scholarly journals Synoptic Vision: Metatheory, Conceptualisation, and Critical Realism

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Frauley
Keyword(s):  
Research Design ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Critical Realism ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Disciplinary Boundary ◽  
Boundary Maintenance

This paper takes recent sociological debate about “transdisciplinarity” (Carroll 2012; Puddephatt and McLaughlin 2015; Mišina 2015) as a springboard for elaborating on the sociological relevance of meta-theoretical engagement, particularly with critical realism. Sociologists need to more forcefully acknowledge the importance of engaging with metatheory if they are to think more productively and creatively about how the philosophical assumptions that have shaped the production of theories, research design, research practice, and the organisation of our field facilitate and delimit the production of insights about the multifaceted nature of sociological objects and practice. As meta-theorising promotes the neglected procedure of conceptualisation (as opposed to operationalisation) and because it is transdisciplinary (promoting the shedding of disciplinary boundary maintenance while remaining rigorous and methodical), it should be routinely engaged by social scientists to yield conceptual synthesis and fuller, more adequate forms of explanation of their particular objects of investigation.

scholarly journals Longitudinal qualitative research in practice: Advantages, problems and solutions

Sociologija ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-23
Author(s):  
Smiljka Tomanovic
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
Research Implementation ◽  
Introductory Part ◽  
Problems And Solutions ◽  
Basic Features ◽  
Longitudinal Qualitative Research

The paper deals with several most significant issues concerning advantages and problems of applying longitudinal qualitative research in practice. Following the introductory part that presents basic features and particularities of longitudinal qualitative research, there are three sections presenting research dilemmas and solutions related to research design, research implementation, and analysis and interpretation of findings. Discussion refers to recent methodological literature, as well as the author?s own research practice of doing longitudinal qualitative research in four waves from 1993 to 2014. The topics that are highlighted include: flexibility of research design, adaptation of concepts and interpretation to changes during the research, research ethics and respondents? and researcher?s reflexivity, analyzing and interpreting change within social biography approach. The concluding discussion summarizes heuristic and methodological advantages of longitudinal qualitative research for social biography approach, such as contextualization and biographization of findings, but also its limits and possibilities of overcoming them based on the author?s research experience.

scholarly journals Design Research for Social Scientists: Reading Instructions for This Issue

2007 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Hummels ◽  
Johan Redström ◽  
Ilpo Koskinen
Keyword(s):  
Design Research ◽  
Social Scientists

scholarly journals Collaboration for chemistry communication: Insights from a research-practice partnership

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (04) ◽  
pp. N01
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Kunz Kollmann ◽  
Marta Beyer ◽  
Emily Howell ◽  
Allison Anderson ◽  
Owen Weitzman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Informal Education ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Science Museums ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Public ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Perceived Relevance ◽  
Data Collections

As several recent National Academies of Sciences reports have highlighted, greater science communication research is needed on 1) communicating chemistry, and 2) building research-practice partnerships to advance communication across science issues. Here we report our insights in both areas, gathered from a multi-year collaboration to advance our understanding of how to communicate about chemistry with the public. Researchers and practitioners from science museums across the U.S. partnered with academic social scientists in science communication to develop and conduct multi-strand data collections on chemistry communication and informal education. Our focus was on increasing interest in, the perceived relevance of, and self-efficacy concerning chemistry through hands-on activities and connecting chemistry to broader themes concerning everyday life and societal impacts. We outline challenges and benefits of the project that future collaborations can gain from and illustrate how our strands of work complemented each other to create a more complete picture of public perceptions of chemistry.

scholarly journals Effectiveness Of Rosella Tea On Decreasing Blood Pressure In Hypertension Patients In Tulungagung District

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 162-169
Author(s):  
Farida Farida ◽  
Yusuf Abdillah ◽  
Poppy Farasari
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Test Statistics ◽  
Average Blood Pressure ◽  
Quota Sampling ◽  
Stage 1 ◽  
Normally Distributed

