Methodology

RealWorld Evaluation: Working Under Budget, Time, Data, and Political Constraints addresses the challenges of conducting program evaluations in real-world contexts where evaluators and their clients face budget and time constraints. The book is organized...

Over the past 50 years, scholars across the social sciences have employed critical juncture analysis to understand how social orders are created, become entrenched, and change. In this book, leading scholars from several disciplines offer the first...

Get 12 months FREE access to the Digital Methods Manual (the abridged, interactive eBook that provides handy step-by-step guidance to your phone, tablet, laptop or reading device) when purchasing ISBN: 9781526487995 Paperback and & Interactive eBook*...

Clear, coherent and readable, this bestselling guide is now in its fifth edition, providing easy to follow advice for anyone undertaking a research project. Covering each stage of the process, from choosing a research question to collecting and analysing...

This book offers a practical guide for those transitioning from research to systematic evaluation. With growing demand for reliable evaluation across government, charities and other institutions, many new evaluators lack necessary knowledge and skills...

This book offers a practical guide for those transitioning from research to systematic evaluation. With growing demand for reliable evaluation across government, charities and other institutions, many new evaluators lack necessary knowledge and skills...

Appropriate for use in developmental research methods or analysis of change courses, this is the first methods handbook specifically designed to meet the needs of those studying development. Leading developmental methodologists present cutting-edge...

This book introduces current perspectives on Rasch measurement theory with an emphasis on developing Rasch-based scales. Rasch measurement theory represents a paradigm shift in measurement theory away from classical test theory and creates a framework...

The 101 "nuggets of understanding" that comprise this book shed light on the required content of a qualitative dissertation. They help readers navigate through the iterative, recursive, and often messy dissertation process, from its inception to a...

Why can't we seem to agree on facts? In this brief volume, sociologist Joel Best turns his inimitable eye toward the social construction of facts. He evaluates how facts emerge from our social worlds-including our beliefs, values, tastes, and norms-and...

This is an introduction for social science students to the growing field of spatial data analysis using the R platform. The text assumes no prior knowledge of either, beyond the contents of an introductory statistics course. It uses the open-source...

Qualitative diary methods (QDMs) are a versatile range of multi-modal data collection methods that involve participants recording events and experiences, and emotions and reflections, as they happen, on multiple occasions and over a particular time...

Approaches to Mixed Methods Research focuses on the choices social scientists make when designing a study that mixes quantitative and qualitative data. Authors Lisa D. Pearce and Jessica Halliday Hardie explore ways to weave together strands of research...

This is the first research methods book on the application of using a co-production approach for physical activity for health research. When used for research, co-production has potential to be hugely impactful. The underpinning ethos of co-production...

The ever-expanding availability of spatial data continues to revolutionise research. This book is your go-to guide to getting the most out of handling, mapping and analysing location-based data. Without assuming prior knowledge of GIS, geocomputation or...

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How can we nurture more liveable worlds in today's neoliberal academia and beyond? This collection revisits the notion of reflexivity from a science and technology studies (STS) perspective,...

This pragmatic evaluator's companion from leaders in the field provides essential guidance for designing, implementing, and managing exemplary evaluations using established and emerging methods, designs, and analyses. With contributions from skilled...

This book introduces techniques developed in physics and physiology for characterizing and analyzing patterns in time series data to a broad audience of social scientists. The authors illustrate concepts and techniques with relevant social science...

Grounded in examples from across the social sciences, this book walks you through the process of doing quantitative text analysis step by step. Clear and accessible, it empowers you to progress from beginner level to understanding and using computational...

How to Think Like a Realist is Ray Pawson's seminal book on realist social inquiry, boldly linking social research to clinical and physical science and challenging many methodological shibboleths.This unique book pairs outstanding clarity of detail with...

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Elevate your research with the Third Edition of this classic guide. Master the "what," "how," and "why" of literature reviews and fully realise the potential of your scholarly work and evidence-based practice. By taking you on an intellectual journey,...

New to research? This book helps you understand, think about and interpret each stage of the research process before you dive in. The holistic coverage helps you 'think through' each step, from formulating questions, to selecting methods, collecting data...

New to research? This book helps you understand, think about and interpret each stage of the research process before you dive in. The holistic coverage helps you 'think through' each step, from formulating questions, to selecting methods, collecting data...

Whether you're a student, academic, or practitioner working in an applied setting, this text will lead you through the complex terrain of contemporary qualitative research methods. Written by renowned sociologist Karen O'Reilly, the book distils decades...

This is the essential guide to the innovative qualitative research technique of sandboxing. Originating from play therapy, sandboxing enables children, young people and adults to create three-dimensional scenes using miniature figures and everyday...

Whether you're a student, academic, or practitioner working in an applied setting, this text will lead you through the complex terrain of contemporary qualitative research methods. Written by renowned sociologist Karen O'Reilly, the book distils decades...

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This is the essential guide to the innovative qualitative research technique of sandboxing. Originating from play therapy, sandboxing enables children, young people and adults to create three-dimensional scenes using miniature figures and everyday...

Written by an eminent and original thinker in the philosophy of science, this book takes a fresh, unorthodox look at the key philosophical concepts and assumptions of the social sciences. Mario Bunge contends that social scientists (anthropologists,...

This book explores the ways in which mindfulness can enhance the role of the researcher in qualitative inquiry. Many qualitative method texts discuss honing self-reflexivity, developing awareness, or bracketing pre-existing knowledge. However, few texts...

The twin journals, Der OEsterreichische Volkswirt (The Austrian Economist) and Der Deutsche Volkswirt (The German Economist) were created by Gustav Stolper, godfather of Joseph Schumpeter, first in Vienna and then after the First World War, in Berlin...

Doing a research project or dissertation can be daunting. This practical book will help you dive straight in, driving each step of the process with confidence. Packed with features to support your learning, this guidebook gives you invaluable advice at...

Beloved for its conversational style and reliable advice, this text is now in a revised and updated third edition, reflecting key developments in evaluation. It includes expanded coverage of equity and social justice issues, values and cost analysis,...

Willa Baum once again shares her enormous knowledge of oral history in her second AASLH book, focusing this time on what to do when ending interviews, how to decide whether or not to transcribe, how to process data, and how to transcribe. Also provided...

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...

Awareness of complexity in science and technology dates back to the 1970s. However, all social systems tend to develop structures that become more complex over time, be it within families, tribes, cities, states, or societal and economic organizations...

The Introduction to Sociology course is usually the first contact that students have with the discipline of sociology. This course can determine whether students take other sociology courses or learn to use sociology in their lives as adults and citizens...

Recording Oral History, now available in its third edition, provides a comprehensive guide to oral history for researchers and students in diverse fields including history, sociology, anthropology, education, psychology, social work, and ethnographic...

The Theory Primer: A Sociological Guide is both a classical theory text and a practical guide to theorizing, making it ideal for sociology majors or graduate students new to the field. Schneider presents theories drawn from Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and...