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  • A Critical Introduction to Social Research

    by Nick Foard, Matt Henn, Mark Weinstein ...
    A Critical Introduction to Social Research is the new, updated and improved edition of A Short Introduction to Social Research. This book introduces students and researchers to the key ideas and issues that inform research practice. In it, Henn, Weinstein and Foard provide a clear and easy-to-understand route-map to help the reader plan their research project from beginning to end.A Critical ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

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    Networks of relationships help determine the careers that people choose, the jobs they obtain, the products they buy, and how they vote. The many aspects of our lives that are governed by social networks make it critical to understand how they impact behavior, which network structures are likely to emerge in a society, and why we organize ourselves as we do. In Social and Economic Networks, ... Read more

    $41.99 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

  • Five Ways of Doing Qualitative Analysis

    Phenomenological Psychology, Grounded Theory, Discourse Analysis, Narrative Research, and Intuitive

    by Frederick J. Wertz, PhD, Kathy Charmaz, PhD, Linda M. McMullen, PhD, Ruthellen Josselson, PhD, Rosemarie Anderson, PhD, Emalinda McSpadden, MA ...
    This unique text provides a broad introduction to qualitative analysis together with concrete demonstrations and comparisons of five major approaches. Leading scholars apply their respective analytic lenses to a narrative account and interview featuring "Teresa," a young opera singer who experienced a career-changing illness. The resulting analyses vividly exemplify what each approach looks like ... Read more

    $60.29 USD

  • Qualitative Social Research

    Contemporary Methods for the Digital Age

    by Vivienne Waller, Karen Farquharson, Deborah Dempsey ...
    Qualitative Social Research employs an accessible approach to present the multiple ways in which criticism enhances research practice. Packed full of relevant, ′real world′ examples, it showcases the strengths and pitfalls of each research method, integrating the philosophical groundings of qualitative research with thoughtful overviews of a range of commonly used methods.This book is ideal for ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Narrating Social Work Through Autoethnography

    Edited by Stanley Witkin, , Ph.D. ...
    Autoethnography is an innovative approach to inquiry located in the interstices between science and literature. Blending researcher and subject roles, autoethnographers use analytical strategies to explore the social and cultural contexts of meaningful life experiences and their implications for the present. Social issues are described from the inside out, producing narratives that reflect the ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Practice-Based Research in Social Work

    A Guide for Reluctant Researchers

    by Sarah-Jane Dodd, Irwin Epstein ...
    This unique textbook explores practice-based research (PBR), using numerous practice examples to actively encourage and engage students and practitioners to embrace research as a meaningful support for their practice. Whilst evidence-based practice gives practitioners access to information about "universal" best practices, it does not prioritize practitioner-generated knowledge or promote new ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The SAGE Dictionary of Social Research Methods

    by Victor Jupp ...
    Bringing together the work of over eighty leading academics and researchers worldwide to produce the definitive reference and research tool for the social sciences, The SAGE Dictionary of Social Research Methods contains more than 230 entries providing the widest coverage of the all the main terms in the research process. It encompasses philosophies of science, research paradigms and designs, ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Crisis Management and Decision Making

    Simulation Oriented Scenarios

    Edited by Uriel Rosenthal, Bert Pijnenburg ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)

    $49.49 USD

  • Working with the American Community Survey in R

    A Guide to Using the acs Package

    by Ezra Haber Glenn ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book serves as a hands-on guide to the "acs" R package for demographers, planners, and other researchers who work with American Community Survey (ACS) data. It gathers the most common problems associated with using ACS data and implements functions as a package in the R statistical programming language. The package defines a new "acs" class object (containing estimates, standard errors, and ... Read more

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  • The Andragogic Learning Center

    A Field Study in Social Work Education

    by Moshe Sonnheim, Shlomit Lehman ...
    This publication was made possible by the Rector's Fund in support of publications and books, Bar Ilan University, Israel.The Andragogic Learning Center examines an eight-year study at the Bar Ilan School of Social Work, Israel (1989-1997). The study tested the efficacy of an innovative community-based teaching approach, combining field and class instruction. The efficacy of interaction between ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Uprooted

    Improving Humanitarian Responses to Forced Migration

    by Susan F. Martin, Patricia Weiss Fagen, Kari M. Jorgensen, Andrew Schoenholtz, Lydia Mann-Bondat ...
    Series series Program in Migration and Refugee Studies
    By conservative estimates about 50 million migrants are currently living outside of their home communities, forced to flee to obtain some measure of safety and security. In addition to persecution, human rights violations, repression, conflict, and natural and human-made disasters, current causes of forced migration include environmental and development-induced factors. Today's migrants include ... Read more

    $46.99 USD