Such attempts have devalued traditional «maternal» characteristics such as «nurturing,» in an effort not to give mothers (who are presumed to have such characteristics) an advantage in custody decisions...» — Fineman, Martha and Anne Opie, «The Uses
of Social Science Data in Legal Policymaking: Custody Determinations at Divorce,» Wisconsin Law Review, Vol.
Perhaps the data you cite is a start, but it is nowhere near conclusive, and it remains greatly outweighed by the vast body
of social science data that tells us the legal profession is still highly segregated.
Not exact matches
Projecting the future, or future - casting, is the work
of combining
social science, research, technical
data, economic trends and, yes, even
science fiction, to model a prediction
of the future.
In doing this we used a suite
of models produced by the
data science team, which outlined profiles such as undecided voters or inactive supporters, and matched these audiences to online cookies, mobile devices, and
social IDs.
Earlier this month,
social science researchers published an analysis
of mortality
data from the Puerto Rico Vital Statistics System to compare the historical death averages for September and October to deaths this year.
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The universe is 13.7 billion years old (cosmology: best estimate based on available
data)- nothing to do with Atheism The earth is 4.5 billion years old (cosmology: best estimate based on available
data)- nothing to do with Atheism Life emerged from non-life (Biogenesis theory... cause and process unknown)- nothing to do with Atheism Life spread and diversified through evolution (best available explanation)- nothing to do with Atheism Man evolved from common ape ancestor (evolution
science)- nothing to do with Atheism Consciousness is an emergent property
of the brain (neuroscience)- nothing to do with Atheism Emotions, memories and intelligence are functions
of the brain (neuroscience)- nothing to do with Atheism Morals are emergent qualities
of social animals (natural
science)- nothing to do with Atheism
Bradford Wilcox, in his National Affairs essay «The Evolution
of Divorce,» discusses
social science data showing a class divide in the percentage
of Americans marrying and divorcing.
Such a notion as emergence, for example, which is closely allied with the principle
of indeterminacy and uncertainty and which was later to develop in physics, actually assumed more credence in physics before it took root in biology and psychology; yet it has more significant implications for the
data of the organic and
social sciences than for physics.
Overall, the entire field
of Christian
social ethics — liberationist or not — pays scandalously little attention to empirical
data and
social science, as when Karen Lebacqz cites the Hite Report as though it were a statistically representative sample
of sexual attitudes and behaviors, or when Michael Novak draws simplistic comparisons between Japanese and Latin American political economies.
Eberstadt hopes that the
data collected through decades
of social science research will lead to a change in behavior, but I'm not so sure that is the case.
Without answering that question Eberstadt outlines the
social science data that consequentially suggests a current and general confusion and unhappiness in life, and especially in the lives
of men and women, and how they relate to one another.
Methodologically, he continues, there are developments in the
social sciences which make it possible now to gather and correlate great masses
of data in such a way to provide relevant knowledge
of the consequences
of various courses
of possible action.
The best that one could hope for was that the discussion
of homosexuality would at least acknowledge some
of the recent
data from the
social sciences.
Two and a half years later, the same
social science journal that published the original study publishes a «re-analysis»
of the very same
data set (that's right, no new
data collection, just reinterpretation
of the admittedly valid stuff).
But his argument was that just as the physical and chemical
sciences (he distinguished the two on the grounds that chemistry developed from the pseudo-science
of alchemy) were once vague and unscientific because they had not yet learned to properly discriminate the relevant
data, so the
social sciences were then (as now) struggling to develop adequate methods for discrimination
of data.
Yes, there's an encyclopedia's worth
of social studies and historical
data (some
of which might just surprise people), but there's also downright fascinating
science in the form
of biology and common human ancestry.
Social -
science data about the consequences
of divorce have moved many scholars across the political spectrum to warn against continuing the divorce revolution, and to argue that intact families are essential, especially to the well - being
of children.
From 1988 - 1991, I collected interview
data on the self - and body - images
of 40 professional women and homebirthers in relation to their beliefs and choices about pregnancy and birth, and published that study in
Social Science and Medicine and elsewhere.
We thank Debbie Lawlor (Department
of Social Medicine, University
of Bristol, UK), Maarike Harro (Dept Public Health, University
of Talin, Estonia), Karsten Froberg (Institute
of Sports
Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University
of Southern Denmark), Caroline Fall and Clive Osmond (MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit, University
of Southampton, UK), and Anita Ravelli (Department
of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Academic Medical Centre Amsterdam, The Netherlands) for kindly providing unpublished
data for inclusion in the review.
I define field research as a method
of Social Science or Humanities that involves the on - site gathering and evaluation
of authentic
data during a research stay
of several days, weeks, months, or years.
Besides the «
data for policy» community, there are two important research trends shaping the field: 1) computational
social science; and 2) the emergence
of politicised
social bots.
These questions barely scratch the surface, because the complex interplay between general advancements
of computational
social science and hovering satellite topics like political bots will have an enormous impact on research and using
data for policy.
Using Big
Data, we can engage with some
of the biggest questions in a variety
of scientific disciplines, including the
social sciences, humanities, and natural
sciences.
The Minister for Universities and
Science, David Willetts MP, has announced the release
of # 14 million to fund the second phase
of the Economic and
Social Research Council's (ESRC) investment in Big
Data.
American Political
Science Association (APSA): The Section on Human Rights was established to encourage scholarship and facilitate exchange
of data and research findings on all components
of human rights (e.g., civil, political, economic,
social, cultural, environmental), their relationship, determinants and consequences
of human rights policies, structure and influence
of human rights organizations, development, implementation, impact on international conventions, and changes in the international human rights regime.
