Social research, the Glossary
Social research is research conducted by social scientists following a systematic plan.[1]
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Algeria
Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia; to the east by Libya; to the southeast by Niger; to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and Western Sahara; to the west by Morocco; and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea.
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Analysis
Analysis (analyses) is the process of breaking a complex topic or substance into smaller parts in order to gain a better understanding of it.
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Analytic induction
Analytic induction is a research strategy in sociology aimed at systematically developing causal explanations for types of phenomena.
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Anomie
In sociology, anomie or anomy is a social condition defined by an uprooting or breakdown of any moral values, standards or guidance for individuals to follow.
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Antipositivism
In social science, antipositivism (also interpretivism, negativism or antinaturalism) is a theoretical stance which proposes that the social realm cannot be studied with the methods of investigation utilized within the natural sciences, and that investigation of the social realm requires a different epistemology.
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Applied science
Applied science is the application of the scientific method and scientific knowledge to attain practical goals.
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Archive
An archive is an accumulation of historical records or materials – in any medium – or the physical facility in which they are located.
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Auguste Comte
Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte (19 January 1798 – 30 September 1857) was a French philosopher, mathematician and writer who formulated the doctrine of positivism.
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Axiom
An axiom, postulate, or assumption is a statement that is taken to be true, to serve as a premise or starting point for further reasoning and arguments.
Émile Durkheim
David Émile Durkheim (or; 15 April 1858 – 15 November 1917), professionally known simply as Émile Durkheim, was a French sociologist.
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Basic research
Basic research, also called pure research, fundamental research, basic science, or pure science, is a type of scientific research with the aim of improving scientific theories for better understanding and prediction of natural or other phenomena.
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Behavioural sciences
Behavioural sciences is a branch of science that explore the cognitive processes within organisms and the behavioural interactions that occur between organisms in the natural world.
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Belief
A belief is a subjective attitude that a proposition is true or a state of affairs is the case.
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Belmont Report
The Belmont Report is a 1978 report created by the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research.
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The Bureau of Applied Social Research was a social research institute at Columbia University which specialised in mass communications research.
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Case study
A case study is an in-depth, detailed examination of a particular case (or cases) within a real-world context.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
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Causation (sociology)
Causation refers to the existence of "cause and effect" relationships between multiple variables.
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Census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating population information about the members of a given population.
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Centre of Research in Theories and Practices that Overcome Inequalities
The Centre of Research in Theories and Practices that Overcome Inequalities (CREA) was founded in 1991 by a current professor of Sociology at the University of Barcelona, Doctor Honoris Causa of West University of Timișoara and also a recognized researcher in Europe in the Social Science area, Ramon Flecha.
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Charles C. Ragin
Charles C. Ragin (born) is Chancellor's Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine.
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Class (set theory)
In set theory and its applications throughout mathematics, a class is a collection of sets (or sometimes other mathematical objects) that can be unambiguously defined by a property that all its members share.
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Cluster analysis
Cluster analysis or clustering is the task of grouping a set of objects in such a way that objects in the same group (called a cluster) are more similar (in some specific sense defined by the analyst) to each other than to those in other groups (clusters).
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Cluster sampling
In statistics, cluster sampling is a sampling plan used when mutually homogeneous yet internally heterogeneous groupings are evident in a statistical population.
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Cognitive science
Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary, scientific study of the mind and its processes.
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Columbia University
Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City.
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Concept
A concept is defined as an abstract idea.
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Content analysis
Content analysis is the study of documents and communication artifacts, which might be texts of various formats, pictures, audio or video.
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Convenience sampling
Convenience sampling (also known as grab sampling, accidental sampling, or opportunity sampling) is a type of non-probability sampling that involves the sample being drawn from that part of the population that is close to hand.
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Correlation
In statistics, correlation or dependence is any statistical relationship, whether causal or not, between two random variables or bivariate data.
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Criminology
Criminology (from Latin crimen, "accusation", and Ancient Greek -λογία, -logia, from λόγος logos meaning: "word, reason") is the interdisciplinary study of crime and deviant behaviour.
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Data
In common usage, data is a collection of discrete or continuous values that convey information, describing the quantity, quality, fact, statistics, other basic units of meaning, or simply sequences of symbols that may be further interpreted formally.
Data analysis
Data analysis is the process of inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information, informing conclusions, and supporting decision-making.
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Data collection
Data collection or data gathering is the process of gathering and measuring information on targeted variables in an established system, which then enables one to answer relevant questions and evaluate outcomes.
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Delphi method
The Delphi method or Delphi technique (also known as Estimate-Talk-Estimate or ETE) is a structured communication technique or method, originally developed as a systematic, interactive forecasting method that relies on a panel of experts.
