Suchergebnisse

This contribution will focus on the politics of scales: traditionally conceived, by the positivist science, as hierarchical relational levels that vary from the dimension of the human body to the global, they are studied by post structural interpretations in terms of multiscalarity, processual rescaling, ideological constructions, and contextual pathways for democratic, just and sustainable transformations. This chapter focuses on two cases: a) on rescaling strategies played by indigenous organizations in Ecuador in relation to the central powers, to affirm the plurinational identity of the state; and b) on standard scales in natural conservation and creation of a natural park and kinship scale based on the notion of ancestral lands, tanindrazana, of the Tsimihety, main ethnic group in rural Northeast Madagascar. Politics of scales informs sustainability science to focus carefully on peoples' institutions, territories, and territorialities as contingent levels of power interactions. ; Peer reviewed

This article explores some theoretical and methodological problems concerned with scale in education research through a critique of a recent mixed-method project. The project was framed by scale metaphors drawn from the physical and earth sciences and I consider how recent thinking around scale, for example in ecosystems and human geography might offer helpful points and angles of view on the challenges of thinking spatially in education research. Working between the spatial metaphors of ecology scholars and the critiques of the human geographers, for example the hypercomplex social space in Lefebvre's political-economic thinking and the fluid, simultaneous, multiple spatialities of Massey's post-structuralism, I problematize space and scale in education research. Interweaving these geographical ideas with Giddens' structuration and Bourdieu's theory of practice, both of which employed what might be termed scale-bridging to challenge social science's entrenched paradigms, leads me to reconsider what is possible and desirable in the study of education systems. Following the spatial turn in the social sciences generally, there is an outstanding need to theorise multi-scale methodology for education research.

Chin scales. File 1: Eroded chin scales, penny for size. File 2: Eroded chin scales. ; https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/mhinojosa/1163/thumbnail.jpg

How to reckon with the staggering volume of television materials, past and present? And how to comprehend all the potential, complex scales at which to grapple with television, from its tiniest units of audiovisual content to its most massive industrial coordinates and beyond? In Television Scales, Nick Salvato demonstrates how the problem of scale in the field of television may be turned into a resource and a method for a television studies that would pay better attention to messy medial complexities, peripatetic critical practices, and vulgar psychogeographies. Modeling his investigative practice on the meta-critical writing of social anthropologist Marilyn Strathern in Partial Connections and elsewhere, Salvato composes surprising, partial constellations of television's elements. In the process, his consideration ranges from classic television sitcoms like I Love Lucy to contemporary reality series such as The Biggest Loser, Iron Chef, and House Hunters International. He simultaneously pores over a number of key television phenomena, including technological mystification, performers' charismatic displays, binge viewing, and devoted fandom. An experiment in style and form, Television Scales maps, weighs, and rules television, while also undoing these very strategies for evaluating the medium.

International audience ; One of the important research tool is questionnaire. Decision mak ers and researchers across all academic and industry sectors conduct surveys and questionnaires to uncover answers to specific, significant questions. In fact, questionnaires and surveys can be an effective tools for data collection required for research and evaluation. In order to develop a survey/questionnaire, first the researcher should decide how to collect the required data. In this regard, scaling is the branch of measurement that involves the construction of an instrument. One of the most widely used scaling method is attitude scales to measure instruments and Lik ert scale is applied as one of the most fundamental and frequently used psychometric tools in sociology, psychology, information system, politics, economy and many more research. However, research methodology research have not particularly suggested the best rating scale to be chosen for a research. This study is going to provide an overview of the Lik ert scale and comparing rating scales of different lengths. Results will mak e researchers able to mak e decision on what number of Lik ert scale points use for their survey and questionnaire. Tak en as a whole this study suggests using of seven-point rating scale and if there is a need to have respondent to be directed on one side, then six-point scale might be the most suitable.