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Public sociology · Social research
Social theory · Sociological theory
Sociological practiceSocial scientists use many different methods in order to describe, explore and understand social life. Social methods can generally be subdivided into two broad categories. Quantitative methods are concerned with attempts to quantify social phenomena and collect and analyse numerical data, and focus on the links among a smaller number of attributes across many cases. Qualitative methods, on the other hand, emphasise personal experiences and interpretation over quantification, are more concerned with understanding the meaning of social phenomena and focus on links among a larger number of attributes across relatively few cases. While very different in many aspects, both qualitative and quantitative approaches involve a systematic interaction between theories and data. Common tools of quantitative researchers include surveys, questionnaires, and secondary analysis of statistical data that has been gathered for other purposes (for example, censuses or the results of social attitudes surveys). Commonly used qualitative methods include focus groups, participant observation, and other techniques. Before the advent of sociology and application of the scientific method to social research, human inquiry was mostly based on personal experiences, and received wisdom in the form of tradition and authority. Such approaches often led to errors such as inaccurate observations, overgeneralisation, selective observations, subjectivity and lack of logic.
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1. Kids will smoke if you do
October 28, 2009
Fathers now have one more reason to watch their behavior around their kids, in what may be some of the hardest parenting advice to take to heart.
This new study focused on smoking and the effect it can have on a child when they witness a parent engaging in the habit.
Min Jung Kim, a research scientist at the University of Washington's Social Development Research Group, led the study and said that smoking parents are more likely to have teenagers who follow in their footsteps.
"Many parents think adolescence is the time for children to have their independence," Kim said. "But ... (read more)
Author: James Dunsford
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2. Communication for Social Development and Behaviour Change; a case study of the Creative Center for
October 27, 2009
ABSTRACT
( For a full thesis visit: http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B0vhSPhhvWmcMmVkZjY2MzItZDEwZS00Y2Y3LWI0MTctZDRlODliYzQ5NDQ4&hl=en)
Title: Communication for Social Development and Behavior Change: The Case of Creative Center for Community Mobilization (CRECCOM).
This thesis attempted to reveal a communication problem that exists when communities are not involved in the design of communication messages and methods. Using CRECCOM social mobilization activities as a case study, the research mainly explored the nature and scope of particip... (read more)
Author: chancy mauluka
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3. Bandwidth Management Is A Nice Way To Control Traffic Over The Network And Hence Work As A Traffic
October 26, 2009
The use of the Internet is increasing these days. More and more people use the internet for the purpose of emails, downloading videos, uploading pictures, listening to music, for social networking, chatting, for blogging, for research work, for exploring different countries of the world, and in short for most of the day to day taks/works and requirements. The Internet’s link has a specified capacity that is given to your part of the network. One can not and must not use the capacity more than that as there may be many chances of overflow. This overflow results in the congestion of the network,... (read more)
Author: Azeem Ashraf
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4. Few Tips to Choose the Best Forex Broker
October 23, 2009
Forex or FX is a big world of currency trading. In fact, it can be defined as currency trading market where brokers and traders primarily transact with currencies that can be worth in trillions. This big market of currency trading has lots of fluctuations depending upon various social, political, economical factors of the particular country. As a result, it is very important for you as a trader perform research and plan strategy to purchase and trade the right currency and make profit. Unfortunately, these days many traders have a tendency to mislay their investment either due to lack of knowl... (read more)
Author: Noak Karlsfeldt
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5. How to Establish WEB 2.0 Site Links
October 22, 2009
The first thing you'll need to do is create the original content you're attempting to get ranked into the search engines. Obviously you'll have to have something before you can bookmark it or add it to social media websites. So, do your keyword research and then begin to create your blog post. There's a site you can use called socialmarker.com which will help you get started with social bookmarking. What this site does is allow you to quickly bookmark one article or blog entry on multiple sites. It frames each of the "add bookmark" pages then allows you to click and drag the same description,... (read more)
Author: samantha milner
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6. Coaching Business Tip: Get Past Perfectionism
October 14, 2009
Stop waiting for everything to be ready, perfect, or right to launch your business. My dad's a farmer and he always says, "You want to know the best way to find out that corn will grow? Plant it." You can prepare and research yourself into a corner, but at some point the seed has to hit the earth. Stop waiting for the website to be perfect or the elevator speech to be in place. Quite frankly, stop waiting until you finished your coach training. Stop waiting for all of that, because you really do already know enough to start building your business. Here's a story from my own journey... (read more)
Author: Suzanne Evans
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7. No Time for Happiness!
October 13, 2009
Recently I learned of an amazing experiment conducted in a subway station in Washington, DC, in 2007. As part of a research project in social psychology, Joshua Bell, a world class American violinist and Grammy award winner, played six Bach pieces in the Washington Metro subway station for a period of one hour. Two thousand people rushed past Mr. Bell as he played his magnificent music in the subway station, on his $3.5 million dollar violin. The video footage of this experiment showed that few adults but many children stopped to listen but in all instances the children were required by thei... (read more)
Author: Author Overcomers, Inc
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8. Pedaling the Big Bike for a good cause
October 11, 2009
Some 25 Centennial staffers with big hearts came out on June 26, to pedal a big bike for the Heart and Stroke Foundation, raising a college record sum of $6,808 towards research into heart disease.
The Progress User's Group established the Big Bike "Team Centennial" to raise money for the well-known charity. The team, organized by Senior Financial Officer Michelle Muscatello, assembled at Tucker's Marketplace across from the Ashtonbee Campus to ride the Foundation's famous Big Bike around the neighborhood. The weather was sunny with a sticky high of 26 degrees.
The Progress User's G... (read more)
Author: Michael McGraw
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9. RESEARCH PAPER EXAMPLES
October 08, 2009
Research papers are usually an undertaking of several people including students, undergraduates and even organizations. But in most cases when research papers are highlighted, school is the first thing that comes to mind. Research papers are not too hard to write and all they need is that specific format. Usually there are different formats used including Harvard, Chicago, Turabian, MLA and APA. Some of these are more suited to literature, others to medicine and others to social sciences. That means that each discipline or field of study has its own citation style that has to be used when comp... (read more)
Author: Kenneth Elliott
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10. Basic Internet Marketing Tips
October 05, 2009
How to Market Using the Internet
Many beginners fail to do the necessary research required before deciding to join a business opportunity or before deciding to become an Affiliate Marketer. I have dedicated myself to continuous learning because the Internet Marketing industry is constantly evolving. We now have Social Media Marketing, Attraction Marketing, and Web 2.0, which are taking Internet Marketing to another level.
You will need to arm yourself with some basic principles before you can begin to conquer Internet Marketing. Before joining any business opportunity or befor... (read more)
Author: Tom Miller
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