In his first book and major study of college students, Astin looks at changes in attitudes, beliefs, self-concept, behavior, academic achievement, the career path, and college satisfaction. Questions explored about religion include how religious affiliation changes or is weakened during college, how religious attendance is impacted, what aspects of the college experience contribute to these cha...

Estimating Network Effects and Compatibility in Mobile Telecommunications

Metadata ‘data about data’ is a crucial component of information infrastructures that supports the finding, retrieving and sharing of resources; metadata in the social sciences and humanities helps researchers, educators, students and others to share data and information, and to collaborate in research, education and learning. Metadata work is highly resource intensive, and there can be signifi...

Confirmatory, deductive research cannot produce absolute truths, according Karl POPPER (2002). If we accept this premise, then it is worth giving inductive and explorative research another chance. Exploration can produce valid and insightful findings in the social sciences, if conducted in a transparent and self-reflexive way. It can also profit from applying dialectical thinking. This article ...

During the past two decades, a set of systematic comparative case analysis techniques has been developing at a steady pace. During the last few years especially, the main initial technique, qualitative comparative analysis (QCA), has been complemented by other related methods and techniques. The purpose of this article is to critically assess some main recent developments in this field. QCA and...

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