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Quality and constructed knowledge: Truth, paradigms, and the state of the science.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Medical education [Med Educ] 2023 Jan; Vol. 57 (1), pp. 23-30. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Jul 25.
Abstract: Context and Truth: Education is a social science. Social science knowledge is related to its context of origin. The concept of global 'truth' in education is therefore of limited use when truth is tempered by context. The wider applicability of our kno...
The "Dravidian model": egalitarianism and healthcare reform.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Indian journal of medical ethics [Indian J Med Ethics] 2023 Jan-Mar; Vol. VIII (1), pp. 42-45.
Abstract: Throughout the post-independence period, the state of Tamil Nadu has consistently performed better than most other states in several major healthcare indicators, including infant mortality rate and total fertility rate. At the same time, it has receive...
Nursing science as the study of how to reconcile behavioral messiness with clinical norms and ideals.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Studies in history and philosophy of science [Stud Hist Philos Sci] 2023 Jun; Vol. 99, pp. 37-45. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Mar 29.
Abstract: There is no settled definition of nursing science that describes how this field of scientific research is unique. This paper attempts to correct this problem. It uses a combination of historical analysis and abductive argument to support the thesis tha...
On diversity of human-nature relationships in environmental sciences and its implications for the management of ecological crisis.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): History and philosophy of the life sciences [Hist Philos Life Sci] 2023 May 04; Vol. 45 (2), pp. 20. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 May 04.
Abstract: Decision makers addressing the ecological crisis face the challenge of considering complex ecosystems in their socioeconomic decisions. Complementary to ecological sciences, other scientific frameworks, grouped under the umbrella term environmental sci...
The project implicit international dataset: Measuring implicit and explicit social group attitudes and stereotypes across 34 countries (2009-2019).
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Behavior research methods [Behav Res Methods] 2023 Apr; Vol. 55 (3), pp. 1413-1440. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Jun 01.
Abstract: For decades, researchers across the social sciences have sought to document and explain the worldwide variation in social group attitudes (evaluative representations, e.g., young-good/old-bad) and stereotypes (attribute representations, e.g., male-scie...
'Measuring' Collective Trauma: a Quantum Social Science Approach.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Integrative psychological & behavioral science [Integr Psychol Behav Sci] 2023 Jun; Vol. 57 (2), pp. 412-431. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Apr 30.
Abstract: In the twenty-first century the world faces the stark reality that's far from any visions of an ideal world, accompanied by an epidemic of social inequality and global injustice. Many social and global issues such as the refugee crisis, climate injusti...
Beyond market share: Accounting for doctoral program size in recent rates of anthropology faculty job placement.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): PloS one [PLoS One] 2023 May 24; Vol. 18 (5), pp. e0285330. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 May 24 (Print Publication: 2023).
Abstract: Job placement trends in higher education at US institutions are bleak. Within anthropology and other social science disciplines this problem appears to be particularly pronounced. Recent studies focusing on placement in Anthropology using market share ...
Development and the social sciences: international agencies in Brazilian favelas in the 1960s.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos [Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos] 2023 May 15; Vol. 30, pp. e2023015. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 May 15 (Print Publication: 2023).
Abstract: An analysis is presented of the work of three international entities in Brazilian favelas in the 1960s: Brasil-Estados Unidos Movimento, Desenvolvimento e Organização de Comunidade; Ação Comunitária do Brasil; and the United Nations. These entities con...
Advances in transparency and reproducibility in the social sciences.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Social science research [Soc Sci Res] 2022 Sep; Vol. 107, pp. 102770. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Jul 12.
Abstract: Worries about a "credibility crisis" besieging science have ignited interest in research transparency and reproducibility as ways of restoring trust in published research. For quantitative social science, advances in transparency and reproducibility ca...
Harnessing the behavioral and social sciences to promote oral health: Where do we go from here?
Publication Type: Report
Source(s): Community dentistry and oral epidemiology [Community Dent Oral Epidemiol] 2023 Feb; Vol. 51 (1), pp. 149-152.