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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 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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"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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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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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