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Patterns of Migration, Water Scarcity and Caste in Rural Northern Gujarat
Fishman, Ram; Jain, Meha; Kishore, Avinash - eSocialSciences - 2013
Patterns of rural-urban migration and employment shifts in a region that is facing ongoing depletion of groundwater resources in Northern Gujarat, India is discussed. Given that migration typically does not occur due to one singular risk, the study assessed the multifactorial drivers of...
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The New Age of Food Marketing: How Companies are Targeting and Luring our Kids — and What Advocates can do About it
BMSG, Berkeley Media Studies Group - eSocialSciences - 2012
Why should health advocates be concerned about the new marketing paradigm? Because young people's choices about what to eat and when are largely shaped by food and beverage marketing -- and these industries are now reaching our kids through a multitude of interactive devices and platforms,...
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Opening India’s Garments Sector to South Asia
Ray, Saon; Taneja, Nisha; Kaushal, Neetika - eSocialSciences - 2011
This paper examines the competitiveness of the Indian garments industry vis-à-vis the other South Asian countries Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Under the SAFTA agreement, many of the garment items were on India’s sensitive lists and did not face concessional treatment. Though many of...
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Gossip: Identifying Central Individuals in a Social Network
Banerjee, Abhijit; Chandrasekhar, Arun G; Duflo, Esther; … - eSocialSciences - 2014
The paper examines individuals’ abilities to identify the highly central people in their social networks, where centrality is defined by diffusion centrality (Banerjee, Chandrasekhar, Duflo, and Jackson, 2013), which characterizes a node’s influence in spreading information. It...
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Rethinking Food Security Policies: IDSAsr Declaration
Kainth, Gursharan Singh - eSocialSciences - 2009
Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Indian Council of Social Sciences Research (ICSSR), Indian Council of Agricultural … Research (ICAR) and National Bank for Agricultural and Rural Development (NABARD). …
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Contextualizing The Urban Healthcare System - Methodology for Developing a Geodatabase of Delhi's Healthcare System.
Chapelet, Pierre - eSocialSciences - 2009
country like India. They also attempt to demonstrate that this kind of tool remains, however, a relevant support for research …
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A Typology of Research Methods Within the Social Sciences
Durrant, Gabriele Beissel - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper discusses and develops a typology of research methods in the social sciences. Such a typology will be … relevant for various aspects of the work of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) as well as other ESRC … initiatives and the wider social science research community. It may be useful, for example, for the prioritisation of research …
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Ethics in Health Research: A Social Science Perspective
Jaitly, Tejal Barai; Jesani, Amar - eSocialSciences - 2007
of conscience keepers. Thus consultations on ethical guidelines and the documentation of experiences in research were … processes that have to be undertaken simultaneously. Simultaneously with the publication of the guidelines for health research …
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Ethics in Sociological and Social Anthropological Research: A Brief Note
Shah, A. M. - eSocialSciences - 2006
be better debated and discussed. With over 320 universities and 30 social science research institutes it is well to ask …
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The Writing of the Social Sciences
Sarukkai, Sundar - eSocialSciences - 2007
Doing sociology, writing sociology, is to somehow engage with the subjects of the discourse, to give voice to these subjects. It perforce means that our writing should be sensitive to these voices. Literature does this admirably well in one way. Social science can still see itself as a science...
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