Methodology category: 1297 books
Critical Event Studies
Approaches to Research
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Critical Event Studies is a growing field, not just within event management and event studies, but across the traditional and digital social sciences. This volume -with contributions from a range of international scholars- is the first to consider the wide variety of research approaches being used...
Missing Data
A Gentle Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2007
While most books on missing data focus on applying sophisticated statistical techniques to deal with the problem after it has occurred, this volume provides a methodology for the control and prevention of missing data. In clear, nontechnical language, the authors help the reader understand the different...
Deconstructing Ethnography
Towards a Social Methodology for Ubiquitous Computing and Interactive Systems Design
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
This book aims to deconstruct ethnography to alert systems designers, and other stakeholders, to the issues presented by new approaches that move beyond the studies of ‘work’ and ‘work practice’ within the social sciences (in particular anthropology and sociology). The theoretical and methodological...
The Stanford Prison Experiment
A psychological experiment about the exploration of human behavior under imprisonment
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Sociology - Methodology and Methods, grade: 1,2, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, language: English, abstract: In the 1970s and '80s, the behavioral researcher and psychologist Prof. Philip Zimbardo tested the effects of extraordinary situations on...
Introduction to Computational Social Science
Principles and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
This textbook provides a comprehensive and reader-friendly introduction to the field of computational social science (CSS). Presenting a unified treatment, the text examines in detail the four key methodological approaches of automated social information extraction, social network analysis, social...
How to Do Your Research Project
A Guide for Students
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Lecturers, request your electronic inspection copy here.
'Gary’s book, never more than a metre away, has been my indispensable research companion. With its easy layout, my well-worn copy, stripy with florescent marker and pencilled notes, has been my go-to, on-hand supervisor throughout my...
Practice-Based Research in Social Work
A Guide for Reluctant Researchers
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
This unique textbook explores practice-based research (PBR), using numerous practice examples to actively encourage and engage students and practitioners to embrace research as a meaningful support for their practice. Whilst evidence-based practice gives practitioners access to information about "universal"...
Research Design
Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
This bestselling text pioneered the comparison of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research design. For all three approaches, John W. Creswell and new co-author J. David Creswell include a preliminary consideration of philosophical assumptions; key elements of the research process; a review...
Research Methods in Anthropology
Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Research Methods in Anthropology is the standard textbook for methods classes in anthropology. Written in Russ Bernard’s unmistakable conversational style, this guide has launched tens of thousands of students into the fieldwork enterprise with a combination of rigorous methodology, wry humor, and...
Practicing Ethnography
A Student Guide to Method and Methodology
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Building on the "studying up" trend in anthropology, this book offers a theoretically informed guide to ethnographic methods that is also practical in approach, and reflects the challenges and concerns of contemporary ethnography. Students draw from vignettes situated within North America...
by Neil J. Smelser
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013
Even after teaching generations of social scientists, this classic book by Berkeley’s Neil J. Smelser remains the most definitive statement of methodological issues for all comparative scholars and in political science, anthropology, sociology, economics and psychology. Such issues are timeless...
Emancipation and Illusion
Rationality and Gender in Habermas's Theory of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 1997
In this comprehensive analysis of Jürgen Habermas's philosophy and social theory, Marie Fleming takes strong issue with Habermas over his understanding of rationality and the lifeworld, emancipation, history, and gender. Throughout the book she focuses attention on the various ways in which an idea...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
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 potential advantages and disadvantages of the diversity...
Flight cancellations and their influence on people's behaviours
A guideline for observing stranded people
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2011
Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Sociology - Methodology and Methods, grade: Merit, The University of Surrey (Department of English), course: Research Methodse, language: English, abstract: Stress is a universally known phenomenon and in stress situations everybody acts and behaves differently;...