Research methods: general

The volume examines the discourse-based critique of coloniality.

The process of European integration and the transfer of political authority from the national to the European level have led to the emergence of a field of EU policy making in Brussels, which attracts professionals and experts from all EU member states.

Practical theology as a subject area has grown and become more sophisticated in its methods and self-understanding over the last few decades.

A narrative inquiry into the lives of three men, Robert, Raheem, and Warren, this book shares their stories about over-discipline in school, adverse teacher-student relationships, and violent community policing that proceeded and intersected with their involvement in the criminal justice system.

This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to using and creating poetry for conducting and reporting social research.

The last two decades have witnessed a proliferation of qualitative research in sport and exercise.

Constructionism has become one of the most popular research approaches in the social sciences.

This edited volume examines the diverse Latinx/a/o student populations in higher education.

Advances convergence of sociology and computer science, as equal partners in exploring the dynamic structure of online communities.

Concrete and Dust focuses on the performative nature of sexualized identity in Hollywood, the people that live in its underbelly and surrounding valleys, the sexual geographies of the place, and the ways in which sexual agency is mapped on the body and in consciousness.

The theme of this book is simple.

This book uses letter writing as a form of engaging autoethnography to address relational histories and dynamics such as race, gender, loss, memory and resolution.

Rapid molecular identification and typing of micro-organisms is extremely important in efforts to monitor the geographical spread of virulent, epidemic or antibiotic-resistant pathogens.

Detection Theory: A User's Guide is an introduction to one of the most important tools for the analysis of data where choices must be made and performance is not perfect.

This book calls for those interested in robust construction research to embrace ethnography - in all its forms, including rapid ethnographies, ethnographic-action research, autoethnography, as well as longer-term ethnographies.

In the last few decades, the media, academics, and the general public have put considerable focus on Muslim culture and politics around the world.

This collection of essays emerged out of intense conversations on multi-sited ethnography, prompted by a workshop held at the University of Sussex that brought together researchers from different institutional backgrounds and affiliations in Europe, the United States and Africa - including George Marcus himself, the person most associated with the term and the method.

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Mixed Methods Perspectives on Communication and Social Media Research addresses the need for a discipline-cum-methodology-tailored book that navigates the current research spectrum of communication and social media ("e;CommSocMed"e;).

'A terrific work that is particularly suited for those from beginner to club player'JOHN WATSON, The Week in ChessThe fully revised and updated award-winning, bestselling, classic chess book by FIDE Master and chess world-record holder, Graham Burgess.

* A supplementary guide for students who are learning how to evaluate reports of empirical research published in academic journals.

How is sexuality studied methodologically?

Created with the input of a distinguished International Board of the foremost authorities in data mining from academia and industry, The Handbook of Data Mining presents comprehensive coverage of data mining concepts and techniques.

This book is an essential guide to scientifically conducting contemporary ethnographic research at undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral levels in the social sciences, the humanities, and business studies.

This is the first book to examine trauma research in the context of sport, exercise, and health.

Recent scholarship on archival research has raised questions concerning the character and impact of 'the archive' on how the traces of the past are researched, the use and analysis of different kinds of archived data, methodological approaches to the practicalities involved, and what kind of theory is drawn on and contributed to by such research.

This book explores the relevance of management accounting research and practice for a range of broader, societal phenomena related to corporate governance and regulation, the creation and maintenance of markets and their concomitant social and political implications.

While extensive attention has been paid to black youth, adult black British men are a notable omission in academic literature.

This methods book will guide the reader through the process of conducting and producing an autoethnographic study through the understanding of self, other, and culture.

Research publications, projects, and teaching learning theories have become very important to universities, institutions, organizations, and industries.

This is an excellent and much needed book.

Recent events have vividly underscored the societal importance of science, yet the majority of the public are unaware that a large proportion of published scientific results are simply wrong.

At the beginning of writing a thesis, many questions arise, for example:* How do I know that I have formulated a relevant research problem?

Survey Development: A Theory-Driven Mixed-Method Approach provides both an overview of standard methods and tools for developing and validating surveys and a conceptual basis for survey development that advocates establishing and testing of hypotheses pertaining to presumptions and score-interpretation and use inferences and mixing quantitative and qualitative methods.

The analysis of social and public policy and professional practice has become increasingly theoretical in recent years.

Visual Research Methods in the Social Sciences: Awakening Visions is an indispensable resource for students, researchers and teachers seeking to use visual sources in their research and understand how images work.

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Evaluating Research in Academic Journals is a guide for students who are learning how to evaluate reports of empirical research published in academic journals.

Why do policymakers sometimes adopt policies that are not supported by evidence?

This book explores the problem of scientific dishonesty and misconduct - a problem that affects all disciplines, yet whose extent remains largely unknown and for which established standards for reporting, prevention, and punishment are absent.

Originally published in 1983, Broadman and Montgomery present an agenda for further research into deregulated natural gas markets by relating natural gas production, transmission and distribution with the economic function of contracts and local distribution companies.

Philosophy may not seem to be an obvious source to discover methods for successful product innovation management.

Choosing a research method can be bewildering.

How do I find relevant information for my thesis, dissertation or report?

Facilitating Community Research for Social Change asks: what does ethical research facilitation look like in projects that seek to move toward social change?

In recent years, research in the social sciences and cultural studies has increasingly paid attention to the generative power of emotions and affects; that is, to the questions of how far they shape social and cultural processes while being simultaneously shaped by them.

The Craft of Political Research is a non-technical introduction to research design and analysis in political science, emphasizing the choices we make when we design a research project and analyze its results.

Advancing the notion of connected autonomy, and highlighting the importance of interdisciplinary research in the development of this novel concept, this volume explores the possibility of maintaining the freedom to make one's own decisions in later life, while also remaining connected to others - as well as to things, services, places and events.