The paper examines key ethical dilemmas that arise between researchers and participants, demonstrates difficulties in solving them and highlights their contextual nature. Contextual decision-making fits social sciences better than a universalist approach, due to diversity of methods and research situations. Accordingly, ethical regulation based on rigidly- deontological principles may hamper social research.
COBISS.SI-ID: 29711197
The book develops a model for a new type of trans-disciplinary knowledge production that draws together expertise in the social, psychological, biological and technical sciences to address urgent social problems. The new RISC framework takes large quantities of building blocks from traditional research across the natural and social sciences areas, but provides a re-arrangement or, alternatively, a recombinative and integrative design for these many diverse and isolated compoments.
COBISS.SI-ID: 29836381
The monograph addresses three methodological approaches – or ‘roads’ – to comparative research. The first one is centered on statistical analyses and on comparative descriptions of the obtained results. The second transforms a set of comparable data into a visual pattern with which a competent observer interacts. The third road opens up some surprising possibilities within the context of strictly incomparable data sets. The book contributes to an improved understanding of the complexities of the European project and to a widening of our current approaches in comparative research.
COBISS.SI-ID: 28581981
Knjiga je namenjena družboslovcem, raziskovalcem in učiteljem, ponuja jim metodološko ekspertizo ter olajšuje dostop do izvirnih datotek v Arhivu družboslovnih podatkov FDV. Prvi del vsebuje metodološke znanstvene članke, ki se vežejo na probleme anketne metode. Drugi del vsebuje vprašalnike s popolnim besedilom vprašanj in lestvicami ter pregledom deskriptivnih rezultatov, ki uporabniku omogoča uvid v konstrukcijo in vsebino merskega instrumenta. Zainteresiranim bralcem ponuja podatke na enostaven in pregleden način s prikazom opisnih vzorcev frekvenčnih porazdelitev in povprečij.
COBISS.SI-ID: 29302109
Trust in institutions of political and social system is a basis of modern democracies. The analysis confirms that expression of trust in political institutions is under the strong influence of political views of the evaluators. Low level of trust in political institutions in Slovenia limits participation of Slovenians in the democratic processes and the success of their control over legislative and executive power. Cross country comparisons reveal a relationship between trust and level of democratic and economic development.
COBISS.SI-ID: 28584541