Social research and statistics Books

""A School Grammar of the Latin Language"" is a comprehensive guide to learning Latin, written by Carl Gottlob Zumpt and first published in 1846. The book is designed to be used as a textbook for students studying Latin in a school setting, and covers...

The purpose of the multilevel approach is to understand individual behaviors taking into account the social context in which they occur. This book deals with concepts and methods underlying this approach. This book is of...

Das Buch ""Einleitung in die Geisteswissenschaften V1: Versuch einer Grundlegung f�����r das Studium der Gesellschaft und der Geschichte"" wurde im Jahr 1883 von Wilhelm Dilthey ver������ffentlicht. Es ist ein grundlegendes Werk der Philosophie und...

""Einiges Aus Samoa Und Andern Inseln Der Sudsee"" ist ein Buch von Adolf Bastian, das im Jahr 1889 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Es handelt sich um eine Sammlung von Aufs�����tzen und Berichten �����ber die Kultur, die Geographie und die Geschichte der...

Die Grundz�����ge der Theorie der Statistik ist ein Buch, das im Jahr 1890 von Harald Westergaard ver������ffentlicht wurde. Es ist ein wichtiger Beitrag zur Statistik und behandelt die Grundlagen der statistischen Theorie. Das Buch enth�����lt eine...

""Stefano Franscini: Ein Forderer Der Schweizerischen Statistik (1898)"" ist ein Buch von Emil Gfeller, das die Bedeutung von Stefano Franscini f�����r die Schweizer Statistik beschreibt. Franscini war ein Schweizer Politiker und Statistiker, der...

This book explores how China, and especially China's Belt and Road Initiative, is viewed in European media and by European think tanks, thereby indicating what European elites' views of China are.

As the first volume of a two-volume set on new media users in China, this book approaches the subject from a macro level by regarding users as constructive nodes within networks, thereby giving insights into the interaction between users and new media...

This book examines some of the major and most commonly used methods and statistics necessary for social science research. It is meant primarily for the beginners, and hence does not require any prior training in research methodology or statistics.

Communities of Practice and Ethnographic Fieldwork offers a new perspective on how ethnography might be learned and practiced. Specifically, this edited volume explores how ethnography is learned in real-time through participation in a supportive...

This book provides a conceptual introduction to regression and machine learning and its applications in education research. The book discusses its diverse applications, including its role in predicting future events based on the current data or...

This book examines Indonesia's strategies and policies to influence regional cooperation in the Indo-Pacific, focusing especially on Indonesia's efforts to be the maritime fulcrum in the Indo-Pacific during President Joko Widodo's (Jokowi) administration...

Although relations between China and Europe are strained in many areas, including trade, human rights and views about political systems, nevertheless established linkages, development trajectories and intellectual cultures, offer good prospects for...

The book provides an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of Dagestan, a strategically important republic of the Russian Federation which borders Chechnya, Georgia and Azerbaijan, and its people. It outlines Dagestan's rich and complicated history, from...

This book presents an investigation of economic growth in Russia. The sharp decline in the national production that Russia endured in the 1990s resulted in Russia plunging into the poverty trap. The goal of this book is to determine whether and how...

Critical race theory (CRT) in education centers, examines and seeks to transform the relationship that undergirds race, racism, and power. This book reconsiders the possibilities of CRT applications to quantitative methodologies through 'QuantCrit.'

This book explores the stereotype that Japan is the world's most polite country, examining how proper conduct is acquired and expressed, and how the apparent conflict with some of the concepts of Western modernity, such as society, freedom and the...

This book examines the origins of the U.S. Navy's 2007 Maritime Strategy, the formation of the U.S. government's "Pivot to Asia" strategy, and the most recent revisions to this strategy that focus more specifically on China. The book also explores the...

Using an interdisciplinary approach combining film, semiotics, social-anthropology and history, this book examines food sciences in selected films to reveal food's power to direct and impose values and beliefs, to understand how dining venues may become...

The field of strategic management has developed significantly since its birth from "business policy" and "business planning" in the 1960s. Pioneering studies were essentially normative, prescriptive and often based on in-depth case studies. The evolution...

Analyzing Group Interactions gives a comprehensive overview of the use of different methods for the analysis of group interactions. International experts from a range of different disciplines within the social sciences illustrate their step-by-step...

Este livro é uma Tese de Mestrado defendida na Universidade de Estocolmo (Suécia) em 1986, com o título A Construção Artística em Sagarana: Uma Análise Estrutural Semiótica em João...

