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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.
Action research. --- Organizational change. --- Social change. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology.
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This volume of plenary addresses and other key presentations from the 2013 International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry shows how scholars convert inquiry into spaces of advocacy in the outside world. The original chapters engage in debate on how qualitative research can be best used to advance the causes of social justice while addressing racial, ethnic, gender, and environmental disparities in education, welfare, and health care. Twenty contributors from six countries and multiple academic disciplines present models, cases, and experiences to show how qualitative research can be used as an
Inquiry (Theory of knowledge). --- Qualitative research. --- Social advocacy. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology.
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"This classic text presents the most recent advances in social research design and methodology. Users applaud the book's comprehensiveness. It reviews experimental, correlational, quasi experimental, and evalaution designs to survey sampling, interviewing, content analysis, questionaire design, scale developments, and assessing dyads and groups. The research process is described using basic principles of scientific inquiry and how they apply to the study of human behavior. Design issues are emphasized over statistical computations. The book helps readers apply sound scientific analysis to better understand what it means to be human, making it an indispensable resource in the fields of psychology, communication, sociology, education, health, and marketing. With a heavy emphasis on reliability, validity, and measurement, the book considers experimental, quasi-experimental, and survey research designs in light of these qualities. Principles and Methods of Social Research is noted for its: -Emphasis on understanding the principles that govern the use of a method to facilitate the researcher's choice of the best technique for a given situation. - Use of the laboratory experiment to describe and evaluate field experiments, correlational designs, quasi experiments, evaluation studies, and survey designs. Coverage of the ethics of social research including the power a researcher wields and tips on how to use it responsibly. "--
PSYCHOLOGY / Research & Methodology. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research. --- Social sciences --- Methodology. --- Research.
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"This Reader is an essential resource for students and scholars interested in the anthropology of morality. The collection includes classical and more recent material, carefully chosen to provide a critical and historical overview of an important and developing field. The selections are contextualized with lucid editorial material, including a substantial introduction"--
Anthropological ethics. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology. --- Social science / anthropology / general. --- Social science / anthropology / cultural. --- Social science / methodology. --- Anthropological ethics --- Anthropologists --- Anthropology --- Professional ethics --- Moral and ethical aspects
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"A decade-long study of young adulthood in Malawi that demonstrates the impact of widespread HIV status uncertainty, laying bare the sociological implications of what is not known. An Epidemic of Uncertainty advances a new framework for studying social life by emphasizing something social scientists routinely omit from their theories, models, and measures-what people know they don't know. Taking Malawi's ongoing AIDS epidemic as an entry point, Jenny Trinitapoli shows that despite admirable declines in new HIV infections and AIDS-related mortality, an epidemic of uncertainty persists; at any given point in time, fully half of Malawian young adults don't know their HIV status. Reckoning with the impact of this uncertainty within the bustling trading town of Balaka, Trinitapoli argues that HIV-related uncertainty is measurable, pervasive, and impervious to biomedical solutions, with consequences that expand into multiple domains of life, including relationship stability, fertility, and health. Over the duration of a groundbreaking decade-long longitudinal study, rich survey data and poignant ethnographic vignettes vividly depict how individual lives and population patterns unfold against the backdrop of an ever-evolving epidemic. Even as HIV is transformed from a progressive, fatal disease to a chronic and manageable condition, the accompanying epidemic of uncertainty remains fundamental to understanding social life in this part of the world. Insisting that known unknowns can and should be integrated into social-scientific models of human behavior, An Epidemic of Uncertainty treats uncertainty as an enduring aspect, a central feature, and a powerful force in everyday life. "-- "In An Epidemic of Uncertainty, Jenny Trinitapoli advances a new model for studying social life by emphasizing something that social scientists routinely omit from their theories, models, and measures--what people know they don't know. The book takes Malawi's ongoing AIDS epidemic as its entry point for understanding the stakes of uncertainty. After a four-decades-long battle, new infections are down and AIDS-related mortality has declined. But in the wake of pandemic AIDS, an epidemic of uncertainty persists; at any given point in time, half the population doesn't know their HIV status. The author argues that AIDS-related uncertainty is measurable, pervasive, and impervious to biomedical solutions. The consequences of uncertainty are pertinent to multiple domains of life including relationship stability, fertility, health, and well-being. Even as HIV is