SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods – serie
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Focus Group Research
Inbunden, 2012
11610 kr
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Focus groups are a popular, widely accepted, and legitimate research method to determine attitudes, experiences, perceptions, and knowledge on a wide range of topics in many fields of endeavour. For example, studies have been conducted to examine participants′ favourite pizza toppings, their …
Virtual Research Methods
Inbunden, 2012
11779 kr
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The new social contexts formed via the Internet, and the new forms of data made available by the increasing use of diverse forms of computer mediated communication, have challenged researchers to develop approaches which do them justice. At the same time, there has been concern that established …
Autoethnography
Av Pat Sikes
Inbunden, 2013
11779 kr
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From the 1980s onwards, there has been what has frequently been described as an auto/biographical turn in the social sciences and also in the arts and humanities. Changes in conceptions of self, society and identity, post-modern, post-structural and post-colonial influences and sensibilities to …
Participant Observation
Inbunden, 2050
6958 kr
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This four-volume collection presents the key publications which exemplify the participant observation tradition in sociology and social research, an increasingly important method used in qualitative research and ethnography. Such research usually involves a range of methods: informal interviews, …
Mixed Methods
Av Alan Bryman
Inbunden, 2006
11206 kr
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Mixed methods research has become one of the major areas of growth in social research methodology in the last 10 years. The divisions between quantitative and qualitative research have increasingly given way to imaginative ways of combining the two approaches and a growing acceptance of adopting a …
Questionnaires 2
Inbunden, 2051
7951 kr
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Despite questionnaires being one of the principal research tools in social research, there remains a glaring lack of material on this method. Following on the success of his first set, Martin Bulmer once again tackles this lack by bringing together a wealth of material - both the classics and …
Realist Methodology
Av Wendy Olsen
Inbunden, 2010
10964 kr
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Realism is an approach to humanity which recognizes the real existence of social objects as well as physical objects. Thus realism does involve being realistic. But more importantly, it asserts that the things we are studying in social research have some prior existence and would continue to exist …
Observation Methods
Av Barry Smart, Kay Peggs m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
11779 kr
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Observation - as a deliberate, organized and systematic form of ′looking′ or ′watching′ - is integral to all scientific inquiry. It is a process that is guided by rational principles and assumptions, and motivated by an interest in obtaining data on occurrences, events, processes, reactions, forms …
Documentary & Archival Research
Inbunden, 2014
12366 kr
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This research tradition has arisen from a specific set of historical, disciplinary and institutional conditions. The very emergence of ′documentation′ is predicated upon a set of long-term processes in which humans have developed the capacity to use symbols and store knowledge such that it can be …
Contemporary Trends in Evaluation Research
Av Chris L S Coryn, Carl Westine
Inbunden, 2015
12035 kr
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Evaluation is an essential characteristic of the human condition, and perhaps the single most important and sophisticated cognitive process in the repertoire of human reasoning and logic. Evaluation serves society by providing affirmations of worth, value and improvement to name just a few, and is …
SAGE Quantitative Research Methods
2013
11683 kr
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For more than 40 years, SAGE has been one of the leading international publishers of works on quantitative research methods in the social sciences. This new collection provides readers with a representative sample of the best articles in quantitative methods that have appeared in SAGE journals as …
Selecting Research Methods
Inbunden, 2008
11206 kr
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Selecting Research Methods provides advice from prominent social scientists concerning the most crucial steps for planning and undertaking meaningful research: selecting the methods to be used. Contributors to the collection address methodological choices in four stages: design, sampling, coding …
Ethnography in Context
Av Dick Hobbs
Inbunden, 2011
11046 kr
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Ethnography is an extremely broad church, and the range of methodological stances adopted by ethnographers extends across theoretical, political and technological divides. As a method it is intense and often makes considerable personal demands on the researcher, but as an academic product, the …
Using Documents and Records in Social Research
Inbunden, 2011
11206 kr
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Using Documents and Records in Social Research collects together a body of papers that highlight the different ways in which documents and records have, and can be, approached and studied in a variety of social research contexts. By assembling key papers from studies in fields as diverse as …
Semiotics
Av Mark D. Gottdiener, Karin Boklund-Lagopoulou m. fl.
