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Methodology eBooks

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  • The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers

    by Johnny Saldaña ...
    This invaluable manual from world-renowned expert Johnny Saldaña illuminates the process of qualitative coding and provides clear, insightful guidance for qualitative researchers at all levels. The fourth edition includes a range of updates that build upon the huge success of the previous editions:A structural reformat has increased accessibility; the 3 sections from the previous edition are now ... Read more

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  • News Framing Effects

    by Sophie Lecheler, Claes H. de Vreese ...
    News Framing Effects is a guide to framing effects theory, one of the most prominent theories in media and communication science. Rooted in both psychology and sociology, framing effects theory describes the ability of news media to influence people’s attitudes and behaviors by subtle changes to how they report on an issue. The book gives expert commentary on this complex theoretical notion ... Read more

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  • SAGE Handbook of Mixed Methods in Social & Behavioral Research

    by Abbas Tashakkori, Charles B. Teddlie ...
    Surveying the differing viewpoints and disciplinary approaches to using mixed methods, this volume helps readers explore the answers to a wide range of key questions in the field, including "Can using mixed methods offset the disadvantages that certain methods have by themselves?" "What criteria can a researcher use to select the best mixed methods design for his or her project?" and "What are the ... Read more

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  • Research Methods

    The Key Concepts

    by Michael Hammond, Jerry Wellington ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    This book provides an overview of ninety key concepts which often trouble those who are new to researching within the social sciences. It covers theories of knowledge, methodologies and methods. Each entry offers a definition of a concept, shows how researchers have used that concept in their research and discusses difficulties that the concept presents. The book supports those undertaking their ... Read more

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  • Doing Action Research in Your Own Organization

    by David Coghlan ...
    Concise and unintimidating, the fifth edition of this bestselling book is the only pragmatic, quick-start guide to the main theories, issues, and approaches to insider action research.With an encouraging and approachable tone, David is the perfect mentor for anyone conducting action research in their own organization. Calming nerves at the same time as building confidence, he helps readers devise ... Read more

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  • Text as Data

    A New Framework for Machine Learning and the Social Sciences

    by Justin Grimmer, Margaret E. Roberts, Brandon M. Stewart ...
    A guide for using computational text analysis to learn about the social worldFrom social media posts and text messages to digital government documents and archives, researchers are bombarded with a deluge of text reflecting the social world. This textual data gives unprecedented insights into fundamental questions in the social sciences, humanities, and industry. Meanwhile new machine learning ... Read more

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  • Research Design

    Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches

    by John W. Creswell, J. David Creswell ...
    The Sixth Edition of the bestselling Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches provides clear and concise instruction for designing research projects or developing research proposals. This user-friendly text walks readers through research methods, from reviewing the literature to writing a research question and stating a hypothesis to designing the study. At each ... Read more

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  • Doing Computational Social Science

    A Practical Introduction

    by John McLevey ...
    Computational approaches offer exciting opportunities for us to do social science differently. This beginner’s guide discusses a range of computational methods and how to use them to study the problems and questions you want to research.It assumes no knowledge of programming, offering step-by-step guidance for coding in Python and drawing on examples of real data analysis to demonstrate how you ... Read more

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  • The Craft of Criminology

    Selected Papers

    by Travis Hirschi ...
    Travis Hirschi is one of the most cited criminologists of the twentieth century. His work has provoked controversy and heated debates about the causes of crime, proper research methods, and the most effective policies to prevent and control crime. Known as a spokesperson for social control theory, Hirschi always ties his ideas to the mode of investigation and the mode of investigation to ... Read more

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  • New Approaches to Qualitative Research

    Wisdom and Uncertainty

    Edited by Maggi Savin-Baden, Claire Howell Major ...
    Qualitative research has seen a surge of growth during the past decade. This is in large part because positivist approaches have not yielded the kinds of results that had been anticipated, and more researchers are seeking alternative perspectives to understand phenomena. The number of researchers using qualitative approaches continues to grow, yet there are few up-to-date guides to assist thinking ... Read more

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  • Research Exposed

    How Empirical Social Science Gets Done in the Digital Age

    Edited by Eszter Hargittai ...
    The era of digital communication provides endless opportunities for the collection and analysis of social data in novel ways. It also presents new and unanticipated challenges, as researchers are often inventing elements of their methodologies on the fly or studying a phenomenon or media platform for the first time.Research Exposed offers in-depth, behind-the-scenes accounts of doing empirical ... Read more

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  • Time and the Other

    How Anthropology Makes Its Object

    by Johannes Fabian ...
    Time and the Other is a classic work that critically reexamined the relationship between anthropologists and their subjects and reoriented the approach literary critics, philosophers, and historians took to the study of humankind. Johannes Fabian challenges the assumption that anthropologists live in the "here and now," that their subjects live in the "there and then," and that the "other" exists ... Read more

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  • Community Research for Participation

    From Theory to Method

    Edited by Lisa Goodson, Jenny Phillimore ...
    This book bridges a major gap in knowledge by considering, through a range of reflexive chapters from different disciplinary backgrounds, both theoretical and practical issues relating to community research methodologies.The international contributors consider a number of key epistemological, ontological and methodological questions. They explore what community peer research means in a range of ... Read more

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  • The Unfortunate Endeavours of Charles Henry Brown

    Aeronaut 1827–1870

    by Terence FitzSimons ...
    This is the biography of a pioneer aeronaut, Charles Henry Brown, whose life-long obsession with aerostation took him from his native Great Britain to Australia and India. The story of his quest for recognition is deeply researched, while being told in an anti-generic mode – imagined dialogue, play scripts and speculative interventions.To date Brown’s story has not been told in any great detail, ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to the Use of Formal Methods in Political Philosophy

    by Robert Paul Wolff ...
    Political Theory has been transformed in the last thirty years by the introduction of methods of analysis imported from mathematics and economics. Modern students of the subject need to know something about Rational Choice Theory, Game Theory, and Collective Choice Theory if they are to be able to master contemporary discussions. This little book, by well-known philosopher Robert Paul Wolff, lays ... Read more

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  • Complexity Science and World Affairs

    by Walter C. Clemens Jr. ...
    Series series SUNY series, James N. Rosenau series in Global Politics
    Applies complexity science to the study of international politics.Why did some countries transition peacefully from communist rule to political freedom and market economies, while others did not? Why did the United States enjoy a brief moment as the sole remaining superpower, and then lose power and influence across the board? What are the prospects for China, the main challenger to American ... Read more

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  • Critical Statistics

    Seeing Beyond the Headlines

    by Robert de Vries ...
    Awarded the 2019 Most Promising New Textbook Award by the Textbook & Academic Authors Association.This accessible and entertaining new textbook provides students with the knowledge and skills they need to understand the barrage of numbers encountered in their everyday lives and studies. Almost all the statistics in the news, on social media or in scientific reports are based on just a few core ... Read more

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  • Sensing Life

    The Social Organisation of the Senses in Interaction

    Edited by Will Gibson, Natalia Ruiz-Junco, Dirk vom Lehn ...
    Series series Interactionist Currents
    This book showcases the critical contribution that scholarship in the field of social interaction can make to the study of the senses.Centred on an understanding of the senses as interactionally configured between people and the ways in which people themselves experience the senses—how they build and negotiate meanings between each other about what is being sensed, what the social implications of ... Read more

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  • Social Work Values and Ethics

    by Frederic G. Reamer ...
    For decades, teachers and practitioners have turned to Frederic G. Reamer’s Social Work Values and Ethics as the leading introduction to ethical decision making, dilemmas, and professional conduct in practice. A case-driven, concise, and comprehensive textbook for undergraduate and graduate social work programs, this book surveys the most critical issues for social work practitioners.This sixth ... Read more

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  • Understanding Communication Research Methods

    A Theoretical and Practical Approach

    by Stephen M. Croucher, Daniel Cronn-Mills ...
    Using an engaging how-to approach that draws from scholarship, real life, and popular culture, this textbook, now in its fourth edition, offers students practical reasons why they should care about research methods and offers a practical guide for conducting research.Explaining quantitative, qualitative, critical, and performance research methods, this new edition helps students better grasp the ... Read more

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  • Building in Research and Evaluation

    Human inquiry for living systems

    by Yoland Wadsworth ...
    Albert Einstein said we can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. If we don't have the kinds of health and human services or even the kinds of lives, communities and organisations we want, then we need to think differently.Yoland Wadsworth offers an inspired insight and radically new proposition: that the act of our 'inquiring', of researching and ... Read more

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  • Doing Research in the Real World

    by David E. Gray, Eric A. Jensen ...
    If your focus is real world research, this book will provide you with an easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide to planning, delivering, and communicating it successfully. Allowing you to see research in action, this book uses real-world case studies from a wide range of disciplines and global markets, encouraging you to apply best practice to your own work. There is step-by-step guidance on ... Read more

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  • The Forest and the Trees

    Sociology as Life, Practice, and Promise

    by Allan Johnson ...
    New Third Edition!If sociology could teach everyone just one thing, what would it be? The Forest and the Trees is one sociologist's response to the hypothetical-the core insight with the greatest potential to change how people see the world and themselves in relation to it.This Third Edition features:• Updated key references, data, resources, and examples, from global warming, Obama's election, ... Read more

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  • Data Construction in Social Surveys

    by Nicholas Bateson ...
    Series series Contemporary Social Research
    Before the early 1980s, much attention had been given in the social survey literature to the analysis and interpretation of data, but much less to the problems of constructing the individual datum. Yet without good work at datum level a good data set cannot be produced, and without good data no useful analyses and interpretations may be made. What do we mean by ‘survey data’? What are ‘good’ data, ... Read more

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