Research methods: general

Seventy years ago, an Ivy League-educated lawyer, his wife from a prominent Midwestern media family, and their four children moved to a small town in Southwestern Colorado.

Research Design in Chinese Medicine: Linking Social and Health Sciences is an innovative and comprehensive guide that bridges the ancient wisdom of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) with modern research methods in social and health sciences.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.

Every day there are new stories of gang-related crime: from the proliferation of illegal weapons in the streets and children dealing drugs in their schools, to innocent bystanders caught in the crossfire of never-ending gang wars.

In Tell Me This: Voices, Stories, and Scholarship of Belonging, a diverse array of voices-including educators, leaders, researchers, and parents-combines to tell a rich and complex story of human connection.

Science is built on trust.

Ethnography has a long history in the humanities and social sciences and has provided the base line in the field of police studies for over 60 years.

Using clear language and real-world examples, this accessible textbook provides a concise guide to the understanding and critical evaluation of journal articles in epidemiology.

This practical book offers a guide to finding, choosing, and applying theoretical frameworks to social sciences research, and provides researchers with the scaffolding needed to reflect on their philosophical orientations and better situate their work in the existing landscape of empirical and theoretical knowledge.

This book presents an original interdisciplinary approach to the study of the so-called 'recovery phase' in disaster management, centred on the notion of repairing.

Find the answers to disaster and emergency management research questions with Disaster and Emergency Management Methods.

A guide to identifying and practicing useful scientific research for researchers, administrators, policy makers, lawyers, and journalists.

Drawing on the works of ten scholars and public intellectuals ranging over 200 years, this book foregrounds ways of knowing that include but go beyond the cognitive.

This book reintroduces the work of Robert K.

Featuring contributions from some of the leading researchers in the field of SEM, most chapters are written by the author(s) who originally proposed the technique and/or contributed substantially to its development.

This book explores what identity is, what factors contribute to it, how it develops, and the impacts that a strong or weak sense of self can have on a person's health, happiness, and future.

This book presents the mathematical economic theory of price determination and resource allocation from elementary to advanced levels.

Expanding Approaches to Thematic Analysis: Creative Engagements with Qualitative Data springboards readers into a world where generating themes from qualitative data is a creative, experimental, and wondrous process!

Immersive Cartography and Post-Qualitative Inquiry introduces immersive cartography as a transdisciplinary approach to social inquiry in an age of climate change and technological transformation.

Writing Qualitatively: The Selected Works of Johnny Saldana showcases the diverse range of writing styles available to qualitative researchers through the work one of the most internationally cited and referenced methodologists.

A practical, one-stop reference on the theory and applications of statistical data editing and imputation techniques Collected survey data are vulnerable to error.

Stimulating and developing the creative potential of all members of an organisation is widely seen as contributing to performance and results.

Advances in Autoethnography and Narrative Inquiry pays homage to two prominent scholars, Arthur Bochner and Carolyn Ellis, for their formative and formidable contributions to autoethnography, personal narrative, and alternative forms of scholarship.

Killer Data examines the phenomenon of serial murder using data collected from international sources to review offender patterning with a focus on contemporary cases.

Multi-Dimensional Analysis: Research Methods and Current Issues provides a comprehensive guide both to the statistical methods in Multi-Dimensional Analysis (MDA) and its key elements, such as corpus building, tagging, and tools.

Written in collaboration with the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools (ECLAS) and LE: NOTRE, The Routledge Handbook of Teaching Landscape provides a wide-ranging overview of teaching landscape subjects, from geology to landscape design, reflecting different perspectives and practices at university-level landscape curricula.

As an ethnographic method walking has a long history, but it has only recently begun to attract focused attention.

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Despite the rising popularity of visual research methods, from images and collages to videos and animations, there is an imminent need for a book that can be a point of reference for learning about visual methods in the field of marketing and consumer research.

First published Open Access under a Creative Commons license as What is Online Research?

Creating Critical Research Poetry critically engages with the ways in which researchers can poetically approach textual representations that narrate the unnarratable and contest the uncontested.

Physicians, health researchers, and nurses make extensive use of focus groups.

Sustainability: Key Issues is a comprehensive introductory textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students doing courses in sustainability.

This book introduces the non-specialist reader to the principal ideas, nature and purpose of social network analysis.

Winner of the 2023 Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award, awarded by the Urban Communication FoundationBased on the author's scholar-activist interventions to promote social justice in cities, this book highlights the role engaged communication scholarship can play in fostering a more equitable future.

Critical Qualitative Research and Social Justice is an encyclopedia-esque book that is a must have for any researcher interested in critical and social justice qualitative research.

Selecting from the wide range of research methodologies remains a dilemma for all scholars, not least those looking to study the world of accounting.

Research Design in Aging and Social Gerontology provides a review of methodological approaches and data-collection methods commonly used with older adults in real-life settings.

The need to understand how to design and set up an investigative experiment is nearly universal to all students in engineering, applied technology and science, as well as many of the social sciences.

Anthropology has a critical, practical role to play in contemporary debates about futures.

This book addresses the difficult conditions researchers may face in the field and provides lessons in how to navigate the various social, political, economic, health, and environmental challenges involved in fieldwork.

Public administration is a craft that demands real-world application of concepts and theories often learned in a classroom.

A Sociology of Crime has an outstanding reputation for its distinctive and systematic contribution to the criminological literature.

Do you want to understand and apply qualitative research methods in a digital context?

In an era of accelerating change in the world economy, services are assuming greater importance for the economies of both developed and developing countries.

This volume demonstrates the instrumental use of Currere as a methodology to bring about Deracialisation through transformational learning by a white educator in Post-Apartheid South Africa.

Intersectional Analysis as a Method to Analyze Popular Culture: Clarity in the Matrix explores how race, class, gender, sexuality, and other social categories are represented in, and constructed by, some of the most significant popular culture artifacts in contemporary Western culture.

Drawing on content from yearbooks published by prominent colleges in Virginia, this book explores changes in race relations that have occurred at universities in the United States since the late 19th century.