Lukol Directory: Science: Social Sciences: Methodology

The Bell Curve: Anatomy of an Analysis
The interpretations proffered in Herrnstein & Murray's book, "The Bell Curve", are not supported by reanalysis of their data.
http://www.srv.net/~msdata/bell.html

ISWROLDnet: Research and Scholarship
intended to provide professors and students of information systems with a useful starting point for accessing WWW-based material related to research and scholarship in the field of information systems.
http://www.isworld.org/#research

Developmental Research
A problem oriented and interdisciplinary research methodology.
http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/...

Enquire Within and the Repertory Grid Interview
Construct systems may be conceived of as multi-dimensional mathematical models in which the person's own language is used to classify his or her experience - a presentation of Kelly's personal construct theory
http://www.enquirewithin.co.nz/theoryof.ht...

BGSP Research Resources
A collection of resources to aid research in psychoanalysis and allied disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
http://soldzresearch.com/BGSPResearchSourc...

The Web Center for Social Research Methods
Resources for applied social research and evaluation including a complete online research methods text, course resources, and researcher tools.
http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/

European Society for General Semantics
Generarl Semantics resources for European countries. Website in English, French, Spanish, Italian and German.
http://www.esgs.org

Craig McKie
Research resources in the social sciences by subject.
http://www.socsciresearch.com/

RM Institute - Research Methods Knowledge
The knowledge base of social science research methods. It focus on measurements and modeling issues.
http://www.researchmethods.org/

Theory:The Necessary Evil

http://home.earthlink.net/~hsbecker/theory...

Social Research Resources
by Kevan Edwards, University of Minnesota.
http://www.soc.umn.edu/~edwards/soclinks.h...

Edinburgh University Data Library
Assists academics and students in the Social Sciences in the use of numeric or encoded research data for analysis and teaching.
http://datalib.ed.ac.uk/

Semac -- Semantic analysis software
The concept of semantic activity that is claimed to proceed as well from single words as from word co-occurrences. This equalization rests upon graph theory.
http://www.semac.be/

Latent Semantic Analysis
A mathematical/statistical technique for extracting and representing the similarity of meaning of words and passages by analysis of large bodies of text.
http://lsa.colorado.edu/

Resources for Methods in Evaluation and Social Research
List of links to free resources for methods in social research and evaluation.
http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/

Vytvorology
Vytvorology, which is an exact science of human processes, offers new, acute and reliable research possibilities in this field of human and social processes.
http://ojczyzna.pl/BR/BROZYNA-What-Is-Vytv...

Understanding Experimentation
A Web Quest on the classic experiment, as well as other research methods: naturalistic observation, questionnaire survey, and correlational research. Designed by Bernard Schuster.
http://psychexperiment.tripod.com/

Qualitative and Quantitative Research: Conjunctions and Divergences
Discusses the logic of relating qualitative and quantitative methods, different approaches for inter-relating them, and innovative applications of methodological inter-relation.
http://qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/...

Measuring Paradoxical Reality
an alternative way to asses subject condition in social sciences.
http://www.burcet.net/jbl/lleixa/polymeter...

Max Weber's Approach to Objectivity in Social Science
This essay, by Steve Hoenisch, seeks to shed light on Weber's view of the applicability of objectivity by attempting to answer the overarching question that sits at the foundation of his approach: Was Weber an advocate of value-free social science?
http://www.criticism.com/md/weber1.html

Chestnuts
A critique of scientific and media reporting of sex and gender issues.
http://www.gender.org.uk/chstnuts/index.ht...

General Semantics
A critical analysis of the theoretical foundations of Korzybski's general semantics featuring many papers, commentary, and discussions.
http://www.xenodochy.org/gs/

META Magazine Research
Research about methods and techniques on problem solving, acquiring knowledge, classification of information, education, and positive creative management skills.
http://www.metamagazine.com/

Sub Topics:
Ethics
Scientific Method
Statistics
Econometrics
Game Theory
Psychometrics
Anthropology
Archaeology
Survey
Grounded Theory
Qualitative
Action Research


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2006