For example “From the sounds of it you really know your stuff. I bet you run the whole IT department! You must be charge of a great deal!” • Open questions This is a technique often used by salesmen and was touched upon in Chapter 1. The basic premise is to ask questions that...
This is but one example of how the DNA of reading has always included the need for its socialising. But while up to now this need has required a physical presence and has been subject to the slow but sure word of mouth system, nowadays technological development has made global participation...
KINSHIP AS AN ANALYTICAL CATEGORY IN RURAL SOCIOLOGY: AN INTRODUCTIONdoi:10.1111/j.1467-9523.1987.tb00321.xMARY BOUQUETHENK DE HAANBouquet, M. and H. de Haan (1987) `Kinship as an Analytical Category in Rural Sociology: An Introduction', Sociologia Ruralis XXVII:4, pp. 243-62...
Contexts of Kinship: An Essay in the Family Sociology of the Gonja of Northern Ghana In her study of domestic organization in Gonja, a formerly important West African state, now part of Ghana, Esther Goody has concentrated on tracing the interrelationships between political and domestic institutions...
Network analytical metrics often seek to capture the structural dimension of social capital, but such data collections using traditional social research to
Conway, Claire Wladis & Shirsti Karim 7243 Accesses 12 Citations 2 Altmetric Explore all metrics Abstract Even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, online learning had become a fundamental part of post-secondary education. At the same time, empirical evidence from the last decade documents higher ...
In Example (16), there are three typical instances of sharpening. As a category of focus, “thesolemeasure the Israeli military is using in the field”, “appallingindifference towards human life” and “seniorIsraeli government and military officials”. Of the three, the first two instances ar...
Despite recent works in this direction, detecting crowd abnormalities still remains an open and challenging problem mainly because of the “loose” definition of abnormality which is strongly context dependent [42,43]. For example, riding a bike in a street is a normal action, whereas it may ...
Some studies examine the effect of a particular variable on the consultation. For example,West (1984)looks at gender as a factor in interruptions. Age and class have also been studied to ascertain the impact of these variables on access to appropriate medical treatment and advice. For example,...
To expand related research, this study examines the spatial distribution of 2,433 CGBPs (taking “XingShengYouXuan”, a CGB brand, as an example) in Xi’an, China. The research is divided into six sections. The second part explains the study area, data source, spatial analysis methods, ...