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by Kevan Edwards, University of Minnesota.
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SOCIAL RESEARCH RESOURCES  This page is maintained by Kevan Edwards a graduate student in the department of sociology at the University of Minnesota. You may access information on courses I teach or TA from this page. Or you may make use of numerous...
http://www.soc.umn.edu/~edwards/soclinks.htm

A mathematical/statistical technique for extracting and representing the similarity of meaning of words and passages by analysis of large bodies of text.
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LSA CU Boulder  Boulder website requires a browser capable of displaying frames....
http://lsa.colorado.edu/

Generarl Semantics resources for European countries. Website in English, French, Spanish, Italian and German.
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ESGS European Home Page Redirection  Bienvenue sur le web de la smantique gnrale europenne. Vous allez tre redirig automatiquement vers la nouvelle adresse. cliquez Si cela ne marche pas bien, cliquez ici. Welcome on the european general semantics web. You will be automatically redirected to...
http://www.esgs.org

This essay, by Steve Hoenisch, seeks to shed light on Weber's view of the applicability of objectivity by attempting to answer the overarching question that sits at the foundation of his approach: Was Weber an advocate of value-free social science?
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Max Weber's View of Objectivity in Social Science  This essay named best of the web for social science in 2003 by Encyclopaedia Britannica. Related Documents Interpretation and Indeterminacy Durkheim and Educational Systems Habermas and Discourse Ethics Wittgenstein on Discourse Analysis Putnam and Tocqueville on Newspapers Comments and Kudos...
http://www.criticism.com/md/weber1.html

The interpretations proffered in Herrnstein & Murray's book, "The Bell Curve", are not supported by reanalysis of their data.
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BELL CURVE: Anatomy of an Analysis  This is a web page about a logistic regression, the first one interpreted 1 in The Bell Curve (Herrnstein Murray, New York: The Free Press, 1994 There has been much discussion of the book but no examination of this or...
http://www.srv.net/~msdata/bell.html

Construct systems may be conceived of as multi-dimensional mathematical models in which the person's own language is used to classify his or her experience - a presentation of Kelly's personal construct theory
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George Kelly's Theory of Personal Constructs  Join our discussion group Kelly's Theory Summarised A summary of Kelly's of Theory Personal Constructs, the basis of the Repertory Grid interview, written by Dr Valerie Stewart. Theory and Application Theory Our construct systems make our world more predictable Our...
http://www.EnquireWithin.co.nz/theoryof.htm

A problem oriented and interdisciplinary research methodology.
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The Development Research page, the reference page, book reviews, courses,dissertations and ongoing dissertations  Developmental research page. This page is developed by Zulkardi based on the Seminar on development research course at the Univesity of Twente, The Netherlands. It was supervised by Prof. dr. Tj. Plomp. and Prof. J.van den Akker The course outline...
http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/8788/DR.html

Discusses the logic of relating qualitative and quantitative methods, different approaches for inter-relating them, and innovative applications of methodological inter-relation.
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FQS 2(1) Qualitative and Quantitative Research Table of contents  Volume 2, No. 1 150; February 2001 Qualitative and Quantitative Research: Conjunctions and Divergences Edited by Margrit Schreier Nigel Fielding Introduction: On the Compatibility between Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods Nigel Fielding (UK) Margrit Schreier (Germany) Full text: English The...
http://qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/inhalt1-01-e.htm

intended to provide professors and students of information systems with a useful starting point for accessing WWW-based material related to research and scholarship in the field of information systems.
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AISWorld Net Home Page  An entry point to resources related to information systems technology for information systems academics and practitioners more Challenge Awards] Editor Dennis GallettaTemple University University of Pittsburgh Managing Editor Simha MagalGrand Valley State University Today on AISWorldFind out what the AISWorld...
http://www.isworld.org/#research

The knowledge base of social science research methods. It focus on measurements and modeling issues.
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The RM Institute (Research Methods Institute)  The RM Institute (Research Methods Institute)...
http://www.researchmethods.org/

