{"title":"Defining Key Terms","authors":"Scott R. Harris","doi":"10.4135/9781071878743.n6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4135/9781071878743.n6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":305359,"journal":{"name":"How to Critique Journal Articles in the Social Sciences","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126200561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What is a Journal Article?","authors":"Scott R. Harris","doi":"10.4135/9781071878743.n5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4135/9781071878743.n5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":305359,"journal":{"name":"How to Critique Journal Articles in the Social Sciences","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122744565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ethics","authors":"Scott R. Harris","doi":"10.4135/9781071878743.n11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4135/9781071878743.n11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":305359,"journal":{"name":"How to Critique Journal Articles in the Social Sciences","volume":"8 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116738424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sampling","authors":"Scott R. Harris","doi":"10.4135/9781071878743.n9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4135/9781071878743.n9","url":null,"abstract":"Data on the distribution of overwintering jack pine budworm (Choristoneura pinus pinus Free.) collected between 1985 and 1987 in northern Ontario are used to develop guidelines for sampling this stage of the budworm. Two alternative methods of expressing budworm density are considered: counting the number of budworms per metre of branch and counting the number per square metre of branch bark surface area. Estimates of budworm density for three levels in the tree's crown are given for 4 site-years. Entire branches are recommended as the sample units as the use of 60-cm branch-tip sections resulted in consistent underestimation of actual density per branch. Jack pine budworm density did not vary among cardinal compass directions and was gen-erally highest at mid-crown levels. The distributions of two parasitoids, Apantelesfumiferanae Vier. and Glyptafumiferanae (Vier.), which overwinter as an egg or first-instar larva within the jack pine budworm, also were considered. Apanteles was the most abundant parasitoid at all crown levels at all sites examined. Percentage parasitism by Apanteles was highest and that by Glypta was lowest on the branch-tip sections in relation to the branch-basal section, but total percentage parasitism was relatively constant over the entire branch, throughout the tree crown, and from tree to tree. Consequently, the sampling method for jack pine budworm is easily extended for estimating the rate of parasitism and therefore for providing a prediction of mortality that results from these two common parasitoids.","PeriodicalId":305359,"journal":{"name":"How to Critique Journal Articles in the Social Sciences","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115177588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Measurement","authors":"Scott R. Harris","doi":"10.4135/9781071878743.n8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4135/9781071878743.n8","url":null,"abstract":"A new method for processing the output signal from a gravitational wave direction finder in the measurement problem of detecting and identifying gravitational waves from binary relativistic astrophysical objects is discussed and studied.","PeriodicalId":305359,"journal":{"name":"How to Critique Journal Articles in the Social Sciences","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122224723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Literature Reviews","authors":"Scott R. Harris","doi":"10.4135/9781071878743.n7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4135/9781071878743.n7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":305359,"journal":{"name":"How to Critique Journal Articles in the Social Sciences","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125617617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why Read Journal Articles— and Think Critically Aboutthem?","authors":"Scott R. Harris","doi":"10.4135/9781071878743.n13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4135/9781071878743.n13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":305359,"journal":{"name":"How to Critique Journal Articles in the Social Sciences","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125113873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Politics","authors":"Scott R. Harris","doi":"10.4135/9781071878743.n12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4135/9781071878743.n12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":305359,"journal":{"name":"How to Critique Journal Articles in the Social Sciences","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132157707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social Research Versus Ordinary Ways of Knowing","authors":"Scott R. Harris","doi":"10.4135/9781071878743.n4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4135/9781071878743.n4","url":null,"abstract":"As political comedians sometimes show, even the most “boring” news story can be made interesting—and possibly fun—depending on how you view it. Listening to the news can be valuable for the information one acquires, but it can be more edifying and entertaining to try to see through the apparently factual claims made by reporters, government officials, pundits, activists, and other commentators. By keeping in mind the idea that the truth is (almost) never exactly what someone claims it to be, news can be seen as a biased argument rather than an impartial description of reality. Somewhat similarly, it is possible to bring an irreverent attitude to social science journal articles. The standard article contains a lot of news but almost no entertainment value, at least on the surface. What’s needed is for the reader to bring the right attitude to these scholarly works. A strong sense of irony—and the ability to ask the right questions—can help deflate even the most authoritative, statistic-laden, peer-reviewed publication. How to Critique Journal Articles in the Social Sciences is not a jokebook, though. Its purpose is to help readers appreciate the rigor and complexity of social research while reducing the intimidation factor. When students understand in detail the inevitable frailty of most research, they are more likely to consider themselves worthy to enter into dialogue and debate with journal articles and even to attempt social research themselves. If this involves having a good laugh at authors’ expense, so be it. (As long as we remember that our own claims may potentially be as problematic as others’ claims, we’re on relatively safe ground.) After reading this book and practicing its exercises, any reasonably intelligent person should be able to challenge the wall of facts that social","PeriodicalId":305359,"journal":{"name":"How to Critique Journal Articles in the Social Sciences","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131132113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis","authors":"Scott R. Harris","doi":"10.4135/9781071878743.n10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4135/9781071878743.n10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":305359,"journal":{"name":"How to Critique Journal Articles in the Social Sciences","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134575466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}