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The studies of the human being in health and illness and how he can be cared for is concerned with more than the biological aspects and thus calls for a broader perspective. Social sciences and medical humanities give insight into the context and conditions of being ill, caring for the ill, and understanding disease in a respective socio-cultural frame. This book brings together scholars from various countries who are interested in deepening the interdisciplinary discourse on the subject. This book is the outcome of the 4th global conference on "Making Sense of: Health, Illness and Disease," h

This paper compares the usability of data stemming from probability sampling with data
stemming from nonprobability sampling. It develops six research scenarios that differ in their
research goals and assumptions about the data generating process. It is shown that
inferences from data stemming from nonprobability sampling implies demanding assumptions
on the homogeneity of the units being studied. Researchers who are not willing to pose these
assumptions are generally better off using data from probability sampling, regardless of the
amount of nonresponse. However, even in cases when data from probability sampling is
clearly advertised, data stemming from nonprobability sampling may contribute to the
cumulative scientific endeavour of pinpointing a plausible interval for the parameter of interest.

Bill Starbuck has been one of the leading management researchers over several decades. In this book he reflects on a number of challenges associated with management and social science research - the search for a 'behavioral science', the limits of rationality, the unreliability of many research findings, the social shaping of research agendas, cultures and judgements. It is an engaging, autobiographical account in which he discusses some of his own research and various. methodological debates. - ;Bill Starbuck has been one of the leading management researchers over several decades. In this boo

What Morality Means examines the scientific theory of morality, drawing on zoological and physiological literatures in addition to contemporary sociological research on status and exchange. The theory roots morality in the capacity for perceptual overlap, and describes how perceptual overlap has been constrained and enabled in human history.

We propose a framework for understanding the role that the social sciences should play in ecosystem management. Most of the ecosystem management literature assumes that scientific understanding of ecosystems is solely the purview of natural scientists. While the evolving principles of ecosystem management recognize that people play an important role, social considerations are usually limited to political and decision-making processes and to development of environmental education. This view is incomplete. The social science aspect of ecosystem management has two distinct components: one that concerns greater public involvement in the ecosystem management decision-making process, and one that concerns integrating social considerations into the science of understanding ecosystems. Ecosystem management decisions based primarily on biophysical factors can polarize people, making policy processes more divisive than usual. Ecological data must be supplemented with scientific analysis of the key social factors relevant to a particular ecosystem. Objective social science analysis should be included on an equal basis with ecological science inquiry and with data from public involvement. A conceptual framework is presented to communicate to ecological scientists the potential array of social science contributions to ecosystem management. http://www.esajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1890/1051-0761%281998%29008%5B0891%3AAFFUSS%5D2.0.CO%3B2 http://www.esajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1890/1051-0761%281998%29008%5B0891%3AAFFUSS%5D2.0.CO%3B2

Revidierte Fassungen von Papieren, die ursprünglich während zweier Workshops 1996 und 1997 in Cairo präsentiert wurden. Die Nachwuchswissenschaftler (Stipendiaten ägyptischer Programme der Ford Foundation und des Population Council) reflektieren Rahmenbedingungen, Prozesse und Probleme ihrer ethnologischen, sozial- und kulturanthropologischen Feldforschung (insbesondere teilnehmende Beobachtung) in Ägypten. (DÜI-Hns)

Con il recente sviluppo tecnologico dei veicoli elettrici, la letteratura accademica sull'argomento si è diffusa anche nell'ambito delle scienze sociali. Lo scopo di questo capitolo è duplice. Innanzitutto, esamina lo sviluppo storico della ricerca accademica sui veicoli elettrici. In secondo luogo, identifica i contributi più importanti sull'argomento. L'analisi sistematica della letteratura viene utilizzata per identificare e classificare la letteratura accademica sull'EV. Sono stati identificati e inclusi nelle analisi articoli scientifici scritti in inglese e pubblicati su riviste di scienze sociali elencate nella banca dati Scopus tra il 1995 e il 2018, contenenti il termine "veicoli elettrici". Presentiamo lo sviluppo temporale dell'evoluzione della letteratura su EV. Vengono discussi gli argomenti di ricerca relativi ai veicoli elettrici che sono più frequentemente trattati, nonché quelli su cui la ricerca è carente. Le nostre analisi individua gli articoli più influenti sull'EV che è opportuna che sia i ricercatori che i politici conoscano. C'è stato sia un aumento in termini quantitativi dell'attenzione sulle EV sia una crescita relativa rispetto ad altre aree di ricerca nell'ambito delle scienze sociali. Il termine "ambiente" è stato l'argomento più frequente analizzato. Per quanto riguarda gli argomenti poco studiati, è stata prestata relativamente meno attenzione, ad esempio, al "comportamento". Ciò potrebbe essere alquanto preoccupante, considerato l'obiettivo politico dichiarato in molti paesi di aumentare la quota di mercato dei veicoli elettrici. ; With the recent technological development of mass market commercial electric vehicles (EVs), academic literature on the topic has been emerging also within the social sciences. The aim of this chapter is twofold. First, it examines the historical development of academic research on EVs. Second, it identifies the seminal works on the topic. Systematic literature review is used to identify and classify the academic literature on EV. Scientific articles written in English and published in social science journals listed in the Scopus data-base between 1995 and 2018, containing the term "electric vehicles" were identified and included in the analyses. We present a timeline on the evolution of the literature on EV. Research topics related to EVs that is most frequently covered as well as the under-research topics in the existing literature are discussed. Our analyses find out the most influential articles on EV, to which both researchers and policymakers ought to familiarise themselves with. There has been both an absolute increase in the research focus on EV and a growth relative to other research areas within the social sciences. "Environment" was the most frequent topic. With respect to under-researched topics, relatively less attention has been given to for example "Behaviour" than other topics related to EV. This can be somewhat of a concern given the stated policy objective in many countries to increase the EV market share.

"Qu'est-ce que les images peuvent nous apprendre sur le politique ? Tandis qu'historiens, sociologues et anthropologues considèrent depuis longtemps les documents iconographiques comme de véritables matériaux empiriques, il n'existe pas de véritable "tradition" d'analyse de l'image en science politique. Or, comme l'illustrent les contributions ici rassemblées, les problèmes rencontrés pour utiliser ces matériaux sont largement connexes à ceux qui jalonnent l'analyse des recueils d'entretiens, des archives ou des données statistiques. Cet ouvrage collectif fait suite à un colloque organisé à l'Université Nice-Sophia Antipolis en mai 2014. Il constitue une invitation à investiguer le politique à partir des images. Car les tracts, les affiches ou les photographies constituent, non seulement des traces de la diversité des pratiques et des représentations du politique, mais également des supports utilisables pour réaliser des entretiens de recherche."--Page 4 of cover