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Does marine science sound like an exciting career, but you're not exactly sure what jobs are out there or how to get started? You've come to the right place. In South Carolina, there are many organizations, state and federal agencies, non-profits, universities, and local governments that have careers in marine science.

The first detailed and systematic study of the social science of poverty as practiced by the Victorian experts who had so much influence on relief policy in this area, and who were among the founders of British social science. The book examines what they knew, or what they thought they knew, about the poor.

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This is the first book to€provide€sociologists, criminologists, political scientists, and other social scientists with the methodological logic and techniques for doing spatial analysis in their chosen fields of inquiry.€The book€contains a€wealth of examples as to why these techniques are worth doing, over and above conventional statistical techniques using SPSS or other statistical packages.€GIS is a methodological and conceptual approach that allows for the linking together of spatial data, or data that is based on a physical space, with non-spatial data, which.

This paper will bring together information from different sources to evaluate the current disposition of Canadian social science and related research data. It will review the more than 20 repositories hosting Canadian social data. Sources of information about Canadian data include the Re3data international data registry and National Research Council Canada Gateway to Research Data, the Canadian Association of Research Libraries Portage project and the Fairsharing data directory, Canadian open government resources, and commercial resources like data.mendeley.com add substantial additional information about Canadian social sciences research data. This review will document the subjects covered, and organizational connections between repositories and the consortia efforts working to coordinate Canadian data collecting. The paper will compare social science repositories to the larger body of data repositories. It will compare government provided data sources, academic, institutional, subject based shared consortia data sources, and publisher based collection data approaches. The paper will outline the considerable progress which is being made in data collection. It will also delineate major issues still to be addressed. Though Canada's data landscape is particular to Canada its course of development and problems will be instructive for other countries developing data services and resources.

The understanding of science by members of the public has been of increasing concern to social scientists. This article argues that such understanding, or the ostensible lack of it, is structured by discourses that address science both as an abstract entity or principle (science-in-general) and as an activity directed at specific phenomena or problems (science-in particular). Drawing upon a wide range of interviews about various sources of ionizing radiation, it is suggested that understanding is tied to questions of social identity that encompass relations of differentiation from and identification with science and the institutions in which it is embedded

Interactions between social science and environmental policy have become increasingly important over the past 25 years. There has, however, been little analysis of the roles that social scientists adopt and the contributions they make. In this paper we begin the process, offering tentative answers to two key questions: in relation to environmental problems: (1) how do social science and public policy interact? and (2) in the future, what types of interactions can social scientists engage in? To answer these questions we build on research in policy studies and science and technology studies, and extend it through public scholarship debates.

Statistical Methods for the Social and Behavioural Sciences: A Model Based Approach is the essential guide for those looking to extend their understanding of the principles of statistics, and begin using the right statistical modeling method for their own data. It is particularly suited to second or advanced courses in statistical methods across the social and behavioural sciences.--

The introduction of the Uniform Crime Reporting system (UCR) in 1930 remains one of the most important events in the history of criminal statistics in the United States. Based on local police reports, it is the oldest extant national crime data system in the United States, with the possible exception of prison statistics. It continues to be a vitally important data system because of its extensive use by scholars, social critics, governmental organizations and the media, and as such it has made a major contribution to our understanding of crime in the United States in the last half century. The UCR has also had its share of controversy, involving not only scientific issues of validity and reliability, but the possibility of covert agendas on the part of the police and the FBI to foster an image of effective law enforcement. Despite its importance and controversial nature there is no single objective and definitive written history documenting the beginnings of the UCR. That which exists tends to be brief and superficial, and at times even ideologically biased (Leonard 1954; Maltz 1977; Sherman et al. 1982; Thompson 1968; U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation 1940).