A discussion of the challenges to completing participatory social research with children and adolescents in a hospital setting. Beginning with the dominant medical culture of hospitals, coupled with a persistent skepticism of social and in particular, qualitative research and its contribution to knowledge in medical circles, restrictive contextual challenges also include attitudinal, methodological, and logistical considerations. Together, these challenges hamper good participatory research practice and the capacity to maintain quality data, as well as impede children's participation in research, which has the capacity to contribute to healthcare design, policy, and planning processes. Two studies in pediatric settings in Australia, one of which was completed in 2008 and the other which was discontinued in 2011, provide the basis for this research discussion. The discussion addresses the issues that persist in inhibiting the completion of participatory social research and the resulting impacts on research, children's right to participate, and the volume of evidence that is ultimately available from children's perspectives to support and inform healthcare design, planning, and policy in pediatric settings. Recommendations for changes that could strengthen and improve this research experience include building awareness of the potential value of this research; increasing its influence; building the capacity and knowledge of gatekeepers, ethics committees, and researchers working in this context; and recognizing and valuing children's competence and participation. Evidence-based design, hospital, methodology, patients, pediatric.

This article reports on a survey of public attitudes toward issues of informed consent in social research. It finds a high level of expressed concern about such matters as confidentiality of response and study sponsorship; it also finds significant interrelationships between the expression of such concerns and willingness to answer sensitive questions on the interview, though generally such relationships are small.

Journal Article Child Labor and the Community: A Note on New Procedures for Social Research Get access E. C. Lindeman E. C. Lindeman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 4, Issue 4, June 1926, Pages 774–775, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/4.4.774 Published: 01 June 1926

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society)Volume 167, Issue 1 p. 1-4 Editorial: The need for randomized trials in social research Carol Fitz-Gibbon, Carol Fitz-Gibbon University of DurhamSearch for more papers by this author Carol Fitz-Gibbon, Carol Fitz-Gibbon University of DurhamSearch for more papers by this author First published: 17 December 2003 https://doi.org/10.1046/j.0964-1998.2003.02047.xCitations: 7Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume167, Issue1February 2004Pages 1-4 RelatedInformation

The paper deals with knowledge discovery tools that represent the formalization of research heuristics for the qualitative analysis of sociological data. The results of studying various forms of constructive social activities of citizens using the JSM Socio intelligent system, which implements the proposed tools, are presented. Significant differences in some characteristics of social behavior of representatives of various nominal groups, in particular, political and civic activists are revealed.

The Ethnographer's Eye: Ways of Seeing in Modern Anthropology. Anna Grimshaw. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2001. 222 pp.Visual Methods in Social Research. Marcus Banks. New York City: Sage Publications, 2001. 201 pp.

Missing data is a common issue in quantitative social research that negatively affects the data quality. This article explores the consequences of missing data, outlining the potential issues it may pose and emphasizing the importance of properly addressing the missingness. It outlines the patterns of missing data, with a focus on the need to distinguish data that's Missing at Random and data that's Missing Not at Random, explaining how these patterns may affect the choice of handling methods. The article illustrates various approaches to managing missing data through a combination of hypothetical scenarios and case studies from actual research in order to showcase the application and effectiveness of various methods. It showcases the traditional methods of handling missing data, such as complete case analysis and simple imputation methods, and their limitations. Emphasizing the importance of advanced statistical techniques, the article advocates for the use of multiple imputation as a main method of choice when dealing with missing data. By providing a methodological comparison and a strategic framework for social scientists facing missing data challenges, this work provides a strategy to be employed by social scientists when dealing with missing data in order to ensure the proper data quality.


 
 
 Consider this essay as two brief confessions on the pressures of conducting ‘digital social research’ as an Early Career Researcher. Specifically, the confessions call out two emergent norms in academia: that early career digital social researchers ought to be visible and trackable online, and that we ought to focus on novel and innovative phenomena pioneered by ‘the youngs’. These two expectations have insidiously been integrated into early career digital social researchers’ repertoires of ‘tacit labours’ – “a collective practice of work that is understated and under-visibilized from being so thoroughly rehearsed that it appears as effortless and subconscious.” (Abidin 2016, p. 10) – in that it is assumed that being ‘Extremely Online’ and ‘Young <tm>’ are generational literacies ‘naturally’ hardwired into our systems.
 
 

Rural social research in China has been a focus of attention among scholars since the reestablishment of sociology in mainland China in 1979. In order to document developments in and the contributions of research on rural society in China during the past three decades, this paper analyzes 305 articles that were published from 1986 to 2015 in Sociological Studies. Results of this content analysis are reported in terms of topics covered in research, keywords applied to published research, the scholarly or disciplinary orientation of the research, the professional affiliations of authors, the mode and methodology of the studies, and their geographical scope.

Ubuntu is an African moral and philosophic worldview based on the values of shared and interconnected humanness. This contribution argues that Ubuntu can and should be extended to the realm of social science research by embracing Ubuntu ethics: an alternative ethical framework to the dominant Western-centric conventions. This presents social science researchers with a viable opportunity to open areas of inquiry that are often considered too sensitive, taboo, or risky to study. This is especially true for researchers working in oppressive, exploitative, exclusionary, and dehumanising contexts. This youth-centred qualitative study shows that research which embraces Ubuntu ethics has the potential to rehumanise research participants and researchers alike. By reflecting on research conducted with young people who work and live on the streets of Cape Town, I illustrate the transformative potential of research rooted in Ubuntu Ethics. This contribution offers a novel reformulation of research ethics in practice, specifically useful for the teaching and practice of Social Work Research in Africa. Current and previous volumes are available at: https://ajsw.africasocialwork.net HOW TO REFERENCE USING ASWDNET STYLE Makhetha T (2024). Ubuntu Ethics: A framework for rehumanising social research with young people. African Journal of Social Work, 14(6), 382-391. https://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ajsw.v14i6.9