The Production Of Knowledge: Enhancing Progress In Social Science

✍ Scribed by Colin Elman, John Gerring, James Mahoney

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 569
• Series: Strategies For Social Inquiry
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Whilst a great deal of progress has been made in recent decades, concerns persist about the course of the social sciences. Progress in these disciplines is hard to assess and core scientific goals such as discovery, transparency, reproducibility, and cumulation remain frustratingly out of reach. Despite having technical acumen and an array tools at their disposal, today's social scientists may be only slightly better equipped to vanquish error and construct an edifice of truth than their forbears – who conducted analyses with slide rules and wrote up results with typewriters. This volume considers the challenges facing the social sciences, as well as possible solutions. In doing so, we adopt a systemic view of the subject matter. What are the rules and norms governing behavior in the social sciences? What kinds of research, and which sorts of researcher, succeed and fail under the current system? In what ways does this incentive structure serve, or subvert, the goal of scientific progress?

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 2
Title - Series......Page 3
Title - Full......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Detailed Contents......Page 10
Figures......Page 14
Tables......Page 15
Contributors......Page 16
Acknowledgments......Page 18
1. Introduction......Page 20
Part I Discovery......Page 34
2. Exploratory Research......Page 36
3. Research Cycles......Page 61
Part II Publishing......Page 90
4. Peer Review......Page 92
5. Length Limits......Page 117
Part III Transparency and Reproducibility......Page 146
6. Transparency and Reproducibility: Conceptualizing the Problem......Page 148
7. Transparency and Reproducibility: Potential Solutions......Page 184
8. Making Research Data Accessible......Page 216
9. Pre-registration and Results-Free Review in Observational and Qualitative Research......Page 240
Part IV Appraisal......Page 284
10. Replication for Quantitative Research......Page 286
11. Measurement Replication in Qualitative and Quantitative Studies......Page 303
12. Reliability of Inference Analogs of Replication in Qualitative Research......Page 320
13. Coordinating Reappraisals......Page 353
14. Comprehensive Appraisal......Page 373
15. Impact Metrics......Page 390
Part V Diversity......Page 420
16. Whats Wrong with Replicating the Old Boys Networks......Page 422
17. Ideological Diversity......Page 451
Part VI Conclusions......Page 476
18. Proposals......Page 478
References......Page 506
Index......Page 562

✦ Subjects

Social Sciences: Philosophy; Social Sciences: Research; Reproducible Research