Glossary of Research Terms This glossary is intended to assist you in understanding commonly used terms and concepts when reading‚ interpreting‚ and evaluating scholarly research in the social sciences. Also included are general words and phrases defined within the context of how they apply to social sciences research. Acculturation -- refers to the process of adapting to another culture‚ particularly in reference to blending in with the majority e.g.‚ an immigrant adopting American customs]
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LSE Research Online Article (refereed) Sonia Livingstone Does TV advertising make children fat? : what the evidence tells us Originally published in Public policy research‚ 13 (1). pp. 54-61 © 2006 Blackwell Publishing. You may cite this version as: Livingstone‚ Sonia (2006). Does TV advertising make children fat : what the evidence tells us [online]. London: LSE Research Online. Available at: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/1026 Available in LSE Research Online: May 2007 LSE has developed LSE Research
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e eBook Collection 56 CHAPTER 5 Research design Research designs are master techniques . . . (Kornhauser and Lazarsfeld‚ 1955) The research design is the overall plan for relating the conceptual research problem to relevant and practicable empirical research. In other words‚ the research design provides a plan or a framework for data collection and its analysis. It reveals the type of research (e.g. exploratory‚ descriptive or causal) and the priorities of the researcher. The research methods
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Northeastern Political Science Association Power‚ Causation & Explanation Author(s): Terence Ball Reviewed work(s): Source: Polity‚ Vol. 8‚ No. 2 (Winter‚ 1975)‚ pp. 189-214 Published by: Palgrave Macmillan Journals Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3234201 . Accessed: 17/09/2012 00:17 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that
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PART I WHAT IS RESEARCH DESIGN? 1 THE CONTEXT OF DESIGN Before examining types of research designs it is important to be clear about the role and purpose of research design. We need to understand what research design is and what it is not. We need to know where design ®ts into the whole research process from framing a question to ®nally analysing and reporting data. This is the purpose of this chapter. Description and explanation Social researchers ask two fundamental types of research
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The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0025-1747.htm MD 45‚9 1426 The mediating effect of organizational reputation on customer loyalty and service recommendation in the banking industry Nick Bontis and Lorne D. Booker DeGroote School of Business‚ McMaster University‚ Hamilton‚ Canada‚ and Alexander Serenko Faculty of Business Administration‚ Lakehead University‚ Thunder Bay‚ Canada Abstract Purpose – The overall purpose
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American Political Science Review Vol. 98‚ No. 2 May 2004 What Is a Case Study and What Is It Good for? JOHN GERRING Boston University T his paper aims to clarify the meaning‚ and explain the utility‚ of the case study method‚ a method often practiced but little understood. A “case study‚” I argue‚ is best defined as an intensive study of a single unit with an aim to generalize across a larger set of units. Case studies rely on the same sort of covariational evidence utilized in non-case
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the sample period. Results of dynamic ordinary least square (DOLS) suggest that the results will remain the same in the future up to lead 2. Results of Granger causality test‚ Toda and Yamamoto Modified Wald causality test and variance decomposition test confirm the unidirectional causal relationship between terrorism and tourism‚ causality runs from terrorism to tourism. Hye and Khan (2012) confirm tourism led growth hypothesis for Pakistan. It is suggested that the government should play a significant
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energy resources in the world make the relation between economic development and energy consumption more significant. In this study‚ the possible cointegration is inspected by Engle-Granger and Johansen Tests and the direction of the causality is searched by Granger causality test. The analysis showed that there is a long and short term relationship between economic growth and energy consumption in Turkey fort he period of 1980-2006. 1. INTRODUCTION Since the Industrial Revolution‚ the demand for
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Metaphysics: Aristotle and Plato’s Views Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy that tries to answer a few questions by looking at the fundamental nature of the world. What is appearance? What is real? And ultimately what is the nature of reality? It helps us to try and see past the physical things and determine for ourselves whether something actually exists and the ultimate reason for why it exists. Although a single term‚ metaphysics covers a wide array of topics‚ including Plato’s idea of individual
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