Social Research

An Innocuous Quote by Interviewee 11: Re-Thinking Interviews in Social Research
Research
August 4, 2021

An Innocuous Quote by Interviewee 11: Re-Thinking Interviews in Social Research

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UK Study of Diversity and Inclusion in Social Research Finds We Have ‘Far to Go’
Bookshelf
July 16, 2021

UK Study of Diversity and Inclusion in Social Research Finds We Have ‘Far to Go’

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Sir Cliff Richard, the BBC and the Ethics of Interviewing
News
July 19, 2018

Sir Cliff Richard, the BBC and the Ethics of Interviewing

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Deregulating Social Science Research Ethics – Clipping the Wings of IRBs?
International Debate
November 5, 2015

Deregulating Social Science Research Ethics – Clipping the Wings of IRBs?

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On the Ethics of Facebook – and Drawing the Right Conclusions

On the Ethics of Facebook – and Drawing the Right Conclusions

What does the Facebook emotional contagion study really tells us about research ethics? Perhaps, argues Robert Dingwall, that its time to deregulate public social science.

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Return to Planet Quantophrenia

Return to Planet Quantophrenia

Robert Dingwall argues that numeracy and and a grasp of quantitative method of course have a place in the education of a social scientist, but they shouldn’t be the only skills in the graduate’s quiver. How about he ability to walk around, for one?

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Quantophrenia is Back in Town

Quantophrenia is Back in Town

Many social scientists find themselves members of a cult of quantification, argues Robert Dingwall, in love with numbers for their own sake even when those numbers produce no useful knowledge.

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The Ethics of Impact

The Ethics of Impact

Back in the summer, John Holmwood, the current BSA President, sent me an email about impact and research ethics. Various contingencies have […]

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The BBC, North Korea and the Culture of Impunity

The BBC, North Korea and the Culture of Impunity

The controversy over BBC journalists’ use of a student tour group linked to the London School of Economics should not be allowed to go away quietly.

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What are the prospects for global sociology?

What are the prospects for global sociology?

For there to be some sort of global sociology there would need to a recognition of socio-culturally disparate forms of knowledge and institutional settings.

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Satan at work in the university…?

Satan at work in the university…?

How an unholy alliance of arrogant scientists and self-interested federal bureaucrats came to widen the net of ethical regulation intended to deal with abuses in medical research to empirical investigation in the humanities and social sciences.

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My social science career: Interview with Ellen Wartella

My social science career: Interview with Ellen Wartella

As part of a series of occasional interviews with leading social scientists Ellen Wartella, a scholar on the role of media in […]

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