer-review tool that allows citizens to comment online about an investigation’s impact on society.

A Critical Look at Critical Realism: Some Observations on the Problems of the Metatheory

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Juha Käpylä ◽  
Harri Mikkola
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Distinctive Feature ◽  
Critical Realism ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
Human Knowledge ◽  
Critical Realist ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ontological Turn

International Relations as a scientific discipline can be considered elusive and, in a sense, “under debate.” A distinctive feature of the theoretical debates of the discipline has been the various calls for different kinds of theoretical and metatheoretical “turns.” In this atmosphere, the return of ontologically oriented IR theorizing based on Critical Realism has increased in influence. The aim of this article is to problematize some of the formulations of Critical Realist metatheory, especially in relation to the notions of correspondence, retroduction and emergence. The article will argue that in the context of the social sciences, two things are highly problematic. The first problem is the quest for establishing “heavy ontological furniture” as a backbone for scientific research. The second problem is the attempt to combine the fallibility of human knowledge with the “getting things right” attitude based on correspondence-like concepts of truth. The article concludes with a recommendation for a healthy caution towards the Critical Realist aspiration for the “ontological turn” in the social sciences.

Beta Testing in Social Work

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-168
Author(s):  
Dorian E. Traube ◽  
Stephanie Begun ◽  
Robin Petering ◽  
Marilyn L. Flynn
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Consumer Markets ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Beta Testing

The field of social work does not currently have a widely adopted method for expediting innovations into micro- or macropractice. Although it is common in fields such as engineering and business to have formal processes for accelerating scientific advances into consumer markets, few comparable mechanisms exist in the social sciences or social services. Given that beta testing is successfully used to scale innovation in business and engineering, why is there no method for beta testing in social work? Could this be the reason that innovations in social work practice remain decades behind scientific research findings? This article explores reasons for the scarcity of options for scaling innovation in the field of social work and proposes a method for shortening development cycles for social work innovations to ensure that advances reach consumers—and ultimately improve their lives—more quickly.

scholarly journals Social Science, Philosophy and Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-155
Author(s):  
Robin Barrow
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Science Philosophy ◽  
Individual Success

This essay argues for the urgent need for philosophy as the necessary first step in any educational undertaking. Philosophy is involved with making fine distinctions which are necessary to clarify concepts and terms. The paper focuses primarily on the problems with an overreliance on scientific research in the social sciences, with special emphasis on the dangers posed in educational research. Three specific problems are identified. First, the emphasis on scientific research downgrades non-scientific research, which may be more appropriate as modes of inquiry in many aspects of education. Second, the emphasis on scientific research distorts research in areas such as the arts and humanities because individual success as a scholar is largely measured by criteria that make sense in the natural sciences but not necessarily in the arts. Third, and most significantly, the paper questions whether social action and interaction can be investigated in a truly scientific manner.

scholarly journals Causes of deficits and ethical dilemmas in scientific research

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 17-31
Author(s):  
Danuta Walczak-Duraj
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Codes Of Ethics ◽  
Data Publishing ◽  
The Social ◽  
Conducting Research

The analysis of the deficits and ethical dilemmas in research will be related to two disciplines of the social sciences: sociology and economics. Research conducted within these disciplines, because of its multi-paradigm nature, tends to be characterized by deficits, not only ethical but also ethical and methodological dilemmas and interpretation reasons. The leading thesis of this paper aims to argue that the looming deficits and ethical dilemmas of Polish researchers in the field of social sciences are two basic but very different premises. The first group of reasons primarily refers to broad ethical deficits, perceived unreliableness in terms of scientific research. It is related mainly to the structural aspects of the functioning of universities and other research units and logic parameterization. In the ethical programs (especially codes of ethics), ethical deficits are identified in three areas of “activity” of research related to the description, diagnosis and interpretation of the results relating to: bragging—e.g. the preparation, recording and publishing of the results that were not obtained; falsification—which means manipulating the research materials, equipment or method, replacing or bypassing the data in such a way that the results are not presented in a true way; plagiarism—the appropriation of other people ideas, methods, results, or terms without proper reference. Plagiarism is also the unauthorized use of information obtained through confidential review of proposals and manuscripts, or e.g. using conference presentations without permission. Its structural evidence is primarily the emphasis on “productivity” and parameterization as the basic criterion, not only of scientific but also academic success-oriented and personalized careers. The second group of reasons refers primarily to broad ethical dilemmas; to the ethical context of social research at every stage of the proceedings: conceptualization, selection of methods, techniques and research tools, conducting research (which concern, for example, the covert participant observation), analysis and interpretation of data, publishing developed and interpreted empirical material. Performing even a cursory analysis of how to present research findings in these two disciplines, you can come to the conclusion that the methodological competence of the investigator does not always go hand in hand with ethical competence. What is more, there is a tendency to downplay the principle that the social sciences should be guided by the principle of the so-called humanistic coefficient.

‘Non-Journalistic’ Traditional Publishers and Third-Generation European Data Protection Regulation

2019 ◽  
pp. 252-272
Author(s):  
David Erdos
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Data Protection ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Public Knowledge ◽  
Third Generation ◽  
General Data Protection Regulation ◽  
European Data ◽  
The Social ◽  
General Data ◽  
Professional Artists

This chapter explores the interface between data protection and professional artists and (academic and non-academic) writers both in the formal law under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and in terms of the approach that should be adopted by Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) here. The GDPR mandates that States set down derogations as are ‘necessary’ to reconcile data protection with not only journalism but other special forms of expression, namely artistic, literary, and (in a new departure) academic expression. Moreover, with a few exceptions, States grant all these forms of expression comparable shields within their statutory laws. However, contrary to the GDPR itself, most do not expressly extend these shields to ‘knowledge facilitation’ activities such as scientific research. This could undermine protections for academic expression. It is, therefore, imperative that DPAs adopt a purposive interpretation which ensures that all processing orientated towards contributing to public knowledge or discourse can benefit from these shields even if the activity could also be conceptualized as, for example, scientific research. Nevertheless, DPAs should develop specific standards and an enforcement strategy that recognizes that these shields are qualified. Both should foster co-regulatory engagement. However, co-regulation remains challenging here as a result of the entirely informal nature of norms amongst non-academic artists and writers and the dominance of a biomedical approach within many academic institutions which is alien to the much of the work in the social sciences and the humanities. DPAs will, therefore, need to be proactive rather than reactive in this area.

Multilingual Scholars’ Experiences in Publishing in the Social Sciences and Humanities

2021 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 248-272
Author(s):  
Basim Alamri
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
English Language ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Writing For Publication ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
Number Of Publications ◽  
Multilingual Scholars

Multilingual scholars in the social sciences and humanities at universities in Saudi Arabia face challenges to publishing in international English-language scholarly journals. This study aims to investigate their attitudes and needs and the obstacles they encounter. It also explores how deans of scientific research respond to scholars’ obstacles and needs. The study takes a mixed-methods approach, with a questionnaire and interviews with faculty and deans at Saudi universities. The faculty members’ interest in conducting research and publishing is lower than their estimation of the importance of these activities. They reported barriers to research and publication, chiefly a lack of funding and a lack of time. They also expressed a need for training in disciplinary writing for publication purposes. Finally, the deans of scientific research described various initiatives at their universities for assisting faculty with research and writing. The study ends with suggestions for what Saudi universities could do to help increase the number of publications by their faculty.

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