Methodology list 58

Where Have All the Homeless Gone?

The Making and Unmaking of a Crisis

by Anthony Marcus
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005

For a decade, from 1983 to 1993, homelessness was a major concern in the United States. In 1994, this public concern suddenly disappeared, without any significant reduction in the number of people without proper housing. By examining the making and unmaking of a homeless crisis, this book explores...

Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to Action Research and Action Learning

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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017

The complexity of 21st century lifestyle makes collaborative research and learning essential for all of the population, both in well-resourced and socio-economically challenged regions. Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to Action Research and Action Learning is an advanced reference source including the...

Pragmatic Aspects of Human Communication

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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

'Human Communication' is a field of interest of enormous breadth, being one which has concerned students of many different disciplines. It spans the imagined 'gap' between the 'arts' and the 'sciences', but it forms no unified academic subject. There is no commonly accepted terminology to cover aU...

Science Studies as Naturalized Philosophy

by Finn Collin
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2010

This book approaches its subject matter in a way that combines a strong analytical and critical perspective with a historical and sociological framework for the understanding of the emergence of Science Studies. This is a novelty, since extant literature on this topic tends either to narrate the history...

Nature, the Artful Modeler

Lectures on Laws, Science, How Nature Arranges the World and How We Can Arrange It Better

by Nancy Cartwright
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019

This is a volume in the highly respected Carus Lectures Series. Previous volumes have sold well, for example: Dependent Rational Animals by MacIntyre has sold 6, 039 and The Abuse of Beauty by Danto has sold 3,615.

Theory of Identities

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Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016

François Laruelle proposes a theory of identity rooted in scientific notions of symmetry and chaos, emancipating thought from the philosophical paradigm of Being and reconnecting it with the real world. Unlike most contemporary philosophers, Laruelle does not believe language, history, and the world...

Media Research Methods

Audiences, Institutions, Texts

by Ina Bertrand, Peter Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017

This indispensable textbook provides student researchers with extensive guidance and methods from across the social sciences and humanities, showing them how to make informed choices and consider the many alternatives available throughout the research process. Unique in approach, the text focus on...

Statistics for Social Understanding

With Stata and SPSS

by Nancy Whittier, Tina Wildhagen, Howard J. Gold
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019

Statistics for Social Understanding: With Stata and SPSS introduces students to the way statistics is used in the social sciences--as a tool for advancing understanding of the social world. Written in an engaging and clear voice and based on the latest research on the teaching and learning of quantitative...

A Natural Experiment on Electoral Law Reform

Evaluating the Long Run Consequences of 1990s Electoral Reform in Italy and Japan

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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011

In the early 1990s, major electoral reforms took place in both Italy and Japan; each replaced a form of “proportional representation” (in which voters cast a ballot for a party list) with a “mixed member” system (in which voters cast ballots for individual candidates and party lists). The...

Mathematics for Social Scientists

by Jonathan M. Kropko
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015

Written for social science students who will be working with or conducting research, Mathematics for Social Scientists offers a non-intimidating approach to learning or reviewing math skills essential in quantitative research methods. The text is designed to build students’ confidence by presenting...

Dislocations of Civic Cultural Borderlines

Methodological Nationalism, Transnational Reality and Cosmopolitan Dreams

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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015

This book examines changes of citizenship in the light of dislocated habitations. It highlights the ways in which the membership in a local community is shifting away from national frameworks, and explores the dislocations brought about by transnational and cosmopolitan forms of belonging. Containing...

Cultural Meanings and Social Institutions

Social Organization Through Language

by David R. Heise
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018

Employing three methods of assessing meaning, this book demonstrates that the thousands of human identities in English coalesce into groups that are recognizable as role sets in the contemporary social institutions of economy, kinship, religion, polity, law, education, medicine, sport, and arts. After...

Science in the Study of Ancient Egypt

by Sonia Zakrzewski, Andrew Shortland, Joanne Rowland
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015

Science in the Study of Ancient Egypt takes an innovative and integrated approach to the use of scientific techniques and methodologies within the study of ancient Egypt. Accessibly demonstrating how to integrate scientific methodologies into Egyptology broadly, and in Egyptian archaeology in particular,...

Musings from the Tower of Babel

by Alexandra Kitty
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013

There is performance art, but there is also performance science. A look at how one author used her web site as a one woman psychology department called Chaser Investigative News Services. About the Author Alexandra Kitty is a dangerous woman who is the author of Don’t Believe It!:...