Methodology category: 1297 books
Researching Families and Relationships
Reflections on Process
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
This collection focuses on the real life experiences of conducting emprical research about families and relationships, with an emphasis on the actualities of doing research and the experiences of being a researcher.
by Matt Long, Roger Hopkins Burke
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2015
Vandalism and Anti-Social Behaviour forwards a new typology of vandalism. The authors argue that in order to fully understand vandalism and anti-social behaviour, a culturally criminological perspective should be fostered, which accounts for the emotional and experiential aspects of crime.
Rapid Qualitative Inquiry
A Field Guide to Team-Based Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Practitioners in need of timely results for program and policy planning—and students looking for
realistic research projects—will find solutions in Rapid Qualitative Inquiry (RQI), a team-based,
applied research method designed to quickly develop an insider’s perspective on and preliminary
understanding...
Bourdieu, Habitus and Social Research
The Art of Application
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
This collection brings together for the first time a set of researchers whose research methodologies centre on Bourdieu's concept of habitus. Full of insight and innovation, the book is an essential read for anyone wanting to know more about approaches to social theory and its application in research.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
This book brings together the research of philosophers, sociologists, and social scientists. It examines those areas of scientific practice where reliance on the subjective judgment of experts and practitioners is the main source of useful knowledge to address and possibly, bring solutions to social...
The Craft of Knowledge
Experiences of Living with Data
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
This book is a contribution to contemporary debates on social research with a unique focus on the relationship between methods and the crafting of knowledge. Nine experienced researchers from different disciplines have come together to explore what really matters to them in the process of doing qualitative research.
by Izabela Grabowska
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
The author examines social mobility in the enlarged EU by analysing the work sequences of 1865 movers and stayers in Poland. Using indicators of upward and downward social mobility, she explores the role of migration in careers. Her research shows that migration adds dynamism to work paths and contributes...
Fulfilling Restorative Justice Efforts
A Model Supporting Capacity Building
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
The experiences attained for this study emerged over a thirty-year culmination of law enforcement assignments conventionalized through experiences. In retrospect, such unique opportunities being readily available were phenomenal for research by affording the ability to track individual attitudes of...
Why Society is a Complex Matter
Meeting Twenty-first Century Challenges with a New Kind of Science
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2012
Society is complicated. But this book argues that this does not place it beyond the reach of a science that can help to explain and perhaps even to predict social behaviour. As a system made up of many interacting agents – people, groups, institutions and governments, as well as physical and technological...
Explaining Research
How to Reach Key Audiences to Advance Your Work
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Explaining Research is the first comprehensive communications guidebook for scientists, engineers, and physicians. Drawing on knowledge gleaned from a forty-year career in research communications, Dennis Meredith maps out how scientists can utilize sophisticated tools and techniques to disseminate...
by Dr. Elizabeth G. Creamer
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
An Introduction to Fully Integrated Mixed Methods Research by Elizabeth G. Creamer provides the tools needed to design, execute, and evaluate fully integrated mixed methods research studies. A uniting metaphor of the architectural arch helps students understand the benefits of a mixed methods approach...
by Richard Lighthouse
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2015
Revision 2A - This short technical paper presents a new standard model for Elementary Particles. All elementary particle masses are related by simple math. This math is similar to the math used for wifi signals and it is called 1024-QAM. The 1024-QAM table graphically displays how all elementary particles...
Prince and the Wolf: Latour and Harman at the LSE, The: The Latour and Harman at the LSE
The Latour and Harman at the LSE
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2011
The Prince and the Wolf contains the transcript of a debate which took place on 5th February 2008 at the London School of Economics (LSE) between the prominent French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher Bruno Latour and the Cairo-based American philosopher Graham Harman.
Catching Stories
A Practical Guide to Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2009
In neighborhoods, schools, community centers, and workplaces, people are using oral history to capture and collect the kinds of stories that the history books and the media tend to overlook: stories of personal struggle and hope, of war and peace, of family and friends, of beliefs, traditions, and...