جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "برون یابی" در نشریات گروه "علوم اجتماعی"

Futures studies is a strategy and a proactive approach to manage, control, and deal with uncertainty to achieve a desirable future. Trying to visualize the future and eliminate undesirable scenarios are considered as smart approaches, so many documents, books and articles have been written in this regard. The book "Megachange, The World in 2050" is one of these works that examines and illustrates the long-term future of the world in four main areas: social, political, economic, and science and technology. The present article, while reviewing the book based on the criteria of the critical research textbook and humanities programs, has tried to examine the validity of the present work in terms of method and approach. According to the evaluation, this work has a moderate quality and in order to improve the quality, it is necessary to seriously review the translation of the book. Since it has been about a decade since the book was published, the practical accuracy of its claims should be checked.

Due to the historical domination of the positivist-quantitative approach over the major part of theories and methods in social sciences, it has been often assumed that the qualitative research is based an unstructured and unorganized methodology. As a result, the qualitative arguments and findings were considered to be not so confident and well-documented. In addition, it is simply supposed that the qualitative methodology has no standards and strategies for evaluation and validation. Therefore, qualitative methodologists have recently attempted to provide a large numbers of validation and evaluation standards and strategies for qualitative research which have more variation and precision in comparison with its quantitative counterpart.In other words, the aim of this paper is to investigate the evaluation of quality in qualitative research and to introduce the strategies and principles of validation and generalization in this methodology. In this respect, while introducing a variety of validation and generalization criterions, some of the most important ones have been discussed.