Comparative Aging and Qualitative Theorizing

Comparative Aging and Qualitative Theorizing

The principal aim of this argument is to analyze the swift expansion in the proportion of older people across the globe, and to highlight the main social and economic forces causing this through methodological challenges especially through the lens of qualitative methodology. We recognize the enormity of the task. Drawing from a range of qualitative research studies provides enriched meanings a...

Qualitative Methodology and Comparative Politics

Theorizing Modernity and Technology

Technology made modernity possible. It has been the engine of modernity, shaping it and propelling it forward. The Renaissance was made possible by major fourteenthand fifteenth-century inventions like the mechanical clock, the full-rigged ship, fixed-viewpoint perspective, global maps, and the printing press. The emergence of industrial society in the eighteenth century was the result of an in...

Comparative survey between quantitative and qualitative paradigms (part II)‎

As stated in the first part of article, we have stated the four major philosophical paradigms ‎which make up the basis for knowledge(epistemology), the nature and reality(ontology) and ‎the acquisition methods of knowledge(methodology). Thus, according to each paradigm, ‎approach to knowledge is determined. ‎‏ ‏ In a more general category, we have two quantitative and qu...

Theorizing Corruption

The aim of this paper is to gain the broad explanation of corruption using simple computational model. We elaborated further the model of corruption described previously in Situngkir (2003b), with some additions in model’s properties. We performed hundreds of experiments computationally using Swarm and constructed the explanation of corruption based upon these results. We show that corruption s...