Freedom Of Information And Social Science Research Design
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Author | : Kevin Walby |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2019-11-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 042979486X |
This multidisciplinary volume demonstrates how Freedom of Information (FOI) law and processes can contribute to social science research design across sociology, criminology, political science, anthropology, journalism and education. Comparing the use of FOI in research design across the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Canada and South Africa, it provides readers with resources to carry out FOI requests and considers the influence such requests can have on debates within multiple disciplines. In addition to exploring how scholars can use FOI disclosures in conjunction with interview data, archival data and other datasets, this collection explains how researchers can systematically analyse FOI disclosures. Considering the challenges and dilemmas in using FOI processes in research, it examines the reasons why many scholars continue to rely on more easily accessible data, when much of the real work of governance, the more clandestine but consequential decisions and policy moves made by government officials, can only be accessed using FOI requests.
Author | : Anol Bhattacherjee |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2012-04-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781475146127 |
This book is designed to introduce doctoral and graduate students to the process of conducting scientific research in the social sciences, business, education, public health, and related disciplines. It is a one-stop, comprehensive, and compact source for foundational concepts in behavioral research, and can serve as a stand-alone text or as a supplement to research readings in any doctoral seminar or research methods class. This book is currently used as a research text at universities on six continents and will shortly be available in nine different languages.
Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 1985-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 030903499X |
Author | : Kevin Walby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Communication and Media Studies |
ISBN | : 9781526421036 |
Access to information (ATI) and freedom of information (FOI) requests can be used to collect qualitative and quantitative empirical material from government agencies. Hundreds of countries have now enacted ATI/FOI laws, which bestow citizens with the right to request information from governments. There are often two levels to a country's ATI/FOI legal regime, consisting of a federal law and a series of state, provincial, or municipal ones. In terms of their use and place in the popular imagination, ATI/FOI laws are typically associated with opposition political parties or investigative journalists. Yet more and more scholars from a range of disciplines are using ATI/FOI laws to conduct research and supplement other data collection strategies. This entry summarizes some of the key issues that social scientists may ...
Author | : Peter Halfpenny |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 443 |
Release | : 2015-05-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1473926947 |
Vast amounts of digital data are now generated daily by people as they go about their lives, yet social researchers are struggling to exploit it. At the same time, the challenges faced by society in the 21st century are growing ever more complex, and demands research that is bigger in scale, more collaborative and multi-disciplinary than ever before. This cutting-edge volume provides an accessible introduction to innovative digital social research tools and methods that harness this ‘data deluge’ and successfully tackle key research challenges. Contributions from leading international researchers cover topics such as: Qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods research Data management Social media and social network analysis Modeling and simulation Survey methods Visualizing social data Ethics and e-research The future of social research in the digital age This vibrant introduction to innovative digital research methods is essential reading for anyone conducting social research today.
Author | : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2018-09-09 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0309476240 |
Openness and sharing of information are fundamental to the progress of science and to the effective functioning of the research enterprise. The advent of scientific journals in the 17th century helped power the Scientific Revolution by allowing researchers to communicate across time and space, using the technologies of that era to generate reliable knowledge more quickly and efficiently. Harnessing today's stunning, ongoing advances in information technologies, the global research enterprise and its stakeholders are moving toward a new open science ecosystem. Open science aims to ensure the free availability and usability of scholarly publications, the data that result from scholarly research, and the methodologies, including code or algorithms, that were used to generate those data. Open Science by Design is aimed at overcoming barriers and moving toward open science as the default approach across the research enterprise. This report explores specific examples of open science and discusses a range of challenges, focusing on stakeholder perspectives. It is meant to provide guidance to the research enterprise and its stakeholders as they build strategies for achieving open science and take the next steps.
Author | : Katrin Roots |
Publisher | : Athabasca University Press |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2023-05-25 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1771993669 |
Much of the discussion of social transformation and resistance in socio-legal studies centres around the question of whether and how the law can be used to achieve practical change. However, the editors of this volume argue that it will never be possible to enact change through the law because it is inseparable from violence, be it metaphysical, social, or political. They posit that a “just world,” free from oppressive power relations, requires us to imagine communities where the state and its law cease to exist. Contributors address the underexplored questions of what alternatives to law could look like: how communities could organize their everyday lives, and how they could address social and interpersonal conflicts outside of an apparatus of violence. These essays contribute to the ongoing interrogation of settler colonialism, racism, and structural violence in Canada by demonstrating how to expose the violence the law produces, how to deconstruct law’s power, and, finally, how to identify modes of resistance that have transformative potential.
Author | : Neil J. Salkind |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 1779 |
Release | : 2010-06-22 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1412961270 |
"Comprising more than 500 entries, the Encyclopedia of Research Design explains how to make decisions about research design, undertake research projects in an ethical manner, interpret and draw valid inferences from data, and evaluate experiment design strategies and results. Two additional features carry this encyclopedia far above other works in the field: bibliographic entries devoted to significant articles in the history of research design and reviews of contemporary tools, such as software and statistical procedures, used to analyze results. It covers the spectrum of research design strategies, from material presented in introductory classes to topics necessary in graduate research; it addresses cross- and multidisciplinary research needs, with many examples drawn from the social and behavioral sciences, neurosciences, and biomedical and life sciences; it provides summaries of advantages and disadvantages of often-used strategies; and it uses hundreds of sample tables, figures, and equations based on real-life cases."--Publisher's description.
Author | : Drew Palmer |
Publisher | : Scientific e-Resources |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2019-01-17 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 183947338X |
Author | : David de Vaus |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2001-02-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1446226115 |
`With this book David de Vaus has written one of the best general research methods textbooks around. The use of different types of research design as the point of departure is a different and very helpful approach to take, especially since many textbooks confuse issues of method and design. The author outlines with great clarity a wide variety of issues, including testing theories, causation, data analysis, and the main considerations involved in using the different research designs covered. Both students and their instructors will find this an extremely valuable, well-written book′ - Professor Alan Bryman, University of Loughborough `A wonderful opportunity for research design students and practitioners to think more about the planning and process of research design′ - Forum for Qualitative Social Research This book is intended to show social science students the importance of attending to design issues when undertaking social research. One of the main problems in doing practical research is that design and structure are inappropriate for the uses of research. They often do not support the conclusions that are drawn from it. Several research methods books focus on data collection strategy and statistical analysis. While these issues are pertinent, this book argues that the core of research methods is the structure and design of the research. The book: - provides students with a clear understanding of the importance of research design and its place in the research process. - describes the main types of research designs in social research. - explains the logic and purposes of design to enable students to evaluate particular research strategies - equips students with the design skills to operate in real world research situations The book is divided into five parts. Part One explores issues about types of research, research concepts, research questions, causality and basic issues in the design process. The remaining four parts focus on different types of research design. Experimental, longitudinal, cross-sectional and case-study methods are clearly and systematically examined, and their strengths and weaknesses are described. The result is a one-stop critical guide to design in social research that students and researchers will find invaluable.