Methodology

The underlying idea and motive for the book is that the notion of complexity may humanize the social sciences, may conceive the complex human being as more human, and turn reality as assumed in our doing social science into a more complex, that is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786208397258Author Guy Munsansa MumbimbiFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Our Knowledge PublishingPublisher Our Knowledge PublishingWeight(grams) 95g

Macrocomparative researchers use a variety of methodological approaches. This book features analyses of a single substantive topic, comparative employment performance in affluent countries, using three of the most common macrocomparative techniques:...

This leading-edge study focuses on the latest techniques in analysing and representing the complex, multi-layered data now available to geographers studying urban zones and their populations. The volume tracks the successful results of the SPANGEO...

Statistics are everywhere. Their power and their undoubted efficacy in many areas have given rise to faith in measurement and metrics. More of them will tell us all that we need to know. Their use carries with it a number of presuppositions: that reality...

Sam Shepard crashed onto the New York theatre scene during the 1960s and has since become one of the leading playwrights in the United States today, with his plays being performed and studied on both sides of the Atlantic. Shepard's plays are both...

The book focusses on questions of individual and collective action, the emergence and dynamics of social norms and the feedback between individual behaviour and social phenomena. It discusses traditional modelling approaches to social norms and shows the...

This book explains harmonisation techniques that can be used in survey research to align national systems of categories and definitions in such a way that comparison is possible across countries and cultures. It provides an introduction to instruments...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786203211160Author Rose LavoFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Our Knowledge PublishingPublisher Our Knowledge PublishingWeight(grams) 508g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786202920216Author Edward NtegeFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint LAP Lambert Academic PublishingPublisher LAP Lambert Academic PublishingWeight(grams)...

Richard Harvey Brown's pioneering explorations in the philosophy of social science and the theory of rhetoric reach a culmination in Social Science as Civic Discourse. In his earlier works, he argued for a logic of discovery and explanation in social...

Elites are crucial groups of people in all but the very simplest societies. Whether one is concerned with politics and government, the economy, or the wider culture and structure of society, they are the people who occupy the central positions of...

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.Book...

This is the second volume of papers in the topical area of environmental management. Arising from work done by the International Centre for the Environment at the University of Bath, the papers address inter-disciplinary environmental themes particularly...

An increasing interest in children's lives has tested the ethical and practical limits of research. Rather than making tricky ethical decisions, transparent researchers tend to gloss over stories that do not fit with sanitized narratives. This book aims...

In the early 1980s, the survey was the most widely used method of social research, but it had been the object of much damaging criticism. Critics maintained that there were philosophical flaws inherent in survey practice which made it unacceptable as...

Challenging the sanitized view of participants in standardized surveys, Interviews as Activated Storytelling contends that interviewing is a meaning-making process producing useful but context-sensitive knowledge. Through a series of case studies, the...

As the world currently subsists as a platform for exchange among complex, intelligent systems that are constantly adapting and evolving to suit the surrounding physical, sociological, emotional, and sensory environment, understanding the theory and...

This book focuses on Doris Lessing’s social and political reappraisal of the family. It looks at how her fiction both critiques traditional patriarchal family structures and explores alternative and non-normative configurations of family. The...

The modeling of item response data is governed by item response theory, also referred to as modern test theory. The eld of inquiry of item response theory has become very large and shows the enormous progress that has been made. The mainstream literature...

The Revival of Political Imagination offers a unique examination of the methodological aspects of utopia. Discussing utopia as a tool for social criticism, method and imaginative spaces - rather than in terms of its content - this volume analyses the...

Originally published in 1988, Social Causality takes the reader through the theoretical and practical maze that has to be negotiated before definitive statements about cause and effect in social research can be made. It was designed for the undergraduate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781777105778Author Nava IsraelFormat HardbackPage Count 462Imprint Perpetualight PublishingPublisher Perpetualight PublishingWeight(grams) 844g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786208602796Author Nathan Kahangu KanyimbuFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Our Knowledge PublishingPublisher Our Knowledge PublishingWeight(grams) 118g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786207848478Author Lounis OukaciFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Our Knowledge PublishingPublisher Our Knowledge PublishingWeight(grams) 227g

Agent-based modeling/simulation is an emergent approach to the analysis of social and economic systems. It provides a bottom-up experimental method to be applied to social sciences such as economics, management, sociology, and politics as well as some...

During the last two decades, structural equation modeling (SEM) has emerged as a powerful multivariate data analysis tool in social science research settings, especially in the fields of sociology, psychology, and education. Although its roots can be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786200505286Author Anagbogu GermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint LAP Lambert Academic PublishingPublisher LAP Lambert Academic...

Understanding and managing risk and uncertainty is a central task in contemporary societies characterised by rapid social, technological and environmental change. This book presents research approaches used by scholars who all share a passion to gain new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798822934474Author Megan FuciarelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Palmetto PublishingPublisher Palmetto PublishingWeight(grams) 263g

Understanding and managing risk and uncertainty is a central task in contemporary societies characterised by rapid social, technological and environmental change. This book presents research approaches used by scholars who all share a passion to gain new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639173666Author Shaojing SunFormat PaperbackImprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 191g

Pierre Bourdieu's contributions to the theory and practice of social research are far reaching. Possibly the most prominent sociologist in recent times, his work has touched on a myriad of topics and has influenced scholars in multiple disciplines...

Game theory could be formally defined as a theory of rational decision in conflict situations. Models of such situations, as they are conceived in game theory, involve (1) a set of decision makers, called players; (2) a set of strategies available to...

The topics of evaluation and quality management have, up until now, scarcely been linked to one another. This book contributes to the balancing of this deficit. It shows how the instrument of evaluation can be utilised, with a focus on quality...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789027709653Author T. SeidenfeldFormat HardbackPage Count 247Imprint Kluwer Academic PublishersPublisher SpringerWeight(grams) 1220g

This volume presents a comprehensive overview of methodological issues and empirical methods of practice-oriented research. It examines questions regarding the scope and boundaries of practice-oriented approaches and practice theory. It discusses the...

This book gives a general view of sequence analysis, the statistical study of successions of states or events. It includes innovative contributions on life course studies, transitions into and out of employment, contemporaneous and historical careers,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786207734672Author Jaqueline LopesFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Our Knowledge PublishingPublisher Our Knowledge PublishingWeight(grams) 91g

This volume presents for the first time a collection of historically important papers written on the concept of rationality in the social sciences. In 1939-40, the famed Austrian economist Joseph A. Schumpeter and the famous sociologist Talcott Parsons...