Inbunden, 2002
11540 kr
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Semiotics, the study of the sign systems that constitute human culture, has since its discovery in the late 19th century and early 20th century, transformed the ways in which we think about culture and communication. It has opened new areas of study and made fruitful connections between established …
Grounded Theory and Situational Analysis
Av Adele E. Clarke, Kathy Charmaz
Inbunden, 2013
10347 kr
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This new four-volume major work brings together a wealth of valuable research on the qualitative research methods of grounded theory and its extension, situational analysis. Both approaches draw on poststructural developments in the social sciences and humanities, (re)situating these methods among …
Visual Research Methods
Inbunden, 2006
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The use of visual evidence in social and cultural research is an exciting and stimulating area of growing interest bridging the social sciences and humanities. The burgeoning use of the Internet has given a massive boost to the use of, and interest in, varieties of visual information for research …
Evaluation Research Methods
Av Elliot Stern
Inbunden, 2004
9844 kr
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Evaluation is a set of research methods and associated methodologies with a distinctive purpose. They provide a means to judge actions and activities in terms of values, criteria and standards. At the same time evaluation is also a practice that seeks to enhance effectiveness in the public sphere …
Fundamentals of Action Research
Av W M Cooke, Julie Wolfram Cox
Inbunden, 2004
9844 kr
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Fundamentals of Action Research brings together, material, much of it hard to obtain, into one collection. It is a foundation resource for individuals and institutions on which to build their action research knowledge bank and will be the first point of reference for action research practitioners …
Biographical Research Methods
Inbunden, 2005
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The life history or biographical research method was popular in the early decades of the twentieth century and, after a period of eclipse caused by the rise of quantitative methods, is enjoying a resurgence of interest. This burgeoning of interest is enough that we can now speak of a biographical …
Historical Methods in the Social Sciences
Av John A Hall, Joseph M Bryant
Inbunden, 2005
9844 kr
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Historical methods are at the foundation of research in the social sciences. This synthesizing and integrative project on the methodology of historical social science addresses programmatic objectives, interpretive principles, explanatory logic, and substantive applications to form a unique …
Philosophical Foundations of Social Research Methods
Inbunden, 2005
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Philosophical considerations and positions underlie all of the natural and social sciences. In the latter case philosophical foundations and their emergent issues have a profound impact on methodology and empirical practice. Design decisions will usually depend on philosophical perspectives or …
Comparative Methods in the Social Sciences
Av Alan Sica
Inbunden, 2006
9844 kr
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Comparative research methods are central to sociology and its associated disciplines. This four-volume set brings together 77 articles and book chapters from key sources, spanning the history of comparative analysis in the social sciences, from ancient to modern works. The selections cover not only …
Qualitative Research 2
Av Alan Bryman
Inbunden, 2007
9844 kr
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Qualitative research is a burgeoning field which has attracted a growing amount of self-reflection. Reflecting the growth of interest among qualitative researchers in the nature of their craft, this collection extends the value of the critically acclaimed first edition of Qualitative Research, …
Conversation Analysis
Inbunden, 2006
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It is now widely agreed that in latter part of the 20th century sociology has taken a ′linguistic turn′. One of the approaches to emerge out of the linguistic turn is conversation analysis, which is now recognized as one of the most distinctive and genuinely original approaches to the study of …
Data Analysis
Inbunden, 2007
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′What is data analysis′ is a key question in social research, defined by the foundations of various research models. This four-volume set presents the leading directions in data analysis and published in the ′classic′ articles in the field. It brings together the most outstanding ′vintage′ and …
Attitude Measurement
Av Caroline Roberts, Roger Jowell
Inbunden, 2008
9844 kr
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The field of attitude research has long been recognised as one of the most important and influential within social psychology. But the ever-increasing popularity of survey research as a source of what the public thinks and feels about a wide range of issues has brought the subject into the popular …
Interviewing II
Inbunden, 2008
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Interviewing has a strong claim to be the most widely-practised social science research methods. The ubiquity of this basic activity means that this field has one of the most developed bodies of methodological literature having ramifications throughout the social sciences. Nigel Fielding, the …
Mass Communication Research Methods
Inbunden, 2009
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Part One: IntroductionPart Two: Asking the Right QuestionsPart Three: Researching Media Institutions, Organizations, Professionals and ProductionPart Four: Researching Media Content and RepresentationPart Five: Researching Media and Communication in Society: Consumption, Audiences, Politics, …
