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Angela Dale
Angela Dale (born 1945) is a British social science, social scientist and statistics, statistician whose research has involved the Secondary research, secondary analysis of government survey data, and the study of women in the workforce. Formerly Deputy Director of the Social Statistics Research Unit of City, University of London, and Professor of Quantitative Research and Director of the Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research at the University of Manchester, she is now a professor emerita at Manchester. Selected publications Dale is an author of the books; *''Doing Secondary Analysis: A Practical Guide'' (with Sara Arber and Michael Proctor, Unwin Hyman, 1988) *''Analyzing Census Microdata'' (with Ed Fieldhouse and Claire Holdsworth, Edward Arnold, 2000) She is an editor of *''The 1991 Census User's Guide'' (edited with Cathie Marsh, HMSO 1993) *''Analysing Social and Political Change: A Casebook of Methods'' (with Richard B. Davies, Sage, 1994) *''The Gender Dimens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Science
Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the original "science of society", established in the 19th century. In addition to sociology, it now encompasses a wide array of academic disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, economics, human geography, linguistics, management science, communication science and political science. Positivist social scientists use methods resembling those of the natural sciences as tools for understanding society, and so define science in its stricter modern sense. Interpretivist social scientists, by contrast, may use social critique or symbolic interpretation rather than constructing empirically falsifiable theories, and thus treat science in its broader sense. In modern academic practice, researchers are often eclectic, using multiple methodologies (for instance, by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
