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View article: Unveiling corruption: exploring drivers of misconduct through the analysis of actual crime data
Unveiling corruption: exploring drivers of misconduct through the analysis of actual crime data Open
This study examines four potential drivers of corruption using a large administrative data set. These potential drivers have been previously tested and confirmed in experimental game studies or studies that used aggregated macro data. In c…
View article: Seeing the City Digitally
Seeing the City Digitally Open
The argument that many cities are now digitally mediated is an increasingly familiar one.The social, experiential and physical spaces of a city are more and more often designed, defined, navigated and experienced with digital data shared w…
View article: Navigating Spatial Transformations Through the Refiguration of Spaces
Navigating Spatial Transformations Through the Refiguration of Spaces Open
In this introduction, we lay the groundwork and make a case for an interdisciplinary scholarship as it pertains to spatial research that deals head-on with labyrinthine processes of spatiality and supersedes jigsaw-like, Euclidean spatial …
View article: Spatial Transformations
Spatial Transformations Open
This book examines a variety of subjective spatial experiences and knowledge production practices in order to shed new light on the specifics of contemporary socio-spatial change, driven as it is by inter alia, digitalization, transnationa…
View article: Spatial Transformations and Spatio-Temporal Coupling
Spatial Transformations and Spatio-Temporal Coupling Open
The economy transforms much more slowly and much more path-dependently than suggested by economic theories and Löw and Knoblauch's concept of the refiguration of spaces. This chapter provides an alternative to other prevailing explanations…
View article: The Refiguration of Spaces and the Refiguration of Epistemic Cultures: The Changing Balance of Involvement and Engagement in Fundamental and Applied Research
The Refiguration of Spaces and the Refiguration of Epistemic Cultures: The Changing Balance of Involvement and Engagement in Fundamental and Applied Research Open
The second FQS thematic issue on "The Refiguration of Spaces and Cross-Cultural Comparison" differs from the first as follows: 1. it covers a wider range of disciplines, 2. authors emphasize more strongly the spatial instead of the tempora…
View article: The The Refiguration of Spaces and Methodological Challenges of Cross-Cultural Comparison
The The Refiguration of Spaces and Methodological Challenges of Cross-Cultural Comparison Open
In most reflections on cross-cultural comparison, scholars assume that "cultures" can be relatively clearly demarcated spatially and that "space" itself is a given entity. However, theories such as the theory of refiguration of spaces have…
View article: Process‐Oriented Sampling
Process‐Oriented Sampling Open
Using the concepts of “duration” and “temporal patterns,” this paper discusses how key steps during sampling change, if researchers take temporality seriously: When defining cases, scholars have to select a suitable temporal scale and refl…
View article: The Quality of Big Data. Development, Problems, and Possibilities of Use of Process-Generated Data in the Digital Age
The Quality of Big Data. Development, Problems, and Possibilities of Use of Process-Generated Data in the Digital Age Open
The paper introduces the HSR Forum on digital data by discussing what big data are. The authors show that big data are not a new type of social science data but actually one of the oldest forms of social science data. In addition, big data…
View article: Digital Data, Administrative Data, and Survey Compared: Updating the Classical Toolbox for Assessing Data Quality of Big Data, Exemplified by the Generation of Corruption Data
Digital Data, Administrative Data, and Survey Compared: Updating the Classical Toolbox for Assessing Data Quality of Big Data, Exemplified by the Generation of Corruption Data Open
In the digital age, new data types have become available that can, potentially, be used in social science research. Besides data that were originally created for scientific purposes (research-elicited data), administrative mass data (tradi…
View article: Approaching Knowledge Dynamics Across the Product Development Process with Methods of Social Research
Approaching Knowledge Dynamics Across the Product Development Process with Methods of Social Research Open
Knowledge is a crucial factor in state-of-the-art product development. It is often provided by stakeholders from divers disciplinary and individual backgrounds and has to be integrated to create competitive products. Still, it is not fully…
View article: Linearity vs. Circularity? On Some Common Misconceptions on the Differences in the Research Process in Qualitative and Quantitative Research
Linearity vs. Circularity? On Some Common Misconceptions on the Differences in the Research Process in Qualitative and Quantitative Research Open
Methodological discussions often oversimplify by distinguishing between “the” quantitative and “the” qualitative paradigm and by arguing that quantitative research processes are organized in a linear, deductive way while qualitative resear…
View article: Process-Oriented Micro-Macro-Analysis. Methodological Reflections on Elias and Bourdieu
Process-Oriented Micro-Macro-Analysis. Methodological Reflections on Elias and Bourdieu Open
Both Norbert Elias and Pierre Bourdieu argue that both the research question and social theory should guide methodology and methods. Both theorists argue that any social theory should keep in mind the importance of macro-level structures; …
View article: Effects of project-based research work on the career paths of young academics
Effects of project-based research work on the career paths of young academics Open
This article focuses on the career chances and working conditions of early-stage researchers as an important category of knowledge workers within the academic system in Germany. We analyse the consequences of a crucial element of this syst…