Social research and statistics Books

This book provides a comprehensive overview of Nepal's news media, including empirical studies, critical reviews, and theoretical and philosophical analyses focusing on journalism and contemporary media practices in the country, using local analyses and...

Oral History and Qualitative Methodologies: Educational Research for Social Justice examines oral history methodological processes involved in the doing of oral history as well as the theoretical, historical, and knowledge implications of using oral...

Studying Complex Interactions and Outcomes Through Qualitative Comparative Analysis: A Practical Guide to Comparative Case Studies and Ethnographic Data Analysis offers practical, methodological, and theoretically robust guidelines to systematically...

This book explores how queerness and representations of queerness in media and culture are responding to the shifting socio-political, cultural and legal conditions in post-Soviet Russia, especially in the light of the so-called 'antigay' law of 2013...

Writing and Unrecognized Academic Labor acknowledges that much of the work we do to sustain the academy remains without recognition. It demonstrates that it is not only published work that influences development and innovation in scholarship.  

A comprehensive collection of contemporary and classical readings on sociological method, this book provides students with systematic analyses of each of the major strategies employed in sociological research

This book challenges the long-established structure of Chinese history around dynasties, adopting a more "organic" approach which emphasises cultural and economic trends that transcend arbitrary dynastic boundaries. It argues that with the collapse of...

The past two decades have seen an increasing emphasis on large and interdisciplinary research configurations such as research networks, and centers of excellence including those in Social Sciences and Humanities research. Little research has been...

This book examines the circulation of knowledge within globalization, focusing on the differences between centers and peripheries of knowledge production in the social sciences. It explores not only how knowledge is appropriated in peripheral...

Statistics are often seen as simple, straightforward, and objective descriptions of society. However, what we choose to count, what we choose not to count, who does the counting, and the categories and values we choose to apply when counting, matter...

This book turns conventional global-historical analysis on its head, demonstrating, first, that local events cannot be derived - logically or historically - from large-scale, global-historical structures and processes and, second, that it is these...

In an attempt to cope with the profusion of tools and techniques for qualitative methods, texts for students have tended to respond in the following two ways: "how to" or "why to." In contrast, this book takes on both tasks to give students a more...

This book examines the meaning and implications of the sociological maxim, 'make the familiar strange'. Addressing the methodological questions of why and how sociologists should make the familiar strange, what it means to 'make the familiar strange',...

Writing Qualitatively: The Selected Works of Johnny Saldaña showcases the diverse range of writing styles available to qualitative researchers through the work one of the most internationally cited and referenced methodologists. The traditional academic...

Agent-Based Modelling for Criminological Theory Testing and Development addresses the question whether and how we can use simulation methods in order to test criminological theories, and if they fail to be corroborated, how we can use simulation to mend...

This book discusses in detail how Orthodox Christianity was involved in and influenced political transition in Ukraine, Serbia, and Georgia after the collapse of communism. Based on original research, including extensive interviews with clergy and...

Wayfinding and Critical Autoethnography is the first critical autoethnography compilation from the global south, bringing together indigenous, non-indigenous, Pasifika, and other diverse voices which expand established understandings of autoethnography...

First published in 1969, this book addresses itself to the question of the behavior appropriate for social scientists conducting research sponsored by or otherwise involving government agencies. It contains a survey of the problems encountered by...

This book provides a comparative study of the strategies of great powers in the Asia-Pacific, namely, the United States, China and Japan, known as the Pacific Three. It examines the evolution of each power's strategic thinking and analyzes the three...

An Autoethnography of Fitting In: On Spinsterhood, Fatness, and Backpacker Tourism is a feminist narrative about the social rules of obedience and acquiescence to the norm - embodiment, heteronormativity, partnering - and about fitting in, or not, with...

From Data to Decisions in Music Education Research provides a structured and hands-on approach to working with empirical data in the context of music education research. Using step-by-step tutorials with in-depth examples of music education data, this...

This book sets out cutting-edge new research and examines future prospects on 360-degree video, virtual reality (VR), and augmented reality (AR) in journalism, analyzing and discussing virtual world experiments from a range of perspectives.Featuring...

This book, based on extensive original research, explores the lives, the migratory experiences and the social, economic, and emotional practices of Chinese migrant women during their migrations and mobilities in China, from China to Taiwan, from Taiwan...

