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Research Design in Social Research
by D A De Vaus  Publisher Comments A comprehensive and accessible single volume guide to the effective design of practical research....
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Applied Social Research #47: Narrative Research: Reading, Analysis, and Interpretation
by Amia Lieblich Publisher Comments Subtitled 'Reading, Analysis and Interpretation', this is a concise but comprehensive volume aimed at researchers and academics in sociology, anthropology, psychology and interpersonal communication....
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New Directions for Evaluation #116: Process Use in Theory, Research, and Practice: New Directions for Evaluation
by J. Bradley (edt) Cousins Publisher Comments Conceptions of use are grounded within a common conception that use and influence can be traced to evaluation findings or to the knowledge outputs of evaluative activities. Yet a qualitatively different type of use and impact began to emerge from...
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The Sage Dictionary of Social Research Methods
by Victor (edt) Jupp Publisher Comments Bringing together the work of over eighty leading academics and researchers worldwide to produce the definitive reference and research tool for the social sciences, The SAGE Dictionary of Social Research Methods contains more than 230 entries providing...
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Elementary Survey Sampling
by Richard L. Scheaffer Publisher Comments 'This introductory text on the design and analysis of sample surveys emphasizes the practical aspects of survey problems. It begins with brief chapters on the role of sample surveys in the modern world. Thereafter, each chapter introduces a sample survey...
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Evaluation Ethics for Best Practice: Cases and Commentaries
by Michael Morris Publisher Comments Focusing on ethical challenges in program evaluation, this innovative book features six case-study scenarios that end at a point where the evaluator faces a significant decision about how to proceed. For each case, two distinguished evaluators offer...
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How To Assess and Interpret Survey Psychometrics (2ND 03 Edition)
by Mark S. Litwin Publisher Comments 'Pilot testing is very good and the coverage of reliability and validity is well-developed and well-written.'--Bonnie Rader, California State University, Long Beach'Mark Litwin does a great job of constructing 'friendly' examples, and keeping the tone of...
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Surviving Your Dissertation: A Comprehensive Guide to Content and Process (Surviving Your Dissertation: A Comprehen)
by Kjell Erik Rudestam Publisher Comments Like the previous editions of this bestselling text, Surviving Your Dissertation: A Comprehensive Guide to Content and Process, Third Edition offers readers guidance that other dissertation guides often miss, from ways to improve one's writing, to...
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Japan Unmasked: The Character & Culture of the Japanese
by Boye Lafayette De Mente Publisher Comments The growing globalization of world business, culture and communication, and Japan's increasingly important role as a leader in that world makes understanding Japanese culture critical for business people, diplomats, students, educators and anyone else...
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Social Research Methods
by Alan Bryman Publisher Comments Now in a vivid full-color format, the third edition of Social Research Methods provides students with a uniquely straightforward explanation of the central approaches and techniques in social research methods. Integrating theory with practice, author...
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Interviewing: a Practical Guide for Students and Professionals (UK Edition)
by Daphne Keats Synopsis This volume contains ideas and information about such issues as building rapport and interpreting both verbal and non-verbal responses. It includes chapters on interviewing children, adolescents, older people, people with disabilities and interviewing...
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Training Counsellors: the Assessment of Competence (UK Edition)
by Sue Wheeler Publisher Comments This text shows how competence can be assessed in counsellor training, providing material for counselling trainers as they seek to design studies which will contribute to informing good practice in the counselling profession. The text forms a summary of...
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How To Make Observations and Assessments (UK Edition)
by Liz Meldon-smith Synopsis A guide to observing and recording children's behaviour as a key module of the CACHE diploma. It assists students in carrying out the 40 separate observations required and helps students interpret their findings so that sensible assessments of the...
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Transforming Talk: The Problem with Gossip in Late Medieval England
by Susan Elizabeth Phillips Synopsis In recent decades, scholars have shown an increasing interest in gossips social, psychological, and literary functions. The first book-length study of medieval gossip, Transforming Talk shifts the current debate and argues that gossip functions primarily...
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Narrative Methods for the Human Sciences
by Catherine Kohler Riessman Publisher Comments ???This is a terrific book. Cathy Riessman has an encyclopedic knowledge of this field and of the participants in it. This breadth and depth of knowledge is abundantly clear throughout the book.??? -Susan Bell, Bowdoin College Narrative Methods for the...
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Summated Rating Scale Construction : an Introduction (92 Edition)
by Paul E. Spector Publisher Comments The goal for any social scientist conducting a survey is to develop a rating on some attitude, value or opinion - a summated rating scale. Aimed at helping researchers construct more effective scales, Spector shows how to determine the number of items...
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Ethnography (UK Edition)
by John D. Brewer Publisher Comments * What is ethnography in social research? * To what use can ethnographic data be put? * Who are its fiercest critics? * Does ethnography have a future? Ethnography is one of the principal methods of qualitative research and has a long-established...
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An Introduction to Survey Research, Polling, and Data Analysis
by Herbert F. Weisberg Publisher Comments This book describes how surveys are conducted in such a way that they can be believed, explains how to read statistical reports and analyze data and provides guidelines that are useful in evaluating polls.</p> <p></p> <p>Using...
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Social Sciences Research: Research, Writing, and Presentation Strategies for Students
by Gail M. Staines Publisher Comments Social Sciences Research, designed by Gail M. Staines, Mark Bonacci, and Katherine Johnson, is a comprehensive resource manual for both students and instructors to help students carry out library research in the social sciences. In this second edition...
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Discourse Analysis
by Nelson Phillips Publisher Comments Discourse Analysis: Investigating Processes of Social Construction provides a concise, straightforward guide for students and researchers who are interested in understanding and using discourse analysis. Addressed to graduate students, academics,...
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