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This book explores the connections between traditional Islamic education, rising religious intolerance, religious attitudes to gender, campaigns for curricula innovation and modernisation, and politics and society in Indonesia.

This book presents the history of the discussion of insider-outsider research, and methodological advancements in these types of research partnership throughout the decades. The authors present and define key concepts, terms and terminology in an attempt...

Drawing on archival research and exploring the correspondence of revolutionary women and activists in the long durée of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Europe and the USA, this book examines the epistolary narratives of women political...

This book focuses on China's media diplomacy and its interplay with a range of international conflicts. It assesses the representation and framing of China, as well as the perception and reception of China's media communication in relation to various...

Research on the East Slavs in the medieval period has considerably changed since the collapse of the Soviet Union. This is important work, providing a much-needed counterbalance to studies of western Europe in the period, which has been the main focus of...

This Handbook provides readers with an overview of the field of Practice-Based Research (PBR): different approaches, disciplines that frequently employ PBR, methodologies and creative outputs.

What is Putin's ideology? is a key question for the contemporary world. This book analyses this ideology, which it terms "Putinism".

Building on the editors' previous publication, Engaging with Ethics in International Criminological Research, this new book brings together a fresh collection of leading international scholars tackling ethical dilemmas in criminological research.

This collection brings together Daniel Bell's best work in essay form

Analyses the: meaning and dynamics of multiculturalism affecting prevention intervention, relative risks and knowledge gaps across ethnic groups, social trends affecting health risks and substance abuse, lessons learned from substance abuse research and...

A unique and comprehensive study on social science research, this book highlights the status, issues, roadblocks and challenges of the field in India and certain select nations of the world. It conducts key cross-comparisons with existing literature in...

This book provides an overview of qualitative research models and their applications in organization and management studies.

Models in Statistical Social Research provides a comprehensive insight of models used in statistical social research based on statistical data and methods. While traditionally understood statistical models relate to data generating processes which...

In analysing the various kinds of data archaeologists would use to investigate the existence of a Palaeolithic culture, this book represents the latest research in archaeology, population dispersals, geology and human palaeontoloty.

Classic Writings for a Phenomenology of Practice features examples of newly translated classic phenomenological　texts that have been largely forgotten or misunderstood. The writings are unique in that they speak to the practice of doing phenomenological...

Global Research Ethics is a guide for students and their instructors as well as practitioners and researchers to understand topics linked to research ethics from a more global perspective. Research plays a key role in identifying health disparity trends...

This book analyzes the food revolution that has occurred in Russia since the late 1980s, documenting the transformation in systems of production, supply, distribution, and consumption. It examines the dominant actors in the food system; explores how the...

Sociological Theories of Health and Illness reviews the evolution of theory in medical sociology beginning with the field's origins in medicine and extending to its present-day standing as a major sociological subdiscipline. Sociological theory has an...

This book is an ideal resource for students interested in learning EViews software and the regression model. It covers Single Variable Regression Model, Multiple Variable Regression Model, Binary Dummy Variable Regression Model, and assumptions of...

The main purpose of the book is to provide foundation as well ascomprehensive background of 'Discrete Probability Theory' to beginnersin simple and interesting manner. In order to make the contents of thebook easier to comprehend, we have included a...

Er zijn uitdagingen in het onderwijs onderzoeksmethoden en deze scheuten van studenten voelen zich losgekoppeld van het proces en de cultuur van het onderzoek. De onderzoeker was geïnteresseerd om te onderzoeken hoe de docenten de onderzoeksmethoden als...

This book on Research Process in Education and Social Sciences is the updated version of the seminar paper delivered by Dr. Anagbogu to staff and students of the Faculty of Education. The book is a simplification of the research process for all including...

How have people's knowledge about and attitudes towards the Shoah and anti-Semitism evolved over time? This book compiles various perspectives on anti-Semitism in Germany, Latvia, and Poland. 26 people, Jewish and non-Jewish, working in the field of...

Essay aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Methodologie und Methoden, Note: 1,0, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die europäische Wertestudie 1999 ist die dritte Untersuchungswelle eines großen internationalen...

Most organizations fail to tap into the game-changing power of research. Research That Scales is the ultimate playbook for transforming your research practice, whatever its size or shape, into an impactful and efficient insight-generating engine. Use it...

Divided into 67 short sections, this text allows instructors to assign only those sections needed to meet the goals of the course. Humorous riddles allow students to check their work without providing the answers; if the answer to a riddle makes sense,...

Anthropologists have been keenly aware of the tension between cultural relativism and absolute norms, and nowhere has this been more acute than with regards to moral values. Can we study the Other's morality without applying our own normative judgments?...

In recent years, crucial questions have been raised about anthropology as a discipline, such as whether ethnography is central to the subject, and how imagination, reality and truth are joined in anthropological enterprises. These interventions have...

The American Heritage Journal of Creativity (AHJC) is a biannual journal of research from American Heritage University of Southern California located in the San Bernardino County in California, USA. It is published twice in a year. It accepts creativity...

The shift to a neoliberal agenda has, for many academics, intensified the pressure and undermined the pleasure that their work can and does bring. This book contains stories from a range of autoethnographers seeking to challenge traditional academic...

This volume addresses the question: to what extent and under what conditions does international migration contribute to local and national development?

First published in 2003. The most comprehensive book on the topic of multicultural mental health, Culturally Diverse Mental Health addresses the challenge of counseling diverse populations including multiracial, homosexual, geriatric, and disabled...

In order to understand the relationship between social innovation and the reimagining of the knowledge economy necessary to reorient higher education most fully towards the public good, we must draw from the experiences of those working on the front...

Transgression is the stock in trade of a certain kind of anthropological sensibility that transforms fieldwork from strict social science to something more engaging. It builds on Koepping's idea that participation transforms perception and investigates...

These days an increasing number of social anthropologists do not find employment within academia. Rather, many find jobs with commercial organizations or in government, where they run research teams and create policy. These scholars provide a much-needed...

It is commonly acknowledged that anthropologists use personal experiences to inform their writing. However, it is often assumed that only fieldwork experiences are relevant and that the personal appears only in the form of self-reflexivity. This book...

Demographic trends and patterns provide valuable insights into social structure and behavior, both past and present, and are particularly useful in gauging the effect and extent of social change. While national, state, and local records of pre-1900...

The Global Environmental Crisis presents a new perspective on our inattention and inaction in the face of a major crisis, recognising that - although we cannot do without scientific knowledge - we cannot exclusively rely on it.

New Feminist Research Ethics re-examines the place of the ethical in feminist research and identifies new ethical priorities for feminist researchers. As urgent social, political and environmental challenges demand new ethical sensibilities, contributors...

Methods for Community-Based Research describes how Community-Based Research (CBR) is particularly suited to understand and take action on issues of educational justice.

Exceptionally clear and well-written chapters provide engaging discussions of the methods of accessing, generating, and analyzing social science data, using methods ranging from reflexive historical analysis to critical ethnography. Reflecting on their...

The new edition of Playbuilding as Arts-Based Research details how playbuilding (creating an original performative work with a group) as a methodology has developed in qualitative research over the last fifteen years.

The Lively Science is Michael Agar's accessible, idiosyncratic, often humorous, and sometimes controversial explication of his own polestar truth: "Research on humans in their social world by other humans is not a traditional science like the one created...