In social work, this has frequently translated to questions of whether and how social workers use research in practice. Despite these questions, relatively little is known about the ways in which research comes to be used in social work practice. This paper reports on a study of research ...
qualitative method of hypothesis generation has great potential for the development of social work knowledge, the paper shows how the grounded theory method originated by Glaser and Strauss (1976) builds on both induction and deduction and develops the research design over the course of the research...
This paper aims to understand how a group of academics cite each others’ work through time, considering the simultaneous co-evolution of three networks representing their scientific collaboration, the journals in which they publish and institutional membership. It argues that both social and cognitive ...
Although W. E. B. Du Bois addresses crime in Black communities in many of his writings, he is rarely recognized as having a cohesive theory on crime, and his work is often conflated with Shaw and McKay’s social disorganization theory. While both social disorganization and Du Bois’s theori...
Recent shifts in political sociology have moved away from reification of the state to focus more on symbolic and everyday sociocultural perceptions of political units. Yet the launching points for most research has been state-le...
In this paper we apply an ethical framework developed byWard and Syversen (2009; based on earlier work byCooper, 2004 and Kitchener, 2000) to help with ethical decision making in research contexts. We then discuss some of the specific ethical challenges for researchers working in forensic and co...
For example, residents of a neighborhood can stop at their local corner store at different times of day and never run into each other, but their visits are always five hours apart because of their respective work schedules. We can investigate this by creating networks of time-displaced co...
is to our profession what the microscope and reagents are to the natural sciences. Cross-examining pieces of evidence constitutes the crux of all research work, as a piece of evidence is, as a rule, an incomplete and imperfect piece in the puzzle. But no matter how incomplete and imperfect...
Whether immigrants and their descendants are catching up socioeconomically with the rest of society is a fundamental question in the study of immigrant assimilation. In this paper, we examine the progress that Hispanic immigrant men make catching up with the earnings of later-generation Whites across...
In the “Data Analysis and Results” section, we report the sample and verify the research hypothesis. The “Discussion and Conclusion” section explains the contribution, inspiration, and limitations of this work. Literature review and research hypothesis Social support willingness of live viewer The...