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We conducted a scoping review to identify and describe trends in the use of social media images as data sources to inform social science research in published articles from 2015 to 2019. The identified trends include the following: (1) there is increasing interest in social media images as research data, especially in disciplines like sociology, cultural studies, communication and environmental studies; (2) the photo sample size is often smaller than that is typically used in text-based social media analysis and usually is collected manually; (3) thematic coding, object recognition and narrative analysis are the most popular analysis methods that are often conducted manually; (4) computer vision and machine-learning technologies have been increasingly but still infrequently used and are not fit for all purposes; and (5) relatively few papers mention ethics and privacy issues, or apply strategies to address ethical issues. We identify noteworthy research gaps, and opportunities to address limitations and challenges.

Antonio Gramsci's work, primarily Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci (1971), is drawn on to examine the place of the social sciences in society, their connection with economic interest, & the extent of autonomy they enjoy. Following Gramsci, an effort is made to tie the social sciences to ideology & to identify their major social functions. Gramsci's claim that the general function of the intellectual is to give a particular class self-consciousness is discussed, & it is argued that Gramsci's work is best viewed as a project for radical social change rather than one for social regulation. Gramsci's views on social science methodology are briefly discussed, along with his conception of ideology. 1 Photograph, 18 References. W. Howard

ABSTRACTComputational methods have become an integral part of political science research. However, helping students to acquire these new skills is challenging because programming proficiency is necessary, and most political science students have little coding experience. This article presents pedagogical strategies to make transitioning from Excel, SPSS, or Stata to R or Python for data analytics less challenging and more exciting. First, it discusses two approaches for making computational methods accessible: showing the big picture and walking through the workflow. Second, a step-by-step guide for a typical course is provided using three examples: learning programming fundamentals, wrangling messy data, and communicating data analysis.

This book, Applied Social Sciences: Economics and Politics, is a collection of quantitative and qualitative studies carried out in the field of economic and political sciences useful in the social sphere. Theoretical essays and empiric research attempt to explain some difficult economic and political phenomena such as need scale and true productivity, audit of financial statements, evaluation of students' action on the labour market, the financing and quality of public higher education, resis

Rural-oriented scholarship in criminology is growing, in part motivated by governmental, community and academic recognition that, despite stereotypes of the 'rural idyll', crime and justice are significant issues in the rural landscape. Using the notion of 'crossroads' to provide a unique lens through which to examine realities of rural crime, Crossroads of Rural Crime: Representations and Realities of Transgression in the Australian Countryside provides a dynamic understanding of the nature of rural life and ways in which transgression manifests itself in the context of a presumed rural-urban divide. Common myths regarding rural crime are challenged by exploring its diverse dimensions from a central conceptual focal point; the many 'roads' that lead into and out of rural spaces, whether literal, virtual or figurative. With a focus on the Australian countryside, the authors examine issues such as drug abuse, persecution of wildlife, rural penal practices, and health in Indigenous communities. The first substantive edited collection to focus on notions of the mobility of crime within, to and from rural spaces, this interdisciplinary collection draws together contributions from criminology, politics, sociology, Indigenous studies, literature and anthropology to significantly contribute to our understanding of rural crime.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- 1. Reflections on Western Studies of Soviet Science -- Science Studies in the West: Questions and Nonquestions -- Soviet Science Through Western Eyes: An Interpretive History -- Toward New Problems -- 2. Why Doesn't Soviet Science Do Better Than It Does? -- Strengths and Weaknesses of American and Soviet Pure Science: Five Broad Patterns -- The Setting for Research -- Policy Making Within the Institute -- Scientific Careers: Training and Recruitment -- The Physical Setting: Equipment, Instrumentation, and Supplies -- Summary and Conclusion -- 3. The Organizational Environment of Soviet Applied Research -- The Issues in General -- The Situation in the Middle 1960s -- Administrative Reforms -- The Situation in the 1970s -- Conclusion -- 4. Scientific Collectives: Behavior of Soviet Scientists in Basic Research -- Data for Science Management: Personnel Characteristics and Time Budgets -- Peer Interaction and Professional Mobility -- Personal Aspects of Social Interaction in Scientific Collectives -- Conclusion -- Methodological Note -- 5. The Technical Specialists: Social Composition and Attitudes -- Soviet Sociological Studies of the Technical Specialists -- Class Position and Social Origins -- Technical Education -- Placement after Graduation and Career Attitudes -- Conclusions -- 6. Science, Ideology, and Structure: The Kol'tsov Institute, 1900-1970 -- Prerevolutionary Origins -- Postrevolutionary Adjustments -- The Great Break and the 1930s -- The Institute Without Kol'tsov: Lysenkoism -- Astaurov and the Institute: After Lysenko -- Science, Ideology, and Structure -- Conclusion -- 7. Reasons For Studying Soviet Science: The Example of Genetic Engineering -- Three Reasons for Studying Soviet Science.

I. History, theory and methods -- II. International and transnational issues for a green criminology -- III. Region-specific problems : some case studies -- IV. Relationships in green criminology : environment and economy -- V. Relationships in green criminology : humans and non-human species -- VI. Relationships in green criminology : environment and culture

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Social Science Data Archives: A Historical Social Network Analysis

Todd R. Clear,Imprisoning Communities: How Mass Incarceration Makes Disadvantaged Neighborhoods Worse. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. 255 pages, ISBN: 978-0-19-538720-9. Paper, $21.95.Sudhir Venkatesh,Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets. New York: Penguin Press, 2008. 303 pages, ISBN: 978-1-59420-150-9. Cloth, $25.95.In recent years, sociologists have conducted enormously important research on the intersection of urban poverty, crime, and the racial divide. Quantitative stratification sociologist Bruce Western provides a meticulous tracing of the emergence of mass incarceration, tracking its steady development and identifying how and why—both economically and politically—this trend has fallen so heavily on low-income Black communities (Western 2006). Quantitative stratification sociologist Devah Pager carries out remarkably innovative and compelling field experiments showing the terrible toll incarceration takes on the employment prospects and, therefore, the greater life chances of former felons, particularly those who are Black (Pager 2007). And the combined efforts of quantitative criminologist Chris Uggen and quantitative political sociologist Jeff Manza reveal the extraordinary distortion of our local and national politics that results from the practice of felon disfranchisement (Manza and Uggen, 2006).