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Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences #133: Translating Questionnaires and Other Research Instruments: Problems and Solutions
by Orlando Behling  Synopsis This book covers the essential information needed to understand the problems involved in translating existing questionnaires and other paper-and-pencil instruments from one language to another as well as to apply methods for dealing with them. It shows...
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Encyclopedia of American Activism: 1960 to the Present
by Margaret Dicanio Phd Publisher Comments The turbulence of the 1960s and 1970s spawned a spectrum of activist movements. In spirit and action, events ranged from: gentle to violent; from Tree People to Bloody Sunday; from Community Mental Health to Black Power. This rapid stream of social and...
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The Dictionary of Cultural Theorists
by Ernest Cashmore Publisher Comments This essential reference is a handy guide to the often confusing world of cultural theory. Its entries provide accessible introductions to the key cultural theorists of the 19th and 20th centuries, their central concepts and main arguments, and their...
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Exploring Identity & Gender: The Narrative Study of Our Lives
by Ruthellen Josselson Synopsis How does a narrative serve as a way for uncovering and constructing a person's identity? Does a narrative differ in any systematic way from life as lived versus life as constructed by women and men? Addressing these and other issues related to the use of...
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Using Computers in Qualitative Research
by Nigel G Fielding Publisher Comments The book offers communication researchers some of the best recent work on qualitative inquiry in the human disciplines. . . . Published by Sage, the leading publisher of qualitative research in the social sciences today. . . . This] collection is of...
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Using Research for Effective Health Promotion (UK Edition)
by Synopsis Bridging the gap between research and practice in health promotion, this book advances evidence-based health promotion by illustrating how service providers and researchers can change their working practices to benefit the public....
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Commodifying Bodies (03 Edition)
by Nancy Scheper-hughes Publisher Comments Increasingly the body is a possession that does not belong to us. It is bought and sold, bartered and stolen, marketed wholesale or in parts. The professions - especially reproductive medicine, transplant surgery, and bioethics but also journalism and...
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Rise of Network Society : the Information Age : Economy, Society, and Culture (2ND 00 Edition)
by Manuel Castells Publisher Comments This book, the first in Castells' ground-breaking trilogy, is an account of the economic and social dynamics of the new age of information. Based on research in the USA, Asia, Latin America, and Europe, it aims to formulate a systematic theory of the...
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Interviewing as Qualitative Research
by Irving Seidman Synopsis Features: Reorganized and expanded discussion of sharing, analyzing, and interpreting interview data -- Explicit discussion of the informed consent process -- Compelling profiles demonstrating the power of interviewing as a research method -- Merging of...
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Sage Classics Series #03: Social Measurement
by Donald T. Campbell Publisher Comments When measuring an unseen attitude or personality trait, how can the social scientist be sure that the measure actually reflects the trait? This book provides researchers, evaluators, and graduate students with an answer to this question in a user...
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A Humanist Science: Values and Ideals in Social Inquiry
by Philip Selznick Publisher Comments Providing a capstone to Philip Selznick's influential body of scholarly work, A Humanist Science insightfully brings to light the value-centered nature of the social sciences. The work clearly challenges the supposed separation of fact and value, and...
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Seeing Is Believing? Approaches to Visual Research
by Pole Publisher Comments Recent years have seen an increase in the use of visual methods of research across the social sciences. As researchers realize the potential of the visual, not only as a source but also as a means of generating data, a range of techniques has been...
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Interpretive Biography
by Norman K. Denzin Publisher Comments Like all writing, biographies are interpretive. They require no less than organizing into text the chaos of human existence. In Interpretive Biography Denzin combines one of the oldest techniques in the social sciences and humanities with one of the...
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Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences
by James (edt) Mahoney Synopsis The book considers the accomplishments and agendas of comparative-historical research in the social sciences. It defines the distinctiveness of this type of research and explores its strengths in explaining important outcomes in the world....
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Applied Social Research #48: Communicating Social Science Research to Policy Makers
by Roger J. Vaughan Synopsis Using a set of rules as a guide for cost-effective policy analysis, Communicating Social Science Research to Policy Makers helps applied researchers avoid costly mistakes in policy planning and public administration research. Beginning with a practical...
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Advanced Quantitative Techniques in the Social Sciences #7: Regression Models for Categorical and Limited Dependent Variables
by J. Scott Long Synopsis THE APPROACH J. Scott Long??'s approach is one that I highly commend. There is a decided emphasis on the application and interpretation of the specific statistical techniques. Long works from the premise that the major difficulty with the analysis of...
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The Logic of Social Research
by Arthur Stinchcombe Publisher Comments conversion in...
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Doing a Literature Review: Releasing the Social Science Research Imagination
by Chris Hart Synopsis Doing a Literature Review offers students from across the social sciences and humanities a practical and comprehensive guide to writing a literature review. It takes the reader through the initial states of an undergraduate dissertation or postgraduate...
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Qualitative Research Methods #12: Ethnostatistics: Qualitative Foundations for Quantitative Research
by Robert P. Gephart Publisher Comments This volume discusses ethnostatistics - the interpretative study of the construction and use of statistics in social research - and will be of equal interest to qualitative and quantitative researchers across the social sciences. On the understanding...
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The Sage Handbook of Public Opinion Research
by Wolfgang (edt) Donsbach Publisher Comments Public opinion theory and research are becoming increasingly significant in modern societies as people??'s attitudes and behaviors become ever more volatile and opinion poll data becomes ever more readily available. This major new Handbook is the first...
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