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Demography
Demography is the statistical study of human populations: their size, composition (e.g., ethnic group, age), and how they change through the interplay of fertility (births), mortality (deaths), and migration.
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Dependent and independent variables
A variable is considered dependent if it depends on an independent variable.
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Domesday Book
Domesday Book (the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of King William the Conqueror.
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Earl Babbie
Earl Robert Babbie (born January 8, 1938), is an American sociologist who holds the position of Campbell Professor Emeritus in Behavioral Sciences at Chapman University.
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Econometrics
Econometrics is an application of statistical methods to economic data in order to give empirical content to economic relationships.
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Economic and Social Research Council
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), formerly the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), is part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
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Empirical evidence
Empirical evidence for a proposition is evidence, i.e. what supports or counters this proposition, that is constituted by or accessible to sense experience or experimental procedure.
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Engaged theory
Engaged theory is a methodological framework for understanding the social complexity of a society, by using social relations as the base category of study, with the social always understood as grounded in the natural, including people as embodied beings.
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Enumeration
An enumeration is a complete, ordered listing of all the items in a collection.
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Ethnography
Ethnography is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures.
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Explanation
An explanation is a set of statements usually constructed to describe a set of facts that clarifies the causes, context, and consequences of those facts.
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Fact
A fact is a true datum about one or more aspects of a circumstance.
Female
An organism's sex is female (symbol: ♀) if it produces the ovum (egg cell), the type of gamete (sex cell) that fuses with the male gamete (sperm cell) during sexual reproduction.
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Focus group
A focus group is a group interview involving a small number (sometimes up to ten) of demographically predefined participants.
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Gender
Gender includes the social, psychological, cultural and behavioral aspects of being a man, woman, or other gender identity.
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Glenn Firebaugh
Glenn Firebaugh is an American sociologist (born: Charleston, West Virginia) and leading international authority on social science research methods.
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Historical method
Historical method is the collection of techniques and guidelines that historians use to research and write histories of the past.
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History of political science
While the term "political science" as a separate field is a rather late arrival in terms of social sciences, analyzing political power and the impact that it had on history has been occurring for centuries.
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History of sociology
Sociology as a scholarly discipline emerged, primarily out of Enlightenment thought, as a positivist science of society shortly after the French Revolution.
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The history of the social sciences has origin in the common stock of Western philosophy and shares various precursors, but began most intentionally in the early 18th century with the positivist philosophy of science.
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Hypothesis
A hypothesis (hypotheses) is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon.
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Idiosyncrasy
An idiosyncrasy is a unique feature of something.
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Inference
Inferences are steps in reasoning, moving from premises to logical consequences; etymologically, the word infer means to "carry forward".
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Informed consent
Informed consent is a principle in medical ethics, medical law and media studies, that a patient must have sufficient information and understanding before making decisions about their medical care.
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Institution
An institution is a humanly devised structure of rules and norms that shape and constrain social behavior.
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John Graunt
John Graunt (24 April 1620 – 18 April 1674) has been regarded as the founder of demography.
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Ladder interview
A ladder interview is an interviewing technique where a seemingly simple response to a question is pushed by the interviewer in order to find subconscious motives.
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Life history (sociology)
Life history is an interviewing method used to record autobiographical history from an ordinary person's perspective, often gathered from traditionally marginalized groups.
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Likert scale
A Likert scale is a psychometric scale named after its inventor, American social psychologist Rensis Likert, which is commonly used in research questionnaires.
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Logic
Logic is the study of correct reasoning.
Longitudinal study
A longitudinal study (or longitudinal survey, or panel study) is a research design that involves repeated observations of the same variables (e.g., people) over long periods of time (i.e., uses longitudinal data).
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Louis Leon Thurstone
Louis Leon Thurstone (29 May 1887 – 29 September 1955) was an American pioneer in the fields of psychometrics and psychophysics.
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Male
Male (symbol: ♂) is the sex of an organism that produces the gamete (sex cell) known as sperm, which fuses with the larger female gamete, or ovum, in the process of fertilisation.
Market research
Market research is an organized effort to gather information about target markets and customers.It involves understanding who they are and what they need.
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Mass-Observation
Mass-Observation is a United Kingdom social research project; originally the name of an organisation which ran from 1937 to the mid-1960s, and was revived in 1981 at the University of Sussex.
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Measurement
Measurement is the quantification of attributes of an object or event, which can be used to compare with other objects or events.
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Media studies is a discipline and field of study that deals with the content, history, and effects of various media; in particular, the mass media.
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Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
The Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research (often simply referred to as "The Melbourne Institute") is an Australian economic research institute based in Melbourne, Victoria.
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Morphological analysis (problem-solving)
Morphological analysis or general morphological analysis is a method for exploring possible solutions to a multi-dimensional, non-quantified complex problem.