The Pedagogy of Special Needs Education: Phenomenology of Sameness and Difference outlines how to understand the inner and behavioral lives of children with intellectual disability through the psychology and phenomenology of "stories" derived from the...

Semantic Network Analysis in Social Sciences introduces the fundamentals of semantic network analysis and its applications in the social sciences. Readers learn how to easily transform any given text into a visual network of words co-occurring together,...

Writing Strategies for the Education Dissertation offers a unique take on doctoral writing. It uses composition and rhetoric strategies to identify key activities for generating thought to keep students writing. It de-mythologizes the view of writing as...

This volume is dedicated to exploring and exposing the challenges, the possibilities, and the processes of empirical work in embodiment. Grounded in qualitative inquiry in the humanities and social sciences, the chapters describe perspectives and...

This book explores social change in Japan at the most intimate site of social interaction - the home - by providing a detailed ethnography of everyday life in a sharehouse. Sharehouses, which emerged in the 2007 'sharehouse boom', are a...

This book explores a new character archetype that permeated Soviet film during what became known as the era of Stagnation, a stark period of loneliness, disappointment, and individual despair. This new type of character was neither negative nor positive,...

How do education researchers navigate the qualitative research process? How do they manage and negotiate myriad decision points at which things can take an unexpected - and sometimes problematic - turn? Whilst these questions are relevant for any...

Rivolto a persone che sono appassionate dell'uso delle TIC nei loro processi di formazione, sviluppo di progetti professionali e/o personali. Qui troverete un input per capire come le competenze creative possono essere sviluppate e potenziate come...

Introduction to Research Methods and Proposal Writing-1 is designed in response to numerous calls from students in universities and colleges, beginner research scientists, consultants and research assistants to grasp basic concepts, methods and...

The book presents a study of Sindh Archives Information and Archives Department (SAIAD) conducted to reveal the treasure trove. This is an analysis of primary sources. It comprises of four parts, (a) An overview of terminologies, literature, ...

Pharmacy as a profession has changed rapidly in the UK over recent years. A decline in traditional aspects such as formulation has been matched by the emergence of a much greater advisory role. Research examining this change, however, has tended to...

What does it mean quality of work life (QWL) nowadays? What are the aspects that reflects more its global influence? How the QWL can be developed in parallel with the organizational effectiveness? These and some other questions are answered by two ...

The Indian subcontinent is prone to multiple disasters. The consequences for the poor in general are known. However, little academic work exists to understand the specific ways multiple disasters affect women-headed households from different social...

The present work is dedicated to a very active branch of Natural Computing (which tries to discover the way nature computes, especially at a biological level), namely Membrane Computing, more precisely, to those models of membrane systems mainly inspired...

Football hooliganism has been prevalent in almost every country where the game is played. This has particularly been the case in Britain, where the phenomenon has produced consequences of varying degrees of severity. Many academic investigations have...

In this book, the arts are perceived from aninterdisciplinary dimensions (music, visual art,media and psychology).Interdisciplinary study hasbeen a significant strategy in teaching and learningnowadays.The inclusion of the arts is reflected inthe...

Survey research collects data on respondent’s perception on issues of concern or interest. Statistical analysis of survey data is thus an important tool in the summarization, manipulation and interpretation of quantitative data to discover its underlying...

In Niger the question of rights to pastoral resourcesillustrates how struggles in Western mindset havebeen transported to the developing world. On the onehand there has been an attempt to standardise legalframeworks and land tenure practices with...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 1999 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Methodologie und Methoden, Note: 2,0, Universität Kassel, Veranstaltung: Seminar - Einführung in die Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Methodologie und Methoden, Note: 1,0, Universität Konstanz (FB Soziologie), Veranstaltung: Projektseminar: Grenzstädte in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Begriff Grenze...

This step-by-step guide is written for R and latent variable model (LVM) novices. Utilizing a path model approach and focusing on the lavaan package, this book is designed to help readers quickly understand LVMs and their analysis in R. The author...

How should we tell the histories of academic disciplines? All too often, the political and institutional dimensions of knowledge production are lost beneath the intellectual debates. This book redresses the balance. Written in a narrative style and...

Girls and young women, particularly those from rural and indigenous communities around the world, face some of the most adverse social issues in the world despite the existence of protective laws and international treaties. Ethical Practice in...