Social science perspectives on climate change and development

University of Copenhagen

Xaquín S. Pérez-Sindín López

Category: research design

  • Critique to sociology and related disciplines by Bastos

    But the idea is that there is a kind of determinism, that there is a series of statistical data from the past that can be used to predict the future, and from those statistics, from that data, a deterministic vision is born. So, for example, everything that is forecasting, futures analysis, and things like that…

  • The Black Swan: Understanding the Power of the Unexpected

    We like to believe the world is predictable. We build plans, forecasts, strategies, and expectations based on what we already know. We look at the past and assume it can help us understand the future. Most of the time, this works well enough. But every so often, something happens that breaks our assumptions completely. This…

  • Types of literature review

    One of the most common problems I see when supervising research students is that they approach the literature review as if it were a neutral, generic, and almost mechanical academic exercise. They assume that a literature review simply means reading a large number of papers, summarising what other scholars have said, arranging those summaries into…

  • Doing research as if participants mattered

    Almost all qualitative and quantitative research into human society involves the participation of other humans. However, they are frequently rendered passively in research outputs as ‘research subjects’. In this post, Helen Kara, argues that the way we define participants in research is outdated and presents three ways in which research participants can be made more central…

  • La soledad: un ingrediente clave de la creatividad / How loneliness conducts to creativity

    POR MAR ABAD Original source Una novela gráfica sobre Glenn Gould explora la vida y la obra de este genio de la música que amaba sus momentos a solas  Glenn Gould se encerraba en su soledad para componer sus piezas. Ahí nadie molestaba. Este genio de la música clásica (1932-1982) vivía en un espacio interior…

  • Regretting Motherhood: A Sociopolitical Analysis

    Based on in-depth interviews with twenty-three Israeli mothers, this article seeks to contribute to an ongoing inquiry into women’s subjective experiences of mothering by addressing an understudied maternal emotive and cognitive stance: regretting motherhood. The literature teaches us that within a pronatal monopoly, threatening women that they will inevitably regret not having children acts as…

  • Focusing research topic in six steps

    In previous post I have addressed different stages of the research process, that is, from the very beginning when one is formulating the research question up to the final conclusions. However, this post aims to dig into the first stages any researcher is coping at the beginning and, particularly, non-experienced researchers. Having a consistent research…

  • Challenges confronting beginning researchers in conducting literature reviews

    Conducting literature review is a complicated, sometimes confusing and laborious process that beginning educational researchers, especially graduate students, often find challenging. However, in the past these challenges were hardly considered, but in more recent times they have been increasingly considered by various faculties and graduate schools due to the expanding needs from growing enrolments. To…

  • “An individual’s level of personal well-being is strongly related to the level of wealth of the household in which they live”

    “Relationship between Wealth, Income and Personal Well-being, July 2011 to June 2012” Summary This article uses data from the Wealth and Assets Survey (WAS) for July 2011 to June 2012 which, for the first time, included measures of personal well-being. It describes the results of regression analysis considering the relationships between the total wealth or…

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