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  • Social Network Analysis

    Methods and Applications

    by Stanley Wasserman, Katherine Faust ...
    Series Book 8 - Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences
    Social network analysis is used widely in the social and behavioral sciences, as well as in economics, marketing, and industrial engineering. The social network perspective focuses on relationships among social entities and is an important addition to standard social and behavioral research, which is primarily concerned with attributes of the social units. Social Network Analysis: Methods and ... Read more

    $67.29 USD

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  • Doing Social Network Research

    Network-based Research Design for Social Scientists

    by Garry L. Robins ...
    Are you struggling to design your social network research? Are you looking for a book that covers more than social network analysis?If so, this is the book for you! With straight-forward guidance on research design and data collection, as well as social network analysis, this book takes you start to finish through the whole process of doing network research. Open the book and you′ll find practical ... Read more

    $78.29 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

  • Energy and the Wealth of Nations

    Understanding the Biophysical Economy

    by Charles A. S. Hall, Kent A. Klitgaard ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    For the past 150 years, economics has been treated as a social science in which economies are modeled as a circular flow of income between producers and consumers. In this “perpetual motion” of interactions between firms that produce and households that consume, little or no accounting is given of the flow of energy and materials from the environment and back again. In the standard economic model, ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • DR Happy-Go-Lucky - 33 Happy Tips for a PhD

    by Jimmy Chua ...
    This book is from my own experience of going through 2 PhDs and there are 33 tips for you to consider when pursuing a PhD or in the midst of it. Enjoy and may you have a Happy PhD journey! Sometimes, giving up may be the best thing you can do for yourself! Follow your heart and do what makes you HAPPY! ... Read more

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  • Qualitative Comparative Analysis with R

    A User’s Guide

    by Alrik Thiem, Adrian Dusa ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Social science theory often builds on sets and their relations. Correlation-based methods of scientific enquiry, however, use linear algebra and are unsuited to analyzing set relations. The development of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) by Charles Ragin has given social scientists a formal tool for identifying set-theoretic connections based on Boolean algebra. As a result, interest in this ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Essential Public Health

    Theory and Practice

    Edited by Stephen Gillam, Jan Yates, Padmanabhan Badrinath ...
    How can society most effectively prevent disease and promote health? That is the challenge addressed by this textbook. Public health is the art and science of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organised efforts of society. The 'science' is concerned with making a diagnosis of a population's health problems, establishing their cause and determining effective ... Read more

    $61.49 USD

  • Indirect Questioning in Sample Surveys

    by Arijit Chaudhuri, Tasos C. Christofides ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    Indirect questioning is a crucial topic in surveys of human populations. When the issue is about a stigmatizing characteristic (for example about illegal drug use), standard survey methodologies are destined to fail because, as expected, people are not willing to reveal incriminating information or information violating their privacy. Indirect questioning techniques have been devised so that the ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Theoretical and Practical Reason in Economics

    Capacities and Capabilities

    by Ricardo F. Crespo ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The aim of the book is to argue for the restoration of theoretical and practical reason to economics. It presents Nancy Cartwright and Amartya Sen’s ideas as cases of this restoration and sees Aristotle as an influence on their thought. It looks at how we can use these ideas to develop a valuable understanding of practical reason for solving concrete problems in science and society. Cartwright’s ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Emerging Techniques in Applied Demography

    Edited by Lloyd B. Potter, M.Nazrul Hoque ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    By bringing together top-notch demographers, sociologists, economists, statisticians and public health specialists from Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America to examine a wide variety of public and private issues in applied demography, this book spans a wide range of topics. It evaluates population estimates and projections against actual census counts and suggests further improvement of ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Poetics of Crime

    Understanding and Researching Crime and Deviance Through Creative Sources

    by Michael Hviid Jacobsen ...
    Series series Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
    The Poetics of Crime provides an invitation to reconsider and reimagine how criminological knowledge may be creatively and poetically constructed, obtained, corroborated and applied. Departing from the conventional understanding of criminology as a discipline concerned with refined statistical analyses, survey methods and quantitative measurements, this book shows that criminology can - and indeed ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Researching a Posthuman World

    Interviews with Digital Objects

    by Catherine Adams, Terrie Lynn Thompson ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a practical approach for applying posthumanist insights to qualitative research inquiry. Adams and Thompson invite readers to embrace their inner – and outer – cyborg as they consider how today’s professional practices and everyday ways of being are increasingly intertwined with digital technologies. Drawing on posthuman scholarship, the authors offer eight heuristics for ... Read more

    $76.49 USD