Vignette Methodology

2019 ◽  
pp. 117-143
Author(s):  
Swati Alok
Keyword(s):  
Social Research ◽  
Entire Process ◽  
Methodological Challenges ◽  
Three Stages ◽  
Conflict Research ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Detailed Presentation ◽  
Vignette Methodology

This chapter initially introduces vignette methodology and explains the use of it in social research. It clarifies the various methodological challenges while designing the vignette. Drawing on the experience, while designing vignette for conflict research, this chapter provides a detailed presentation of the procedural and pragmatic issues that need to be considered when using vignette. Categorizing the design of vignette in three stages—predesign, design, and post-design—provides complete clarity in understanding this process. This chapter can help budding researchers get a perfect insight into the entire process of vignette development.

In Algeria: Pierre Bourdieu's Photographic Fieldwork

2009 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 448-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franz Schultheis ◽  
Patricia Holder ◽  
Constantin Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Visual Anthropology ◽  
Visual Sociology ◽  
Research Strategies ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Analytical Skills ◽  
Algerian Population ◽  
The Status ◽  
Insight Into

Today Pierre Bourdieu is well known as one of the most important social scientists of the 20th century. One of the outstanding qualities of his work has been his innovative combination of different methods and research strategies as well as his analytical skills in interpreting the obtained data (his ‘sociological gaze’). In this paper, we attempt to retrace the development of an extraordinary way of doing social research and show the benefit of Bourdieu's visual sociology for his empirical fieldwork and sociological theory. The article particularly stresses the significance of his photographic archive, which has long been ignored within the appreciation of Bourdieu's work. Studying Bourdieu's photography gives access to his æuvre in several new ways: not only can we understand how Bourdieu became an unconventional sociologist practicing his craft in the midst of a colonial war. Bourdieu's visual anthropology also offers an insight into the status nascendi of Bourdieu's sociology in all its elementary forms and contents. Through his photography Boudieu demonstrated the concepts of ‘ habitat and habitus’, the material and symbolic living conditions of the Algerian population.

Neural correlates of pride and joy recognition in early childhood

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (9) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Yue Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Neural Mechanism ◽  
Neural Correlates ◽  
Event Related Potential ◽  
Central Component ◽  
Positive Component ◽  
Negative Component ◽  
Late Positive Component ◽  
Three Stages ◽  
Insight Into

I investigated neural processing during the recognition of pride and joy in early childhood using the event-related potential (ERP) technique. Electroencephalography recording was taken of 21 children aged between 4 and 6 years. They were shown photographs of familiar peers and strangers whose facial expressions displayed the emotion of either pride or joy. ERPs were recorded for the children's judgment of the expression of these two emotions when an image was presented. The results demonstrate that the neural dynamics during children's recognition of pride and joy involve three stages: The early negative component is spontaneously responsive to familiar faces, the midlatency negative central component is responsive to expression of familiar faces, and the late positive component marks greater extended processing of an expression of pride. These findings provide new insight into the neural mechanism of pride and joy recognition in children aged 4 to 6 years.

scholarly journals Private Lives, Public Histories: The Diary in Twentieth-Century Britain

2015 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 138-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joe Moran
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
Private Lives ◽  
The Social ◽  
Private Citizens ◽  
Mass Circulation ◽  
Public Archives ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractThis article examines the growth of interest in diary keeping in twentieth-century Britain. It explores how diary keeping by private citizens was encouraged in the first part of the century by mass-circulation newspapers, diary manufacturers, diary anthologists like Arthur Ponsonby, and the social research organization Mass Observation in response to changing notions of the self, privacy, and daily life. It discusses the ways in which, in the context of a growing interest in public archives, these private diaries have more recently been imagined as compelling forms of historical evidence, as well as some of the problems of organization and interpretation that these kinds of texts present. I argue that the inherently opaque and incomplete nature of private diaries means that they can add nuance to our understanding of the recent past and offer insight into the randomness and singularity of everyday experience as it is being lived.

scholarly journals Users’ Perception as a Tool for an Integrated Coastal Management and Beach Quality Assessment

Pomorstvo ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 290-296
Author(s):  
Damir Magaš ◽  
Borna Debelić ◽  
Siniša Vilke
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Coastal Zone ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Coastal Zone Management ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
User Research ◽  
Zone Management ◽  
Beach Tourism ◽  
Insight Into

The aim of the paper is to show a brief review of social research methods used in beach user research and coastal zone management. It is argued that this approach may effectively be used from the perspective of Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM). Beaches are one of the most important factors of the sun and sea tourism, and an area where the increased users` pressure is common with the rise of tourist activity. This expansion creates increased pressure on the coastal area, the marine eco systems and, potentially, leads to a degradation of the natural environment. Social research methods provide an invaluable insight into the processes incentivizing beach users in respect to physical, social, economic and natural aspects of beach uses as well as of other parts of the coast, through the concept of the user perception. The intended result is to provide a brief methodological overview of social science research methods applied to and found in literature that can be used to be better informed of the beach management decisions as an area of ICZM interest and, in this way, contributing to the overall sustainable development of the coastal zone and increasing the competitiveness of beach tourism.

Addressing Survey Research

2018 ◽  
pp. 341-359
Author(s):  
Ernest W. Brewer ◽  
Geraldine Torrisi-Steele ◽  
Victor Wang
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Survey Research ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Basic Structure ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
Data Collection Instrument ◽  
The Face ◽  
Insight Into

Survey research is a mainstay of social research. Both cost effective and time efficient, this method of research is commonly used for the purposes of gaining insight into the attitudes, thoughts, and opinions of populations. There are several types of survey research designs and data collection instruments giving the researchers the flexibility to determine which methods will work best for their own particular study. Regardless of the method, the researcher must carefully select an excising instrument or construct the data collection instrument, as this is the key to a successful survey research study. Despite some criticisms, survey research remains a highly used research method but with the advent of the digital age, the face of survey research is beginning to change. This chapter defines survey research, outlines the basic structure for conducting such research, identifies some of the major challenges surrounding survey research, and provides some recommendations. In discussing the future of survey research, the authors place emphasis on big data and social media as two strong digital forces influencing survey research.

A comparative proteomic analysis for adventitious root formation in lotus root (Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn)

2017 ◽  
Vol 72 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 181-196
Author(s):  
Cheng Libao ◽  
Jiang Runzhi ◽  
Yang Mengli ◽  
Li Liangjun ◽  
Li Shuyan
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
Root Formation ◽  
Molecular Level ◽  
Adventitious Root Formation ◽  
Lotus Root ◽  
Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass ◽  
Three Stages ◽  
Isobaric Tags ◽  
Related Proteins ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractAdventitious roots (ARs) directly affect lotus seedling growth and product quality because principal root is not well developed. However, the details of AR formation at the molecular level have not been determined in lotus. Therefore, three stages were chosen to identify the change of proteins abundant during rhizome formation, using isobaric tags for relative and absolute quantization coupled with liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry to gain insight into the molecular mechanisms involved in AR formation. We totally obtained 323,375 spectra during AR formation. After filtering to eliminate low-scoring spectra, 66,943 spectra, including 53,106 unique spectra, were identified. These unique spectra matched 28,905 peptides, including 24,992 unique peptides, which were assembled into 6686 proteins. In the C0/C1 and C1/C2 stages, 66 and 32 proteins showed enhanced abundance, and 173 and 73 proteins showed decreased abundance, respectively. Seventeen important AR formation-related proteins from the three stages were identified, and the expressions of nine genes from the above-identified proteins were assessed by qRT-PCR. This article provides a comprehensive understanding of the changes in metabolism during AR formation, and is helpful to accelerate the progress of breeding in fulture in lotus root.

scholarly journals The Digital Divide Among Twitter Users and Its Implications for Social Research

2016 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 679-697 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grant Blank
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Twitter Data ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Large Populations ◽  
Twitter Users ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Gaining Insight

Hundreds of papers have been published using Twitter data, but few previous papers report the digital divide among Twitter users. British Twitter users are younger, wealthier, and better educated than other Internet users, who in turn are younger, wealthier, and better educated than the off-line British population. American Twitter users are also younger and wealthier than the rest of the population, but they are not better educated. Twitter users are disproportionately members of elites in both countries. Twitter users also differ from other groups in their online activities and their attitudes. These biases and differences have important implications for research based on Twitter data. The unrepresentative characteristics of Twitter users suggest that Twitter data are not suitable for research where representativeness is important, such as forecasting elections or gaining insight into attitudes, sentiments, or activities of large populations. In general, Twitter data seem to be more suitable for corporate use than for social science research.

