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Qualitative Research : Theory, Method and Practice

Wed, 03 Jan 2024 18:51:26 +0000

This book assembles a team of internationally-renowned researchers who share a commitment to rigorous, analytically-derived but non-polarized, qualitative research. The contributors reflect on the analysis of each of the kinds of data discussed in this book’s observations, texts, talk and interviews—using particular examples of data-analysis to advance analytical arguments. Key themes discussed include: the centrality of the relationship between analytic perspectives and methodological issues; the need to broaden our conception of qualitative research beyond issues of subjective meaning and towards issues of language, representation and social organization; the desire to search for ways of building links between social science traditions and a commitment to a dialogue between social science and the community.

Collecting and Interpreting Qualitative Materials

Wed, 03 Jan 2024 18:50:57 +0000

Second Edition Collecting and Interpreting Qualitative Materials, Fourth Edition is Volume III of the three-volume paperback versions of The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research, Fourth Edition. This portion of the handbook considers the tasks of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting empirical materials, and comprises the complete handbook’s Part IV: Methods of Collecting and Analyzing Empirical Materials and Part V: The Art and Practices of Interpretation, Evaluation, and Presentation. Collecting and Interpreting Qualitative Materials, Fourth Edition introduces the researcher to basic methods of gathering, analyzing and interpreting qualitative empirical materials. Part 1 moves from narrative inquiry, to critical arts-based inquiry, to oral history, observations, visual methodologies, and autoethnographic methods. It then takes up analysis methods, including computer-assisted methodologies, focus groups, as well as strategies for analyzing talk and text. The chapters in Part II discuss evidence, interpretive adequacy, forms of representation, post-qualitative inquiry, the new information technologies and research, the politics of evidence, writing, and evaluation practices.

Multivariate Analysis Techniques in Social Science Research : From Problem to Analysis

Wed, 03 Jan 2024 18:50:52 +0000

Starting with a number of real research examples in the social sciences, the author clearly demonstrates how a researcher chooses the appropriate technique when using multivariate analysis. A wide selection of topics is examined from a range of disciplines, including sociology, psychology, economics, political science, and international comparative research. Multivariate Analysis Techniques in Social Science Research provides the reader with a clear and nontechnical overview of the different types of research problems and the range of multivariate methods available to the researcher. The book also gives a series of detailed examples based on real data from published empirical research that enables the reader to see how the content of the research relates to the multivariate technique used. Author Jacques Tacq covers all the classical multivariate techniques and provides a step-by-step analysis using SPSS that provides a clear explanation of the output so the reader can work through each of the examples. Also included are a useful introduction and summary of all the necessary statistical concepts that enable the reader to deal with the more advanced techniques. Multivariate Analysis Techniques in Social Science Research will appeal to all students and researchers in the social sciences who use and need to understand how to select multivariate methods for their research problems.

Qualitative Research in Action

Wed, 03 Jan 2024 18:50:46 +0000

This exciting new book brings together contributions from world-leading scholars as well as younger researchers and focuses on cutting-edge issues related to the practice of qualitative research in the field. It provides a forum for contributors to discuss the issues and processes which inform qualitative research in its various forms as based on fieldwork experiences. In achieving this in an accessible manner to both practicing students and researchers, it seeks to enable a dialogue over ideas and provide the reader with a state of the art overview of the topic from a contemporary perspective. Rather than being a how to do book, this volume should prove vitally useful for advanced students and researchers who wish to engage with those ideas and practices in terms of their applicability for an understanding and explanation of the place of qualitative research in the social sciences. It is also a forum in which leading scholars make an original contribution to the subject. Lively and highly readable throughout, Qualitative Research in Action will be essential reading for advanced undergraduates and above in a variety of disciplines, as well as researchers who wish to engage with contemporary ideas and practices in relation to qualitative research.