The research design used pre experimental. The sampling technique uses quota sampling with a sample of 30 respondents. Design research was one group pretest-posttest. The study used a dose of 2 x 3 grams of dried rosella each day for seven (7) days. Test Statistics using Paired T test.The results of the study were obtained before the treatment as many as 26 respondents (86.7%) with the classification of stage 1 hypertension and after treatment to 18 respondents (60%), this was due to filling vacancies in the incidence of prehypertension and normal tension.normality test Kolmogorov-smirnof data is normally distributed. The results of thestatistical Paired T-testtest showed that the value of p systole = 0,000 and dyastole = 0.001 with α = 0.05 where p <α so that Ho was rejected, which means there was a decrease in the average blood pressure after giving rosella tea

scholarly journals METHODS OF CREATING A LANDSCAPE ENVIRONMENT CONSIDERING THE CULTURAL AND EDUCATION ORIENTATION

2021 ◽  
pp. 217-237
Author(s):  
Andriy Karanda
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Inner World ◽  
Design Objects ◽  
Landscape Ecological

The problem of creating a landscape environment considering the cultural and educational orientation in the structure of objects of the landscape and recreational zone of cities is observed. Specialized cultural and cognitive parks of ideological and thematic orientation are grouped by areas: urban planning, landscape-ecological, spatial-compositional, semiotic, typological-methodological and their main characteristics are given. The classification of specialized cultural and cognitive parks and those that ideologically affect the surrounding and inner world of man is given. The main methods used in the formation of specialized cultural and educational parks in the process of landscape-planning organization of the park environment by its phases (pre-design research, design, implementation, maintenance) are determine In each of the phases the main stages of its implementation and methods of scientific research used in it are given. When considering the issue of creating specialized cultural and cognitive parks, the general criteria to be met by the design objects that combine them were identified, a number of methods that form the algorithm for their creation were considered.

The laboratory life of a designer at the intersection with algal biotechnology

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marin Sawa
Keyword(s):  
Design Research ◽  
Imperial College ◽  
Collaborative Practice ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Close Collaboration ◽  
Algal Biotechnology ◽  
Interdisciplinary Design ◽  
Literature Reviews ◽  
Laboratory Life

Scientific laboratories are increasingly becoming a collaborative place to design in an emergent biodesign practice, yet there is very little literature on the actual place and practice. This paper describes an empirical account of a laboratory-based, interdisciplinary design research practice, exploring the intersection with algal biotechnology. Aimed at generating multiple applications of microalgae, the author spent 3 years (2012-2015) working in close collaboration with algal scientists in their research laboratories at Imperial College London. It expounds on the laboratory space and facilities and discusses collaborative experimentation with the intersectional outcome: Algae Printing. It reports that the sum of resultant biotechnological artefacts are scientific, aesthetic, and ecosophical with potential for the domestication of algal biotechnology. It reflects on the interdisciplinary collaborative practice with literature reviews and addresses suggestions for future practices. The main finding is that the integration of a designer into the laboratory life can lead to co-invention and that a role of designer in early stages of scientific research can be demonstrated.

Setting Up an Online Survey Instrument for Effective Quantitative Cross-Tabulation Analysis

2019 ◽  
pp. 17-29
Keyword(s):  
Survey Research ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Data Analytics ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Survey Instrument ◽  
Research Context ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Cross Tabulation ◽  
Analyze Data

The building of an online survey instrument involves sophisticated understandings of the research context, research design, research questions, and other elements. A lesser observed need is to consider what types of data analytics will be applied to the findings. With beginning-to-end online survey research suites, it becomes all the more necessary to think through the process from beginning to end in order to create an instrument that achieves all the necessary aims of the research. After all, improper online survey instrument designs will result in makework when it comes time to analyze data and will foreclose on particular data analytics opportunities. (Such instruments also will not have second or third uses after the first one-off.) This chapter explores how to build an effective online survey instrument to enable a quantitative cross tabulation analysis with the built-in analysis Qualtrics.

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