Social research and statistics Books

Civilization will not survive if we ignore The Survival Hot List and fail to conquer The Seven Deadly Trends in timely fashion. The Survival Hot List is formatted in a Socratic framework, teaching through exposure to fifteen vital questions that proceed...

""English Influence On The United States"" is a comprehensive book that explores the impact of English culture, language, and traditions on the development of the United States. Written by William Cunningham, this book delves into the historical and...

Read the author's commentary for the Teachers College Record here: http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=15915It is not an exaggeration to say that the field of education has been under attack. Many, particularly in Washington, D.C., have...

This book demonstrates how to conduct latent variable modeling (LVM) in R by highlighting the features of each model, their specialized uses, examples, sample code and output, and an interpretation of the results. Each chapter features a detailed example...

In this digital age the use of video in social science research has become commonplace. As sophistication has increased along with usability, as spiralling staff costs push out direct observation, the researchers training today are grasping video as a...

An essential tool for those planning to undertake social research, this exceptional book tackles many of the specific concerns and issues that arise.  A well structured text, it offers a comprehensive introduction to a range of important areas...

The goal of this book is to emphasize the formal statistical features of the practice of equating, linking, and scaling. The book encourages the view and discusses the quality of the equating results from the statistical perspective (new models,...

The arrival of the computer in educational and psychological testing has led to the current popularity of adaptive testing---a testing format in which the computer uses statistical information about the test items to ...

PREFACE Amnon Rapoport University of Arizona and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Rami Zwick Hong Kong University of Science and Technology This volume (and volume III) includes papers that were presented and...

Ju¨ rgen G. Backhaus 1 Johann Heinrich Gottlob (von) Justi was born in 1702 in Bru¨ cken in Prussia (county of Sangerhausen), studied law and cameral sciences in Wittenberg and Jena, yet had to leave the university, entered the Prussian military service,...

North Korea is in the throes of economic and social, if not political, transition. This book examines the complex relationship between gender roles and economic and social changes in North Korea.

With a focus on migrant narratives, or the storytelling about migration, this volume considers the ways in which migration is and has been shaped by individual and collective experiences of agency, belonging and community.

Researching and Analysing Business provides an accessible and practical guide to various data collection and data analysis techniques within management, from both quantitative and qualitative perspectives.

Policy makers are increasingly demanding evidence from randomized trials. The book focuses on the design of rigorous trials rather than their statistical underpinnings or analyses. Consequently, statistical theory is absent and statistical methods are...

Few ethical issues create as much controversy as invasive experiments on animals. Some scientists claim they are essential for combating major human disease, or detecting human toxins. Others claim the contrary, backed by thousands of patients harmed by...

This collection explores the contested meanings and diverse practices of social research in the context of contemporary theoretical debates in cultural and social theory, addressing fundamental questions facing those working in the social and human...

What is social visibility? How does it affect people and public issues? How are visibility regimes created, organized and contested? Tackling both social theory and social research, the book is an exploration into how intervisibilities produce crucial...

Macrocomparative researchers use a variety of methodological approaches. This book features analyses of a single substantive topic, comparative employment performance in affluent countries, using three of the most common macrocomparative techniques:...

"It is much better," observed C. Wright Mills in an essay on intellectual craftsmanship, "to have one account by a working student of how he is going about his work than a dozen 'codifications of procedure' by specialists who often as not have never done...

The "ORI Introduction to the Responsible Conduct of Research" draws together in a single, easy-to-read book the fundamentals of responsible research. Readers are guided through the complex world of regulations and best practices, from initial...

Finding ways to understand the nature of social change and social order-from political movements to market meltdowns-is one of the enduring problems of social science. A Theory of Fields draws together far-ranging insights from social movement theory,...

Survey research in different fields is a valuable input to management decision making. However, research is not an infallible tool that will always guarantee right decisions. But neither should it be replaced by decision making based solely on manager's...

Each autumn, millions of new students enter colleges and universities across the country. Orientation is an institution's main opportunity to introduce and integrate new students into the campus community and culture, form class and institutional...

Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2010 in the subject Mathematics - Statistics, grade: summa cum laude, University of Bamberg (Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften), language: English, abstract: Missing data are an ubiquitous problem in...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Methodologie und Methoden, Note: 2,0, Universität Bielefeld (Soziologie), Veranstaltung: Vertiefung Methoden - Politisches Verhalten, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Grundlegend für jede Demokratie...

It has been said that the way people behave and participate in programmes is largely dependent on the local culture of the community they live in, which includes people's beliefs, practices, and traditions. But, ...

Despite the popularity of mobile telecommunications there has been growing concern in the UK since the mid 1990s about possible health effects from the extremely low frequency radiation (EMF) associated with ...

This book aims at contributing to our understanding of the dynamics of academic scientific productivity through three complementary studies. First, it analyzes how personal and institutional characteristics condition the productivity of individual...

The book provides key insights in experiencing lives and attitudes of the increasing number of people who reside beyond national boundaries and strategically create their life-paths. It draws insights from ethnographic study addressing the participants...

This book examines homicide-suicides in post-communist Romania (2002-2013). The author analyzes statistical data from legal records, police registers, and online newspapers discussing the way in which the victims and aggressors of homicide-suicides are...

In den empirischen Sozialwissenschaften dienen die Methoden und Techniken der Statistik der Auswertung von Ergebnissen empirischer Untersuchungen und ermöglicht so die Beschreibung der quantitiativen Eigenschaften einer...

This Handbook provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive coverage of statistical concepts and methods. It has been designed to be accessible to a wide range of readers - from undergraduates and postgraduates studying statistics and statistical analysis as...

As issues and circumstances investigated by anthropologists are becoming ever more diverse, the need to address social affiliation in contemporary situations of mobility, urbanity, transnational connections, individuation, media, and capital flows, has...

Neither ethics committees nor qualitative researchers can predict the types of ethical dilemmas that will happen in the field, only that they will routinely occur. In Qualitative Ethics in Practice, a team of fifteen top researchers from various...

This book brings together an international group of researchers reporting on their work aboutplay and early childhood education across 13 countries - Norway, Sweden, Denmark, England,Germany, Hong Kong, United States of America, India, The Maldives, Sri...

The apparently simple notion that it is contextualization and invocation of context that give form to our interpretations raises important questions about context definition. Moreover, different disciplines involved in the elucidation and interpretation...

This study marks a major step in making collaboration between seniors, academic researchers, and community researchers a reality. Many aging adults are motivated to undertake research projects in later life or even return to university after retirement. G

This book calls on the black community and culture to end toxic silence and act as allies, and to be more accepting and inclusive of differing sexualities and gender identities in an effort to improve the generative power of black solidarity.

Crafting Scholarship helps readers improve their writing and publishing success in academia. Framed within the context of the editorial and peer review process, the book explores writing, editing, and reviewing in academic publishing. As such it provides...