Research methods: general

This book explores the stark stratification and struggles over classifications in US academia from a relational perspective, looking beyond material differences and tracing its roots to symbolic power relations.

In the last 15 to 20 years, writing centers have placed greater importance on tutor training, focusing on teaching tutors best practices in fostering student writers' engagement and writing skills.

How to be a Researcher provides a strategic guide to the conduct of a successful research career within a university environment.

Design is everywhere.

Research and Writing in International Relations, Third Edition, offers the step-by-step guidance and the essential resources needed to compose political science papers that go beyond description and into systematic and sophisticated inquiry.

Published in 2004, this collection will encourage and foster informed discussion of key issues as society comes to grips with the implications of genetic engineering, the mapping and sequencing of the human genome, and the advent of the post-genomic era.

Distilling decades of work spanning their prestigious careers, Mary M.

Finding innovative and useful measurement practices for community development projects is gaining in importance as policymakers increase the demands for accountability.

This is the first book to deliver a comprehensive guide to research methods in all types of interpreting.

This edited collection is intended as a primer for core concepts and principles in research ethics and as an in-depth exploration of the contextualization of these principles in practice across key disciplines.

Interventionist research has been proposed as one way of increasing societal impact of management accounting (MA) research.

Crime research has grown substantially over the past decade, with a rise in evidence-informed approaches to criminal justice, statistics-driven decision-making and predictive analytics.

An inspirational and gripping first-person account of determination, adversity and survival against the odds.

This second edition of Applied Multivariate Statistical Concepts covers the classic and cutting-edge multivariate techniques used in today's research.

This accessible text supports health practitioners undertaking qualitative research to inform clinical practice, guiding readers through the decision-making process from planning and proposing, through data collection, to dissemination and impact.

Understanding and applying research methods is a key skill in human resource management.

This book uses surveys to bridge the gap between studies into European economics and policymaking in Europe.

The wider conditions of society and our own personal circumstances do not simply disappear as we cross the threshold into the research world.

Research-informed practice has an ever-growing impact on teaching.

This is a work of media history and media criticism with a human face.

One of the greatest contributors to the field of Sociology, Jurgen Habermas has had a wide-ranging and significant impact on understandings of social change and social conflict.

Contemporary society encounters profound economical, socio-ecological and political crises challenging the democratic foundation of our societies.

At the bottom of the sea, freedivers find that the world bestows humans with the magic of bodily and mental freedom, binding them in small communities of play, affect and respect for nature.

This book provides tractable computational analyses of the crucial but complex processes of government formation and survival.

This collection explores how autoethnography is made.

This thoroughly updated and extended eighth edition of the long-running bestseller Research Methods in Education covers the whole range of methods employed by educational research at all stages.

In their new book Solving Managerial Problems Systematically, Hans Heerkens and Arnold van Winden teach students how to identify and efficiently deal with problems.

This innovative book presents a new framework for researchers in the field of physical education and youth sport.

The workforce across industrialized nations has become both older and more age-diverse, and this trend is expected to continue in the coming decades.

Empirically, this book is a case-study analysis of dissolution processes in German AIDS organizations.

A Beginner's Guide to Structural Equation Modeling, fifth edition, has been redesigned with consideration of a true beginner in structural equation modeling (SEM) in mind.

How can excellence in the teaching of research methods be encouraged and ensured?

A complete, professional resource for writing an effective paper in all subfields of political science, Diane Schmidt's 25th anniversary edition provides students with a practical, easy-to-follow guide for writing about political ideas, events, policies, passions, agendas, and processes.

Now in its 6th edition, the authoritative textbook Applied Multivariate Statistics for the Social Sciences, continues to provide advanced students with a practical and conceptual understanding of statistical procedures through examples and data-sets from actual research studies.

Research in Analytical Psychology: Empirical Research provides an original overview of empirical research in Analytical Psychology, focusing on quantitative and qualitative methods.

Coping with complexities is an everyday reality for private, public and third sectors that face intricate, overlapping, obscuring and ever-changing challenges.

Data Science in Education Using R is the go-to reference for learning data science in the education field.

This edited volume is a systematic collection of research initiatives in the qualitative research paradigm.

Critical Theory and Qualitative Data Analysis in Education offers a path-breaking explanation of how critical theories can be used within the analysis of qualitative data to inform research processes, such as data collection, analysis, and interpretation.

Based on twelve months of in-depth ethnographic research in Japan with retailers, customers, wholesalers, writers and craftspeople, Selling the Kimono is a journey behind the scenes of a struggle to adapt to difficult economic conditions and declining demand for the kimono.

For the past decade European countries have undergone a severe economic crisis, with severe consequences both for individuals and for governments.

News and Politics critically examines television news bulletins - still the primary source of information for most people - and asks whether the wider pace and immediacy of 24-hour news culture has influenced their format and style over time.

Qualitative research has seen a surge of growth during the past decade.

Gay men often face struggles in the conservative world of rural life, due to the pervasive social stigmas associated with homosexuality and the lack of anonymity in a small-town setting.

One of the more enduring topics of concern for empirically-oriented scholars of law and courts-and political scientists more generally-is how research can be more directly relevant to broader audiences outside of academia.

Research in the humanities and social sciences thrives on critical reflections that unfold with each research project, not only in terms of knowledge created, but in whether chosen methodologies served their purpose.