Questions tagged [social-science]
On standards or conventions specific to social science as an academic discipline, and programs that lead to a degree in this field
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(College, Public Speaking) HW Help looking for a good source that argues against my point [closed]
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Greetings! I am currently compiling an annotated bibliography for my persuasive speech, which sheds light on the topic of invisible disabilities. To create a well-rounded ...
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Finding data for primary criminological research - help! [closed]
I'm a PhD student in Criminology and this will be my first experience of undertaking a substantial independent research project. I'm in the process of designing my project, but the problem is that I ...
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When do you need Ethics Approval in Humanities research?
Sorry if this sounds clueless - I actually am. I'm in a historical, literary field so I've never had to worry about doing any ethics approval things because I've never had to deal with real, living ...
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Do you reveal purpose of questionnaire to respondents?
I recently received an invitation to answer a questionnaire from a student in the social sciences. The results will be used as part of the research for a Master's thesis.
The invitation describes the ...
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Submit to journal and poster session at conference simultaneously in social science
In social science are you allowed to submit to a journal and conference (poster session) at the same time? The conference I'm looking at does not indicate that you can't post your results elsewhere, ...
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Can I submit to a high school journal and "real" journal at the same time?
I'm a high school student that did some research in Social Science. My research is novel enough that I think that I have a chance of getting published in a "real" journal with an impact ...
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Lead Authorship Conflict
I’m working on a paper with two colleagues. It all started out with a broad idea that they had. They were coming to me, asking me to do the data analysis (survey data). At the beginning I had the lead ...
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Advice with finding and contacting participants for studying crime (interview-based research with ex-offenders) [closed]
I'd like to conduct a study on street gangs in the 1960s-1980s as part of my PG dissertation. Ideally, I'd like to conduct this as an interview-based study (like an oral history/criminology project) ...
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Proper Format for In-text Topic (Analysis) Tags for Interview Quotes
I am editing a dissertation in the social sciences using the author-date format of Chicago/Turabian. The author was asked by his mentor after his defense to add topic tags to the quotes that came from ...
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masters thesis supervisor hands-on importance?
TLDR: how important is having a hands-on supervisor for my masters thesis?
I recently started a one-year MA in sociology at a large uni in Europe (after having attended a SLAC for undergrad).
My ...
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Is it possible to preregister non-experiment studies?
I am a PhD student in social science and a professor and I are planning to run a survey in South Asia. It is not an experiment. However, we were thinking of pre-registering in case it would give us ...
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When do I start looking for post Ph.D jobs?
I know I made a decent number of posts, but this particular will actually be the last one I'm going to make for a while. For those who didn't see, I'm a fourth year Ph.D student in an Experimental ...
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What kind of hypothesis should I state in an application requesting public health data?
I work in a quantitative social science where it is not common to formally state hypotheses in papers or presentations. I am applying for access to public health data, and the applications ask for ...
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What are my options post PHD as a blissfully ignorant, neurodivergent candidate about to graduate with few marketable skills?
I entered academia despite my suboptimal "stats" (GPA, research experience, etc.) because I was allured by the idea of focusing on a research project. Even my Master's advisor noted how I ...
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Does sociology recognise document analysis as a method?
I have found, that some Slavic sociologies (namely Czech and Russian) recognize "document analysis" as a research method,(1)(2)(3)(4) but I was not able to determine, whether such a term or ...
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