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Systemic action research : A strategy for whole system change
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ISBN: 1281742821 1447303628 1847422756 1861347383 9786611742829 Year: 2022 Publisher: Bristol University Press

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This book shows how Systemic Action Research can be integrated, in any context, to the process of social and organisational development and change. Filled with illustrative stories and pictures, it brings the concepts to life enabling the reader to develop a clear picture of how to put it into practice.


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Coming to Narrative : A Personal History of Paradigm Change in the Human Sciences
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ISBN: 1315432080 1315432099 161132775X 9781611327755 9781611327755 9781611327670 1611327679 9781598740370 1598740377 9781598740387 1598740385 9781315432083 9781315432090 9781315432069 9781315432076 Year: 2014 Publisher: Walnut Creek : Left Coast Press,

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Reflecting on a 50 year university career, Distinguished Professor Arthur Bochner, former President of the National Communication Association, discloses a lived history, both academic and personal, that has paralleled many of the paradigm shifts in the human sciences inspired by the turn toward narrative. He shows how the human sciences-especially in his own areas of interpersonal, family, and communication theory-have evolved from sciences directed toward prediction and control to interpretive ones focused on the search for meaning through qualitative, narrative, and ethnographic modes o


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Research exposed
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ISBN: 9780231188760 0231188765 9780231188777 0231188773 9780231548007 0231548001 Year: 2021 Publisher: New York

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"Our present era of digital communication presents endless opportunities for the collection and analysis of social data in new and novel ways. It also presents new and unanticipated ways to fail, as researchers are often inventing elements of their methodologies on the fly or studying a phenomena or media platform for the first time. In Research Exposed, Eszter Hargittai and her team of experienced researchers offer detailed behind-the-scenes accounts of conducting empirical social science research in the digital age. It brings vivid first-hand accounts of innovative research projects and introduces readers to a wide range of digital age methods, including data scraping, surveys, in-person observations, and on-line content analysis. The chapters draw on lessons learned from over a dozen scholars by addressing the methodological challenges that researchers faced when gathering and analyzing data. Some of the essays focus on the behind-the-scenes challenges when applying familiar research methods like interviewing, ethnographic work, and secondary data analysis to digital media, while others examine the challenges associated with pioneering genres of research associated with new media such as data scraping. The goal of the book is provide insight for those who want to do their own digital research about how mistakes can be made and avoided"--


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Ageing and COVID-19 : making sense of a disrupted world
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ISBN: 1003259324 1000531082 1000530973 1032194677 1032194693 Year: 2021 Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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This volume presents a range of research approaches to the exploration of ageing during a pandemic situation. One of the first collections of its kind, it offers an array of studies employing research methodologies that lend themselves to replication in similar contexts by those seeking to understand the effects of epidemics on older people. Thematically organised, it shows how to reconcile qualitative and quantitative approaches, thus rendering them complementary, bringing together studies from around the world to offer an international perspective on ageing as it relates to an unprecedented epidemiological phenomenon. As such, it will appeal to researchers in the field of gerontology, as well as sociologists of medicine and clinicians seeking to understand the disruptive effects of the recent coronavirus outbreak on later life.


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Anthropology and ethnography are not equivalent : reorienting anthropology for the future
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ISBN: 1789209897 1789209889 9781789209884 Year: 2021 Publisher: New York ; London : Berghahn,

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In recent years, crucial questions have been raised about anthropology as a discipline, such as whether ethnography is central to the subject, and how imagination, reality and truth are joined in anthropological enterprises. These interventions have impacted anthropologists and scholars at large. This volume contributes to the debate about the interrelationships between ethnography and anthropology and takes it to a new plane. Six anthropologists with field experience in Egypt, Greece, India, Laos, Mauritius, Thailand and Switzerland critically discuss these propositions in order to renew anthropology for the future. The volume concludes with an Afterword from Tim Ingold.


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Social Science Research in the Arab World and Beyond : A Guide for Students, Instructors and Researchers
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Year: 2023 Publisher: Cham Springer Nature

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This book presents and discusses the logic and method of social science research adapted mainly for instruction at Arab universities and for research in Arab countries, but with applicability beyond the region. It illustrates major concepts and methods pertaining to research with examples of previous studies carried out in the Arab world and with exercises using Arab Barometer and other datasets. The book situates itself between a regular methods textbook and an annotated list of major concepts and methods, and includes an introduction, three chapters, and four appendices.


