Methodology category: 1297 books

American Studies has long been a home for adventurous students seeking to understand the culture and politics of the United States. This welcoming spirit has found appeal around the world, but at the heart of the field is an identity crisis. Nearly every effort to articulate an American Studies methodology...

This volume—the second in Max Van Manen’s Phenomenology of Practice series—brings together personal narrative, human research methodology, and an extensive knowledge of aesthetic discourse to redefine the sublime in terms of direct and immediate experience. Erika Goble first traces the concept’s...

This book is a one-stop comprehensive guide to geographical inquiry. The volume: traces the step-by-step account of the whys and the hows of research methodology; introduces complexities of the geographical perspective, selection of research topic, choice of supervisor and formulation of research...

*The Varieties of Grounded Theory *explores the range and depth of grounded theory methodology, and the ways in which discussions in the field have developed and expanded in recent years. In this SAGE Swift, Anthony Bryant provides a jargon-free overview of grounded theory terminology, whilst...

This book details a history of the methodology of textual interpretation from Ancient Greece to the 20th century. It presents a complete English translation of Hermeneutics and Its Problems, written by Russian philosopher Gustav Gustavovich Shpet, along with insightful commentary. Written in 1918,...

Wissenschaftlicher Aufsatz aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Methodologie und Methoden, Note: 1, Universität Hamburg (Institut für Soziologie), Veranstaltung: Allgemeine Soziologie, 6 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: 'Network analysis is a recent set of methods...

Louis Dimier nous prévient dans sa courte préface qu'il s'ait d'une VIE de René Descartes et non un traité philosophique. Mais Descartes était au coeur des idées de son siècle. Nous le suivrons dès son enfance, en passant par le collège...

A Short History of My Philosophy is an autobiographic account of Agnes Heller's intellectual and academic career. While the narration mainly traces the development of ideas, we also learn how they occurred in the context of challenging life circumstances. Agnes Heller presents the life of her ideas...

“An exuberant tour through the world of scientists behaving badly” (The New York Times). They may have a public image as cool, logical, levelheaded types. But in reality, scientists will do pretty much anything—take drugs, follow mystical visions, lie, and even cheat—to make a discovery. In...

MAKING EQUALITY WORK combines background facts and theory about the history and nature of equality and diversity in Britain with the detailed description of how the authors set out successfully to raise the measurable levels of equality outcomes for the National Health Service in North West England.The...

We like to imagine that medicine is based on evidence and the results of fair testing and clinical trials. In reality, those tests and trials are often profoundly flawed. We like to imagine that doctors who write prescriptions for everything from antidepressants to cancer drugs to heart medication...

This book explores mobile representations in government policy, literature, visual arts, music, and research and examines the methodological potential of these representations and the ways in which representations co-produce mobilities.

​Werte sind nicht nur in der Öffentlichkeit ein vieldiskutiertes Thema. Diverse wissenschaftliche Fachdisziplinen setzen sich aus unterschiedlicher Perspektive mit Werten  sowie mit dem Konzept der Wertebildung auseinander. Vor diesem Hintergrund vereint der Sammelband theoretische und methodische...

The authors challenge psychological perspectives on happiness and subjective wellbeing. Highlighting the politics of quantitative and qualitative methodologies, case studies across continents explore wellbeing in relation to health, children and youth, migration, economics, religion, family, land mines, national surveys, and indigenous identities.