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  2. Research - Wikipedia

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    A researcher is a person who conducts research, especially in order to discover new information or to reach a new understanding. [2] In order to be a social researcher or a social scientist, one should have enormous knowledge of subjects related to social science that they are specialized in.

  3. Biography - Wikipedia

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    The information can come from "oral history, personal narrative, biography and autobiography" or "diaries, letters, memoranda and other materials". [25] The central aim of biographical research is to produce rich descriptions of persons or "conceptualise structural types of actions", which means to "understand the action logics or how persons ...

  4. Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a tabloid: it is not Wikipedia's job to be sensationalist, or to be the primary vehicle for the spread of titillating claims about people's lives; the possibility of harm to living subjects must always be considered when exercising editorial judgment. This policy applies to any living person mentioned in a BLP ...

  5. Biographical research - Wikipedia

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    The Research Committee 38 "Biography and Society" [3] of the International Sociological Association (ISA) was created in 1984 and is dedicated "to help develop a better understanding of the relations between individual lives, the social structures and historical processes within which they take shape and which they contribute to shape, and the ...

  6. Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    [W 10] Wales then announced that Wikipedia would not display advertisements, and changed Wikipedia's domain from wikipedia.com to wikipedia.org. [27] W 11 ] After an early period of exponential growth, [ 28 ] the growth rate of the English Wikipedia in terms of the numbers of new articles and of editors, appears to have peaked around early 2007 ...

  7. Human subject research - Wikipedia

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    The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) defines a human research subject as a living individual about whom a research investigator (whether a professional or a student) obtains data through 1) intervention or interaction with the individual, or 2) identifiable private information (32 CFR 219.102).

  8. Genealogy - Wikipedia

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    The family tree of Louis III, Duke of Württemberg (ruled 1568–1593) The family tree of "the Landas", a 17th-century family [1]. Genealogy (from Ancient Greek γενεαλογία (genealogía) 'the making of a pedigree') [2] is the study of families, family history, and the tracing of their lineages.

  9. Primary source - Wikipedia

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    This wall painting found in the Roman city of Pompeii is an example of a primary source about people in Pompeii in Roman times (portrait of Terentius Neo).. In the study of history as an academic discipline, a primary source (also called an original source) is an artifact, document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, recording, or any other source of information that was created at the time ...