on an investigation designed to remedy some of the deficiencies in our knowledge of homosexuals. He interviewed six groups of 50 men each: homosexuals convicted of offences with adults, paedophiliacs convicted of offences with children, homosexual patients under psychiatric treatment, non-homosexual psychiatric patients, other homosexuals to whom none of the foregoing qualifications applied and...

Moral attributes such as honesty, being devoted to one's social duty and principles, responsibility for one's words and action are very important for civil servants. Morality as a basis for personnel management and the moral features of civil servants are of special value, especially during the deep political, social and economic reforms taking place in Russia. Global social changes are extreme...

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In this paper epistemological, ontological and sociological questions concerning the statistical significance of sharp hypotheses in scientific research are investigated within the framework provided by Cognitive Constructivism and the FBST (Full Bayesian Significance Test). The constructivist framework is contrasted with the traditional epistemological settings for orthodox Bayesian and freque...

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In this paper we present the conceptual level of an ontologybased application aimed to support social scientists in their sociological analysis related on crime. Starting from several concrete issues posed by the research team of the Social Observatory on Crime of the University of Sassari, our goal is to build a Semantic Web based tool to collect, organize, and analyze data on crime, as well a...

Qualitative heuristics, which were developed at the University of Hamburg, Germany, try to bring back the qualities of systematic exploration and discovery into psychological and sociological research. This contribution discusses the historical background, the four basic rules to optimize the chance for discovery, the research process as dialogue, the testing processes, and as an example the me...