Methodology category: 1297 books
High School Summer Research Opportunities
Comprehensive Collection of Research Programs
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
This book is a compilation of the summer research opportunities for high school students. This book is a result of our own research into available opportunities primarily in the STEM and humanities arena.
We have over 175 premier programs nationally and covering about 33 states and Canada....
Facet Theory and the Mapping Sentence
Evolving Philosophy, Use and Application
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2016
How do we think about the worlds we live in? The formation of categories of events and objects seems to be a fundamental orientation procedure. Facet theory and its main tool, the mapping sentence, deal with categories of behavior and experience, their interrelationship, and their unification as our...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
This volume introduces and compares different concepts of culture in social movement research. It assesses their advantages and shortcomings, drawing links to anthropology, discourse analysis, sociology of emotions, narration, spatial theory, and others. Each contribution's approach is illustrated with recent cases of mobilization.
New Racism
Revisiting Researcher Accountabilities
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
This book develops a debate around responsible social inquiry into new racism. A variety of ways of researching new forms of racism (for example, aversive, modern, cultural, purportedly color-blind, and new racism) are addressed. Experiments that have been undertaken to inquire into group identity...
Cross-Cultural Research with Integrity
Collected Wisdom from Researchers in Social Settings
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Drawing on the experience and insights of 70 researchers across 7 countries and from a diverse range of cultures, regions and disciplines, this book explores the issues and ethics involved in cross-cultural research and how such research can be done with integrity.
L'art d'aborder absolument n'importe qui
Prendre confiance pour communiquer en toutes circonstances
Language: French
Release Date: September 30, 2016
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Five Approaches To Philosophy
A Discerning Philosopher Philosophizes About The Philosophy Of Philosophy With Wisdom and Clarity
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
This monograph attempts to describe different approaches to philosophy, their situational and conceptual fields, their inter-relations and limitations. The possibility of combining them into a multi-dimensional approach is also discussed. The key notion underlying this essay is that the actual doing...
by Maurizio Veronelli
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 28, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 28, 2016
Questo libro, sia tattico, sia filosofico intende individuare i caratteri fondamentali dei sistemi di gioco che si susseguono nel calcio italiano, per stabilirne comunanze e differenze,attraverso tutta una serie di confronti; comprendere il modo in cui i diversi ordini di gioco affrontano e risolvono...
by Anne Kelly Knowles, Tim Cole, Alberto Giordano
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
“[A] pioneering work . . . Shed[s] light on the historic events surrounding the Holocaust from place, space, and environment-oriented perspectives.” —Rudi Hartmann, PhD, Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado
This book explores the geographies of the Holocaust at...
Tourism
Between Place and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
Many accounts of tourism have adopted an almost paradigmatic visual model of the gaze. This collection presents an expanded notion of spectatorship with a more dynamic sense of embodied and performed engagement with places. The approach resonates with ideas in anthropology, sociology, and geography...
by Benjamin M. Bolker
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Ecological Models and Data in R is the first truly practical introduction to modern statistical methods for ecology. In step-by-step detail, the book teaches ecology graduate students and researchers everything they need to know in order to use maximum likelihood, information-theoretic, and Bayesian...
by Phillip Bonacich, Philip Lu
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Mathematical models and computer simulations of complex social systems have become everyday tools in sociology. Yet until now, students had no up-to-date textbook from which to learn these techniques. Introduction to Mathematical Sociology fills this gap, providing undergraduates with a comprehensive,...
Introduction to Computational Social Science
Principles and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
This reader-friendly textbook is the first work of its kind to provide a unified Introduction to Computational Social Science (CSS). Four distinct methodological approaches are examined in detail, namely automated social information extraction, social network analysis, social complexity theory and...
by Naoki Masuda, Renaud Lambiotte
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Network science offers a powerful language to represent and study complex systems composed of interacting elements — from the Internet to social and biological systems. In its standard formulation, this framework relies on the assumption that the underlying topology is static, or changing very slowly...