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Using Participatory Methods to Explore Freedom of Religion and Belief : Whose Reality Counts?
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ISBN: 1529229294 1529229286 Year: 2023 Publisher: Bristol : Bristol University Press,

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EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Examining countries where religious pluralism is in decline, including Iraq, India, Pakistan and Nigeria, this book brings together reflections, knowledge and learning about the daily experiences of religious minorities. It also showcases the participatory methodologies implemented by its international team of contributors and the analysis highlights the importance of using non-extractive methods for engaging with participants. Including a careful consideration of the ethics and limitations of participatory research with persecuted groups, the book reflects on the implications for people’s agency when research creates space for them to reflect on their realities in a group setting and uses methods which put their own experience and analysis at the centre of the process.

Inequality by Design : Cracking the Bell Curve Myth
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ISBN: 0691028982 0691221502 Year: 1996 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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"As debate rages over the widening and destructive gap between the rich and the rest of Americans, Claude Fischer and his colleagues present a comprehensive new treatment of inequality in America. They challenge arguments that expanding inequality is the natural, perhaps necessary, accompaniment of economic growth. They refute the claims of the incendiary bestseller The Bell Curve (1994) through a clear, rigorous re-analysis of the very data its authors, Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, used to contend that inherited differences in intelligence explain inequality. Inequality by Design offers a powerful alternative explanation, stressing that economic fortune depends more on social circumstances than on IQ, which is itself a product of society. More critical yet, patterns of inequality must be explained by looking beyond the attributes of individuals to the structure of society. Social policies set the "rules of the game" within which individual abilities and efforts matter. And recent policies have, on the whole, widened the gap between the rich and the rest of Americans since the 1970s." "Not only does the wealth of individuals' parents shape their chances for a good life, so do national policies ranging from labor laws to investments in education to tax deductions. The authors explore the ways that America - the most economically unequal society in the industrialized world - unevenly distributes rewards through regulation of the market, taxes, and government spending. It attacks the myth that inequality fosters economic growth, that reducing economic inequality requires enormous welfare expenditures, and that there is little we can do to alter the extent of inequality. It also attacks the injurious myth of innate racial inequality, presenting powerful evidence that racial differences in achievement are the consequences, not the causes, of social inequality. By refusing to blame inequality on an unchangeable human nature and an inexorable market - an excuse that leads to resignation and passivity - Inequality by Design shows how we can advance policies that widen opportunity for all."--BOOK JACKET.

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Égalité --- --Justice --- --États-Unis --- --Intellect --- Nature and nurture --- Intelligence levels --- Educational psychology --- Social aspects --- Herrnstein, Richard J --- Educational psychology. --- Intellect. --- Nature and nurture. --- Hulpwetenschappen --- sociologie --- #SBIB:316.334.1O410 --- #SBIB:316.8H15 --- 316.34 --- 316.44 --- US / United States of America - USA - Verenigde Staten - Etats Unis --- 311.98 --- 313 --- 339.21 --- 202 --- 159.9 --- onderwijs --- psychologie --- sociale ongelijkheid --- Leergedrag: cognitief gedrag, studieresultaten: algemeen --- Welzijns- en sociale problemen: sociale ongelijkheid en armoede --- Sociale differentiatie. Sociale typologie. Sociale stratificatie --- Sociale mobiliteit. Sociale differentiatie --- Bevolking naar de maatschappelijke klasse en stand. Wet van Pareto. --- Levenswijze en levensstandaard. Levensminimum. sociale indicatoren (Studiën). --- Ongelijkheid en herverdeling van vermogens en inkomens. Inkomensbeleid. --- Sociale organisatie. --- Psychologie --- sociologie. --- 316.44 Sociale mobiliteit. Sociale differentiatie --- 316.34 Sociale differentiatie. Sociale typologie. Sociale stratificatie --- Intellect --- Environment --- Genetics and environment --- Heredity and environment --- Nature --- Nature versus nurture --- Nurture and nature --- Genetics --- Heredity --- Human beings --- Intelligence quotient --- IQ (Intelligence quotient) --- Human intelligence --- Intelligence --- Mind --- Ability --- Psychology --- Thought and thinking --- Education --- Psychology, Educational --- Child psychology --- Sociale organisatie --- Bevolking naar de maatschappelijke klasse en stand. Wet van Pareto --- Levenswijze en levensstandaard. Levensminimum. sociale indicatoren (Studiën) --- Ongelijkheid en herverdeling van vermogens en inkomens. Inkomensbeleid --- Nurture --- Effect of environment on --- Herrnstein, Richard J. --- Bane, Mary Jo. --- Coleman Report. --- Depression. --- Jencks, Christopher. --- Korenman, Sanders. --- Microsoft Corporation. --- Phillips, Kevin. --- Winship, Christopher. --- adult community environment. --- agricultural subsidies. --- corporate welfare. --- economic success. --- exercise, mental. --- farm subsidies. --- health expenditures. --- incarceration. --- information chunking. --- intelligence. --- logistic regressions. --- oppositional culture. --- plant relocations. --- practical intelligence. --- regression analyses. --- school composition. --- school segregation. --- tracking. --- validity. --- weighing. --- Environment and genetics --- Environment and heredity --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology.


