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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Case Study or Program Description Paper?
I spent two years running a digital literacy/computer skills business hired by the Department of Human Services' Vocational Rehabilitation Program. My business was quite novel - as far as my knowledge ...
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I want to pursue studying in Social Science. What to do in summers? [closed]
I am currently a second-year computer-science student. However, I am interested in pursuing social science after I am done with my bachelor's degree. To be more specific, I am interested in the fields ...
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Failing out of graduate school [closed]
So, I applied for a graduate program (non-thesis) which is an advanced standing program and the only way to get a masters at the university for my program. During the summer session I completed my ...
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When should I get business cards and how much do they actually matter as a graduate student who has not yet built up their CV?
Context: I am a graduate student within the social sciences, who will be obtaining their Master's degree on their way to Ph.D. (hopefully by the end of this academic year). Though I have not yet ...
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How to handle ethics review (IRB) when moving between institutions
Is it convention for a researcher who changes institutions to reapply for ethical review (IRB) on ongoing projects at a new institution, or keep working with the IRB files at the institution where the ...
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What guarantee the validity and relevance of “grand” social sciences' theories? [closed]
During my undergraduate years, I took a variety of courses in social sciences, and was exposed to writings by famous thinkers like Freud, Habermas, Foucault, Claude Lévi-Strauss, as well as lesser-...
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Is there a way to do serious social justice-related work or research while working on scientific research?
I am currently working in the sciences (broadly speaking, the STEM field) in the United States as a researcher.
I have been following quite closely to the social-political trend of the US for the ...
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Book of Abstracts?
So the conference that I am going to present a paper is going to publish a book of abstracts. Is this considered the proceedings of the conference? Or can I still grab my paper and send to a peer ...
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Resources for quantitative social science research workflow [closed]
I'm interested in best practices for research workflows for quantitative social science. The best book I have encountered on the subject is "The Workflow of Data Analysis Using Stata" by J. Scott Long ...
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How to conduct research as a non-Latino in a Latino-studies research institute?
I will be conducting research in a Latino-studies research institute next summer. I will probably be the only non-Latino researcher in the institute that summer. I’m also approaching my research from ...
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Am I eligible for a fellowship doing interdisciplinary work?
I'm pondering a Masters (thesis) in Computer Engineering after I graduate undergrad. I also have a subject matter I want to research that will probably require a fellowship in order to conduct my ...
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I am writing a briefing paper, and it only consists of facts and citations
I am writing a briefing paper, and it only consists of facts and citations. Literally every sentence is a quote or a link to another source.
The topic of the paper is pretty much covered and there ...
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How detrimental is a large lab cohort to a graduate students’ success? [duplicate]
A PI I might potentially apply to is planning on making three or so offers. Said PI only has a few students at present which I think is the reason for their doing so.
I worry that I will not get my ...
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How should one proceed when they receive no job offers after a considerable amount of applications?
I'm getting way ahead of myself, but being nervous on the job market I asked an advisor what happens should a candidate receive zero job offers. To which the reply was, "That never happens."
I'm sure ...
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How to establish inter-rater reliability as a sole PhD researcher
I'm doing a PhD in the social sciences and want to use an observational method to analyse audio recordings of social work conversations. I will be using an established behavioural coding manual (the ...
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How can someone be a co-author in a paper by just presenting undocumented evidence?
This recent paper is about birds of prey spreading fires. Some of the co-authors are firefighters which basically tell their personal experience as eyewitnesses to the behavior of these birds but do ...
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How is your career after finishing PhD. in social sciences/humanities/etc.? + chances to be uni teacher? [closed]
I wonder what is your job after finishing PhD. in humanities or social sciences?
I'm a Phd student of social anthropology and this is my 4th year. I have always wanted to stay at the university as a ...
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How to prepare for grad school? [with 1 year to spare]
I plan to enter graduate school (MA+PhD) in September 2018, which means I have something of a ‘gap year situation’ ahead of me [not in a strict sense, as I’ve been working for a number of years now]. ...
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Academic Job Mobility in the European Context
In the United States it is not uncommon to apply to academic jobs all over the country. Personally, I do not know a single person who limited his or her search to just one state (i.e. Massachusetts). ...
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Study expanded from three to five rounds: How to write this down?
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I will suggest treating the email communication as a figure and adding a note to the figure caption. IMO a caption is overkill when the appendix title is sufficient, but it's an ok tradeoff to ...
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How to efficiently get a mention of your just accepted paper in journals like Nature and Science
We have made a very important scientific breakthrough in the field of biomedicine. We have filed the patented and the scientific publication (in a journal with impact factor around 9.0) was published ...
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Applying to PhD programs when you have two research interests
I am in the process of trying to formulate my statement of purpose/intent for a PhD in criminal justice. I’m not sure how to go about this when I have two distinctly different areas that I’m very ...
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How to get SCI impact factor from other than Journal site
I could see the IF of journal I am looking for in their site. My problem is Thomsor Reuters report lists the journal as indexed in both SCI and SSCI, but kournal home page says its indexed in SSCI ...
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Where to put the theoretical framework in a PhD dissertation (social sciences)
My dissertation consists of an introduction, background, literature review, methods/research design section, and a chapter for every aspect of a policy issue that I'm addressing. My theoretical ...
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Is it okay to work on a research project with a professor at a different university, in addition to main PhD project?
In the context of a social sciences PhD in the UK, I want to know (i) whether it is permissible to work on another research project; and (ii) whether there are any general practices, if I choose to ...
