Methodology category: 1297 books
Applications of Anthropology
Professional Anthropology in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
At the beginning of the twenty-first century the demand for anthropological approaches, understandings and methodologies outside academic departments is shifting and changing. Through a series of fascinating case studies of anthropologists’ experiences of working with very diverse organizations...
Anthropology and Public Service
The UK Experience
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
These days an increasing number of social anthropologists do not find employment within academia. Rather, many find jobs with commercial organizations or in government, where they run research teams and create policy. These scholars provide a much-needed social dimension to government thinking and...
The Ethnographic Self as Resource
Writing Memory and Experience into Ethnography
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
It is commonly acknowledged that anthropologists use personal experiences to inform their writing. However, it is often assumed that only fieldwork experiences are relevant and that the personal appears only in the form of self-reflexivity. This book takes a step beyond anthropology at home and auto-ethnography...
Mary Douglas
Understanding Social Thought and Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Mary Douglas’s innovative explanations for styles of human thought and for the dynamics of institutional change have furnished a distinctive and powerful theory of how conflicts are managed, yet her work remains astonishingly poorly appreciated in social science disciplines. This volume introduces...
Metaphilosophy
Philosophy in Philosophical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
The definitive mission of metaphilosophy is to facilitate an understanding of how philosophy works—the aim of the enterprise, the instrumental and procedural resources for its work, and the prospect of its success. Nicholas Rescher unites two facets of metaphilosophy to show that historical perspective...
CRITIQUE DE LA RAISON PURE
TOME SECOND
Language: French
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Philosophe allemand du 18ème siècle, Emmanuel KANT (1724-1804) est connu principalement pour son livre de la « Critique de la RAISON PURE », un des ouvrages les plus complexes et les plus marquants de la philosophie moderne, apportant une révolution au moins aussi grande que celle de Descartes...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
Communication research is evolving and changing in a world of online journals, open-access, and new ways of obtaining data and conducting experiments via the Internet. Although there are generic encyclopedias describing basic social science research methodologies in general, until now there has...
Image et philosophie
Les usages conceptuels de limage
Language: French
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Cet ouvrage a pour objectif d’interroger en profondeur la manière avec laquelle, historiquement, les philosophes ont « pratiqué l’image dans le concept ». Les auteurs s’interrogent sur le recours à la visualité et à la métaphore dans l’élaboration des schèmes philosophiques à travers...
Facilitating Evaluation
Principles in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
In Facilitating Evaluation, Michael Quinn Patton recounts stories of his experiences as an evaluation facilitator. Evaluation facilitation applies and adapts general facilitation knowledge and techniques to the specialized challenges of working with stakeholder groups involved in program evaluation.The...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Ethnography provides an expansive overview of the challenges presented by qualitative, and particularly ethnographic, enquiry. The chapters reflect upon the means by which ethnographers aim to gain understanding, make sense of what they learn and the way they represent...
Mind, Language and Subjectivity
Minimal Content and the Theory of Thought
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
In this monograph Nicholas Georgalis further develops his important work on minimal content, recasting and providing novel solutions to several of the fundamental problems faced by philosophers of language. His theory defends and explicates the importance of ‘thought-tokens’ and minimal content...
by Nick Crossley
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Towards Relational Sociology argues that social worlds comprise networks of interaction and relations. Crossley asserts that relations are lived trajectories of iterated interaction, built up through a history of interaction, but also entailing anticipation of future interaction. In addition, he demonstrates...
Suffering and Evil
The Durkheimian Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Until recently the subject of suffering and evil was neglected in the sociological world and was almost absent in Durkheimian studies as well. This book aims to fill the gap, with particular reference to the Durkheimian tradition, by exploring the different meanings that the concepts of evil and suffering...
by Plato, Benjamin Jowett (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Plato's dialogue on the nature language and words.