Methodology category: 1297 books

Cover of Risk Management. Do the events of 9/11 and beyond presage an era of new terrorism?
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015

Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Sociology - Methodology and Methods, , language: English, abstract: Discuss whether the events of 9/11 and beyond presage an era of new terrorism. What problems does this pose in terms of risk management? The given question frames two points for discussion,...
Cover of The Emerging Consensus in Social Systems Theory
by Kenneth C. Bausch
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

In The Emerging Consensus of Social Systems Theory Bausch summarizes the works of over 30 major systemic theorists. He then goes on to show the converging areas of consensus among these out-standing thinkers. Bausch categorizes the social aspects of current systemic thinking as falling into five broadly...
Cover of Methodological Cognitivism

Methodological Cognitivism

Vol. 2: Cognition, Science, and Innovation

by Riccardo Viale
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014

This book covers a broad spectrum of topics, from experimental philosophy and cognitive theory of science, to social epistemology and research and innovation policy. Following up on the previously published Volume 1, “Mind, Rationality, and Society,” it provides further applications of methodological...
Cover of Chiromancy According to World's Structure Formula. The Theory of Sensibility. Correlations to Astrology WSF.
by Andrei Kolomiets
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017

Sensation in Chiromancy, which got own real interpretation as such as Sensibility. It was translated on english "Chiromancy according to World’s Structure Formula" Correlations of Astrology according to WSF. The Theory of Sensibility Amateur methodology is theorized shortly according...
Cover of The Philosophy Of Mathematics
by Auguste Comte
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016

The philosophy of mathematics by the French philosopher,Auguste Comte.He is sometimes regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern sense of the term.The philosophy of mathematics is the branch of philosophy that studies the philosophical assumptions, foundations, and implications of...
Cover of Time and the Field
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015

In recent years, ethnographic fieldwork has been subjected to analytical scrutiny in anthropology. Ethnography remains anchored in tropes of spatiality with the association between field and fieldworker characterized by distances in space. With updates on the discussion of contemporary requirements...
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Science and Society

Understanding Scientific Methodology, Energy, Climate, and Sustainability

by Eric S. Swanson
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015

This undergraduate textbook educates non-science majors—our future policy makers—on how science works, the rules that underpin our existence, our impact on nature, and nature's impact on us. The book provides a concise, historically based, non-mathematical treatment of modern physics relevant...
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Methodological Choice and Design

Scholarship, Policy and Practice in Social and Educational Research

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Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010

Beginning and well-seasoned researchers alike face significant challenges in understanding the complexities of research designs arising from both within and across methodological paradigms, and in applying them in ways that maximise impact on knowledge, practice, and policy. This volume engages educational...
Cover of Research Methods in Indigenous Contexts
by Arnold Groh
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018

This forward-looking resource offers readers a modern contextual framework for conducting social science research with indigenous peoples. Foundational chapters summarize current UN-based standards for indigenous rights and autonomy, with their implications for research practice. Coverage goes on...
Cover of The Selten School of Behavioral Economics

The Selten School of Behavioral Economics

A Collection of Essays in Honor of Reinhard Selten

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Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010

Reinhard Selten, to date the only German Nobel Prize laureate in economics, celebrates his 80th birthday in 2010. While his contributions to game theory are well-known, the behavioral side of his scientific work has received less public exposure, even though he has been committed to experimental research...
Cover of The effectiveness of safety management systems implementation in aviation maintenance

The effectiveness of safety management systems implementation in aviation maintenance

Integrate the human factors perspectives for safer operational outcomes

by Kok Meng Chan
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014

Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2011 in the subject Sociology - Methodology and Methods, grade: 98%, University of Newcastle, course: Masters Of Aviation Management, language: English, abstract: Safety management system (SMS) program is a comprehensive, systematic and continuous process...
Cover of Educational Research - the Ethics and Aesthetics of Statistics
by Paul Smeyers
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2010

Statistics are everywhere. Their power and their undoubted efficacy in many areas have given rise to faith in measurement and metrics. More of them will tell us all that we need to know. Their use carries with it a number of presuppositions: that reality can be satisfactorily represented and that...
Cover of Reproducibility

Reproducibility

Principles, Problems, Practices, and Prospects

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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016

2017 PROSE Award Honorable Mention The PROSE Awards draw attention to pioneering works of research and for contributions to the conception, production, and design of landmark works in their fields. Featuring peer-reviewed contributions from noted experts in their fields of research, Reproducibility:...
Cover of Essays on Ethics, Social Behaviour, and Scientific Explanation
by J.C. Harsanyi
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

When John Harsanyi came to Stanford University as a candidate for the Ph.D., I asked him why he was bothering, since it was most un­ likely that he had anything to learn from us. He was already a known scho­ lar; in addition to some papers in economics, the first two papers in this vol­ ume had...
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