Turning Older Women’s Life Stories into Hypermedia: Reflections on the Production of Feminist Creative Analytic Practices by Kimburley Wing Yee Choi, Anita Kit Wa Chan, Annie Hau Nung Chan

“…Since the 1990s, qualitative social researchers have been developing alternative methods and forms to capture and represent the complexity of lived experiences. …”
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Social capital and health – a multilevel analysis of 25 administrative districts in Oslo by Kjetil A. van der Wel

“…Studies of place and health have recently gained increased interest among social researchers. This interest has brought society back to the study of health inequalities and drawn attention to the health effects of contextual psychosocial phenomena. …”
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RITUALS OF INITIATION AND TRANSITION AS A MEANS OF SOCIALIZATION OF AN INDIVIDUAL by Alexander V. Atamanov

“…The goal is to study initiation and transition rituals as means of individual socialization. Research methods include structural-functional and analytical approaches, philosophical analysis of texts, and analogy. …”
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Vandalism is a manifestation of an aggressive behavior by Карина Анатоліївна Бочарова

“…Since the appearance of the first work on this topic the main task of social researchers was to determine vandalism motives. Our paper analyses two main types of classification vandalism depending on reasons and motives. …”
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Entrepreneur personality traits and behaviors measurement using spatial measurement by Mohd. Nawawi, Noorain, Ujang, Uznir

“…Nevertheless, psychologists and social researchers strongly question the shortcomings of these evaluation methods. …”

Formation process of couples' Extramarital relations by Nastaran Zomorodian, Hossein Akbari

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Tool use ability depends on understanding of functional dynamics and not specific joint contribution profiles by Ross eParry, Ross eParry, Gilles eDietrich, Blandine eBril

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An Eploratory Analysis of the Management Capacity Within the Local Public Administration from Romania by Horia Mihai RABOCA, Ioan LAZĂR, Paul Sorin LAZĂR, Diana ZAGAN-ZELTER

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Five Questions to Understand Epistemology and Its Influence on Integrative Marine Research by Katie Moon, Christopher Cvitanovic, Deborah A. Blackman, Ivan R. Scales, Nicola K. Browne

“…Based on our own experiences as social researchers working within interdisciplinary research teams, we contend that one of the main barriers to successful integrative marine research relates to understanding, and where possible reconciling, the different epistemologies that unpin how knowledge is created or discovered in different disciplines. …”
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The Lived Experience of Inequalities in the Provision of Treatment for Hepatitis C by Sarah Louise Skyrme

“…The issues of health, illness, stigma and inequalities in healthcare provision, areas that in my role as a social researcher were already of interest and concern, shifted to a different perspective when I was diagnosed with hepatitis C. …”
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Afterword: Ethics as Impact—Moving From Error-Avoidance and Concept-Driven Models to a Future-Oriented Approach by Annette N. Markham

“…Beginning with the premise that most regulatory guidelines for research ethics are deeply flawed, this article walks the reader through three models that can help social researchers, technologists, and designers identify and reflect on how they’re approaching ethics, or “doing the right thing” in their own work. …”
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Controversies on affirmative action by Milan Mesić

“…It was supported by many social researchers and activists. Law courts, namely their verdicts and explanations in the case of precedents, had an especially important role in the debate on affirmative action. …”
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EPIDEMIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTIC OF HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS TYPE 2 INFECTION AT A LARGE CENTER OF RUSSIAN ARCTIC ZONE by T. V. Balaeva, O. V. Samodova, A. L. Sannikov

“…The study was a part of a large Norwegian-Russian project and has a population-based cross-sectional design. The agency on social researches recruited residents of Arkhangelsk using a quota sampling method. …”
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The normative of the European Commission for liberal professions and business environment by Sulejman AHMEDI, Gjulsume SULEJMANI

“…The Examination of the concerned issue will be based on a multi-dimensional approach, using all typical methods of judicial, social researches, especially will be used the comparative, analytical, statistical, normative methods, based on the literature relevant to the subject, and other judicial acts.…”
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Life trajectory as a process of identity formation: The potential of narrative analysis by E S Pavlenko

“…The process of growing up and becoming an adult, as well as the image of adulthood itself, are transforming, which demands that social researchers seek for new conceptual resources for understanding the new nuances of the transition to adulthood in the contemporary society. …”
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EMPIRICAL DATA RELIABILITY IN LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT SOCIOLOGY by Tatjana Nikolayevna Gordeeva

“…<p class="x-----------" xml:lang="en-US">The article describes some mathematical methods and models used to provide adequacy and reliability of the collected empirical data in social researches - local self-government sociology. The author defines reliability of the data collected through a questionnaire survey held in municipal units of the Zabaikalye Territory.…”
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Gender Comparison, The Impact of Cultural Capital on Body Management by bijan khaje noori, Masoud Kuchani

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Patterns of change in the justifiability of euthanasia across OECD countries by Raül Tormos, Maksim Rudnev, Edurne Bartolomé Peral

“…Some robustness checks produced ambiguous results in distinguishing period and cohort effects, yet the combination of these components aligns with substantive theory.ConclusionOur findings indicate a more complex pattern of change than predicted by the impressionable years model, a leading approach in political socialization research. This study contributes significantly to our understanding of evolving attitudes toward euthanasia, bridging the gap in longitudinal and comparative studies on the subject.…”
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Pupil diameter dynamics as an indicator of the respondent’s cognitive load: Methodological experiment comparing CASI and P&PSI by I. F. Deviatko, M. B. Bogdanov, D. V. Lebedev

“…In recent years, the increase in general interest in methods for measuring cognitive load and subjectively perceived mental effort when solving various tasks and in the interpersonal communication was accompanied by an increase in the specific interest of social researchers in the multimodal assessment of the cognitive load of interviewers and respondents based on objective and subjective indicators, including paradata and webcam data, in order to control this loads impact on the quality of survey data. …”
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The social sciences and the web: From ‘Lurking’ to interdisciplinary ‘Big Data’ research by John Bone, Chukwuemeka David Emele, Adeniyi Abdul, George Coghill, Wei Pang

“…However, as well as offering opportunities to social researchers, this medium also presents a significant range of challenges. …”
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