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Publishing in a SSCI indexed journal for Computer Science Researcher
I am working in an interdisciplinary area and most of my area specific journals are available in journal which are indexed by SSCI instead of SCI. But some people told that for computer science ...
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How to organize a work-in-progress workshop for PhD students in the field of law and related social sciences?
I would like to organize a work-in-progress workshop for PhD students at my university. How can I make sure that the participants really profit from the workshop and receive valuable feedback?
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What are cautions to take with second hand data in an interview?
When analyzing second hand information in a data set (participant is recounting someone else's experience), if you cannot access that person to confirm their experience, what are some cautions to take ...
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Applying for terminal MA in sociology, concerned about weak letters and missed funding deadlines. Is it better to put off application for a year?
I'm strongly interested in a terminal MA in Sociology (because I am currently not willing to commit to the length of a US PhD program) and know that I want to work in research for social policy. I'm ...
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When referring to races, should 'black' and 'white' be capitalized? (MLA)
I was assigned to write about the relationship between poverty and crime, and in my research, race came up as a factor. I'm supposed to use the MLA format. Should 'black' and 'white' be capitalized ...
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Measuring the Effect of Public Relations on Scientific Journals Impact Factor?
I’m looking at the correlation between communications outreach and a scientific journal’s impact factor/citations. I intern for a communications department at a University’s engineering school and we ...
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Does translating an academic work in the humanities or social sciences improve your CV?
I've been asked to collaborate in an edited book that will collect important contributions to the field X, in the humanities/Social Sciences. The volume will be published in French, so I was asked to ...
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Job Market Cover Letter - Mention undergrad experiences?
I am on the academic job market in America in the social sciences. I am applying to R1/R2s, with a few liberal arts colleges sprinkled in.
I've heard from a few people that mentioning undergrad ...
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Hypotheses that cannot be sufficiently tested
My understanding is that a hypothesis is not scientific unless there is a way to sufficiently test it.
Is it ever acceptable to present a hypothesis that cannot be sufficiently tested?
I can ...
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References for peripheral interfacing and sociology of defence acquisition and R&D thesis [closed]
I am about to graduate in Computer Sciences and I have to write my bachelor thesis about a compulsory internship. It validates three years of study. It is a document half about the sociology of the ...
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How to conduct academic research across different fields as a undergrad?
I'm a freshman computer engineering major doing a summer research internship at a large public metropolitan university . My internship is a bit unusual. My internship is based in a Latino Studies ...
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How long should an academic CV be for someone applying to post-doc positions in Europe?
I am preparing my CV for applications to post-doc positions in the field of social sciences. I will apply to positions in the EU, mainly in German language countries.
I have updated my CV with my ...
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Does the term “science” encompass humanities and the social sciences?
I’m not a native English speaker and want to get a better grip on the nuances of the term science.
In my native tongue, the word I’d use for science also refers to humanities and the social sciences. ...
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What constitutes a declarable conflict of interest in gender studies?
From Wikipedia:
A conflict of interest (COI) is a situation in which a person or organization is involved in multiple interests, financial interest, or otherwise, one of which could possibly ...
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How to overcome preconceived ideas about social scientists?
I have the opposite problem to this question. Often when I talk to someone from a 'hard' scientific field I am 'taught' how statistics work or how programming works. It is a bit like being mansplained ...
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How to argue against questionable research practices such as P-hacking and Harking?
I have come into conflict with co-authors when being asked to do things that I consider to be questionable.
Once I was told to try every possible specification of a dependent variable (count, ...
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Classifying empirical and non-empirical research in the social sciences
I am looking for a definition or a classification system (or a reference to an existing system) that can be used to reliably classify a very large set of articles into empirical vs. non-empirical ...
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What is the impact of a radical change of opinion for early-career academics?
I'm wondering what are the potential consequences of a change of mind in the social sciences and humanities. More specifically, what would happen concretely if I publish a peer-reviewed article in ...
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Should a full manuscript be available for a book proposal?
I've been given some conflicting advice about preparing book proposals and manuscripts for academic presses. I'm aware that writing books is a lengthy process etc; however, I've also been told by a ...
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Is it worth submitting papers to “graduate” peer-reviewed journals?
I am a first year PhD student in the social sciences at a Canadian institution, and I'm wondering whether it's worth submitting a paper to a "graduate" peer-reviewed journal. This would be my first ...
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How to intervene in a course that is failing to meet expectations?
All MA students in my graduate program (social sciences) are required to take a course titled 'Thought and Theory'. Ostensibly, the course should serve as an in-depth introduction for students to the ...
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Can somebody paste links to examples of phd theses without acknowledgements? [closed]
I read this question and the answers, and found it interesting: PhD thesis without acknowledgements
I would like to ask some follow-up questions to this topic.
Speaking for myself, I have a long ...
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The difference between literature review and background sections of a dissertation
I was assuming these two were the same. What is the difference between them? How does one relate to another? The context here is an MA (Master of Arts) level social science dissertation in UK ...
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How many people does it take to establish a theory? [closed]
There are often theories published by scientists in both the hard sciences and social sciences based on new understanding of fundamental science and better data collecting mechanisms that runs in ...
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In the social sciences, does it make sense to embark on a longer-term project but write a dissertation on one part of it?
I realize this is field- and topic-specific but I'm hoping some of this is generalizable.
I'm in the social science side of information science and narrowing down dissertation topics. Some of what I'...
