Methodology category: 1297 books
Unleash Your Hidden Potential
Learn to Get Successful Results in Personal and Professional Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
If you are interested in realizing your hidden potential and performing well in all areas of life, this book will prove to be life-changing for you.It deals with certain aspects of life such as Self Esteem, Responsibility, Goals, Mission, Relationships, and above all, Self-Management. You will learn...
by Jonathan Grix
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
Fully revised for the third edition, this popular text provides an advanced yet accessible introduction to the tools, terminology and research perspectives that students need to know in order to engage in academic debate and successfully complete research-based assignments. It first explores the language...
Building Research Design in Education
Theoretically Informed Advanced Methods
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Building Research Design in Education provides insights into the ways in which foundational knowledge of research and research processes can be applied in order to build rigorous research design. If your research is to have meaning and value, this text will enable you to make informed choices and...
Renewal
The Inclusion of Integralism and Moral Values into the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Offering a deep look into the moral uncertainty in the contemporary social sciences and American society, this book explores an in-depth solution. This solution, as articulated by Pitirim A. Sorokin in the 20th century, is the theory of Integralism; a perspective dating back to Plato, Aristotle and...
Understanding the Course of Social Reality
The Necessity of Institutional and Ethical Transformations of Utopian Flavour
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2016
This book offers a comparison between our earthly society and the society of a hypothetical twin planet with the aim to understand and deal with some of the main problems of our global society, as well as to advance interaction with some extra-terrestrial society no less advanced than ours that sooner...
Pacific Rim Objective Measurement Symposium (PROMS) 2014 Conference Proceedings
Rasch and the Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
This book collects and organizes the original studies presented at PROMS 2014 conference on theories and applications of Rasch model. It provides useful examples of the Rasch model used to address practical measurement problems across a range of different disciplines including: Item Response Theory...
Frames in the Toxicity Controversy
Risk Assessment and Policy Analysis Related to the Dutch Chlorine Debate and the Swedish PVC Debate
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Preface When you write a book like this after ten years' working as an environmental specialist, you end up with something that reflects your career. Of course, when I started working at the Ministry of the Environment in the Netherlands, I could not foresee that I would now be at TNO, nor that I...
Intelligent Data Mining in Law Enforcement Analytics
New Neural Networks Applied to Real Problems
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
This book provides a thorough summary of the means currently available to the investigators of Artificial Intelligence for making criminal behavior (both individual and collective) foreseeable, and for assisting their investigative capacities. The volume provides chapters on the introduction of...
Careful Economics
Integrating Caring Activities and Economic Science
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Much like their authors, the ideas behind books can grow and change on the way from proposal to manuscript. I originally planned to join the discussion on care and economics at a different, more policy-oriented level, hoping to identify the conditions under which caring services are taken to the market....
Experiencing Nature
Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of Allen G. Debus
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
This volume, honoring the renowned historian of science, Allen G Debus, explores ideas of science - `experiences of nature' - from within a historiographical tradition that Debus has done much to define. As his work shows, the sciences do not develop exclusively as a result of a progressive and inexorable...
Applied Conversation Analysis
Social Interaction in Institutional Settings
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
Focusing on applied conversation analysis (CA), Applied Conversation Analysis: Social Interaction in Institutional Settings by Jessica N. Lester and Michelle O’Reilly offers practical insights and guidelines for CA scholars studying social interactions in institutional settings. Written in an accessible...
by Sten Langmann, David Pick
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
This book focuses on photography within the social research field, building a solid foundation for photography as a social research method and describing different techniques and applications of photo research. It provides a comprehensive approach to research photography, from preparation and the...
Probability and Social Science
Methodological Relationships between the two Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
This work examines in depth the methodological relationships that probability and statistics have maintained with the social sciences from their emergence. It covers both the history of thought and current methods.
First it examines in detail the history of the different paradigms and axioms...
Social System Accounts
Linking Social and Economic Indicators through Tangible Behavior Settings
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book results from a research program on which I have spent most of my time since 1974. It addresses two of the major problems facing social system account ing: how to measure and account for nonmarket activities and how to combine social and economic indicators. The solution I propose is accounts...