Research methods: general

Written for anyone beginning a research project, this introductory book takes you through the process of analysing your data from start to finish.

Characterized by its move away from Romanticism and toward mundane, every day subjects, as well as incorporating such ideas as metanarrative, stream of consciousness, and disjointed timelines, the American Modernist Era was at its heyday during the years 1914-1949.

Almost all higher educational institutions have built some kind of fieldwork project into the advanced stages of their programmes and the research project should integrate theory, practice, knowledge and skills.

Sociology and Human Rights: New Engagements is the first collection to focus on the contribution sociological approaches can make to analysis of human rights.

Mobile Lifeworlds illustrates how the imaginaries and ideals of Western travellers, especially those of untouched nature and spiritual enlightenment, are consistent with media representations of the Himalayan region, romanticism and modernity at large.

First published in 1975.

Spirituality is increasingly acknowledged to be an essential part of child development.

This book provides an overview of cutting-edge approaches to computational social science.

Research Methods in Occupational Health Psychology: Measurement, Design, and Data Analysis provides a state-of-the-art review of current issues and best practices in the science of Occupational Health Psychology.

Without strong proof, policy advocates along with some scholars have causally linked declines in juvenile offending and incarceration with evidence-based and rehabilitation-oriented policy reform.

This collection spotlights the authentic voices of plurilingual learners, bringing together autoethnographies of over twenty graduate students to deepen current understandings of lived experiences of plurilingualism.

This book is the first Australian study, based on extensive fieldwork, of the personal backgrounds and processes by which juveniles get drawn into risky and violent situations that culminate in murder.

This is a book that thinks about what it means to be human and what this could mean for social research.

This book offers a clear and comprehensive introduction to the use of internet technology in research.

Influential writings make the case for open access to research, explore its implications, and document the early struggles and successes of the open access movement.

In this book, Stefan Battle weaves together autoethnographic narrative and ethnographic performance material from his own life and those of four other Black men, to show the untold impact of racial trauma on these everyday lives.

This publication represents the culmination of the National AcademiesKeck Futures Initiative (NAKFI), a program of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the National Academy of Medicine supported by a 15-year, $40 million grant from the W.

Social Sequence Analysis is a comprehensive guide to analytic methods that brings together foundational, theoretical and methodological work on social sequences.

The only guide to conducting research in International Relations.

This second edition of Ethnographic Thinking: From Method to Mindset serves as a primer for practitioners who want to apply ethnography to real-world challenges and commercial ventures.

Covering a wide variety of subjects and points of inquiry on women's sexuality, from genital anxieties about pubic hair to constructions of the body in the therapy room, this book offers a ground-breaking examination of women, sex, and madness, drawing from psychology, gender and sexuality studies, and cultural studies.

The fifth edition of this comprehensive and engaging text guides readers through the essential tools and skills necessary to conduct quantitative content analysis research.

Contrary to what is suggested in media and popular discourses, Europe is neither a monolithic entity nor simply a collection of nation states.

When you think of the Caribbean, a hundred beautiful clich s come to mind - white sand, blue sky, salty breezes and balmy nights.

First published in 1985, this book provides a descriptive study of social activities in a neurosciences laboratory.

This comprehensive introduction explores the evolving relationship between new media, advertising and new media consumers.

This plenary volume from the Sixth International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry (2010) highlights the variety of roles played by qualitative researchers in addressing global communities in crisis.

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

Posthuman Community Psychology is an exploration of mainstream psychology through a critical posthumanity perspective, examining psychology's place in the world and its relationship with marginalised people, with a focus on people with disabilities.

This book is concerned with trainee professionals and their search for meaning through the determined and creative pursuit of a cross-cultural career transition.

This book seeks to establish the meaning of design research, its role in the field, and the characteristics that differentiate research in design from research in other fields.

In an era of rapidly increasing technological advances and international exchange, how did young people come to understand the world beyond their doorsteps?

'Organizational research methods' (ORM) are making an ontological turn by studying the nature of Being, becoming, and the meaning of existence in the world.

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

Challenging the sanitized view of participants in standardized surveys, Interviews as Activated Storytelling contends that interviewing is a meaning-making process producing useful but context-sensitive knowledge.

The change in climatic conditions has resulted in a series of events from the melting of polar ice to the rising of sea levels.

Contributors investigate the motivation behind scientifically-embedded contemporary art practices as well as art-based scientific research and engagement that attempt to shape society.

This highly accessible book presents robustness testing as the methodology for conducting quantitative analyses in the presence of model uncertainty.

This book presents a new approach to housing research, one that is relevant to all the social sciences.

This volume outlines Max Weber's comparative-historical sociology of "e;interpretive understanding"e; (verstehen) in a manner that clarifies his complex mode of analysis and multi-causal focus.

Teen suicide has long been considered one of society's darkest secrets; the idea of troubled young people driven to take their own lives was a tragedy too horrible to contemplate, let alone talk about openly.

This book explores the complexity of communication and understanding as a possible asset in formal education rather than a problem that needs to be "e;fixed"e;.

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

Reflecting on a 50 year university career, Distinguished Professor Arthur Bochner, former President of the National Communication Association, discloses a lived history, both academic and personal, that has paralleled many of the paradigm shifts in the human sciences inspired by the turn toward narrative.

This self-contained monograph reports the recent approaches, methods and practices of technology-enabled personalized learning.

First Published in 2004.

* This new edition gives students valuable practice in reading and evaluating research.