4.1 A situated practice In the previous sections we considered the challenges facing the contemporary social sciences and the issues raised by thinking of social research as a situated practice. You will already have identified the ways in which the social sciences are complicated by the problem of researchers attempting to know and understand the social world they inhabit. At this point it is useful to develop a checklist of the ways that this has affected social research practice.
3.3 Summary Social scientific inquiry, like all human practices, operates through a set of taken-for-granted assumptions and draws upon the same skills we use in everyday life. It is difficult to separate the treatment of facts in social science from deeply embedded cultural values. Social scientific knowledge is situated in two ways: historically in terms of the shared values and guidelines transmitted from previous studies in the social sciences, and socially within a specific cultu
3.2 What does it mean for knowledge to be situated? Scientific knowledge has been frequently portrayed as universally true. If this were the case then there would be no fundamental disagreements, for what counts as true would never change. However, what has been considered scientific in the past is now often seen as archaic or simply odd. The opposite approach would be to say that truth is relative – no one view is superior to any other. Both of these positions are simplistic. Contemporary defenders of science would argue that science is imp
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EMOIS Nancy 2011 - Les outils de détection et visualisation des effets indésirables médicamenteux
Les « ADE Scorecards », outil de détection et visualisation des effets indésirables médicamenteux.
Auteur(s) : Emmanuel Chazard1, Grégoire Ficheur1, Adrian Baceanu2, Romaric Marcilly3, Régis Beuscart1
1CHRU de Lille, service d’information et des archives médicales, EA2694, Lille, France
2 IDEEA Advertising, Bucarest, Roumanie
3 CI-CIT Biocapteurs et Technologies pour la santé, EVALAB, Lille, France
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What is ‘e-commerce’? This unit will look at typical application areas including the internet, supply chain management and online auctions. It will also help you to understand the underlying technologies used to implement e-commerce applications before looking at some of the problems that can be encountered when developing distributed e-commerce systems.
A two minute video on how the speaker became a wedding and event planner and what they do and how she got her job. The importance of research is mentioned as well as such skills as people skills, time management skills, and organizational skills.
The steps for becoming an optometrist start in high school, continue with a college education geared towards optometry school, and finish with completing an
Optometry Admissions Test and going through four years of optometry is the subject of this three minute video. A good review of what is needed and the time requirements.
school. Learn about residency programs and board exams that must be completed before practicing optometry in this interview.
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This unit will help you to understand the forms of data that are handled by software and look at the various processes that can be applied to the data. These ideas are demonstrated through the use of a supermarket till and illustrate how simple data sets can be manipulated.
Talk on Dasty from the DAS workshop 2011 Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
Eric Liu is the founder of the Guiding Lights Network (www.guidinglightsnetwork.com), as well as Bill Clinton's former speechwriter. He'll chat with Media Space host Hanson Hosein about his groundbreaking efforts to spark civic engagement and social change, with a unique focus on citizenship, mentorship and technology. He’ll answer what role community-building and leadership play in harnessing creative energy, and how we can keep pace with social and economic changes.
Hosted by the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute, this database was developed as an information resource on fruits from the Americas. Based on a September 2004 assessment, the New Worlds Fruits Database contained information about "1253 fruit species belonging to 302 genera and 69 families." Species profiles include vernacular names, geographic distribution, uses, bibliographic references, and links to additional Internet resources. Text searches can be conducted by Genus, Species,
NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe mission attempts to reveal conditions as they existed in the early universe by measuring the properties of the cosmic microwave background radiation over the full sky. Visitors can learn more about the particulars of the mission, explore the subjects of cosmology and the "Big Bang Theory" on the Universe link, view images of the probe and its launch in June 2001, and study the first detailed full-sky map of the oldest light in the universe. Although it
Sometimes learning or at least sparking an interest in a subject can be accomplished through pictures. The Geoscapes Photography Web site by Emeritus Professor of Geology John A. Karachewski contains spectacular photos of various geologic formations from the western US. By clicking on the main gallery link, students can choose from various locations such as northern California, Point Reyes National Seashore, Colorado, and Utah. Each link then contains the photographs and simple descriptions of t
What's its Name? (WIN) is "a concise database of plant names and name changes for Australia." Based on information available from the Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), WIN is a collaborative project of the Australian National Botanic Gardens, the Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, and the Australian Biological Resources Study. The Web site includes instructions on how to use the database that provides a clear example. Search results include information sources and links to the more extens
Meet the chimps of Tanzania's Gombe National Park at this entertaining Web site from the Jane Goodall Institute's Center for Primate Studies. With colorful photos on every page, this site offers biographies about specific chimpanzees written by the researchers who study them, a virtual tour of the park, recorded chimp calls, interactive games, relevant links, and more. Users can download over a dozen documents for additional information and activities, such as a guide to chimpanzee territorial b
