Has Funding Made a Difference to Research Methods
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2643260 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer Platt (University of Sussex, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 69-79 |
| Publication date | 1996-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Research Online (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1360-7804 • E-ISSN: 1360-7804 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5153/sro.7 |
| OpenAlex | W2019766595 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 23 |
It has been argued that foundation funding has distorted methods in American sociology in the direction of quantification. This argument rests on a number of assumptions, of which the key one is that in the absence of such funding, method would have developed differently. Data on the methods of funded and unfunded research articles are analysed, and show that the trend to increasing levels of quantification is almost equally present in unfunded work, which suggests that funding should not be held responsible for the trend
Argument (complex analysis · Economics · Foundation (evidence · Political science · Positive economics · Sociology · Work (physics · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Law · Public Administration · Social and Cultural Dynamics
Funding of Social Science, History of
Managing the Institutionalisation of Mode 2 Knowledge Production
The role of values in educational research
L’analyse qualitative informatisée
Using journal articles to measure the level of quantification in national sociologies
Social science and Sozialwissenschaft
Theory Building in Qualitative Research and Computer Programs for the Management of Textual Data
Realtime Interviewing Using the World Wide Web
Field work
Fundamental Development of the Social Sciences
Plausible Worlds
The coming crisis of western sociology
Philanthropic Foundations and the Development of the Social Sciences in the Early Twentieth Century
Philanthropic Foundations and the Social Sciences
Toward a General Theory of Action
Toward a General Theory of Action
In Memoriam
Philanthropy and social science in the 1920s
The origins of ‘mainstream sociology’ and other issues in the history of American sociology
The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology
The Social Sciences and the National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation and Social Science Research
Field Work
American Philanthropy and the Social Sciences in Britain, 1919-1939; The Reproduction of a Conservative Ideology
Creating local social science data archives
The Chicago School of Sociology, 1918-1933
American Foundations and the Development of the Social Sciences between the Wars
The Role of Philanthropic Foundations in the Reproduction and Production of Hegemony
Government Influence on the Social Science Paradigm
The Politics of American Sociologists
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,28 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2018 (22) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |