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The Social Sciences and Youth Violence, 2008.
This paper discusses the causality of youth violence from the perspective of the social sciences disciplines of anthropology, psychology and sociology
935 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 33.95
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This paper explains that this anthropological study of youth violence takes an ethnographic approach. The paper then points out that psychology looks at youth violence in terms of cause and effect and how those related issues can determine methods of prevention through intervention with human behavior. In addition, the paper relates that sociology studies the culture of youth violence seeking ways to change the manner in which society functions to correct the problem. The author concludes that these social sciences need to reexamine themselves and make efforts to bring their methodologies into the twenty-first century; however, there is room for all of the current disciplines to co-exist in today's world.
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"Judging by recent events, the questions asked by Courtney (1999) are as relevant today as they were when the article was written. Courtney asks why do boys and men commit 95% of the violent crimes in the United States? Why do teen homicides frequently have the common denominator of boys killing boys with guns? Why do one in 10 high school boys carry guns to school, in contrast to one in 70 girls? The answer, Courtney explains, has roots in today's society. Although we tell boys to solve things peacefully, boys are often represented in the media as resolving issues by fighting."
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Academic Knowledge, Power, and the Social Sciences, 2005.
Analysis of discourses on knowledge and power in the social sciences.
1,528 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 7 sources, APA, $ 50.95
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This paper looks at the implications, for social anthropology, of discourses on knowledge and power by focusing on Foucault's ideas and by analyzing several ethnographic studies.
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"Social science knowledge informs the way in which people interpret their experiences, and can be empowering, as in the case of political and feminist discourses. However, knowledge, employed as discourse, can also be employed in ways that disempower, and this is the focus of much of Foucault's work. The implication for academic work is that social science knowledge can serve to either empower or disempower its subjects, sometimes both, and in all cases it has influence over its subjects and its audience, by virtue of being itself a discourse, albeit a scientific one."
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The Benefits of Social Science Research, 2006.
This informative paper analyzes how social science research has long been used to gather crucial information to improve our way of life and influence our view of the world.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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The writer of this paper examines the wide range of subjects covered in social sciences including: Women's studies, economics, political science, law enforcement, psychology, sociology and anthropology. This paper explains how the research gathered from these areas have had a deep influence on our view of the world. Also discussed is the new field of social geography which examines the affects of geographical factors and how environmental factors affect society.
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"Perhaps no field of social studies has a more pervasive and important role on the way we live than the field of economics. Economics students must learn to think deeply and creatively about important economic concerns facing the country and the world as a whole. Because economists have such a wide and varied set of perspectives and political views, they often come up with vastly different conclusions. They in turn apply these varied perspectives to such issues as economic efficiency, economic growth, globalism, cultural values, and environmental concerns. One need only to look inside a newspaper on a given day to realize the importance of studying economics."
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Foucault's Social Science Methodology, 1994.
This paper examines the social science methodology of Foucault: Techniques and theories used to analyze social structure, philosophy of differences, archeology and genealogy, social forms and power relationships.
2,475 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 3 sources, $ 87.95
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"The purpose of this research is to examine the social science methodology of Foucault. The plan of the research will be to set forth the general constituents of his method, and then to discuss its details and praxis, including his use of the terms archeology and genealogy, the results of his conception of the relationship between these terms and social structure, and an indication of how one can evaluate their efficacy.
The methodology Foucault uses to analyze social structure can be characterized as oppositional. In the term the philosophy of difference is enclosed the general approach to challenging the traditional understanding of social history and the realities of social structure that the notion of difference implies. Two related concepts that are associated with Foucault's approach to social structure are archeology and genealogy."
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Social Science Rules, 2006.
This paper examines the book "The Rules of Sociological Method" by Emile Durkheim.
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The paper discusses how it is usually thought that the natural sciences deal with objective facts that may be empirically observed, while social sciences such as sociology and psychology deal with more subjective matters and as such these social sciences cannot be as scientific and objective as the natural sciences. However, the paper explains that many theorists would like to assign rules to the methods of social sciences, so that they can lay claim to unearthing information that is as reliable and valid as the information discovered by natural scientists. This is essentially what Emile Durkheim tried to do in "The Rules of Sociological Method."
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The Natural and the Social: Peter Winch and Bruno Latour, 2001.
This paper compares natural sciences to social sciences.
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This paper compares the attitudes of philosophers Peter Winch and Bruno Latour to the study of the sciences - natural vs. social. Each philosopher published works on the topic and these are analyzed.
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"What is natural and what is social in the sciences? Is there a divide between the two, where the natural sciences operate in the realm of objectivity, while the social sciences are a philosophic construction of man? There is a very old dispute in the social sciences about whether social inquiry is ?natural? or not. Naturalists hold that the methods of the natural sciences should be used by social scientists, to explain and predict human behavior, just as we explain and predict phenomena like mass and velocity? Or is social inquiry a separate endeavor that is essentially interpretive and philosophical?"
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True Science and Pseudo-Science, 2003.
Discusses the notion of scientific discovery.
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Looks at testing to ascertain whether a hypothesis is true or false. The paper examines the views of Thomas Kuhn and the "paradigm" and Karl Popper's contention that deductive testing is true science, and induction is false science.
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"True Science vs. Pseudo-Science
Introduction and Purpose
True science and pseudo-science, it has been argued, can be distinguished from one another by an examination of the nature of scientific discovery, with particular attention to the use of a ..."
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"Common Science? Women, Science and Knowledge" by Jean Barr and Lynda Birke, 2000.
A review of the work on the nature of scientific study, objective truth and the alienation of women from scientific fields.
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"Science is a pervasive influence on human life today, though most people have only a vague image of what science means and may have complete misperceptions about certain scientific concepts. Many people simply have not been exposed to the information they need to judge science. Women, however, have been actively excluded, or at least discouraged, from science for some time, a factor much noted in analyses of academic statistics and in analyses of the job market in science. This is noted in the book Common Science? Women, Science, and Knowledge by Jean Barr and Lynda Birke as part of their primary emphasis on the fact that the scientific community remains largely unaccountable to the public. Part of their approach to this issue is to talk to non-academics to see what they think about science and about the issues surrounding the field."
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Criminal Justice System, 1989.
Discusses role of social science findings, history of science & scientists is outlined, fundamental issues posed and characteristic social science research surveyed.
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"This report discusses and evaluates the role of social science findings in the criminal justice system. The history of science and scientists in the legal system is outlined, the fundamental issues posed, and characteristic social science research surveyed. It is concluded that no absolute guidelines can be defined to establish the appropriate role of social science in the criminal justice system.
Increasingly in recent years, a new class of expert witnesses has appeared before U.S. trial and appellate courts: psychologists and sociologists, giving professional testimony ranging from a "psychological autopsy" in a Florida case about a woman alleged to have driven her daughter to suicide, to statistical patterns relating to the handing down of death penalties in murder cases, to the race of the victim."
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The Present Cross-Cultural Imperative In Social Psychology, 2002.
Presents the case for cross-cultural research in the social sciences.
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If the purpose of social science, at large, involves the testing of possible theories and models for social improvement, it will have to contend with what at first appear to be complicating factors in increased numbers of places and situations in which cross or inter-cultural dynamics are at work.
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Computer Analysis with SPSS, 2006.
This paper looks at the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences program (SPSS) that is used for data analysis.
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The paper discusses computer analysis with SPSS and how it can be utilized for correlating two or more variables, such as pay scale and gender in order to determine levels of variance for a given industry or employment level. Using this as an example, the paper explains that this process begins with the sampling of data for entry, then entered in the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) program, which is widely used for data analysis in the social sciences.
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"Such an analysis provides information on the disparity in pay for men and women performing the same job. Such a disparity has long been assumed and is indicated by data showing such a disparity. Data from 2003 shows that this disparity widened so that for every dollar a man made in 2003, women made 75.5 cents, based on the annual report on income by the Census Bureau."
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Action Research, 2007.
An analysis of the skills required to conduct action research in the social sciences.
1,581 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 10 sources, APA, $ 51.95
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This paper defines and describes the skills that a researcher needs to engage in the social sciences, focusing primarily on action research. The paper explores the rationale behind action research and discusses its theory and practice. It then looks at the skills that are necessary in order to be able to conduct action research. The paper describes, briefly, how social research differs from traditional scientific research.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Exploring the Rationale behind Action Research
Skills Needed to Engage in the Social Sciences and Action Research
Conclusion
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"However, there must also be care and consideration used to ensure that proximity and emotion do not dominate the research method. It is necessary to conduct action research through fully describing all aspects of the research process and the relevant data that was gathered from the research process (Argyris et al, 2000). Data that was not considered relevant but was compiled as part of the research experiment should also be kept on hand, although it is not necessary to write it up in the findings. Doing so will not only help demonstrate the complexity of the data and its associative qualities but will also help researchers verify their data if challenged by external observers or critics who do not approve of the use of the action research method."
