El multinaturalismo del antropólogo brasilero Eduardo Viveiros de Castro y el animismo del francés Philippe Descola se han popularizado más o menos juntos bajo el nombre de perspectivismo amerindio y se están expandiendo viralmente desde la Amazonia al resto de la academia de las ciencias sociales.
Este libro tiene la finalidad de ofrecer algunas reflexiones en torno a nuevos enfoques y perspectivas en la investigación social, como es el método de la Investigación Aplicada y su potencial utilidad en la elaboración de investigaciones diagnósticas o bien, en lo que en este texto propongo pensar como prácticas investigativas en Trabajo Social.
Social Network Analysis and Text Mining for Big Data presents cutting-edge methods and tools that bridge the gap between text mining and social network analysis research while also providing new insights for analyzing (big) textual and network data.
Productivity and Amenity (1974) considers social responsibility in business and the balance between the social requirements for enhancing productivity and amenity.
Productivity and Amenity (1974) considers social responsibility in business and the balance between the social requirements for enhancing productivity and amenity.
Designed to foster inquiry-mindedness, this book prepares graduate students to develop a conceptual framework and conduct inquiry projects that are linked to ongoing conversations in a field.
This book uses the overlapping approaches of political care ethics and feminist posthumanism as a lens to focus on the notions of privileged irresponsibility, responsibility and response-ability within the context of higher education and as it pertains to the issues of colonialism/decolonisation, pandemics and the climate crisis.
This book uses the overlapping approaches of political care ethics and feminist posthumanism as a lens to focus on the notions of privileged irresponsibility, responsibility and response-ability within the context of higher education and as it pertains to the issues of colonialism/decolonisation, pandemics and the climate crisis.
The contemporary world currently faces multi-level challenges, including cross-border migration, economic crises and myriad health issues, including the recent COVID-19 pandemic.
The contemporary world currently faces multi-level challenges, including cross-border migration, economic crises and myriad health issues, including the recent COVID-19 pandemic.
This second edition textbook provides invaluable guidance on carrying out qualitative research in psychology using methods both individually and in combination.
In this remarkable volume, a multinational team of scientists catalogs the stressors and benefits for combat-trained soldiers deployed on missions where they are told to hold their fire and assume the role of peacekeeper.
This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of key themes and agendas in contemporary Participatory Design across diverse disciplines, continents, communities, and practices.
This book explores how both elite and non-elite actors frame societal threats such as the refugee crisis and COVID-19 using both digital and traditional media.
Unraveling: An Autoethnography of Suicide and Renewal is an autoethnographic story that explores the intricate relationship among trauma, marginality, and mental health.
Unraveling: An Autoethnography of Suicide and Renewal is an autoethnographic story that explores the intricate relationship among trauma, marginality, and mental health.
Viral Language considers a range of different types of public communication and their discussion of the Covid-19 pandemic as a way to investigate health communication.
Viral Language considers a range of different types of public communication and their discussion of the Covid-19 pandemic as a way to investigate health communication.
Originally published in 1974, this book evaluates and compares three important styles of sociological research: positivism, symbolic interactionism and critique.
Departing Radically in Academic Writing (DRAW) seeks to show qualitative researchers that there are ways to embrace creatively alternative approaches to writing, whilst fulfilling the demands of an academic tenure system.
This book demonstrates how creative research methods can be used to better understand the experiences of children, particularly in the context of sport, physical activity and health.
Departing Radically in Academic Writing (DRAW) seeks to show qualitative researchers that there are ways to embrace creatively alternative approaches to writing, whilst fulfilling the demands of an academic tenure system.
Postfoundational Approaches to Qualitative Inquiry is an edited collection that aims to move beyond a critique and deconstruction of method in order to present an engagement with various postfoundational frameworks and approaches that produce new concepts and enactments.
Emphasizing the new challenges posed by the data science revolution, digital media, and changing norms, Research Ethics in Applied Economics examines the ethical issues faced by quantitative social scientists at each stage of the research process.
Postfoundational Approaches to Qualitative Inquiry is an edited collection that aims to move beyond a critique and deconstruction of method in order to present an engagement with various postfoundational frameworks and approaches that produce new concepts and enactments.
This book demonstrates how creative research methods can be used to better understand the experiences of children, particularly in the context of sport, physical activity and health.
Emphasizing the new challenges posed by the data science revolution, digital media, and changing norms, Research Ethics in Applied Economics examines the ethical issues faced by quantitative social scientists at each stage of the research process.
Thoroughly updated, more concise than the previous edition, and available for the first time in paperback, "Research Methods for Political Science" is designed to help students learn what to research, why to research, and how to research.
Covering basic univariate and bivariate statistics and regression models for nominal, ordinal, and interval outcomes, Applied Statistics for the Social and Health Sciences provides graduate students in the social and health sciences with fundamental skills to estimate, interpret, and publish quantitative research using contemporary standards.
Covering basic univariate and bivariate statistics and regression models for nominal, ordinal, and interval outcomes, Applied Statistics for the Social and Health Sciences provides graduate students in the social and health sciences with fundamental skills to estimate, interpret, and publish quantitative research using contemporary standards.
Whether you are looking to interpret and evaluate existing health research, or conduct your own, this book discusses every step of the research process, from theory and ethics to data collection, analysis and dissemination.
Using the investigation of criminal culture as an example application, this edited volume presents a novel approach to agent-based simulation: interpretive agent-based social simulation as a methodological and transdisciplinary approach to examining the potential of qualitative data and methods for agent-based modelling (ABM).
Using the investigation of criminal culture as an example application, this edited volume presents a novel approach to agent-based simulation: interpretive agent-based social simulation as a methodological and transdisciplinary approach to examining the potential of qualitative data and methods for agent-based modelling (ABM).
Exploring gender through the lens of field theory, Gender Fields proposes a new framework for understanding the social organisation of gender identity.