Assists academics and students in the Social Sciences in the use of numeric or encoded research data for analysis and teaching.
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Edinburgh University Data Library  University academic staff and students with access to research data, including statistics, mapping and documentary film, for analysis and teaching. Please use the blue buttons on the left to navigate around the site. Shortcuts: 2001 Census data holdings Data-related events...
http://datalib.ed.ac.uk/

Research about methods and techniques on problem solving, acquiring knowledge, classification of information, education, and positive creative management skills.
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Meta-Magazine Index (Research by Toine Fennis)  Research was initiated by Toine Fennis with a focus on methods and techniques on transformation, problem solving, acquiring knowledge, learning, classification of information, education, and positive creative management skills. Automatically generated site-index: Meta-Magazine Index (Research by Toine Fennis)1. Site Purpose...
http://www.metamagazine.com/

A Web Quest on the classic experiment, as well as other research methods: naturalistic observation, questionnaire survey, and correlational research. Designed by Bernard Schuster.
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WebQuest of Psychology Experimentation  So it seems appropriate to ask What makes them think they really know anything anyway Well, in science the ultimate authority is research, so the time has come to for you to consider how do they find out all that...
http://psychexperiment.tripod.com/

an alternative way to asses subject condition in social sciences.
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polymetric analysis  Measuring paradoxical reality Presenting polymetric analysis Josep Burcet 1995 revised 2002 contact Introduction Classical techniques for sample analysis in social sciences are built on the assumption according to which subjects under observation have attributes instead of paradoxes. So, measurement is...
http://www.burcet.net/jbl/lleixa/polymeters.htm

A collection of resources to aid research in psychoanalysis and allied disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
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BGSP Research Resources  A collection of resources to aid research in psychoanalysis and allied disciplines. CONTENTS Psychoanalytic Research Psychotherapy Research Dreams Fantasy Emotions Personality Psychology 151; Other Branches Cognitive Science Neuroscience Psychiatry Substance Abuse Violence Longitudinal Social Science Medicine Evaluation General Research Resources...
http://soldzresearch.com/BGSPResearchSources.htm

A critique of scientific and media reporting of sex and gender issues.
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Chestnuts  A critique of scientific and media reporting of sex and gender issues. FEEDBACK Associated sites: About Gender Gendys Network Derby TV/TS Group Site listed byPsychcentral WNT-4 by Sophia Siedlberg (Revised Feb 2005) Thoughts about hormones for transwomen by Jed Bland...
http://www.gender.org.uk/chstnuts/index.htm

Resources for applied social research and evaluation including a complete online research methods text, course resources, and researcher tools.
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Center for Social Research Methods  This website is for people involved in applied social research and evaluation. You'll find lots of resources and links to other locations on the Web that deal in applied social research methods. Some highlights of what is available: the Knowledge...
http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/

The concept of semantic activity that is claimed to proceed as well from single words as from word co-occurrences. This equalization rests upon graph theory.
http://www.semac.be/

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Theory:The Necessary Evil  Qualitative researchers in education have begun to question the epistemological premises of their work. Or, at least, someone in the arena is questioning those premises, and the questioning worries the researchers who actually do the work of studying schools, students,...
http://home.earthlink.net/~hsbecker/theory.html

Vytvorology, which is an exact science of human processes, offers new, acute and reliable research possibilities in this field of human and social processes.
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Brozyna What Is The Vytvorology  Since the mathematical sciences today called exact sciences started taking their exhaustive and autonomous form independent from human sciences and having a great and noticeable impact on society with all the achievements of modern technology transforming the human destiny, the...
http://ojczyzna.pl/BR/BROZYNA-What-Is-Vytvorology.htm

A critical analysis of the theoretical foundations of Korzybski's general semantics featuring many papers, commentary, and discussions.
http://www.xenodochy.org/gs/