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current PAR in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Colombia; discusses the ideology, theory and emerging methodology of "grass …
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There is growing advocacy for the adoption of computational methods as a substitute for, or complement to, traditional research methods, particularly for examining social phenomena derivative of organised complexity. This paper examines some of the reasons for this advocacy and the specific...
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<i>Seven Rules for Social Research</i> teaches social scientists how to get the most out of their technical skills and tools, providing a resource that fully describes the strategies and concepts no researcher or student of human behavior can do without. Glenn Firebaugh provides indispensable practical...
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Development has been for long an idea and an ideal that moulded the teleological movement of nations as well as that of individual self-realisation. The present paper looks at such a ‘paradigm of development’ in order to examine its impact on the social science research agenda on...
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In my contribution I want to investigate, from a theoretical point of view but also with methodological and practical consequences, the qualitative role of metaphor in social research. As tool able to improve and facilitate the visualization of complex ideas and states of mind, this rhetorical...
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Маркетинговая деятельность в современном обществе прибрела множество разновидностей, сохраняя существенную связь с процессами обмена. Инновации социального...
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The volume „Filosofia socială construcŃionistă. DirecŃii epistemice, etice si pragmatice” (Social Constructionist Philosophy. Epistemic, Ethic and Pragmatic Directions) brings to the attention of the reader the most significant news in research conducted in transmodern paradigm. The...
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Participation has become a buzzword and lost much of its impact. Nevertheless, there are enough arguments to revisit the concept and its use in social research. One of them is that it is part of a tradition of action and participatory research which acquired specific features in different parts...
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The article deals with the problem of revealing cause–effect relations in the social research by a complex of statistical methods. The ways for solving the problem for experimental and non-experimental data are regarded. In the research the role of the statistical methods in formation of...
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