Research methods: general

This is an essential how-to guide on the application of structural equation modeling (SEM) techniques with the AMOS software, focusing on the practical applications of both simple and advanced topics.

This book illustrates the current work of leading multilevel modeling (MLM) researchers from around the world.

Whether you see a preschooler laughing or crying, hugging or tugging on a playmate, taking risks or seeking comfort from an adult, you know that they are developing their emotional skills and growing up in so many ways every day.

The purpose of risk assessment is to support science-based decisions about how to solve complex societal problems.

The Student Survival Guide for Research Methods in Psychology is designed to support students enrolled in undergraduate or graduate level research methods courses by providing them with the tools they need to succeed.

This book is a compendium of pragmatism in the social sciences.

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.

Interviewing is easy, right?

How to Structure a Thesis, Report or Paper provides concise practical guidance for students to help make their writing more structured at any level.

Agreement among raters is of great importance in many domains.

Drawing on several years of research with grief support organizations and the families and friends of murdered children, this book examines the emotional experience of families in the aftermath of a homicide.

This book examines the behavior of individuals at risk and insurance industry policy makers involved in selling, buying and regulation.

Retrospective accounts of the careers of twelve prominent management scholars The field of academic management is more competitive than ever before.

The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods spans the entire research process, from data collection to analysis and interpretation.

This book focuses on the impacts of anthropogenic radiation on wildlife and ecosystems and provides an in-depth look at the approaches and available tools we can use to gain information about biological effects of radiation in the environment.

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This textbook explores recent research on the topics of gender inequalities, intergenerational support, and family in select East Asian societies, including China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan.

FOREWORD BY RYAN TUBRIDYThe authoritative and comprehensive guide to tracing your Irish ancestryThere's never been a better time to trace your Irish family history.

Need practical advice on how to do your first qualitative research project?

Around the globe, faculty and higher education leaders are actively changing what they teach to create a sustainable world.

This volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of the field of more-than-human studies, bringing together contemporary and essential content from leading authors across the discipline.

Writing and the Articulation of Postqualitative Research is a collection of experimental essays on the implications of articulating or performing qualitative research from postqualitative philosophies.

When a child talks about a vivid nighttime dream, it can be difficult for adults to know how to respond.

When conducting research in developing countries, an ability to negotiate a bewildering array of cultural and logistical obstacles is essential.

Raising to the challenge of how to grasp such forms of inequalities that are mediated affectively, Affective Inequalities in Intimate Relationships focuses on subtle inequalities that are shaped in everyday affective encounters.

Being a Scientist is a comprehensive introduction to the many aspects of scientific life beyond the classroom and laboratory.

This interdisciplinary collection provides a set of innovative and inventive approaches to the use of video as a research method.

Parents can easily be confused when they suspect that their child may have a developmental delay.

This book spotlights and demystifies under-researched elements of research design to support successful research initiatives undertaken by students in African universities.

'Interpretation' is used as an umbrella for bringing together a wide range of concepts and developments in the philosophy of social science that provide the foundation for clear thinking about social phenomena.

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

Modelling Transitions shows what computational, formal and data-driven approaches can and could mean for sustainability transitions research, presenting the state-of-the-art and exploring what lies beyond.

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Political Narratosophy offers a critically subversive rethinking of the political and philosophical significance of narrative, and why feminist epistemology and feminist social theory matters for the meaning of the 'self' and narrativity.

Phelan and Reynolds' book is for anyone who needs to evaluate arguments and interpret evidence.

From Data to Decisions in Music Education Research provides a structured and hands-on approach to working with empirical data in the context of music education research.

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.

This book draws on both traditional and emerging fields of study to consider consider what a grounded definition of quantitative and qualitative research in the Digital Humanities (DH) might mean; which areas DH can fruitfully draw on in order to foster and develop that understanding; where we can see those methods applied; and what the future directions of research methods in Digital Humanities might look like.

A wide-ranging discussion of factors that impede the cumulation of knowledge in the social sciences, with suggested solutions.

This new edition of Karen O'Reilly's popular Ethnographic Methods provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the technical, practical and philosophical issues that arise when employing traditional and innovative research methods in relation to human agents.

Sheds new light on the sordid world of anonymous shell corporations through a series of novel field experiments.

This book will give unique insight into how a new generation of Bourdieusian researchers apply Bourdieu to contemporary issues.

The Theoretical Framework in Phenomenological Research: Development and Application is an introduction to phenomenology in which the authors overview its origin, main ideas and core concepts.

"e;Covers a broad range of subjects that undergraduates in the discipline should be familiar and comfortable with upon graduation.

Developing Grounded Theory: The Second Generation Revisited is a highly accessible description of the rapid development of grounded theories and the latest developments in grounded theory methods.

Critical Race Theory and Qualitative Methods provides insights and examples of why and how Critical Race Theory (CRT) serves and makes a powerful connection to qualitative study in education.

Whether looking for guidance on the whole process, needing help with conducting a literature review or interpreting your quantitative and qualitative data, this accessible and empowering guide will take you through the dissertation process and provide all the information you need to make the most of your research project.

Learn how to use field research to bring essential people-centred insights to your information design projects.