The Social Process of Scientific Investigation

The Social Process of Scientific Investigation
Title The Social Process of Scientific Investigation PDF eBook
Author W.R. Knorr
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Pages 418
Release 2012-12-06
Genre History
ISBN 9400991096

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practice, some of which is translated into the standard forms of public discourse, in publication, and then retranslated by readers and adapted again to local practice at self-selected other sites. Less may be left implicit, and additional personal and contextual information is carried, by the "informal" methods of communication which mediate local projects and international publication. But both methods of communication are screens as well as conduits of information. History and Background of the Volume When the planning of this volume began in the spring of 1977, it seemed a natural part of the mandate for the Yearbook. There had also been a number of more specific calls for deeper studies of research in social and historical context (3). These calls can be seen as giving permission and legitimacy to ask questions otherwise seen as irrelevant, or even disrespectful, and as attempts to develop new perspectives from which to ask and to answer them. The implied and expressed irreverence toward traditions and institutions of great respect may have prolonged this process of initial apologetics. In any case, in May 1977 the theme of 'The Social Process of Scientific Investigation' was proposed to the Editorial Board for Volume IV as "the heart of the subject. " That is, the ethnographic and detailed historical study of actual scientific activity and thinking at or close to the work site.

Trends in the Draw of Americans to Foreign Terrorist Organizations from 9/11 to Today

Trends in the Draw of Americans to Foreign Terrorist Organizations from 9/11 to Today
Title Trends in the Draw of Americans to Foreign Terrorist Organizations from 9/11 to Today PDF eBook
Author Heather J. Williams
Publisher Rand Corporation
Pages 97
Release 2018-12-27
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1977401384

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The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has recently been more successful than al Qaeda in gaining U.S. terrorist recruits. The authors undertake a demographic profile of individuals drawn to foreign terrorist organizations and find that the affiliates average terrorists recruited by ISIL is younger, less educated, and more likely to be African American/black or Caucasian/white and a U.S.-born citizen.

Measurement of Jet Suppression in Central Pb-Pb Collisions at √sNN

Measurement of Jet Suppression in Central Pb-Pb Collisions at √sNN
Title Measurement of Jet Suppression in Central Pb-Pb Collisions at √sNN PDF eBook
Author Jaroslav Adam
Publisher
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Release 2015
Genre
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