Here’s the presentation of my final research project! Hope you enjoy!
Research
In today’s world there is a lot of discourse devoted to the marginalization of certain peoples and ideas. This was not always the case–there used to be a time when marginalized voices did not even have a way of broadcasting their message to the population at large. Those with power […]
Bringing Other Voices to the Table
In the philosophies of both Nietzsche and Foucault, there is a weariness of how science is produced, in contrast to the Weberian model of separation. The both contend that there is no research done just for the research’s own sake, but rather that the pursuit of knowledge is the pursuit […]
Divide and Conquer the Sciences! (Or Not?)
The paper examines global variation between metro systems by exploring why comparable systems have different operating hours. Current research in transportation studies largely disregards this variation, focusing instead on the optimization of individual systems. This paper sets out with a descriptive statistical analysis of metro systems around the world to […]
It’s an Abstract that’s Hopefully not *too* abstract!
Phillip Gorski’s thesis that social science can result in improvements in human well–being is quite a persuasive argument. His observation of overlap between facts and values is one of the most obvious claims that can be made, and it is simply summed up when he states, “…the fundamental difficulty with…the […]
Ethical Naturalism & Positivism (Does “The Matrix” Hero Serve as ...
Citizens of a democracy have a few things that hold true across a broad spectrum of issues. Plato and Alexis de Tocqueville both suggest that these citizens stay away from attempting to discern what people should be doing throughout their lives. Plato argues that this arises from the idea that […]
Arguing About Knowledge
Whether or not we think about it, there is a motive behind every one of the thousands of decisions that we make every day. It is only natural then, that there is a motive behind my reasoning for why I chose to conduct my research on metro systems and the […]
What was the Motive, Detective?
4 Hey there! Here’s my video on my research design as we hit the halfway point on this research project! Hope you enjoy. –Nathan
Design a Video (of a Research Project)
1 For just one instance of a case that needs examination; I need not look further than the metro system just a few minutes away. The Washington Metro has been rife with discourses over whether or not the system is actually improving at all, and there are really two main discourses […]
Let’s Have a Discourse!
1 In terms of recreating my project under the lens of a small–n qualitative methodology, one of the main things to consider is how I would change my dependent variable so that it is now qualitative, instead of quantitative, and how I would use my data source to operationalize it. With […]