«This
data is really gold because it will help people understand the psychology
of the Middle East and use it for training that's grounded in real
data, not just American
social science theories.»
The free and open sharing
of scientific information,
data, and materials is a fundamental ideal underlying the
social structure
of science.
«The only thing surprising in the
data is how much the
data from these absolutely brilliant women look like
data from any group
of high - achieving women in general,» says Diane Halpern, the dean
of social sciences at the Minerva Schools at Keck Graduate Institute in California.
(Question No. 11 asks people about their level
of education, from no schooling through a Ph.D.) The proposed elimination
of that question has struck a nerve with the U.S. statistical and
social science research community, and with the thousands
of organizations that cite the
data for their own purposes.
«The merging
of India's strengths in IT with enormous wealth
of world wide public
data in genomics, medicine, biology, epidemiology and
social sciences might provide a ripe venue for new modes
of engagement.»
Much
social science consists
of uncritical backward - looking references, not to established
data but to speculations and contrivances into which their creators have squeezed carefully selected or invented «facts», references that are mere appeals to authority, admiringly called «scholarship».
The ANES collects
data on Americans»
social backgrounds, political predispositions,
social and political values, perceptions and evaluations
of groups and candidates, and other issues, according to the ICPSR, a
data archive
of research in the
social and behavioral
sciences where the studies are accessible.
Turner, a
social scientist at City University
of New York / Queens College, offered his cautionary story last month at a conference * called by a key federal watchdog agency to announce a $ 1 million grants program to investigate the prevalence
of fraud,
data fabrication, plagiarism, and other questionable practices in
science.
However, as
social media makes
data increasingly interconnected, preserving one's own privacy while ignoring the privacy rights
of others may make everybody's
data more vulnerable, said Jens Grossklags, assistant professor
of information
sciences and technology, Penn State.
In the spirit
of Lombardy's open innovation model, the Forum will feature professionals from diverse areas: responsible research and innovation;
science and technology studies; public communication
of science; participative and deliberative methods; public engagement;
social innovation;
social impact and its assessment; sociology
of risk; sociology
of science; technology assessment and governance; open innovation,
science, and
data;
data ethics; and bioethics.
The research, funded with the support
of the National
Science Foundation and to be published in the American Journal
of Sociology in September, examined comparative
data from the United States, European countries, Australia, Russia and New Zealand, which was gathered from the International
Social Surveys and the European
Social Surveys.
In field after field, the ability to collect
data has exploded — in biology, with its burgeoning databases
of genomes and proteins; in astronomy, with the petabytes flowing from sky surveys; in
social science, tapping millions
of posts and tweets that ricochet around the internet.
The widespread use
of Twitter and Facebook has afforded new approaches to
social science research, and requires new techniques to analyze and interpret
data using computer
science methods.
Some people think there is no way that the online world can have an effect on real life; others argue that
social media is so influential that the Arab Spring was catalyzed by networking sites, says James Fowler, a political scientist at the University
of California, San Diego, who led the study in collaboration with Facebook's
data -
science team.
«No studies to date have been able to provide such a comprehensive and fine - grained account
of what kinds
of information individuals are exposed to [on
social media sites], and what they choose to consume,» said study co-author Eytan Bakshy, a
data scientist on the Core Science Data team at Faceb
data scientist on the Core
Science Data team at Faceb
Data team at Facebook.
But given the rush
of numbers, the analytical approach
of physicists and economists — on Wall Street and now in war — will inevitably keep spreading, Clauset says, «We are entering an era in which
social sciences have access to a wealth
of data beyond their wildest dreams.»
Harvard's Institute for Quantitative
Social Science is planning to use differential privacy techniques to enable more researchers to share, retain control
of, and credit for their
data contributions as part
of the Dataverse Network, a project that guarantees the long - term preservation
of critical datasets.
The revolution in neuroscience is often characterized as a revolution in new imaging technology.A long overdue reassessment
of neuroimaging machines — in particular the functional magnetic resonance imager — has underlined that what you see is not always what you get.A study published this year in Perspectives on Psychological
Science noted that many papers in
social neuroscience, the field that examines the neurobiology
of social behavior, suffered from faulty analyses that produced «voodoo correlations» in their
data.
This four - part series covers some
of the most intriguing, including the power
of linked
data,
social machines, free bandwidth to the masses and Web
science.
In order to examine the relationship between prejudice and mortality, the researchers constructed a measure capturing the average level
of anti-gay prejudice in the communities where LGB individuals lived, beginning in 1988, using
data on prejudicial attitudes from the General
Social Survey, one of the primary sources of social indicator data in the social sci
Social Survey, one
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social sciences.
«We have reached an intriguing moment, perhaps unprecedented, when the
data available to a handful
of private companies — for example, Google, Facebook, Twitter, — could in principle make enormous impacts on
social science research, especially social and personality psychology,» says J.B. Michel of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Ha
social science research, especially social and personality psychology,» says J.B. Michel of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at H
science research, especially
social and personality psychology,» says J.B. Michel of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Ha
social and personality psychology,» says J.B. Michel
of the Institute for Quantitative
Social Science at Ha
Social Science at H
Science at Harvard.
Christine: But anyway getting back to the association, so there was certainly a lot
of technology,
data mining with the Berwick talk, but also some very intriguing
social sciences.
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