Autoethnography allows researchers to make sense of the 'ethno' - the cultural - by studying their own experiences - the 'auto'. It links the self to the cultural, allowing for an inductive grounding of theoretical insight into researchers'...

This crystal clear, applied text teaches readers how to plan, conduct, and write a research project and select and interpret data through its integrated approach to research methods. Although not a statistics book, readers learn to master which technique...

This classic and invaluable reference handbook, written for sex researchers and their students, has now been completely revised in a new, fourth edition. It remains the only easy and efficient way for researchers to learn about, evaluate, and compare...

Strategies and Tactics of Behavioral Research and Practice focuses on the most effective methods for measuring and evaluating changes in behavior. The authors provide the rationale for different procedures for measuring behavior and designing...

Proposing Empirical Research: A Guide to the Fundamentals provides step-by-step instructions for students who will be writing their first research proposal in the social and behavioral sciences and using both quantitative and qualitative methods.The...

IBM SPSS for Introductory Statistics is designed to help students learn how to analyze and interpret research. In easy-to-understand language, the authors show readers how to choose the appropriate statistic based on the design, and to interpret outputs...

Social work research is concerned with complex social issues closely connected to communities of people who are marginalized and oppressed. This volume develops critical and creative research methodologies that place questions of social justice at their...

Monitoring and Evaluation of Practice and Methods in Applied Social Research is a comprehensive guide delving into the core concepts, tools, methods, and approaches of M&E.

Transgender people are waiting to be seen in healthcare and waiting to be recognised as the legitimate experts on their own lives and needs. This book foregrounds empirically novel and conceptually groundbreaking sociological analyses of trans health...

This book calls attention to the continued relevance of Alfred Schutz's social thought and his efforts to bring phenomenology to bear on social theory and the epistemology of social research, arguing that his social theory offers a robust framework for...

This book begins by explaining why Japan spent roughly fifty years building its own colonial system and declaring war on China and the Western Allies, only to decide after military defeats to surrender before being invaded.

This edited volume presents an international collection of fieldwork experiences from every stage of the research process with a view to normalising the process of adaptation, modification, and even failure during the fieldwork process when circumstances...

This book explores considerations of method in the field of political anthropology, contending that this constitutes a distinct approach within the broader area of the human, social and political sciences. Faithful to the basic guiding ideas of...

Writing and Immanence is a book that is attentive to the unabatingly potent, sometimes agonistic, forces at play in the continuing unfoldings of crises of representation. As immanent doing, the writing in the book writes to destabilise the orthodoxies,...

This book provides much new thinking on the phenomenon of whole-person education, a phenomenon which features strongly in East Asian universities, and which aims to develop students intellectually, spiritually, and ethically, to master critical thinking...

Within the overlapping fields of the sociology of sport, physical education and health education, the use of critical theories and the critical research paradigm has grown in scope. Yet what social impact has this research had?This book considers the...

Spatializing Social Media charts the theoretical and methodological challenges in analyzing and visualizing social media data mapped to geographic areas. It introduces the reader to concepts, theories, and methods that sit at the crossroads between...

This book offers insights on politics and ethics of representation that are relevant to researchers concerned with struggles for justice. It takes moments of discomfort in the qualitative research process as important sites of knowledge for exploring...

Online student resource material cab be accessed under the 'Support Materials' tab at https://www.routledge.com/9780367207939Doing Academic Research is a concise, accessible, and tightly organized overview of the research process in the humanities,...

This book covers applied statistics for the social sciences with upper-level undergraduate students in mind. The chapters are based on lecture notes from an introductory statistics course the author has taught for a number of years. The book integrates...

The twin journals, Der Österreichische Volkswirt (The Austrian Economist) and Der Deutsche Volkswirt (The German Economist) were created by Gustav Stolper, godfather of Joseph Schumpeter, first in Vienna and then after the First World War, in Berlin...

The modeling of item response data is governed by item response theory, also referred to as modern test theory. The eld of inquiry of item response theory has become very large and shows the enormous progress that has been made. The mainstream literature...

Provides a self-contained comprehensive treatment of both one-sample and K-sample goodness-of-fit methods by linking them to a common theory backbone Contains many data examples, including R-code and a specific R-package for...

Quantitative criminology has certainly come a long way since I was ?rst introduced to a largely qualitative criminology some 40 years ago, when I was recruited to lead a task force on science and technology for the President's...

Introduction.- Reading and transforming data.- Statistics for comparing means and proportions.- R graphics and trellis plots.- Analysis of variance: repeated-measures.- Linear and logistic regression.- Statistical power and sample size considerations.-...