Social Science Research on Foreign Areas

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Science and Social Research (CSSR)(Malaysia)

Social science methods for research on sexual and reproductive health

Acknowledgements The authors would like to acknowledge Karen Southwick for her contribution to the first edition of this book. We have retained several of the case-studies she compiled, while many others have been updated, in line with the innovations in this field of research. We thank Manuela Colombini for permitting us to use the conceptual framework she developed for her doctoral research. ...

The e-Social Science research agenda.

In this paper, we use the experience of the first 5 years of the UK Economic and Social Research Council's National Centre for e-Social Science as a basis for reflecting upon the future development of the e-Social Science research agenda.

Validity and Reliability in Social Science Research

Concepts of reliability and validity in social science research are introduced and major methods to assess reliability and validity reviewed with examples from the literature. The thrust of the paper is to provide novice researchers with an understanding of the general problem of validity in social science research and to acquaint them with approaches to developing strong support for the validi...

TWC: Frontier: Privacy for Social Science Research

Information technology, advances in statistical computing, and the deluge of data available through the Internet are transforming social science. With the ability to collect and analyze massive amounts of data on human behavior and interactions, social scientists can hope to uncover many more phenomena, with greater detail and confidence, than allowed by traditional means such as surveys and in...