Reference and Methodology
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Ways of Knowing: Competing Methodologies in Social and Political Research
by Jonathon Wayne Moses  Publisher Comments This major new textbook on methodology in social and political science focuses centrally on the debate between positivist and constructivist approaches. It introduces in a lively and accessible way a range of key issues--from the nature of knowledge to...
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Phenomenological Sociology: Experience and Insight in Modern Society
by Harvie Ferguson Publisher Comments 'This is an intriguing and impressively wide-ranging manuscript, one that offers a discussion of phenomenology as the philosophy of modern experience and then presents a phenomenological sociology of modernity. Contemporary society constitutes a...
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Good Practice in Science Teaching: What Research Has To Say (UK Edition)
by Publisher Comments This book offers a summary of major educational research and scholarship important to the field of science education. Written, in a clear, concise and readable style, the authors have identified the principal messages and their implications for the...
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Program Evaluation: Forms and Approaches
by John M., Iv Owen Publisher Comments Thoroughly revised to incorporate recent research on evaluation and new examples of good practice in the United States and around the world, Program Evaluation, Third Edition, provides a conceptual and practical overview of the evaluation process in real-...
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Handbook of Transdisciplinary Research
by Gertrude Hirsch (edt) Hadorn Publisher Comments Transdisciplinary research (TR) is an emerging field of research in the knowledge society. It relates science and policy in addressing issues such as: global and local environmental concerns migration new technologies public health socio-cultural change...
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Research Ethics and the Internet: Negotiating Canada's Tri-Council Policy Statement
by Heather A. Kitchin Publisher Comments Confronting the complex challenges of the internet, this guide helps web users navigate through issues of copyright, privacy, and the ethical use of materials. It also analyzes contradictions between the federal Tri-Council Policy Statement and...
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Politics of Social Research
by Martyn Hammersley Publisher Comments Is social research political? Should it be political? What are the implications of the politicization of social research? Recent years have seen a growing range of challenges to the idea that research should be governed by the principle of value...
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Making Sense : a Student's Guide To Research and Writing in the Social Sciences (Canadian Edition) (2ND 05 Edition)
by Margot Northey Publisher Comments Contrary to many students' belief, good writing does not come naturally. Now in a new edition, this superb handbook examines both the general precepts for effective writing and the particular requirements of writing papers in the social sciences. It...
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Demographic Analysis: Projections on Natality, Fertility and Replacement
by Roland Pressat Book News Annotation Thisis a paperback reprint of a text originally published in 1972 by Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, New Jersey, in which Pressat (Institut National d'Etudes D...
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Rules, Magic and Instrumental Reason; Peter Winch's Philosophy of the Social Sciences (Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Philosophy)
by Berel Dov Lerner Publisher Comments This book provides a critical examination of Peter Winch's celebrated and controversial philosophy of the social sciences. Topics covered include rule following and the meaningfulness of human behavior, technical explanations of behavior, practical...
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Conjoined Twins: An Historical, Biological and Ethical Issues Encyclopedia
by Christine Quigley Publisher Comments This encyclopedia presents entries on conjoined twins throughout history, the biological causes and effects of twins being born conjoined, and ethical issues such as self-support and separation surgery. It also includes entries on the modern standardized...
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Transpersonal Research Methods in the Social Sciences
by Rosemarie (edt) Anderson Publisher Comments `A landmark book which will surely remain the standard text in the area for many years to come, and in doing so will lend invaluable impetus to the continuing development of the subject and to its wider acceptance within the social sciences...
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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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Practicing Research: Discovering Evidence That Matters
by Arlene Fink Publisher Comments Practicing Research: Discovering Evidence That Matters provides research consumers with the skills necessary for discovering evidence that matters.This book is designed for students, practitioners or researchers who are planning to review research for...
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Applied Social Research #31: Planning Ethically Responsible Research: A Guide for Students and Internal Review Boards
by Joan E Sieber Synopsis Joan E. Sieber does a good job of giving the reader a brief crash course about the historical context in which ethical concerns in human research arose, subsequent federal regulations, and how IRBs came about and how they work. The author's main purpose,...
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Designing Qualitative Research
by Catherine Marshall Publisher Comments With expanded coverage of ethics, analysis processes and approaches, the authors have updated their bestselling text to reflect recent advances and challenges. Features in the Fourth Edition include:</p> <p></p> <p>- Recent...
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Social Contract, Free Ride
by Anthony De Jasay Publisher Comments This book offers a compelling new account of the public goods dilemma. Showing how the social contract, in its quest for fairness, actually helps to breed the parasitic free riding it is meant to suppress, De Jasay argues that the incentives created by...
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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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Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences #10: Ecological Inference
by Laura Irwi Langbein Synopsis Explores the utility of techniques designed to make the inferences in causal modeling more reliable, including a comparison between ecological regression models and ecological correlation....
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Virtual Ethnography
by Christine Hine Publisher Comments Cutting though the exaggerated and fanciful beliefs about the new possibilities of `net life', Hine produces a distinctive understanding of the significance of the Internet and addresses such questions as: what challenges do the new technologies of...
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