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The social consequences of a measure involve a summary determi-nation of all positive and negative effects the measure may have on individuals and society (see Good & Jefferson, 1998). Values implications and social consequences prompted the most discussion and debate among scholars (Brennan, 2006; Mehrens,
Jul 20, 2020 · This commentary explores the ways in which different branches of social theory can shed light on the implications of Covid-19 restrictions for social life ‘as we know it’. The broad fields of social theory in the commentary cover concepts such as risk, trust, fear, uncertainty and happiness.
- Paul R Ward
- 2020
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This chapter examines two approaches used in social science research: the “causes-of-effects” approach and the “effects-of-causes” approach. The quantitative and qualitative cultures differ in the extent to which and the ways in which they address causes-of-effects and effects-of-causes questions.
The cause and consequence of this has been the marginalization of those sources which were especially rich in social commentary: pre-eminent of these were the quarterly journalism and the early Tractarian fiction of the late 1830s and early 1840s.
Aug 21, 2017 · Since interventions of which we might wish to measure the effects are usually based on a particular understanding of the “cause” of the problem for which an intervention is sought, and since empirical evidence is based on cause–consequence assumptions, looking at explanation and causality might help the discussion further.
- A.E.J.M. Tellings
- 2017
Oct 15, 1993 · Social Science / Sociology. What do social critics do? I How do they go about doing it? Where do their principles come from? How do critics establish their distance from the people and institutions they criticize?Michael Walzer addresses these problems in succinct and engaging fashi...
Oct 1, 2019 · In this commentary, we aim to probe this “closer engagement of social epidemiology with formal causal inference approaches” by considering the application of causal inference methods in health disparities research, an area where many epidemiologists and statisticians have already broken ground .
