Directory of Methodology Resources

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Sites in this category are related to Social Research Methodology: the methods, techniques, and technology employed by social scientists in the advance of their fields.

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• Qualitative
• Scientific Method
• Statistics
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Resources in This Category

• Center for Sociocybernetics Studies, Bonn

  http://www.sociocybernetics.eu/
  Sociocybernetics is the application of systems thinking and cybernetic principles in sociology and other social sciences in order to analyse social phenomena regarding their complexity and dynamics.

• Cross-impact Balance Analysis

  http://www.cross-impact.de/
  CIB is a highly flexible cross-impact method used in scenario analysis to analyse the interactions of events, trends, or states in social systems. In English and German.

• General Semantics

  http://www.xenodochy.org/gs/
  A critical analysis of the theoretical foundations of Korzybski's general semantics featuring many papers, commentary, and discussions.

• Latent Semantic Analysis

  http://lsa.colorado.edu/
  A mathematical/statistical technique for extracting and representing the similarity of meaning of words and passages by analysis of large bodies of text.

• Max Weber's Approach to Objectivity in Social Science

  http://www.criticism.com/md/weber1.html
  This essay, by Steve Hoenisch, seeks to shed light on Weber's view of the applicability of objectivity by attempting to answer the overarching question that sits at the foundation of his approach: Was Weber an advocate of value-free social science?

• Measuring Paradoxical Reality

  http://www.burcet.net/jbl/lleixa/polymeters.htm
  An alternative way to assess subject condition in social sciences.

• META Magazine Research

  http://www.metamagazine.com/
  Research about methods and techniques on problem solving, acquiring knowledge, classification of information, education, and positive creative management skills.

• Qualitative and Quantitative Research: Conjunctions and Divergences

  http://qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/inhalt1-01-e.htm
  Discusses the logic of relating qualitative and quantitative methods, different approaches for inter-relating them, and innovative applications of methodological inter-relation.

• Resources for Methods in Evaluation and Social Research

  http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/
  Links to free resources for methods in social science research.

• RM Institute - Research Methods Knowledge

  http://www.researchmethods.org/
  The knowledge base of social science research methods. It focuses on measurements and modeling issues.

• Semac -- Semantic Analysis Software

  http://www.semac.be/
  The concept of semantic activity that is claimed to proceed as well from single words as from word co-occurrences. This equalization rests upon graph theory.

• The Bell Curve: Anatomy of an Analysis

  http://www.claudiax.net/bell.html
  The interpretations proffered in Herrnstein and Murray's book, "The Bell Curve", are not supported by reanalysis of their data.

• The Web Center for Social Research Methods

  http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/
  Resources for applied social research and evaluation including a complete online research methods text, course resources, and researcher tools.

• United Kingdom Evaluation Society

  http://www.evaluation.org.uk/
  Member of the Academy of Social Sciences. Describes goals, membership, activities and upcoming events. Located in Hertfordshire.

• Vytvorology

  http://ojczyzna.pl/BR/BROZYNA-What-Is-Vytvorology.htm
  Vytvorology, which is an exact science of human processes, offers new, acute and reliable research possibilities in this field of human and social processes.

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