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  • README FIRST for a User′s Guide to Qualitative Methods

    by Lyn Richards, Janice M. Morse ...
    The Third Edition of this popular text offers those new to qualitative inquiry a clear and practical guide to the reasons for doing qualitative research, matching questions to appropriate methods, and the tasks necessary for getting started. In their direct and friendly style, Lyn Richards and Janice M. Morse help researchers reflect on why they are working qualitatively and how to choose an ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Handling Qualitative Data

    A Practical Guide

    by Lyn Richards ...
    Viewing data as the heart of qualitative research, this book provides clear guidance on the steps involved in collecting and managing primary & secondary data while equipping you with a toolkit that they can apply to data in any context.In her positive and jargon-free style, the author discusses how setting up, working with, making sense of and presenting data can be a springboard into learning ... Read more

    $73.79 USD

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    Religious ideas and actors have shaped Asian cultural practices for millennia and have played a decisive role in charting the course of its history. In this engaging and informative book, Thomas David DuBois sets out to explain how religion has influenced the political, social, and economic transformation of Asia from the fourteenth century to the present. Crossing a broad terrain from Tokyo to ... Read more

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  • Counterfactuals and Causal Inference

    Methods and Principles for Social Research

    by Stephen L. Morgan, Christopher Winship ...
    Series series Analytical Methods for Social Research
    Did mandatory busing programs in the 1970s increase the school achievement of disadvantaged minority youth? Does obtaining a college degree increase an individual's labor market earnings? Did the use of the butterfly ballot in some Florida counties in the 2000 presidential election cost Al Gore votes? If so, was the number of miscast votes sufficiently large to have altered the election outcome? ... Read more

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  • Qualitative Media Analysis

    by David L. Altheide, Christopher J. Schneider ...
    Series series Qualitative Research Methods
    In order to prepare a successful research project, a qualitative researcher often must consult media documents of various types. Authors David L. Altheide and Christopher J. Schneider show readers how to obtain, categorize, and analyze these different media documents in this entry in the Qualitative Research Methods series. They look at traditional primary documents such as newspapers and ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Heuristic Research

    Design, Methodology, and Applications

    by Clark Moustakas ...
    "A gem . . . . It is most definitely a work of major significance both historically and methodologically . . . . You′ve got a classic on your hands. As for me and some of my colleagues . . . you will have our personal and classroom orders the moment the book comes out."--Mike Arons, West Georgia College"The book is well-organized and the content is comprehensive. The writing is clear and well ... Read more

    $52.19 USD

  • Qualitative Inquiry in Everyday Life

    Working with Everyday Life Materials

    by Svend Brinkmann ...
    This book is a ′survival guide′ for students and researchers who would like to conduct a qualitative study with limited resources. Brinkmann shows how everyday life materials such as books, television, the internet, the media and everyday conversations and interactions can help us to understand larger social issues.As living human beings in cultural worlds, we are constantly surrounded by ′data′ ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Rasch Models for Measurement

    SAGE Publications

    by David Andrich ...
    Series series Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences
    Examines the use of Rasch measurement models in the social sciences. This lucid introduction first focuses on general principles, so the applications and algebra of the model can be readily understood. Andrich then connects Rasch models to common procedures for social science measurement. Avoiding polemics, Andrich′s presentation allows comparison between the Rasch models and other, better known ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Principles of Methodology

    Research Design in Social Science

    by Perri 6, Christine Bellamy ...
    This book provides a comprehensive, accessible guide to social science methodology. In so doing, it establishes methodology as distinct from both methods and philosophy.Most existing textbooks deal with methods, or sound ways of collecting and analysing data to generate findings. In contrast, this innovative book shows how an understanding of methodology allows us to design research so that ... Read more

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  • Doing Surveys Online

    by Vera Toepoel ...
    Vera Toepoel’s practical, how-to guide to doing surveys online takes you through the entire process of using surveys, from systematically recruiting respondents, to designing the internet survey, to processing the survey data and writing it up.This book helps students and researchers in identifying possible strategies to make the best use of online surveys, providing pro’s and con’s, and do’s and ... Read more

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  • Natural Experiments in the Social Sciences

    A Design-Based Approach

    by Thad Dunning ...
    Series series Strategies for Social Inquiry
    This unique book is the first comprehensive guide to the discovery, analysis, and evaluation of natural experiments - an increasingly popular methodology in the social sciences. Thad Dunning provides an introduction to key issues in causal inference, including model specification, and emphasizes the importance of strong research design over complex statistical analysis. Surveying many examples of ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Constructing Survey Data

    An Interactional Approach

    by Sergio Mauceri, Giampietro Gobo ...
    Engaging and informative, this book provides students and researchers with a pragmatic, new perspective on the process of collecting survey data. By proposing a post-positivist, interviewee-centred approach, it improves the quality and impact of survey data by emphasising the interaction between interviewer and interviewee. Extending the conventional methodology with contributions from linguistics ... Read more

    $71.99 USD