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e-Wisdom

With e-WISDOM we want to reopen our primarily methodological journal in the social sciences which has been in existence from 1986 up to 1995 under the name of WISDOM. e-WISDOM wants to become a forum for comparative research, for the development of new comparative methods and instruments, for social science methodology, and, last not least, for controversies and discussions. Above all, e-WISDOM wants to establish itself as a platform for the proliferation of new methods, models and instruments for comparative research in the social sciences, broadly conceived.

It is planned to produce one to two issues per year which are centered around a new methodological topic. For the first years e-WISDOM will be devoted to

  • e-WISDOM 1: Socio-economic Risk-Analysis (2004)
  • e-WISDOM 2a: Time-distance Analysis: Method and Application (2004)
  • e-WISDOM 2b: Time Distance Analysis: Background Theory (2004)
  • e-WISDOM 2b: Time Distance Analysis: Background Theory (2004)
  • e-WISDOM 4: Second-order Methods (2006)
  • e-WISDOM 5: Symbol-based Methods (2007)

Each issue consists of a set of three to five articles which are devoted entirely to a new methodological issue like socio-economic risk-analysis or time distance analysis.

Contributions and suggestions for further topics outside the five domains mentioned above are highly welcome. It is the stated aim of e-WISDOM to advance the state of social science methods and methodologies as well as to present innovative designs which should enrich the current tools and instruments in comparative research.