SOCIAL SCIENCES METHODOLOGY

Social Science Research Resources
by Craig McKie.
www.socsciresearch.com

Developmental Research
A problem oriented and interdisciplinary research methodology.
www.geocities.com

Resources for Methods in Evaluation and Social Research
Links to free resources for methods in social science research.
gsociology.icaap.org

Measuring Paradoxical Reality
an alternative way to asses subject condition in social sciences.
www.burcet.net

Chestnuts
A critique of scientific and media reporting of sex and gender issues.
www.gender.org.uk

Theory:The Necessary Evil
Originally published in Theory and Concepts in Qualitative Research: Perspectives from the Field.
natehaas.com

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

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

The Bell Curve: Anatomy of an Analysis
The interpretations proffered in Herrnstein and Murray's book, "The Bell Curve", are not supported by reanalysis of their data.
www.claudiax.net

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.
datalib.ed.ac.uk

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

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.
www.socialresearchmethods.net

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.
lsa.colorado.edu

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.
www.semac.be

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.
ojczyzna.pl

META Magazine Research
Research about methods and techniques on problem solving, acquiring knowledge, classification of information, education, and positive creative management skills.
www.metamagazine.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.
qualitative-research.net

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.
psychexperiment.tripod.com

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.
www.isworld.org

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
www.enquirewithin.co.nz

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?
www.criticism.com