Discovering Statistics using SPSS for Windows

Wed, 03 Jan 2024 18:50:42 +0000

Andy Field has written an up-to-date student-oriented textbook with the aim of making the learning of advanced statistics and using SPSS as painless as possible. While other books either concentrate on statistical theory or on the functions of the popular computer program SPSS, Andy Field integrates the two to provide the student with a thorough grounding in statistics through learning to use SPSS. He provides a detailed, but highly accessible, guide to using SPSS for more complex statistical tests. There are illustrations of dialogue boxes throughout, and each chapter concludes with a set of exercises and descriptions.

Advanced Focus Group Research

Wed, 03 Jan 2024 18:49:49 +0000

Advanced Focus Group Research examines the focus group research process in depth. It uncovers and addresses many of the complexities researchers encounter in conducting focus group research and introduces a conceptual framework that helps researchers make informed decisions about how to plan a focus group research project. Specifically written for researchers and students with a fundamental knowledge of focus group research, the book gives numerous examples of what researchers should and should not do in designing their own research projects. In addition, it critically examines the limits of focus groups and suggests how to use focus groups for nontraditional research tasks.

Hierarchical Linear Models : Applications and Data Analysis Methods

Wed, 03 Jan 2024 18:49:14 +0000

Popular in the First Edition for its rich, illustrative examples and lucid explanations of the theory and use of hierarchical linear models (HLM), the book has been reorganized into four parts with four completely new chapters. The first two parts, Part I on The Logic of Hierarchical Linear Modeling and Part II on Basic Applications closely parallel the first nine chapters of the previous edition with significant expansions and technical clarifications, such as: An intuitive introductory summary of the basic procedures for estimation and inference used with HLM models that only requires a minimal level of mathematical sophistication in Chapter 3 New section on multivariate growth models in Chapter 6 A discussion of research synthesis or meta-analysis applications in Chapter 7 Data analytic advice on centering of level-1 predictors and new material on plausible value intervals and robust standard estimators

Organizational Research Methods : A Guide for Students and Researchers

Wed, 03 Jan 2024 18:49:09 +0000

`This text provides a timely and comprehensive introduction to major research methods in the Organizational sciences. It will be a boon to all students conducting their projects in this area, and may well become a standard reference for staff teaching research methods to undergraduate and postgraduate students of business studies or organizational behaviour’ – Professor Neil Anderson, Goldsmiths College, University of London ‘This reasonably priced text would provide an invaluable starting point for those considering undertaking research in organisational settings’ – Paula Roberts, Nurse Researcher This book provides the reader with clear pointers for how to conduct organizational research appropriately, through planning and making informed and systematic research decisions, to understanding the ethical implications of applied organizational research, to implementing, reporting and presenting the findings to the highest possible standards. It provides an overview of a wide variety of research strategies, methods of data collection (both qualitative and quantitative) and analysis in a volume accessible to both an undergraduate, postgraduate and practitioner readership alike. Organizational Research Methods also represents a useful aid to the report writing task, indicating ways in which the project material can be most effectively organised for academic and feedback purposes, and by drawing upon real-life organizational contexts and examples to help the reader understand the core issues. Finally, the book offers a clear, manageable procedure for preparing a presentation to an academic or an organizational audience. Providing practical guidance on all elements of the research process, this book will be essential reading to all undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as researchers, in psychology, organizational studies and management disciplines.

Case Study Research : Design and Methods

Wed, 03 Jan 2024 18:49:04 +0000

Third Edition This new edition of the best-selling Case Study Research has been carefully revised, updated, and expanded while retaining virtually all of the features and coverage of the Second Edition. Robert Yin’s comprehensive presentation covers all aspects of the case study method–from problem definition, design, and data collection, to data analysis and composition and reporting. Yin also traces the uses and importance of case studies to a wide range of disciplines, from sociology, psychology and history to management, planning, social work, and education.

Theories of Urban Politics

Thu, 15 Sep 2022 10:17:33 +0000

A comprehensive introduction to and evaluation of the theoretical approaches to urban governance.