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This book is a study of how the professional understandings of social scientists, principally in the Asian context, are being used to apply their knowledge and expertise to the solution of difficulties and to the improvement of the living conditions of some people. Some examples will show the success of what has been done while others make recommendations of how improvements might be achieved. Others make suggestions that are far too broad to accomplish in any ...
The book presents a reasonable understanding of religious experiences of individuals that may appear inconsequential from any elite theological perspective and of religious experiences that are the result of thinking and observing by professional theologians and social scientists. It looks at the religious experiences occurring in all environments relying on the accumulation of observations and literary enquiries. It deals with broad themes like predetermination ...
This is a study of the methodological limitations of the social sciences and its presumptions of social order and that statistics are a dead end in the understandings of behaviour. It covers the dominance of individualism and of nurture over nature. The fact that chance is a major factor in what is available to researchers. In estimating future behaviour probabilities are assessed in the context of the limitations of rationality.
The book presents a critical evaluation of national and non-national contributions towards contemporary social science research, with particular reference to developing countries. Analysing the different dimensions of social science fieldwork, it discusses at length the global and national environments for social science research and available methodologies. It further highlights the problems of foreign and national researchers, especially the problem of ...