Research methods: general

Contemporary political and public discourse has come alive with the issues and conflicts surrounding questions of national identity.

This unique and popular text, now in a sixth edition, clearly and succinctly guides Accounting students and researchers in their understanding and conducting of research from conception to completion, across a wide range of research methods, including quantitative, qualitative and mixed-methods research.

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Going through a divorce is always tough, but when a child with special needs is involved it can be especially challenging.

This book is a contribution to the nascent discourse on global health and biomedical research ethics involving Muslim populations and Islamic contexts.

An introductory overview of spatial analysis and statistics through GIS, including worked examples and critical analysis of results.

While liberal-democratic states like America, Britain and Australia claim to value freedom of expression and the right to dissent, they have always actually criminalized dissent.

DEMYSTIFYING RESEARCH FOR MEDICAL & HEALTHCARE STUDENTS All healthcare students need to understand research methods to be able to understand research articles and to actively engage in research where necessary.

Disruptive and creative research methodologies proposed in this book are designed to dismantle neoliberal narratives deployed in tourism studies and wider social sciences.

This book examines the representation and misrepresentation of queer people in true crime, addressing their status as both victims and perpetrators in actual crime, as well as how the media portrays them.

Whilst providing a fundamental understanding of computational social science, this book delves into the tools and techniques used to build familiarity with programming and gain context into how, why and when they are introduced.

Law Clinics sind in Deutschland ein relativ junges Phänomen – Rechtsberatungsangebote durch Studierende der Rechtswissenschaften oder Rechtsreferendare sind erst durch die Reform des Rechtsdienstleistungsrechts im Jahr 2008 auf eine rechtssichere Grundlage gestellt worden.

Organizational diversity has become a topic of interest for practitioners and academics alike.

Analysing Representation: A Corpus and Discourse Textbook guides readers through the process of researching how people and phenomena are represented in discourse and introduces them to key tools they can use from corpus linguistics and (critical) discourse analysis.

Praise for the First Edition: "e;The book makes a valuable contribution by synthesizing current research and identifying areas for future investigation for each aspect of the survey process.

This text links the complementary processes of research design and statistical analysis in assessing causal relationships in the social sciences.

This book brings together some of the worlds foremost literacy scholars to discuss how research influences what teachers actually do in the classroom.

Rethinking Research in the Art Museum presents an original and radical perspective on how research can function as an agent of change in art museums today.

To achieve progress in society and business practices, more entrepreneurship is needed to encourage action and enhance social capital in society, and transformational entrepreneurship may be the key.

This ground-breaking ethnography illuminates the theory and practice of "e;aging in place"e; by examining the relationships between migrant live-in care workers of older people in Israel, and their local employers and family members.

WordPress for Journalists presents an in-depth and accessible introduction to using the content management system WordPress to produce journalism today.

This contemporary book offers current perspectives on routines and rituals to extend an understanding of the scope of these concepts, with a view to challenging conventional wisdom and to offer insight for practitioners.

Postdigital Play and Global Education: Reconfiguring Research is a re-turn to a large-scale, international project on children's digital play.

This book focuses on African childhood and youth within the context of development and socialization where children are expected to be moulded in the image of adults.

This volume focuses on the ethics of internet and social networking research exploring the challenges faced by researchers making use of social media and big data in their research.

When embarking on a new research project students face the same core research design issues.

Clean Language Interviewing is a landmark publication that defines the field for this important practice; it is essential reading for all researchers who seek to obtain data that are faithful to the experience of the interviewee.

Research design is fundamental to all scientific endeavors, at all levels and in all institutional settings.

Decades of research and discussion have shown that the human population growth and our increased consumption of natural resources cannot continue - there are limits to growth.

Chen, He and Yan present a range of applications of multiple-source big data to core areas of contemporary sociology, demonstrating how a theory-guided approach to macrosociology can help to understand social change in China, especially where traditional approaches are limited by constrained and biased data.

This original book is a wide-ranging, radical and highly innovative critique of the prevailing orthodoxies within industrial relations and human resource management.

Every three years, researchers with interest and expertise in transport survey methods meet to improve and influence the conduct of surveys that support transportation planning, policy making, modelling, and monitoring related issues for urban, regional, intercity, and international person, vehicle, and commodity movements.

This ground-breaking ethnography illuminates the theory and practice of "e;aging in place"e; by examining the relationships between migrant live-in care workers of older people in Israel, and their local employers and family members.

Das Buch bietet einen praktischen Einblick in zahlreiche Anwendungsfelder qualitativer Sozialforschung.

Interpreting Official Statistics examines the official statistics produced about the current state of British society.

Published in 1999, this text brings together detailed reflexive accounts of authors' experiences of conducting research on a variety of criminological topics.

Recognizing the radical disparity between migration/border policy and constitutional law "e;inside these borders,"e; Kathleen R.

This book explores the religious, educational, and social practice of a Muslim congregation and the moral world it generated within a mosque in UK.

First Published in 2017.

Disability studies has engaged with discourse analysis in key works both from the UK and the USA.

Communication is one of the biggest challenges faced by people with Asperger's Syndrome (AS), yet an Asperger marriage requires communication more than any other relationship.

Data Analysis: A Model Comparison Approach to Regression, ANOVA, and Beyond is an integrated treatment of data analysis for the social and behavioral sciences.

An examination of the ways that digital and networked technologies have fundamentally changed research practices in disciplines from astronomy to literary analysis.

Based on research from more than 10,000 surveys from children and parents of divorce, Collateral Damage presents parents with an overview of the negative impact that divorce has on their children and offers ways to better serve their needs at this critical time.

In Practising Feminism, contributors drawn from a range of backgrounds in anthropology, sociology and social psychology, explore different ways of practising feminism and their effect on gendered identities.