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Inductive and/or Deductive Research Designs
This chapter aims to introduce the readers, especially the Bangladeshi undergraduate and postgraduate students to some fundamental considerations of...
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Imaginary Myths: Roland Barthes and the Rhetorical Induction
The diffusion of contemporary myths is closely related to the iconic power of mainstream media, especially TV and cinema, in line with the...
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Global Civil Society Response to the COVID-19 Crisis
How did Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) globally address the needs caused by the COVID-19 pandemic? In this study, we examine the roles CSOs...
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Understanding Access and Utilization of Healthcare Services Among African Immigrant Women in the United States: the Application of Health Belief Model
African immigrants in the U.S. are among the most economically and socially disadvantaged groups, with minimal access to healthcare and...
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Adapting and blending grounded theory with case study: a practical guide
This article tackles how to adapt grounded theory by blending it with case study techniques. Grounded theory is commended for enabling qualitative...
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Introduction
This chapter provides an overview of qualitative research. It discusses the characteristics, and philosophical underpinnings of qualitative research...
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Through the labyrinth: women in the public universities of Pakistan
The purpose of this study is to find out how women negotiate their path to leadership; the barriers and facilitators and how they navigated them to...
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Concluding Remarks and Identification of Theoretical and Practical Contributions
This study aimed to provide an ontology of professional activities in the SW industry that require and enable the acquisition of experience that in...
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Understanding the Gap Between Union Sentiment and Union Joining: A Moderated Mediated Psychological Model of Willingness to Join
Stemming from recent national U.S. polls that indicate a notable gap between feelings about unions and willingness to act in accordance with a union,...
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Introducing the Breadth-and-Depth Method
This chapter outlines the rationale and context of the breadth-and-depth method, along with its metaphorical foundations. Consideration is given to...
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Logical Propaedeutic
This chapter sketches how and why people in everyday life and in the sciences use words, concepts, sentences, judgments, inferences, and theoretical...
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Polarization of Opinion
Opinion polarization is increasingly attracting attention due to its potential to disrupt societies. While the issue is becoming more prominent, the...
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Epistemology Contextualized: Social Scientific Knowledge in a Post-Positivist Era
In the production of knowledge about social life, two social contexts come together: the context of investigation, consisting of the social world of...
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Using biograms to promote life course research. An example of theoretical case configuration relating to paths of social exclusion
The purpose of the article is to present how, if used to aid the conduction and analysis of interviews, biograms enable the peculiarities of...
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Intersectionality, Women, and Violent Politics in the Americas
Violence against women in politics (VAWIP) is increasingly recognized as a global problem that threatens women’s ability to enact citizenship. Yet,...
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A machine learning-based assessment of subjective quality of life
This paper evaluates subjective quality of life using various Machine Learning (ML) techniques. Utilizing a survey conducted in Quito’s historical...
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A way out of the predicament of social sciences in the 20th century: a dialogue with Clifford Geertz’s essay “Thick description: toward an interpretive theory of culture”(Part II)
Clifford Geertz’s essay, “Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture” comprehensively explored the basic problems encountered in the...
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Data Analysis Methods
This chapter introduces analysis of qualitative data. After a brief overview, coding in ATLAS.ti, including auto-codingAuto-coding, redundant coding,...
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"It’s a Job Living Here": A Qualitative Exploration of Information Motivation and Behavioral Skills (IMB) Related to Primary Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes Among Middle-class African Americans
Middle-class African Americans are generally ignored in Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) prevention efforts, because of presumed protective factors. However,...
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Positivism
Positivism is a paradigm that has dominated both the natural and social sciences. The ontology of positivism is called realism where reality is seen...