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Evolutionary Psychology, 2006.
A discussion of evolutionary psychology as the bridge between social science and Christianity.
2,500 words (approx. 10.0 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 75.95
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This paper discusses evolutionary psychology, a multi-disciplinary approach to science and philosophy intended to reveal why and how human beings seek out a higher power. This paper discusses how the relatively new field can be used to help interpret the affect of family life on personality as well as the evolution of humanity and our development into social hierarchies. In other words, the paper explains, evolutionary psychology maintains that man should no longer be considered to be a creature of his cultural development -- but instead, cultural developments should be considered to the outcome of man's evolutionary needs and deeds. By critiquing evolutionary psychology, the paper also confronts questions such as: What is at stake in the contemporary drift back to the child-rearing patterns of our mammalian cousins where females provide the care and socialization? and Why do we as a species gravitate towards religion? The paper concludes that evolutionary psychology may ultimately reduce the ideas of the social scientists and elevate those with religious fervor. Therefore, the paper agrees that evolutionary psychology is a bridge between the social sciences and Christianity -- but in a negative sense.
Outline:
Introduction
Debates
Evolutionary Psychology
Social Sciences
Christianity
Bridge
Conclusion
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"Discourses on specific relationships between societies, religious factions and their natural environments have been a persistent feature of human nature. There have been numerous writers, philosophers and thinkers that have routinely attempted to tie science, social science and religion together in some elaborate social theory. "The discussion of disciplinary history sheds light on what have often been long and intricate conflicts over the demarcation of disciplinary boundaries, in particular between the biological and social sciences. Any attempt to cross the boundary between biology and the social sciences makes visible the connections and reveals the blind spots created by these disciplinary divisions. Past history is still present in the definition of concepts, the images created by them, and, above all, in the resistance to interdisciplinary interactions. For these reasons, awareness of the sources of potential misunderstandings can help focus attention on real, rather than spurious, disagreements." (Maasen, Mitchell, Richerson, & Weingart, 1997)"
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"Revolutionizing the Sciences", 2004.
An analysis of the book, "Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and its Ambitions: 1500-1700" written by Peter Dear.
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This paper discusses Peter Dear's book, "Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and its Ambitions: 1500-1700". The paper examines Dear's suggestion that the scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was perhaps no revolution at all-a progression of thought rather than a break with the past. The paper illustrates how the book is designed to give the reader a general introduction to the history of ideas, as opposed to a history of events, even though, as the title suggests, this historical book is ordered in a chronological fashion.
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"Peter Dear compares the beginning and the end of the 16th and 18th century ages and approaches over the course of his study, after taking the reader on a history of the evolving natural philosophy, humanism, mathematics, classical study and experimentalism of the ensuing decades. He bookends the medieval focus with the scientific and rationalist emphasis of the 18th century, comparing what was considered "worth knowing" by the end of 18th century," after science and neo-classical philosophy had penetrated the European consciousness with what was worth knowing in 1500. "
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Achievements in the Biological Sciences, 2006.
A paper discussing the advances made in the biological sciences and, in particular, in the technology of cloning and why these advances are beneficial.
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This paper examines the advances made in cloning technology and looks at why these advances have made a difference to mankind and why they are beneficial. The paper considers the many controversial issues associated with cloning and discusses its advantages as well as its disadvantages. The author of the paper concludes that cloning technology, while still in its infancy, holds great potential for mankind.
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"Personally, I believe that cloning is one of the truly spectacular achievements in the biological sciences. We may be a while off from perfecting the complete process but the seed of success is built on a foundation of failed attempts. The Wright brothers did not fly the same way as our modern jets do and the learning process along the way for flight had many trials and tribulations. Yet, flying today is safer than driving. I believe over time that cloning will become a standard operation in healthcare and that from a biological perspective, all those who benefit from the technology in the future will be pleased with their outcomes."
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