scholarly journals The Architecture of ELT Coursebooks

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 383-407
Author(s):  
Janez Skela ◽  
Lara Burazer
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Instructional Materials ◽  
Market Demand ◽  
Check List ◽  
Complex Issue ◽  
Unit Structure ◽  
Three Stages ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Oriented Approach ◽  
Theoretical Developments

This paper is an attempt to develop a design-oriented approach to ELT coursebook evaluation, with a particular focus on the internal organization of coursebook units at both intra-unit and inter-unit levels. We believe that looking at coursebooks from the position of the materials designer sheds some additional light on ELT coursebook evaluation. The design-oriented approach to ELT coursebook assessment proposed in the paper goes well beyond the immediate, and often superficial, ‘check-list’ methods commonly used to help teachers select coursebooks. In other words, the design-oriented approach to ELT coursebook assessment enables teachers an insight into ‘the architecture’ of textbooks. On this ‘journey to the centre of ELT textbooks’, we try to highlight how language teaching materials have been resolving the conundrum of the dynamic combination of the What (content), and the How (pedagogy/methodology). In presenting a materials design process, we start off with the assumption that there has always been a broad basis of theoretical and pedagogical notions that can inform the content and organization of ELT coursebooks, and upon which coursebook writers can build when designing instructional materials. The article then discusses three stages of the design process, offering a more detailed analysis of the complex issue of unit structure at intra- and inter-unit levels. We explore different formats of unit structure, its components, ways of creating coherence throughout the unit, and its underlying methodology/pedagogy. The last point prompts the conclusion that today’s ELT materials are produced in response to a perceived market demand that is often at variance with the latest theoretical developments in ELT.

Analyse der Motive österreichischer Kleinwaldeigentümer als Schlüssel für die Holzmobilisierung

2013 ◽  
Vol 164 (9) ◽  
pp. 278-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Huber ◽  
Peter Schwarzbauer ◽  
Tobias Stern
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Private Forest ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
Forest Owners ◽  
Potential Effectiveness ◽  
Qualitative Social Research ◽  
New Information ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Small Forest

Analysis of Austrian small forest owners′ motivation as a key to wood mobilisation The largest potential to mobilise unused wood reserves in Austria is from small private forest owners (holdings under 200 ha). Small forest owners who participate in wood markets have shown high supply elasticity with respect to the sawlog price. Due to the ongoing structural change in agriculture the share of owners whose forest management is economically motivated is expected to fall. However, many of the small forest owners are very concerned to look after their forest well, although the understanding of what constitutes a clean and healthy forest can differ widely. Their objectives and motives were investigated by qualitative social research methods. Among respondents that did not have any forest related education or background the phenomenon known as “forest gardening” was observed. These people looked at and managed their forest with objectives and motives usually associated with private gardens. Overall, five different action patterns related to forest management were distinguished. Understanding the goals and motivation of small forest owners gives insight into the potential effectiveness of different wood mobilisation measures. Especially among inexperienced small forest owners, the offer of information, motivation and service is welcome. “Dialogue marketing” is an appropriate communication tool. New information channels, such as Facebook, should be used more to motivate small forest owners to manage their forests sustainably and produce more wood.

Applying organizational commitment and human capital theories to emigration research

2012 ◽  
Vol 36 (2/3) ◽  
pp. 308-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Verkhohlyad ◽  
Gary N. McLean
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Capital Investment ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Human Capital Investment ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Insight Into

PurposeThis study aims to bring some additional insight into the issue of emigration by establishing a relationship between emigration and psychic return of citizens to their human capital investment in the country.Design/methodology/approachThe article adopts a quantitative research strategy. It applies organizational commitment and human capital theories to the study of emigration.FindingsThe article provides evidence for the fact that psychic return to human capital investment in the country has significant relationship with emigration level from this country. At the same time, of all variables that comprise this type of return to HC investment, only two variables were found to be statistically significant: national GDP and access to education in the country.Research limitations/implicationsThe findings provide some evidence for the fact that emigration from a country cannot be reduced unless people in the country have the ability to lead an economically comfortable life and have access to education. Those countries that experience significant emigration need to turn their attention to developing and implementing sound economic and educational reforms. Emigration will be reduced as a result. A significant limitation of this research is the fact that not all the world countries were included in the analysis. Although the authors did their best to get data for as many countries as possible, the absence of data for some countries allowed for the research using fewer countries than desired.Originality/valueThis article utilizes organizational commitment and human capital theories. The combination of these two theories of social research allows a unique look at emigration.

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