Methodology category: 1297 books
Cultural Constructions of Identity
Meta-Ethnography and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Education research has seen a phenomenal growth in studies that explore the multiple, fluid, and changing complexities of culture and identity work. The nuanced, contradictory, and process-oriented nature of identity and identification has meant that the studies in education are largely, and appropriately,...
Modelling Written Communication
A New Systems Approach to Modelling in the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
This book offers an alternative view to current postmodern approaches to composition. It takes a critical realist stance to arrive at the “essence” of written communication with the aim of informing a practical application: a computerised writing tutor. Following Robert Franck’s seminal work...
Quantifying the Qualitative
Information Theory for Comparative Case Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Quantifying the Qualitative by Katya Drozdova and Kurt Taylor Gaubatz presents a systematic approach to comparative case analysis based on insights from information theory. This new method, which requires minimal quantitative skills, helps students, policymakers, professionals, and scholars learn...
Applications of Mathematics in Models, Artificial Neural Networks and Arts
Mathematics and Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
The book shows a very original organization addressing in a non traditional way, but with a systematic approach, to who has an interest in using mathematics in the social sciences.
The book is divided in four parts: (a) a historical part, written by Vittorio Capecchi which helps us understand...
Viability and Resilience of Complex Systems
Concepts, Methods and Case Studies from Ecology and Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
One common characteristics of a complex system is its ability to withstand major disturbances and the capacity to rebuild itself. Understanding how such systems demonstrate resilience by absorbing or recovering from major external perturbations requires both quantitative foundations and a multidisciplinary...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
This book explores the view that normative behaviour is part of a complex of social mechanisms, processes and narratives that are constantly shifting. From this perspective, norms are not a kind of self-contained social object or fact, but rather an interplay of many things that we label as norms...
by Ravi Pathak
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Marketing research is being used on an ever-increasing scale and is tending to employ methods that are increasingly varied and sophisticated. They seldom know the range of marketing research methods are how one goes about dealing with a particular marketing problems. Research of this type provides...
Anchor System Thinking
The Art of Situational Analysis, Problem Solving, and Strategic Planning for Yourself, Your Organization, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2018
Searching for calm waters in a turbulent life? In an increasingly complex world, the need to understand where you stand and where you are going is fundamental on the personal, organizational, and societal level.
A. I. Shoukry—author of the bestselling book In or Out—introduces us to his...
Social Support Measurement and Intervention
A Guide for Health and Social Scientists
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2000
Surgery and pharmaceuticals are not the only effective procedures we have to improve our health. The natural human tendency to care for fellow humans, to support them with social networks, has proven to be a powerful treatment as well. As a result, the areas of application for social support intervention...
by Dr. Kristi Jackson, Dr. Pat Bazeley
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
Engaging and accessible, this book offers students a complete guide to using NVivo for qualitative data analysis. Drawing on their wealth of expertise, the authors offer detailed, practical advice that relates to students’ own experience and research projects.
Packed with real-world examples...
Rapid Assessment Process
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2001
A newer edition of this book is available at the following address: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780759123212
Rapid Assessment Process (RAP) has gone under many names but invariably uses the techniques of fieldwork and ethnography in a telescoped manner to provide solid, field-based research findings...
Understanding Communication Research Methods
A Theoretical and Practical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Comprehensive, innovative, and focused on the undergraduate student, this textbook prepares students to read and conduct research. Using an engaging how-to approach that draws from scholarship, real-life, and popular culture, the book offers students practical reasons why they should care about research...
Educational Supervision in Social Work
A Task-Centered Model for Field Instruction and Staff Development
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2002
This book provides a comprehensive examination of instructional supervision and introduces the Task-Centered Model for Educational Supervision (TCS). It begins by reviewing the history of educational supervision in social work and principles of effective teaching practices in the field. While theories...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
Social work professionals must demonstrate their effectiveness to legislators and governments, not to mention clients and incoming practitioners. A thorough evaluation of the activities, ethics, and outcomes of social work practice is critical to maintaining investment and interest in the profession...