Research methods: general

Christianity as a cultural force, whether rising or falling, has seldom been analysed through the actual processes by which tradition is transmitted, modified, embraced or rejected.

This established text is the only introduction to qualitative research methodologies in the field of library and information management.

This book explores the stark stratification and struggles over classifications in US academia from a relational perspective, looking beyond material differences and tracing its roots to symbolic power relations.

This textbook navigates through the complex landscape of mentorship in academic research across all levels of education.

This volume is a call for integrity in autoethnographic research.

Critical Autoethnography: Intersecting Cultural Identities in Everyday Life, Second Edition, examines the development of the field of critical autoethnography through the lens of social identity.

This engaging book outlines effective strategies for supervising students on a wide variety of research projects, whether at undergraduate or postgraduate level.

This book explores probation staff understandings of professionalism in the aftermath of the Transforming Rehabilitation (TR) reforms to services in England and Wales.

The environment is one of the defining issues of our times, and it is closely linked to questions and dilemmas surrounding economic development.

With the constant evolution of change in healthcare from both a technology and governmental perspective, it is imperative to take a step back and view the big picture.

The Dress Detective is the first practical guide to analyzing fashion objects, clearly demonstrating how their close analysis can enhance and enrich interdisciplinary research.

How do campaign promises affect voter behavior?

Traditional approaches focused on significance tests have often been difficult for linguistics researchers to visualise.

An Autoethnography of Becoming a Qualitative Researcher chronicles Trude Klevan's personal experiences of her doctoral journey, with Alec Grant as an external academic resource and friend, and her subsequent entry into the neoliberal higher education environment.

Data analysis plays a vital role in guiding medical treatment plans, patient care, and the formulation of control and prevention policies in the field of healthcare.

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

Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change is a major new book addressing one of the most challenging questions of our time.

In recent years the concept of the resource "e;nexus"e; has been both hotly debated and widely adopted in research and policy circles.

Now in its fifth, expanded edition, Using Sources Effectively, Fifth Edition targets the two most prominent problems in current research-paper writing: the increase in unintentional plagiarism and the ineffective use of research source material.

The Routledge Handbook of European Sociology explores the main aspects of the work and scholarship of European sociologists during the last sixty years (1950-2010), a period that has shaped the methods and identity of the sociological craft.

This is a critical, personalized approach to reframing the discipline of psychology through a singular narrative in the form of a memoir written by a successful research psychologist.

This exploration of empirical inference presents descriptions of the processes by which scientific measurements support explanations of our world.

Once upon a time the practice of storytelling was about collecting interesting stories about the past, and converting them into soundbite pitches.

This companion takes the student through the different approaches to working with cases in the classroom, virtually and for research purposes.

This book tells the story of radical transparency in a datafied world.

Drawing on real-world experience and presented in an informal and accessible manner, Writing and Publishing Research in Kinesiology, Health, and Sport Science provides upper-level students and early-career academics with an essential resource to aid in disseminating research and publishing their first papers.

This edited volume examines the diverse Latinx/a/o student populations in higher education.

This book contains three Open Access chapters.

Including narratives of practice across diverse Australian settings, Engaging with Educational Change fills a gap in the current educational change literature.

Community Engagement Through Collaborative Writing: Storytelling Together is designed to support scholars and communities storytelling together to reach multiple audiences and facilitate social change.

Intended to bridge the gap between the latest methodological developments and cross-cultural research, this interdisciplinary resource presents the latest strategies for analyzing cross-cultural data.

Research Design and Statistical Analysis provides comprehensive coverage of the design principles and statistical concepts necessary to make sense of real data.

Originally published for the first time in English in 1979 this book represents one of the earliest Marxist analyses of the impact that colonialism had on Africa during the first half century that followed the Scramble.

Carleton Beals was among America's most distinctive foreign correspondents.

In From Martyrs to Murderers, the author explores the connections between the dark, unflattering representations of public schools, teachers and teaching in popular Hollywood films and the conservative attacks on public education that have culminated in a generation of neo-liberal standards reform measures.

Fairness and ethicality have been at the center of the debates on the appropriate use of educational tests since the 1960s.

Since the first edition in 1981,Social Work Research and Evaluation has provided graduate-level social work students with basic research and evaluation concepts to help them become successful evidence-based practitioners, evidence-informed practitioners and practitioners who are implementing evidence-based programs.

Academic research in design can seem daunting let Hilary Collins show you the building blocks of a great final project.

Being Ethnographic is a fundamental introductory guidebook to process and utilization of doing fieldwork within real-world settings.

Python is a first-class tool for many researchers, primarily because of its libraries for storing, manipulating, and gaining insight from data.

Museums, Societies and the Creation of Value focuses on the ways in which museums and the use of their collections have contributed to, and continue to be engaged with, value creation processes.

Creativity and Sociology: Doing Social Research with and on Artistic Sources explores the relationship between artistic and sociological narratives, considering the ways in which artistic narratives in their different forms can be both subjects of sociological observation and tools for the sociological analysis of reality.

How do teenagers with Asperger Syndrome view themselves and their own lives?

This book brings fresh perspectives to the anthropology of migration.

Essential management guidance for real-world applied research projects Managing Applied Social Research equips you with the skills, strategies, and knowledge you need to effectively manage research projects.