Author: Rubin, Rebecca B. / Rubin, Alan M / Graham, Elizabeth Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Expanding and building on the measures included in the original 1994 volume, Communication Research Measures II: A Sourcebook provides new measures in mass, interpersonal, instructional, and group/org...
Author: Byrne, D. S. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Introduces students to the central ideas which surround the chaos/complexity theories. It discusses key concepts before using them as a way of investigating the nature of social research.
Author: Hall, John R. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Cultures of Inquiry provides a unique overview of research methodologies in social science, historical and cultural studies. Facing Kant's proposition that pure reason cannot contain social inquiry, J...
Author: Figal, Sara Eigen Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this volume, Eigen places under sustained scrutiny some of our most basic modern assumptions about inheritance, genealogy, blood relations, and racial categories in order to answer the question, wh...
Author: Yang, Ang / Shan, Yin Publisher: IGI Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: As the world currently subsists as a platform for exchange among complex, intelligent systems that are constantly adapting and evolving to suit the surrounding physical, sociological, emotional, and s...
Author: Hennink,Monique M. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A practical and authoritative guide to conducting focus group discussions in health and social science research, with particular emphasis on using focus groups in developing country settings. Monique ...
Author: Bonacich, Phillip / Lu, Philip Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Mathematical models and computer simulations of complex social systems have become everyday tools in sociology. Yet until now, students had no up-to-date textbook from which to learn these techniques....
Author: Flyvbjerg, Bent Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Making Social Science Matter presents an exciting new approach to the social and behavioral sciences including theoretical argument, methodological guidelines, and examples of practical application. W...
Author: Goertz, Gary Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Concepts lie at the core of social science theory and methodology. They provide substance to theories; they form the basis of measurement; they influence the selection of cases. Social Science Concept...
Author: Spencer, Stephen Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This is a practical guide for students, researchers and teachers in the social sciences who wish to explore and actively use visual research. Demonstrating the use of visual ethnography, video and pho...
Author: Rolling, Jr., James Haywood Publisher: AltaMira Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Cinderella Story is an experimental autoethnography that explores critical racial issues in America through the media of language and images. Rolling asks, How do words and images-involving stories an...
Author: King, Gary / Keohane, Robert O. / Verba, Sidney Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: While heated arguments between practitioners of qualitative and quantitative research have begun to test the very integrity of the social sciences, Gary King, Robert Keohane, and Sidney Verba have pro...
Author: Bonacich, Phillip / Lu, Philip Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Mathematical models and computer simulations of complex social systems have become everyday tools in sociology. Yet until now, students had no up-to-date textbook from which to learn these techniques....
Author: Lemert, Charles Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In fifteen years, Charles Lemert's Social Things has become a much-loved modern classic among teachers, students, and many other readers for introducing the sociological imagination through lively, me...
Author: Sandiford, Keith Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book develops a theory of a Caribbean-Atlantic imaginary by exploring the ways two colonial texts represent the consciousnesses of Amerindians, Africans, and Europeans at two crucial points marki...
Author: Spencer, Stephen Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is a practical guide for students, researchers and teachers in the social sciences who wish to explore and actively use visual research. Demonstrating the use of visual ethnography, video and pho...
