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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 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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  • 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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  • Self-Organization and Dissipative Structures

    Applications in the Physical and Social Sciences

    Edited by William C. Schieve, Peter M. Allen ...
    The contributions to this volume attempt to apply different aspects of Ilya Prigogine's Nobel-prize-winning work on dissipative structures to nonchemical systems as a way of linking the natural and social sciences. They address both the mathematical methods for description of pattern and form as they evolve in biological systems and the mechanisms of the evolution of social systems, containing ... Read more

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  • Anthropologie des faits religieux dans l’intervention sociale

    by Daniel Verba ...
    Series series Le geste social
    Il existe une abondante littérature universitaire consacrée aux faits religieux, à la sécularisation ou encore à la laïcité. En revanche, peu de recherches s’intéressent à la manière dont les professions sociales et socio-éducatives abordent et traitent les croyances des personnes accompagnées. Tirant profit d’enquêtes de terrain, Daniel Verba met à disposition un cadre de réflexion ... Read more

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  • Transdisciplinary Methods (TASR)

    Reframing Research in Black and Africana Studies

    by James B. Stewart ...
    Transdisciplinary Methods (TASR): Reframing Research in Black and Africana Studies provides a foundational guide for scholars seeking to conduct rigorous research that reflects the intellectual traditions, cultural knowledge systems, and methodological innovation at the heart of Africana Studies.Authored by distinguished economist and Africana Studies scholar Dr. James B. Stewart, the volume ... Read more

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  • A Good Book, In Theory

    Making Sense Through Inquiry, Third Edition

    by Alan Sears, James Cairns ...
    This highly original and compelling book offers an introduction to the art and science of social inquiry, including the theoretical and methodological frameworks that support that inquiry. The new edition offers coverage of post-modernism and Indigenous ways of knowing, as well as a discussion of the research process and how to communicate arguments effectively. The result is a book that blends ... Read more

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  • 至聖先師的衣缽

    by 丁致良 ...
    學術界非常重視師承。歷史上每個學術界的人物在 Wiki的網頁都會註明他師承某人及他的學生有哪些人。根據這些資料我們可以畫出學術界的家譜樹。中國人公認孔子是最有學問的人，所以稱為至聖先師。但是孔子的學問又是從何而來的？孔子的老師是誰？韓愈的〈師說〉雖然大家都讀過，三人行必有我師雖然大家都朗朗上口，但是真正懂得其中意義的不多。本文由學術界師承問題開始探討老師的真正意義。最後我舉自己在研討會上的所見所聞，告訴大家甚麼樣的人才是真正的老師。 ... Read more

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  • Transcribing Oral History

    by Teresa Bergen ...
    Series series Practicing Oral History
    Transcribing Oral History offers a comprehensive guide to the transcription of qualitative interviews, an often richly debated practice within oral history. Beginning with an introduction to the field and an overview of the many disciplines that conduct and transcribe interviews, the book goes on to offer practical advice to those looking to use transcription within their own projects. A helpful ... Read more

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  • The Rise and Rise of Indicators

    Their History and Geography

    by Stephen Morse ...
    This book makes indicators more accessible, in terms of what they are, who created them and how they are used. It examines the subjectivity and human frailty behind these quintessentially ‘hard’ and technical measures of the world.To achieve this goal, The Rise and Rise of Indicators presents the world in terms of a selected set of indicators. The emphasis is upon the origins of the indicators and ... Read more

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  • Multidimensional Evidence-Based Practice

    Synthesizing Knowledge, Research, and Values

    Edited by Christopher G. Petr ...
    Series series Social Work Practice in Action
    Multidimensional Evidence-Based Practice (MEBP) is a new and comprehensive approach to determining best practices in social services.MEBP improves upon traditional evidence-based approaches by incorporating the views of consumers and professionals, qualitative research and values. The book begins with a review of the context of best practice enquiry and goes on to present the seven steps of the ... Read more

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  • Institutions and the Person

    Festschrift in Honor of Everett C.Hughes

    by Howard Saul Becker, Blanche Geer, David Riesman, Robert S. Weiss ...
    Everett C. Hughes had a great impact on the field of sociology as a whole and on an entire generation of sociologists. Some of Hughes' former students and colleagues honor him in this book. The essays address the main themes in his work over the years, and illustrate as well Hughes' impact on the contributors, many of whom are themselves senior figures in the field. The book as a whole provides a ... Read more

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  • A Genealogy of Method

    Anthropology’s Ancestors and the Meaning of Culture

    by Sondra L. Hausner ...
    Series Book 1 - Anthem Impact
    What does it mean to study culture – and what does culture finally mean? Whether we compare cultures or delve deeply into the dynamics of a single social order, anthropology’s task is to confront the interplay of the human condition and the cultural form. Tracing the genealogy of our touchstone method, ethnography, and investigating its relation to alternative disciplines that try to get at the ... Read more

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  • Morphogenesis of Industrial Symbiotic Networks

    by Erika Džajić Uršič ...
    The study deals with Industrial Symbiosis (IS), a term used to describe a network of diverse organizations that make use of different by-products to improve their facility to achieve common goals, improve environmental conditions or improve business and technical processes. Industrial symbiosis is understood as a technological material as well as a social relationship between so-called social ... Read more

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  • Action Research and Reflective Practice

    Creative and Visual Methods to Facilitate Reflection and Learning

    by Paul McIntosh ...
    The use of reflection as a tool to support and develop practice is becoming increasingly recognised across education, healthcare and the social sciences. Reflection is assumed to create depth of knowledge and meaning, both for self and those practised upon. Running alongside the use of reflection is the prevalent use of action research which some see as a way of approaching the study of human ... Read more

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  • The Sociological Quest

    An Introduction to the Study of Social Life

    by Haydn Aarons, Evan Willis ...
    Starting Sociology can be daunting. This user-friendly introduction takes the reader on a quest towards a sociological understanding of the world we live in. Using contemporary examples, The Sociological Quest asks what is distinctive about the way Sociologists view society. Haydn Aarons and Evan Willis show that they are concerned with the relationships between the individual and society, and ... Read more

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  • La recherche comme composition

    by Steven Feld ...
    Series series La Petite Collection ArTeC
    L’enquête ethnographique a toujours été accompagnée par l’enregistrement de matériaux visuels et sonores auxquels les anthropologues donnent plus ou moins forme. Toutefois, rares sont celles et ceux qui considèrent cette création formelle comme une source de connaissance fondamentale. Figure de premier plan de l’anthropologie et des sound studies de langue anglaise, Steven Feld a développé une ... Read more

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  • The Emotional Nature of Qualitative Research

    Edited by Kathleen Gilbert ...
    This book focuses on the place sand purpose of emotions in the research process, and explores the appropriate boundaries. Designed to explore how to manage the emotional content of research, the text service as a supplemental to qualitative research method courses, and is an excellent reference for the professional as well. ... Read more

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  • Research Methods

    by Steve Chapman, Patrick McNeill, Patrick McNeill ...
    Since its first edition in 1985, Patrick McNeill's Research Methods has become a classic introductory text for students of sociology at A level and in undergraduate courses as well as for a range of specialists in education, business, social care and medicine who need a brief but authoritative account of how sociologists set about conducting research.After a brief overview of the history of ... Read more

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