Methodology category: 1297 books
Disaster Management and Private Sectors
Challenges and Potentials
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
This book draws upon case studies and practices of different types of DRR involvement by the private sector from all over the world. The book comprises two parts, Part I: Overview and Regional Cases; and Part II: Country Cases. The regional cases include those from Africa, Asia, Europe, and Central...
Fraud and Misconduct in Research
Detection, Investigation, and Organizational Response
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
In Fraud and Misconduct in Research, Nachman Ben-Yehuda and Amalya Oliver-Lumerman introduce the main characteristics of research misconduct, portray how the characteristics are distributed, and identify the elements of the organizational context and the practice of scientific research which enable...
by N.H. Hadley
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Undeniably, language is at the core of human existence. Merleau-Ponty (1945) posited that thought and language are one - cognition being language; language, cognition. Although such a categorical stance can be challenged from a number of theoretical perspectives as dogmatic and nonveridical, the critical...
Global Gender Research
Transnational Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Readers of Global Gender Research will learn to compare and contrast feminist concerns globally, gain familiarity with the breadth of gender research, and understand the national contexts that produced it.
This volume provides an in-depth comparative picture of the current state of feminist...
Identity Matters
Ethnic and Sectarian Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
In response to the attacks of September 11, 2001 and war in Afghanistan, the Fulbright New Century Scholars program brought together social scientists from around the world to study sectarian, ethnic, and cultural conflict within and across national borders. As one result of their year of intense...
Property and Power
Towards a Non-Marxian Historical Materialism
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE: THE POLISH ROAD FROM SOCIALISM ON 1. The history of all hitherto existing societies is a history of class struggle - not only that between the exploited and the exploiters, but also that between the ruled and the rulers. And in modern times, there is in some societies a struggle...
Qualitative Networks
Mixed methods in sociological research
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
How do we interact with people in our everyday life? Who are the people we are connected to? What are the consequences of overlapping social circles and how people deal with the potential emerging conflicts? What are the structural and cultural mechanisms that regulate social worlds? Network science...
In Situ and Laboratory Experiments on Electoral Law Reform
French Presidential Elections
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
In the modern era, representation is the hallmark of democracy, and electoral rules structure how representation works and how effectively governments perform. Moreover, of the key structural variables in constitutional design, it is the choice of electoral system that is usually the most open to...
Evidence-Based Practice in Exercise Science
The Six-Step Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Exercise science practitioners have access to mountains of research findings, expert opinions, novel techniques, and program plans via blogs, fitness magazines, conference presentations, and peer-reviewed journals. To facilitate effective practice, practitioners must sift through this information...
Diversity in Survey Questions on the Same Topic
Techniques for Improving Comparability
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
This book describes why conventional methods fall short to solve the comparability problem and introduces three successive innovations to overcome these shortcomings. Comparability of results from different surveys using different items for the same topic is greatly hampered by the differences in...
The Law of Nature Mirrored - Volume 1
Philosophy & Solution with Sentencing & Advancement
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
The main topic of this book is the concept that 'sense and feel must exist for anything to ever be real and existent to mankind itself.'
The result(s) can be expressed as a set of attributes (maybe "alpha(s)" is a better word) that can solve. However, being in air (Greek-resonant...
Simply Complexity
A Clear Guide to Complexity Theory
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
What do traffic jams, stock market crashes, and wars have in common? They are all explained using complexity, an unsolved puzzle that many researchers believe is the key to predicting and ultimately solving-everything from terrorist attacks and pandemic viruses right down to rush hour traffic congestion.
Complexity...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
This book addresses major population and development issues: fertility and reproductive health, migrations, gender, education, poverty and inequalities. To that aim it revisits and considerably enlarges Kingsley Davis’ 1963 theory of change and response, using interdisciplinary methodologies. On...
by Gordon A. Carmichael
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
This book offers an ideal introduction to the analysis of demographic data. Inside, readers of all quantitative skill levels will find the information they need to develop a solid understanding of the methods used to study human populations and how they change over time due to such factors as birth,...