Research methods: general

Preparing Literature Reviews is an accessible guide that provides easy to follow step-by-step advice on how to prepare qualitative and quantitative literature reviews.

This book explores the diversity-related labour that marginalized faculty, students, and staff are expected to perform because of their social identities - i.

This book shows how science works, fails to work, or pretends to work, by looking at examples from such diverse fields as physics, biomedicine, psychology, and economics.

Action Research in a Relational Perspective brings together an expert international academic team to present theoretical perspectives on social constructionist understandings of action research, as well as illustrative examples of action research practices within a wide range of sectors such as organizational learning, leadership development, education, mental health and health care.

Reflexivity is valuable in social research because it draws attention to the researcher as part of the world being studied and reminds us that the individuals involved in our research are subjects, not objects.

Originally published in 1974, this book evaluates and compares three important styles of sociological research: positivism, symbolic interactionism and critique.

Invisible Voices explores the intersection of criminology and history as a way of contextualizing the historical black presence in crime and punishment in the UK.

Reflections on Methodology offers a new and engaging means of teaching Honours students or those starting a PhD in Sociology about methodological issues.

The explosion of public interest in the natural environment can, to a large extent, be attributed to greater public awareness of the impacts of global warming and climate change.

Poetry can be both political and pedagogical.

Qualitative Research Methods is a comprehensive, all-inclusive resource for the theory and practice of qualitative/ethnographic research methodology.

This book offers a paradigm shift in the framing of identity development by advancing a new, shock-sensitive framework for diverse young adult identity development after high school.

This book presents different tools and techniques used for Decision Support Systems (DSS), including decision tree and table, and their modifications, multi-criteria decision analysis techniques, network tools of decision support, and various case-based reasoning methods supported by examples and case studies.

This practical guide addresses the challenges for building and maintaining a college research program in an environment that does not focus on supporting research activity and for those with a heavy teaching load.

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.

Criminal Justice and Criminology Research Methods, Third Edition, is an accessible and engaging text that offers balanced coverage of a full range of contemporary research methods.

An Introduction to Metascience delves into core metascientific concepts, offering a critical examination of current knowledge creation processes and scrutinising researchers and their methodologies across disciplines.

Research Paradigms and Their Methodological Alignment in Social Sciences is a comprehensive guide addressing the common conceptions surrounding research paradigms.

As the uncertainty of global and local contexts continues to amplify, the Routledge Handbook for Creative Futures responds to the increasing urgency for reimagining futures beyond dystopias and utopias.

Posthuman Adventuring immerses readers in a transdisciplinary methodology that merges images and sounds to inspire ongoing dialogue and provoke imaginative inquiry.

This book engages with the writings of W.

This book provides an introduction to the field of microeconometrics through the use of R.

An understanding and working knowledge of the basic principles of statistics are of central importance in understanding the sport and health sciences.

This book reframes theoretical, methodological and practical approaches to public administration by drawing on complexity theory concepts.

Volume 29 of Research in Organizational Change and Development includes ten contributions from colleagues around the globe with powerful insights and potentially relevant impact for researching and practicing organization change and development during and post the pandemic.

The student-focused guide to grounded theory, this book takes you step by step through the whole research process, from creating a research proposal to sharing your findings.

This new handbook is about the practices of conducting research on military issues.

Getting a qualitative article or book published involves more than simply doing the research, writing it up, and sending it off.

This book presents interdisciplinary empirical studies about the COVID-19 pandemic's complex influence on the professional, personal, and family lives of mothers in academia or "e;MotherScholars"e;.

Designed to help readers analyze and interpret research data using IBM SPSS, this user-friendly book shows readers how to choose the appropriate statistic based on the design; perform intermediate statistics, including multivariate statistics; interpret output; and write about the results.

Audiovisual and Digital Ethnography is a state-of-the-art introduction to this dynamic and growing subject.

Learning from Data focuses on how to interpret psychological data and statistical results.

Studying people's lives requires acknowledging the multiple entanglements between individual singularity and processes of social patterning.

How to Use SPSS(R) is designed with the novice computer user in mind and for people who have no previous experience using SPSS.

Esta obra es única en su género tanto por la innovación que representan las propuestas que realiza, como por un intento de dar cuenta de las diferentes perspectivas, concepciones, enfoques y tensiones que caracterizan, en nuestros días, la investigación cualitativa.

This book considers post-19th-century Athens as a unique instance of a secret side of metropolitan capitalism.

Conducting research and successfully publishing the findings is a goal of many professionals and students in library and information science (LIS).

This comprehensive Handbook serves as a unique synthesis and resource for understanding how analytical frameworks developed within the literature assist in understanding the nature and management of commons resources.

The second edition of Maria J.

This book provides the history and genealogy of an increasingly important subject: liminality.

Perspectivism: A Contribution to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences advances the philosophy of perspectivism, showing how its capacity to assess competing views of a particular concept by approaching them as different 'sides' of a multi-dimensional object supports a concept of 'adequate' rather than 'absolute' truth.

This fascinating book gives readers an appreciation of how biomedical research should work and how the reality is all too often seriously flawed.

The agriculture system is under pressure to increase production every year as global population expands and more people move from a diet mostly made up of grains, to one with more meat, dairy and processed foods.

This book addresses the need for policing scholarship to strengthen its empirical cumulative knowledge base by replicating and reproducing earlier studies.

Systematic Reviews in Health Research Explore the cutting-edge of systematic reviews in healthcare In this Third Edition of the classic Systematic Reviews textbook, now titled Systematic Reviews in Health Research, a team of distinguished researchers deliver a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the rapidly evolving area of systematic reviews and meta-analysis.

■ Atomare Sprengstoffe■ Atomenergie als Zeitproblem■ Offenheit und Aufgeschlossenheit■ Die Physik in unserer Zeit■ Der Triumph der Naturwissenschaft■ Der Wissenschaftler und die Gesellschaft■ Kunst und Wissenschaft: Ein Ausblick■ Enzyklopädisches Stichwort: Neue Physik und Verantwortung■ Literaturhinweise■ Personen- und Sachregister

Replays addresses the challenging behaviors of children with autism spectrum disorders through interactive symbolic play.

How to Read Ethnography is an essential guide to approaching anthropological texts.