Methodology

In neighborhoods, schools, community centers, and workplaces, people are using oral history to capture and collect the kinds of stories that the history books and the media tend to overlook: stories of personal struggle and hope, of war and peace, of...

This book suggests that business research, in the collection, analysis, and communication of evidence, will benefit from explicit acceptance of research as argumentation. Argumentation is the process of compiling an argument through selection and...

I have three reasons for bringing out the ensuing collection of essays. First, since analysis without measurement (this is generally not the same thing as what is commonly referred to as "qualitative methods" or "qualitative research" in the social...

Item response theory has become an essential component in the toolkit of every researcher in the behavioral sciences. It provides a powerful means to study individual responses to a variety of stimuli, and the methodology has been extended and developed...

Categorical data arise often in many fields, including biometrics, economics, management, manufacturing, marketing, psychology, and sociology. This book provides an introduction to the analysis of such data. The coverage is broad, using the loglinear...

This volume draws together an impressive series of papers that explore enduring and new problems in the construction and analysis of British social policy. Critical but accessible, the various chapters cover methodological issues and the nature of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313244469Author George V. ZitoFormat HardbackPage Count 158Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262528207Author Eszter HargittaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm

The book focuses on the design of rigorous trials rather than their statistical underpinnings, with chapters on: pragmatic designs; placebo designs; preference approaches; unequal allocation; economics; analytical approaches; randomization methods. It...

The use of mathematical models to support decision-making is proliferating in both the public and private sectors. Advances in computer technology and greater opportunities to learn the appropriate techniques are extending modelling capabilities to more...

This book is a contribution to contemporary debates on social research with a unique focus on the relationship between methods and the crafting of knowledge. Nine experienced researchers from different disciplines have come together to explore what...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786203471557Author Hamed AhariFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint LAP Lambert Academic PublishingPublisher LAP Lambert Academic PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786206335986Author Aquiles Jose Medina MarinFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Our Knowledge PublishingPublisher Our Knowledge PublishingWeight(grams)...

Globalization has accelerated the process of social, political, cultural, and especially economic transformations since the 1990s. In recent decades, this has cast doubt over the validity and reliability of many working assumptions about the nature and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788418077371Author Francisca BernalFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Eurytion PressPublisher Eurytion PressWeight(grams) 170g

This is a book of signposts, of key turning points, of Gregory Bateson's 'knots tied in a handkerchief.' Each article reproduced in this volume, edited by leading qualitative methodologists Lincoln and Denzin, represents one of these turning points in...

This book examines the role of participants in research and how research ethics can be put into practice. Specifically, It: discusses the ethical regulations and guidance governing researchers in different disciplines; analyses case studies of...

This sociological collection advances the argument that the concept of a "turning point" expands our understanding of life experiences from a descriptive to a deeper and more abstract level of analysis. It addresses the conceptual issue of what...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786206605317Author Kouamé Stanislas KaffloumanFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Our Knowledge PublishingPublisher Our Knowledge PublishingWeight(grams)...

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Stephen Hartnett merges the evocative power of poetry with scholarly research to produce both a genre-bending critique of the prison industrial complex and an innovative new method of qualitative research. Based on ten years of teaching in, writing...

This volume is aimed both at more experienced editors, who may wish to skip over the advice offered in the introduction, as well as at those who are new to the craft and want to know how to begin work on publishing historical documents of interest to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944027186Author Dean DeLisleFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Networlding PublishingPublisher Networlding PublishingWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922320728Author Tony BennisFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint Vaclav VrbenskyPublisher Vaclav VrbenskyWeight(grams) 358g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633913608Author Joseph CochranFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Westphalia PressPublisher Westphalia PressWeight(grams) 181g

This book offers an account of contemplative reflection in qualitative social research. Focusing on the experiences of the researcher – including sensory and emotional experiences – and the work of the mind in the investigative process, it considers the...

Building on the early leadership of Frigga Haug in her groundbreaking Female Sexualization: A Collective World of Memory (1987), this book provides a collection of contemporary perspectives on memory-work from researchers in Australia, Canada, Germany,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993770661Author Dr Heather B Fox Griffith Ma PhdFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Heather Fox GriffithPublisher Heather Fox GriffithWeight(grams) 172g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648678809Author Tony BennisFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Vaclav VrbenskyPublisher Vaclav VrbenskyWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

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...

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This collection of articles contains contributions from a few of Werner Leinfellner's many friends and colleagues. Some of them are former students of Werner's. Others were colleagues of his at various American and European universities. Further, some...

Industrial ecology (IE) is a rapidly growing scienti?c discipline that is concerned with the sustainability of industrial systems under explicit consideration of its int- dependence with natural systems. In recent years, there has been an ever-increasing...

The articles that make up this volume are related to the multidimensional aspects of the narrative- biographical research. Individual authors, positioning themselves between their source areas of knowledge (pedagogy, psychology, anthropology, sociology...

One common characteristics of a complex system is its ability to withstand major disturbances and the capacity to rebuild itself. Understanding how such systems demonstrate resilience by absorbing or recovering from major external perturbations requires...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783086078Author Gwendolyn SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

A comprehensive and accessible guide to learning and successfully applying QCASocial phenomena can rarely be attributed to single causes-instead, they typically stem from a myriad of interwoven factors that are often difficult to untangle. Drawing on set...