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Most significant change technique
The Most Significant Change Technique (MSC) is a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) method used for the monitoring and evaluating of complex development interventions.
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Multimethodology
Multimethodology or multimethod research includes the use of more than one method of data collection or research in a research study or set of related studies.
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Multivariate statistics
Multivariate statistics is a subdivision of statistics encompassing the simultaneous observation and analysis of more than one outcome variable, i.e., multivariate random variables.
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The National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) is a registered charity and is the largest independent social research institute in the UK.
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National Centre of Research in Social and Cultural Anthropology
The National Centre of Research in Social and Cultural Anthropology (Centre national de recherche en anthropologie sociale et culturelle, CRASC) is an Algerian governmental research organisation in social sciences created by the decree 92-215 on May 23, 1992.
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Natural science
Natural science is one of the branches of science concerned with the description, understanding and prediction of natural phenomena, based on empirical evidence from observation and experimentation.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Nomothetic
Nomothetic literally means "proposition of the law" (Greek derivation) and is used in philosophy, psychology, and law with differing meanings.
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Nomothetic and idiographic
Nomothetic and idiographic are terms used by Neo-Kantian philosopher Wilhelm Windelband to describe two distinct approaches to knowledge, each one corresponding to a different intellectual tendency, and each one corresponding to a different branch of academia.
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Non-binary gender
Non-binary and genderqueer are umbrella terms for gender identities that are outside the male/female gender binary.
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Nonprobability sampling
Nonprobability sampling is a form of sampling that does not utilise random sampling techniques where the probability of getting any particular sample may be calculated.
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NORC at the University of Chicago
NORC at the University of Chicago, previously the National Opinion Research Center, is an independent social research organization in the United States.
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Observation
Observation in the natural sciences is an act or instance of noticing or perceiving and the acquisition of information from a primary source.
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Operationalization
In research design, especially in psychology, social sciences, life sciences and physics, operationalization or operationalisation is a process of defining the measurement of a phenomenon which is not directly measurable, though its existence is inferred from other phenomena.
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Participant observation
Participant observation is one type of data collection method by practitioner-scholars typically used in qualitative research and ethnography.
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Paul Lazarsfeld
Paul Felix Lazarsfeld (February 13, 1901August 30, 1976) was an Austrian-American sociologist and mathematician.
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Phenomenon
A phenomenon (phenomena), sometimes spelled phaenomenon, is an observable event.
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Philosophy
Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language.
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Philosophy of science
Philosophy of science is the branch of philosophy concerned with the foundations, methods, and implications of science.
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Political science
Political science is the scientific study of politics.
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Positivism
Positivism is a philosophical school that holds that all genuine knowledge is either true by definition or positive—meaning ''a posteriori'' facts derived by reason and logic from sensory experience.
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Prediction
A prediction (Latin præ-, "before," and dictum, "something said") or '''forecast''' is a statement about a future event or about future data.
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Program evaluation
Program evaluation is a systematic method for collecting, analyzing, and using information to answer questions about projects, policies and programs, particularly about their effectiveness and efficiency.
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Proposition
A proposition is a central concept in the philosophy of language, semantics, logic, and related fields, often characterized as the primary bearer of truth or falsity.
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Protestantism
Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.
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Psychology
Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior.
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Q methodology
Q methodology is a research method used in psychology and in social sciences to study people's "subjectivity"—that is, their viewpoint.
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Qualitative research
Qualitative research is a type of research that aims to gather and analyse non-numerical (descriptive) data in order to gain an understanding of individuals' social reality, including understanding their attitudes, beliefs, and motivation.
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Quantitative marketing research
Quantitative marketing research is the application of quantitative research techniques to the field of marketing research.
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Quantitative research
Quantitative research is a research strategy that focuses on quantifying the collection and analysis of data.
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Questionnaire
A questionnaire is a research instrument that consists of a set of questions (or other types of prompts) for the purpose of gathering information from respondents through survey or statistical study.
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Reality
Reality is the sum or aggregate of all that is real or existent within the universe, as opposed to that which is only imaginary, nonexistent or nonactual.
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Regression analysis
In statistical modeling, regression analysis is a set of statistical processes for estimating the relationships between a dependent variable (often called the 'outcome' or 'response' variable, or a 'label' in machine learning parlance) and one or more independent variables (often called 'predictors', 'covariates', 'explanatory variables' or 'features').
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Reliability (statistics)
In statistics and psychometrics, reliability is the overall consistency of a measure.
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Rensis Likert
Rensis Likert (August5, 1903September3, 1981) was an American organizational and social psychologist known for developing the Likert scale, a psychometrically sound scale based on responses to multiple questions.
