Social research and statistics Books

This work is widely recognized as the preeminent textbook for Scots-Irish genealogy. This second edition includes additional information on church records and landed estate papers, as well as new chapters on records relating to law and order, emigration,...

Principles of Forecasting: A Handbook for Researchers and Practitioners summarizes knowledge from experts and from empirical studies. It provides guidelines that can be applied in fields such as economics, sociology, and...

This book explains the notational system NUSAP (Numeral, Unit, Spread, Assessment, Pedigree) and applies it to several examples from the environmental sciences. The authors are now making further extensions of NUSAP, including...

One of the major changes in the social science research landscape in recent years has been the introduction of computerised panel surveys in Europe and the US which make longitudinal data widely available to graduate students for the first time. ...

This book contains the ideas of functional data analysis by a number of case studies. The case studies are accessible to research workers in a wide range of disciplines. Every reader should gain not only a specific understanding of the methods of...

Preferences and Procedures presents and tests game-theoretic models of European Union legislative decision-making. It is inspired by the idea of linking statistical testing strategies firmly to formal models of EU policymaking...

The third edition of Research Methods for Political Science retains its effective approach to helping students learn what to research, why to research and how to research. The text integrates both quantitative and qualitative approaches to research in...

Much of what we know about the subject of coping is based on human behavior and cognition during times of crisis and transition. Yet the alarms and m~or upheavals of life comprise only a portion of those experiences that call...

There is a myriad of ideological beliefs and copious opinions presented today on the topic of gangs. Many questions have arisen on its origin, and some have even queried whether it is by design. In this book, Gang Violence Is By Design: Exposing the Lie,...

Millennium Development Goal targets to halve the proportion of population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation by 2015 and aims to achieve a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Methodologie und Methoden, Note: 1,7, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (Institut für Sozial- und Verhaltenswissenschaften), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Sobald man beginnt, sich mit...

Due to its very nature, the evaluation of research permeates nearly every aspect of the work of researchers. They evaluate the work of others or have their own work evaluated. They evaluate hypotheses that come to mind, the previous literature, the...

This book highlights an important moment in the history of Romanian sociology: The idea of getting involved in the knowledge and construction of social life as well as the virtues of the sociologic monograph method that were promoted by the Bucharest...

Survey data are used in many disciplines from Social Sciences to Economics. But might interviewers' behaviour affect the quality of such data? This book presents the results of new research on interviewers' motivation and behaviour. A number of...

This volume discusses how privacy is understood today. Given the multidimensional character of privacy, the book analyses the variety and complexity of its meanings by adopting a cross-disciplinary position. The essays reveal the multifaceted aspects of...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich Sozialwissenschaften allgemein, Note: 1, Universität Wien (Institut für Politikwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: (M2) Qualitative Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung (2019WS), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract:...

Until recently the subject of suffering and evil was neglected in the sociological world and was almost absent in Durkheimian studies as well. This book aims to fill the gap, with particular reference to the Durkheimian tradition, by exploring the...

Louis Dumont, who died in 1998, was one of the most important figures in post-war French anthropology. He is well-known for his early work on India, which culminated in Homo Hierarchicus (1966; in English 1972, 1980), an anthropological account of the...

Whereas most anthropological research is grounded in social, cultural and biological analysis of the human condition, this volume opens up a different approach: its concerns are the psychic depths of human cultural life-worlds as explored through...

Pioneered by Max Gluckman to demonstrate the way in which social practice and structure together constitute and are themselves constituted by the situational flow of social life, the extended case method became diagnostic of the Manchester School of...

Inspired by existential thought, but using ethnographic methods, Jackson explores a variety of compelling topics, including 9/11, episodes from the war in Sierra Leone and its aftermath, the marginalization of indigenous Australians, the application of...

Since the politicization of anthropology in the 1970s, most anthropologists have been reluctant to approach the topic of universals-that is, phenomena that occur regularly in all known human societies. In this volume, Christoph Antweiler reasserts the...

The objective of this book is to address the needs of students in using software for data science. The pace and content of this book is set in such a way so that it gives user friendly approach to students and other learners. The key features of this...

Transdisciplinary projects are messy, complicated, and exhilarating. They stretch the collaborators, sometimes uncomfortably, beyond the predictable, expected, and routine ways of engaging with research. Making public the private tensions of...

Hailed as a landmark in the development of experimental methods when itappeared in 1975, Design and Analysis of Time-Series Experiments is availableagain after several years of being out of print.Gene V Glass, Victor L. Willson and John M. Gottman have...

This is a reprint of the orginal book released in 1968. Our primary goal in this book is to sharpen the skill, sophistication, and in- tuition of the reader in the interpretation of mental test data, and in the construction and use of mental tests both...

There has been a growing interest in Durkheim, founding father of sociology, since the 1970s. This volume takes a look at the current stage of Durkheimian studies, pointing out paths scholars are now following as they examine the various themes of study...

Identifies the many ways in which unexpected outcomes are endemic to international relations due to the complexity of world politics.

Opening Pathways, Building Bridges explores contemporary skilled migration and the brain drain using a bottom-up approach, based on a case study of Mexican scientists and engineers working in the UK.

The aim of this book is to reignite some interest in and passion about how human communication behavior should be studied. It presents the best advice, techniques, cautions, and controversies from the 1970s and 1980s and then updates them. Several...

Many researchers jump from data collection directly into testing hypothesis without realizing these tests can go profoundly wrong without clean data. This book provides a clear, accessible, step-by-step process of important best practices in preparing for

Qualitative Inquiry in the Public Sphere examines the relationships between public scholarship, the research marketplace, and the politics of higher education.　It is written from the perspective that higher education is under attack from multiple sides,...

This book is a comprehensive introduction to translation studies between English and isiZulu. It incorporates crucial concepts for understanding the basics of translation within a South African language context.

This book makes a philosophical contribution to theory and inquiry in environmental education by attempting a form of inquiry that at once troubles the idea of 'nature' and the human 'self'.

This book is a practical guide on how to write conceptual papers and use conceptual generalization as a research methodology. The book focuses on the scientific foundation for conceptual generalization, to identify what is a conceptual model and, how...

Based on extensive original research, this book examines the extent to which media in Russia upholds the Russian government's stance on sexuality. Overall, the book challenges the prevailing view that media in authoritarian regimes are completely...

This book focuses on how to improve the collection, analysis and use of data on global migration.

The contributors to this volume take up the theme of instructed and instructive actions. Studies of instructions and the actions of following them provide empirical content to the classical theoretical issue of how rules, norms, and other normative...

The Census of the City of New York is a comprehensive survey of the population, housing, and economic conditions of New York City in the early 20th century. This book offers valuable insights into the social and economic history of one of the world's...

Wyndham Hulme offers two lectures on the history of statistical data and its significance in shaping societies and civilizations. He discusses the role of statistical evidence in understanding social needs and scientific inquiry.This work has been...

This book is the outcome of a Nato Workshop, held in France in July 1989. The workshop was organized to examine current ideas about sensory-motor organizations during human infancy and their development through early childhood...

If intelligence is information that has undergone an analytic process, then open-source intelligence (OSINT) is publicly accessible data subjected to the same secret research processes. But, if you have been under the misapprehension that intelligence...