transformed from a progressive, fatal infection to a chronic and manageable condition, the accompanying epidemic of uncertainty remains central to understanding social life in this part of the world. This book is based on a ground-breaking longitudinal study that documents how the lives of young adults in Balaka, Malawi, unfold over a ten-year period. Trinitapoli also makes three general contributions: first, a demography of uncertainty and a set of theoretical and empirical tools for integrating what people know they don't know into social-scientific models of human behavior; second, a decade-long longitudinal study articulating what demographic approaches have to offer the social sciences; and third, an expansive attitude toward the empirical, which brings longitudinal survey data to life by incorporating accounts of uncertainty and its resolution through ethnography designed to capture population chatter and gossip in Balaka"--
AIDS (Disease) --- Population --- Risk --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African Studies. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology. --- Social aspects --- Health aspects. --- Sociological aspects. --- Balaka (Malawi) --- Balaka (Malawi) --- Population. --- Social conditions
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Famous Brazilian educational and social theorist Paulo Freire presents his ideas on the importance of community solidarity in moving toward social justice in schools and society. In a set of talks and interviews shortly before his death, Freire addresses issues not often highlighted in his work, such as globalization, post-modern fatalism, and the qualities of educators for the 21st century. His illuminating comments are supplemented with commentaries by other well-known scholars, such as Ana Maria Araujo Freire, Norman Denzin, Henry Giroux, and Donaldo Macedo.
Critical pedagogy. --- Popular education. --- Community and school. --- Social science --- Education --- Political science --- Methodology. --- Philosophy & Social Aspects. --- Political Freedom & Security --- Human Rights. --- EDUCATION / Philosophy & Social Aspects. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Human Rights. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology.
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Philosophy of science --- Popper, Karl Raimund --- 1 POPPER, KARL --- #SBIB:1H54 --- #SBIB:17H3 --- #SBIB:316.23H3 --- #SBIB:AANKOOP --- Social sciences --- -Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Filosofie. Psychologie--POPPER, KARL --- Filosofie van de Hedendaagse tijd (na 1830) --- Politieke wijsbegeerte --- Wijsgerige grondslagen en discussie in de sociologie --- Methodology --- Popper, Karl Raimund Sir --- -Contributions in social science methodology --- Methodology. --- -Filosofie. Psychologie--POPPER, KARL --- 1 POPPER, KARL Filosofie. Psychologie--POPPER, KARL --- Popper, Karl R. --- Popper, K.R. --- Popper, Karl Raimund. --- Popper, Karl Raimund, Sir --- Philosophy --- Knowledge --- Science --- Political science --- Contributions in social science methodology --- Popper, Karl
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An innovative and accessible textbook on multimethod and case-study researchMultimethod research has become indispensable to doing social science, and is essential to anyone who conducts large-scale research projects in political science, sociology, education, comparative law, or business. This authoritative and accessible book offers the first truly comprehensive approach to multimethod and case-study research, and is particularly aimed at students of qualitative methods in the social sciences.Walking step-by-step through these cutting-edge tools and techniques, Gary Goertz introduces a new integrated approach that unites three corners of a powerful research triad-causal mechanisms, cross-case causal inference, and within-case causal inference. He explains how the investigation of causal mechanisms and the making of within-case causal inference are the central goals of multimethod and case study research, and provides a logic for connecting case studies and causal mechanism analysis with cross-case analysis, whether they are statistical analyses, experiments, or QCA. In addition, Goertz analyzes how one can generalize using case studies, as well as systematically test game-theoretic and other models using multiple case studies.Provides a fully integrated approach to multimethod and case-study researchAn essential resource for students and researchers in political science, sociology, education, law, and businessCovers constraint causal mechanism, game theory and case studies, QCA, and the use of case studies to systematically test and generalize theoriesAn ideal textbook for a first-year graduate course in methods or research design
Mixed methods research. --- Social sciences --- Causation --- Case method. --- Research --- Methodology. --- Research. --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Reference. --- LAW / Reference. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Reference. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / General. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology. --- Qualitative methods in social research --- Mixed methods research --- Case method --- Methodology --- Social sciences - Research - Methodology --- Causation - Research
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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
Bochner, Arthur P. --- College teachers -- United States -- Biography. --- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Interpersonal Relations. --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology. --- Social sciences -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States -- History. --- Social sciences --- College teachers --- Social Sciences --- Social Sciences - General --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Study and teaching (Higher) --- History
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