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  • Focus Groups in Social Research

    by Michael Bloor, Jane Frankland, Michelle Thomas, Kate Stewart ...
    Series series Introducing Qualitative Methods series
    There is an increasing divergence of focus group practice between social researchers and commercial market researchers. This book addresses the key issues and practical requirements of the social researcher, namely: the kinds of social research issues for which focus groups are most and least suitable; optimum group size and composition; and the designing of focusing exercises, facilitation and ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Keywords in Qualitative Methods

    A Vocabulary of Research Concepts

    by Michael Bloor, Fiona Wood ...
    An essential companion for students across the social and health sciences, this text provides a wide-ranging coverage of qualitative methods complemented by extended illustration from the array of academic disciplines in which qualitative research is found and employed.Written in a lively and reader-friendly style, the guide covers a comprehensive range of topics, including:- a concise definition ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Selected Writings in Medical Sociological Research

    by Michael Bloor ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1997, this self-selection of the writings of Michael Bloor, Reader at the University of Wales Cardiff, embraces papers on qualitative research findings, on qualitative methods, and on empirically-based theorising. It includes some material which is little known (for example, a rare observational study of illness behaviour) as well as some of Bloor’s best regarded papers. This ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • One Foot in Eden

    A Sociological Study of the Range of Therapeutic Community Practice

    by Michael Bloor, Neil McKeganey, Dick Fonkert ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Psychiatry
    A comparative sociological account of eight different therapeutic communities, One Foot in Eden, originally published in 1988, was the first study in this area to compare observational material from such a large number of settings.The communities chosen represent the wide variety of therapeutic community practice at the time: a residential Rudolf Steiner school for mentally handicapped children; ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

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    A Guide for Students and Researchers

    by Jeremy Miles, Mark Shevlin ...
    This book takes a fresh look at applying regression analysis in the behavioural sciences by introducing the reader to regression analysis through a simple model-building approach.The authors start with the basics and begin by re-visiting the mean, and the standard deviation, with which most readers will already be familiar, and show that they can be thought of a least squares model. The book then ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Religion and the Making of Modern East Asia

    by Thomas David DuBois ...
    Series Book 8 - New Approaches to Asian History
    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

    $31.99 USD

  • Phenomenological Research Methods

    by Clark Moustakas ...
    In this volume, Clark Moustakas clearly discusses the theoretical underpinnings of phenomenology, based on the work of Husserl and others, and takes the reader step-by-step through the process of conducting a phenomenological study. His concise guide provides numerous examples of successful phenomenological studies from a variety of fields including therapy, health care, victimology, psychology ... Read more

    $52.19 USD

  • Narrative Methods for the Human Sciences

    by Catherine Kohler Riessman ...
    "Cathy Riessman is the leading figure in narrative research and her new book is a delight. Covering basic issues of transcription and research credibility as well as visual data and engagingly written, it is a goldmine for students and researchers alike. If we want to make narrative research serious and revealing, it is to this book that we should turn."—David Silverman, Professor Emeritus, ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • 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

    $28.69 USD

  • Ethnographic Methods

    by Karen O'Reilly ...
    This new edition of Karen O’Reilly’s popular Ethnographic Methods provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the technical, practical and philosophical issues that arise when employing traditional and innovative research methods in relation to human agents.Using a wide range of case studies and source material to illustrate the dilemmas and resolutions that an ethnographic researcher ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Statistics Using Stata

    An Integrative Approach

    by Sharon Lawner Weinberg, Sarah Knapp Abramowitz ...
    Building upon the success of the first edition, Statistics Using Stata uses the latest version of Stata to meet the needs of today's students. Engaging and accessible for students from a variety of mathematical backgrounds, this textbook integrates statistical concepts with the Stata (version 16) software package. It aligns Stata commands with examples based on real data, enabling students to ... Read more

    $65.59 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