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  • Communication Research Methodology

    A Strategic Approach to Applied Research

    by Gary Pettey, Cheryl Campanella Bracken, Elizabeth B. Pask ...
    This introduction to communication research methods takes the student from the conceptual beginnings of a research project through the design and analysis. Emphasizing the correct questions to ask and how to approach the answers, authors Gary Petty, Cheryl Campanella Bracken, and Elizabeth Babin approach social science methods as a language to be learned, requiring multiple sessions and ... Read more

    $106.99 USD

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  • Working Together

    Collective Action, the Commons, and Multiple Methods in Practice

    by Elinor Ostrom, Marco A. Janssen, Amy Poteete ...
    Advances in the social sciences have emerged through a variety of research methods: field-based research, laboratory and field experiments, and agent-based models. However, which research method or approach is best suited to a particular inquiry is frequently debated and discussed. Working Together examines how different methods have promoted various theoretical developments related to collective ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • Social Research

    by Tim May ...
    This text successfully bridges the gap between theory and methods in social research, bringing understanding of the dynamics of social relations. ... Read more

    $45.89 USD

  • Field Experiments and Their Critics

    Essays on the Uses and Abuses of Experimentation in the Social Sciences

    Edited by Dawn Langan Teele ...
    Series series The Institution for Social and Policy St
    In recent years, social scientists have engaged in a deep debate over the methods appropriate to their research. Their long reliance on passive observational collection of information has been challenged by proponents of experimental methods designed to precisely infer causal effects through active intervention in the social world. Some scholars claim that field experiments represent a new gold ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Qualitative Research Practice

    Concise Paperback Edition

    Edited by Clive Seale, David Silverman, Giampietro Gobo, Jaber F. Gubrium ...
    ′This book is jam-packed with a wide range of material related to qualitative research…. [T]his is a quality text and has much to offer the reader, especially the novice researcher′ - Nurse Researcher`This comprehensive collection of almost 40 chapters - each written by a leading expert in the field - is the essential reference for anyone undertaking or studying qualitative research. It covers a ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • True Crime

    Observations on Violence and Modernity

    by Mark Seltzer ...
    True crime is crime fact that looks like crime fiction. It is one of the most popular genres of our pathological public sphere, and an integral part of our contemporary wound culture-a culture, or at least cult, of commiseration. If we cannot gather in the face of anything other than crime, violence, terror, trauma, and the wound, we can at least commiserate. That is, as novelist Chuck Palahniuk ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Writing and Doing Action Research

    by Jean McNiff ...
    In Writing and Doing Action Research, Jean McNiff provides a comprehensive and user-friendly guide to the practical aspects of writing and doing action research.Written for practitioners involved in higher degree courses and professional development programmes, and students undertaking methods courses, this book includes guidance on how to:Carry out an action research project in your ... Read more

    $65.69 USD

  • Collecting Qualitative Data

    A Field Manual for Applied Research

    by Greg Guest, Emily E. Namey, Marilyn L. Mitchell ...
    Collecting Qualitative Data: A Field Manual for Applied Research provides a very practical, step-by-step guide to collecting and managing qualitative data. The data collection chapters focus on the three most often used forms of qualitative data collection: Participant observation, in-depth interviews, and focus groups. The book also contains chapters on other practical aspects of qualitative ... Read more

    $52.19 USD

  • Regression Basics

    by Leo H. Kahane ...
    Using a friendly, nontechnical approach, the Second Edition of Regression Basics introduces readers to the fundamentals of regression. Accessible to anyone with an introductory statistics background, this book builds from a simple two-variable model to a model of greater complexity. Author Leo H. Kahane weaves four engaging examples throughout the text to illustrate not only the techniques of ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Experimental Methods in Neuropsychology

    Edited by Kenneth Hugdahl ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Clinical neuropsychology typically employs large standardized test-batteries to cover the cognitive deficits caused by brain lesions and neurodegenerative diseases. The neuropsychologist moves between three levels of explanation; the behavioral level, the cognitive level and the brain level. The behavioral level is measured as actual performance on a test, i. e. the obtained test score. The ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • A Narrative Approach to Organization Studies

    Edited by Barbara Czarniawska ...
    Series series Qualitative Research Methods
    The latest volume in the Qualitative Research Methods series, A Narrative Approach to Organization Studies presents a specific approach to organization studies and provides illustrations of its use. Inspired by the works of Bakhtin, Eco, Rorty, and Silverman, author Barbara Czarniawska asserts that narratives are still the main carriers of knowledge in modern societies. Drawing on more than 25 ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Calculating the Social

    Standards and the Reconfiguration of Governing

    Edited by V. Higgins, W. Larner ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Examining the increasingly powerful role of standards in the governing of economic, political and social life, this book draws upon governmentality and actor network theory to explore how standards and standardizing projects are articulated and rendered workable in practice, and the objects, subjects and forms of identity to which this gives rise. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD