Top stories published by Social Science & Software Design in 2010

The transcript presented below is a classic piece of data that have been used extensively by numerous conversation analysts to illustrate a rather large variety of CA concepts and notions. Below is a short…

Pascal Belouin in Social Science & Software Design

Mar 10, 2010

Research proposal : A Foucauldian analysis of the evolution of the discourse about software development methodologies

Abstract

It could be argued that discourse surrounding software development methodologies has evolved in recent years from a…

Pascal Belouin in Social Science & Software Design

Mar 17, 2010

An introduction to the genealogy of subjectification

What has been, in occidental culture, consensually defined as ‘the subject’, or ‘the self’, and seen as a natural, self-evident and indivisible part of the identity of human beings could be approached and understood as a historically…

Pascal Belouin in Social Science & Software Design

Apr 13, 2010

What is Falsificationism?

Falsificationism could be understood as a solution to the problems entailed by the use of inductive reasoning for the construction of genuine scientific knowledge, which was introduced by Karl Popper in the middle of the twentieth century. Even though it has since been the subject…

Pascal Belouin in Social Science & Software Design

Mar 16, 2010

Ethnography: a short description of the roles available to researchers in the field

During the course of fieldwork, the ethnographer can take on a number of different roles, which could be classified in regards to the degree of one’s involvement with the population he or…

Pascal Belouin in Social Science & Software Design

Apr 13, 2010

The Notion of Closure in the Social Sciences: an Overview

Although a polemical subject, the application of the concept of closed systems in the social sciences has been seen as a way to limit and even rule out the influence of certain variables in the study of social objects, which in…

Pascal Belouin in Social Science & Software Design

Apr 2, 2010

Interface Design and Information Architecture for Enterprise Web Applications: Four Simple Principles

I try and follow a few number of simple principles when I develop the front-end of enterprise web applications (that is to say web applications which aim is…

Pascal Belouin in Social Science & Software Design

Mar 16, 2010

Conversation Analysis: a short introduction

Conversation analysis, or CA, focuses on the fine-grain analysis of talk in the framework of actual, day-to-day conversations between social actors. Its aim is to provide practical tools for allowing an understanding of the tacit rules and inherent order…

Pascal Belouin in Social Science & Software Design

Mar 17, 2010

An epistemological critique of Grounded Theory

‘Because emergence is the foundation of our approach to theory building, a researcher cannot enter an investigation with a list of preconceived concepts, a guiding theoretical framework, or a well though out design’ (Strauss and Corbin, 1998, p. 34

Pascal Belouin in Social Science & Software Design

Mar 11, 2010

Research proposal: a Bourdieusian ethnographic study of agile development methodologies

Overview of the Proposed Research Topic

During the relatively short history of software development, several development methods have been introduced, from the rather standard…

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