This volume is the first of two volumes that address the most recent ten years (1997-2006) of focus group studies and research literature. Volume one provides coverage of the arts and humanities, social sciences, and the nonmedical sciences, and volume two concentrates on the medical and health sciences. These volumes cover the English-language academic literature (books, chapters in books, journal articles, and significant pamphlets) available in libraries via interlibrary loan and online. A variety of materials are included: instructional guides, handbooks, reference works, textbooks, and academic journal literature. In Focus Groups, Volume I, the following subject disciplines have been considered: in the arts and humanities-linguistics, music, religion, and sports and leisure studies; in the social sciences-anthropology, business, cartography, communication, demography, education, law, library science, political science, psychology, and sociology; and in the non-medical sciences-agriculture, biology, engineering, environmental sciences, and physics. The selected entries have a minimum of four pages, and include 29 books, 50 book chapters, 349 articles, and 10 pamphlets, for a total of 438 entries. An appendix includes the titles of the 245 journals cited, along with the appropriate entry numbers for each. Author and subject indexes provide access to the contents, with the subject index providing access to unique terms. The detailed contents pages are designed to enable the reader to quickly find appropriate entries through the use of extensive and detailed subheadings.

About the Author
Graham R. Walden is a librarian and professor at Ohio State University.

Reviews
Highly recommended for academic libraries, and for libraries supporting frequent users of focus groups. * American Reference Books Annual, March 2009 *
Walden offers a useful resource for determining the application of the technique in many nonmedical disciplines....This work provides a useful tool for identifying the many ways in which focus group studies have been used, but its strongest value is in its facilitation of a multidisciplinary understanding of methodological practice. Highly recommended. * CHOICE, February 2009 *



Book Information
ISBN 9780810861176
Author Graham R. Walden
Format Paperback
Page Count 238
Imprint Scarecrow Press
Publisher Scarecrow Press
Weight(grams) 358g
Dimensions(mm) 230mm * 154mm * 16mm