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Disruptions as opportunities : governing Chinese society with interactive authoritarianism
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ISBN: 0472903306 0472055631 Year: 2023 Publisher: Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press,

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Disruptions as Opportunities: Governing Chinese Society with Interactive Authoritarianism addresses the long-standing puzzle of why China outlived other one-party authoritarian regimes with particular attention to how the state manages an emerging civil society. Drawing upon over 1,200 survey responses conducted in 126 villages in the Sichuan province, as well as 70 interviews conducted with Civil Society Organization (CSO) leaders and government officials, participant observation, and online research, the book proposes a new theory of interactive authoritarianism to explain how an adaptive authoritarian state manages nascent civil society. Sun argues that when new phenomena and forces are introduced into Chinese society, the Chinese state adopts a three-stage interactive approach toward societal actors: toleration, differentiation, and legalization without institutionalization. Sun looks to three disruptions--earthquakes, internet censorship, and social-media-based guerilla resistance to the ride-sharing industry--to test his theory about the three-stage interactive authoritarian approach and argues that the Chinese government evolves and consolidates its power in moments of crisis.

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Authoritarianism --- One-party systems --- China --- Politics and government --- Single-party systems --- Political parties --- Political science --- Authority --- Cina --- Kinë --- Cathay --- Chinese National Government --- Chung-kuo kuo min cheng fu --- Republic of China (1912-1949) --- Kuo min cheng fu (China : 1912-1949) --- Chung-hua min kuo (1912-1949) --- Kina (China) --- National Government (1912-1949) --- China (Republic : 1912-1949) --- People's Republic of China --- Chinese People's Republic --- Chung-hua jen min kung ho kuo --- Central People's Government of Communist China --- Chung yang jen min cheng fu --- Chung-hua chung yang jen min kung ho kuo --- Central Government of the People's Republic of China --- Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo --- Zhong hua ren min gong he guo --- Kitaĭskai︠a︡ Narodnai︠a︡ Respublika --- Činská lidová republika --- RRT --- Republik Rakjat Tiongkok --- KNR --- Kytaĭsʹka Narodna Respublika --- Jumhūriyat al-Ṣīn al-Shaʻbīyah --- RRC --- Kitaĭ --- Kínai Népköztársaság --- Chūka Jinmin Kyōwakoku --- Erets Sin --- Sin --- Sāthāranarat Prachāchon Čhīn --- P.R. China --- PR China --- PRC --- P.R.C. --- Chung-kuo --- Zhongguo --- Zhonghuaminguo (1912-1949) --- Zhong guo --- Chine --- République Populaire de Chine --- República Popular China --- Catay --- VR China --- VRChina --- 中國 --- 中国 --- 中华人民共和国 --- Jhongguó --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaxu Dundadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaqu Dumdadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Dundad Ard Uls --- BNKhAU --- БНХАУ --- Khi︠a︡tad --- Kitad --- Dumdadu Ulus --- Dumdad Uls --- Думдад Улс --- Kitajska --- China (Republic : 1949- ) --- institutional disruptions --- social capital --- disaster politics --- differentiation --- non-profit politics --- East Asia --- contentious politics --- self media --- natural experiment --- Chinese Communist Party --- experiment --- social science methodology --- social media --- guerrilla resistance --- CSO --- public goods provision --- authoritarian resilience --- collective action --- civil society --- toleration --- earthquake --- protest --- legalization without institutionalization --- CCP --- democratization --- interactive authoritarianism --- state-society --- NGO --- CPC --- deliberate differentiation --- censorship

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