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Repertory grid
The repertory grid is an interviewing technique which uses nonparametric factor analysis to determine an idiographic measure of personality.
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Research
Research is "creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge".
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Robert K. Merton
Robert King Merton (born Meyer Robert Schkolnick; July 4, 1910 – February 25, 2003) was an American sociologist who is considered a founding father of modern sociology, and a major contributor to the subfield of criminology.
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Sampling (statistics)
In statistics, quality assurance, and survey methodology, sampling is the selection of a subset or a statistical sample (termed sample for short) of individuals from within a statistical population to estimate characteristics of the whole population.
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In the social sciences, scaling is the process of measuring or ordering entities with respect to quantitative attributes or traits.
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Scientific law
Scientific laws or laws of science are statements, based on repeated experiments or observations, that describe or predict a range of natural phenomena.
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Semi-structured interview
A semi-structured interview is a method of research used most often in the social sciences.
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In social sciences, sequence analysis (SA) is concerned with the analysis of sets of categorical sequences that typically describe longitudinal data.
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Snowball sampling
In sociology and statistics research, snowball sampling (or chain sampling, chain-referral sampling, referral sampling) is a nonprobability sampling technique where existing study subjects recruit future subjects from among their acquaintances.
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In sociology, social action, also known as Weberian social action, is an act which takes into account the actions and reactions of individuals (or 'agents').
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In sociology, social facts are values, cultural norms, and social structures that transcend the individual and can exercise social control.
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In the social sciences, a social group is defined as two or more people who interact with one another, share similar characteristics, and collectively have a sense of unity.
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Social network analysis (SNA) is the process of investigating social structures through the use of networks and graph theory.
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Social psychology is the scientific study of how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others.
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Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies.
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The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is a repository for preprints devoted to the rapid dissemination of scholarly research in the social sciences, humanities, life sciences, and health sciences, among others.
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Social theories are analytical frameworks, or paradigms, that are used to study and interpret social phenomena.
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Social Theory and Social Structure
Social Theory and Social Structure (STSS) was a landmark publication in sociology by Robert K. Merton.
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Sociology
Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life.
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Statistical hypothesis test
A statistical hypothesis test is a method of statistical inference used to decide whether the data sufficiently support a particular hypothesis.
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Statistical population
In statistics, a population is a set of similar items or events which is of interest for some question or experiment.
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Statistics
Statistics (from German: Statistik, "description of a state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data.
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Stratified sampling
In statistics, stratified sampling is a method of sampling from a population which can be partitioned into subpopulations.
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Structural equation modeling
Structural equation modeling (SEM) is a diverse set of methods used by scientists doing both observational and experimental research.
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Structure and agency
In the social sciences there is a standing debate over the primacy of structure or agency in shaping human behaviour.
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Structured interview
A structured interview (also known as a standardized interview or a researcher-administered survey) is a quantitative research method commonly employed in survey research.
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Subset
In mathematics, a set A is a subset of a set B if all elements of A are also elements of B; B is then a superset of A. It is possible for A and B to be equal; if they are unequal, then A is a proper subset of B. The relationship of one set being a subset of another is called inclusion (or sometimes containment).
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Suicide (Durkheim book)
Suicide: A Study in Sociology (Le Suicide: Étude de sociologie) is an 1897 book written by French sociologist Émile Durkheim.
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Survey (human research)
In research of human subjects, a survey is a list of questions aimed for extracting specific data from a particular group of people.
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Survey methodology
Survey methodology is "the study of survey methods".
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Systematic sampling
In survey methodology, one-dimensional systematic sampling is a statistical method involving the selection of elements from an ordered sampling frame.
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The New School for Social Research (NSSR), previously known as The University in Exile and The New School University, is a graduate-level educational institution that is one of the divisions of The New School in New York City, United States.
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The Rules of Sociological Method
The Rules of Sociological Method (Les Règles de la méthode sociologique) is a book by Émile Durkheim, first published in 1895.
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Theory
A theory is a rational type of abstract thinking about a phenomenon, or the results of such thinking.
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In the social sciences, triangulation refers to the application and combination of several research methods in the study of the same phenomenon.
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University of Bordeaux
The University of Bordeaux (French: Université de Bordeaux) is a public university based in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.
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The Institute for Social Research (Institut für Sozialforschung, IfS) is a research organization for sociology and continental philosophy, best known as the institutional home of the Frankfurt School and critical theory.
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Unobtrusive research
Unobtrusive research (or unobtrusive measures) is a method of data collection used primarily in the social sciences.
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Unstructured interview
An unstructured interview or non-directive interview is an interview in which questions are not prearranged.
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Validity (statistics)
Validity is the main extent to which a concept, conclusion, or measurement is well-founded and likely corresponds accurately to the real world.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_research
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