Social Science

There is rarely the opportunity to perform the classic and most rigorous form of experiment, or The True Experiment, because the first critical requirement is to randomize all selection of test subjects. Second, there must be randomization in all decisions…
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Social networking can be viewed in two senses: in the sense of interacting socially and undergoing socialization at sites throughout the Internet, or in interacting socially , and undergoing socialization in the real world. Many sociological constructs consider that human…
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Internet “flame wars” are sometimes the stuff of legend within the tens of thousands of forums that exist on line. Whether the war is a consequence of an individual posting a series of inflammatory and controversial posts, or whether the…
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It is becoming quite common to hear that “the girls are getting to be as bad as the boys!” But the case is not that simple. When gang activity and gang society is examined, girls are either regressing into roles…
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The most highly regarded and rigorous experimental design in sociological research is the controlled experiment, where artificial conditions are established, the highest standards of internal validity prove that there is no other explanation for the cause and effect relationship, and…
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The basic statistical methods are used to establish the soundness of a basic cause and effect hypothesis. There are tests for internal and external validity of data in supporting the hypothesis, whether a sample population is representative of a whole,…
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A statistical model describes relationships between variables. Does one thing change another? Does one thing relate to another? Is something different from another in a fixed way? Can a large population be expected to follow along the same lines as…
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Sex, that exhilarating, energizing activity that is plastered all over the world has been misrepresented for far too long. It is not, nor has it ever been about cold, calculating satisfaction, brutally taken in the throes of violence and ruthless…
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Culture is a concept that is difficult to define and to communicate clearly, no matter how many caveats, codicils, inclusions and exclusions we can cram into a sentence! As a result, symbols which represent and communicate complex concepts are surely…
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Social networking has a surprisingly long history which dates back to the original use of the military, government, scientific and educational internets to pass along personal messages and to have discussions. When the systems were in place to allow chat,…
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