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Objective. County‐level socioeconomic and demographic data were used to construct an index of social vulnerability to environmental hazards, called the Social Vulnerability Index (SoVI) for the United States based on 1...

This book presents a theory of learning that starts with the assumption that engagement in social practice is the fundamental process by which we get to know what we know and by which we become who we are. The primary un...

In this article, the authors describe how they used a hybrid process of inductive and deductive thematic analysis to interpret raw data in a doctoral study on the role of performance feedback in the self-assessment of nu...

Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design provides an overview of the five main traditions of qualitative research. The author explains the uniqueness of each approach and its applicability to different types of inquiry. I...

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTReaction path following in mass-weighted internal coordinatesCarlos. Gonzalez and H. Bernhard. SchlegelCite this: J. Phys. Chem. 1990, 94, 14, 5523–5527Publication Date (Prin...

In this important theoretical treatist, Jean Lave, anthropologist, and Etienne Wenger, computer scientist, push forward the notion of situated learning - that learning is fundamentally a social process. The authors maint...

Conservation of Resources (COR) theory predicts that resource loss is the principal ingredient in the stress process. Resource gain, in turn, is depicted as of increasing importance in the context of loss. Because resour...

Abstract Innovation spans a number of fields within the social sciences and humanities: management, economics, geography, sociology, policy studies, psychology, and history. Consequently, the rapidly increasing body of l...

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTThe path of chemical reactions - the IRC approachKenichi FukuiCite this: Acc. Chem. Res. 1981, 14, 12, 363–368Publication Date (Print):December 1, 1981Publication History Pub...

The growth in qualitative research is a well-noted and welcomed fact within the social sciences; however, there is a regrettable lack of tools available for the analysis of qualitative material. There is a need for great...

This article aims (1) to analytically disaggregate agency into its several component elements (though these are interrelated empirically), (2) to demonstrate the ways in which these agentic dimensions interpenetrate with...

Organized anarchies are organizations characterized by problematic preferences, unclear technology, and fluid participation. Recent studies of universities, a familiar form of organized anarchy, suggest that such organiz...

Subjects / keywords: Equivalence (formal languages); Adaptation (eye); Set (abstract data type); Psychology; Quality of life (healthcare); Measure (data warehouse); Quality (philosophy); Applied psychology; Cross-cultural studies; Process (c...

In this article, we accomplish two things. First, we show that despite empirical psychologists' nominal endorsement of a low rate of false-positive findings (≤ .05), flexibility in data collection, analysis, and report...

Abstract: Naturalistic program evaluation strategies are gaining acceptance within the evaluation profession. They are especially useful in the examination of the transaction, or process, components of programs. One of t...

Subjects / keywords: Qualitative research; Praxis; Sociology; Positivism; Theme (computing); Variety (cybernetics); Ethnography; Witness; Postmodernism; Epistemology; Appeal; Social science

This article described three heuristics that are employed in making judgments under uncertainty: (i) representativeness, which is usually employed when people are asked to judge the probability that an object or event A ...

Subjects / keywords: Representativeness heuristic; Heuristics; Class (philosophy); Computer science; Process (computing); Object (grammar); Event (particle physics); Value (mathematics); Artificial intelligence; Psychology; Machine learning;...

Brief Contents PART I THE FUNDAMENTALS Chapter 1 THE NATURE AND TOOLS OF RESEARCH PART II FOCUSING YOUR RESEARCH EFFORTS Chapter 2 THE PROBLEM: THE HEART OF THE RESEARCH PROCESS Chapter 3 REVIEW OF THE RELATED LITERATURE...

Subjects / keywords: Psychology; Romance; Social psychology; Process (computing); Attachment theory; Developmental psychology; Psychoanalysis; Computer science; Operating system

For several years many of us at Peabody College have participated in the evolution of a theory of community, the first conceptualization of which was presented in a working paper (McMillan, 1976) of the Center for Commun...

Stereotype threat is being at risk of confirming, as self-characteristic, a negative stereotype about one's group. Studies 1 and 2 varied the stereotype vulnerability of Black participants taking a difficult verbal test ...

Abstract This article describes the concept of posttraumatic growth, its conceptual foundations, and supporting empirical evidence. Posttraumatic growth is the experience of positive change that occurs as a result of the...