Research methods / methodology Books

Book SynopsisFocusing on the underlying themes that run through most multivariate methods, in this fully updated 3rd edition of The Essence of Multivariate Thinking Dr. Harlow shares the similarities and differences among multiple multivariate methods to help ease the understanding of the basic concepts. The book continues to highlight the main themes that run through just about every quantitative method, describing the statistical features in clear language. Analyzed examples are presented in 12 of the 15 chapters, showing when and how to use relevant multivariate methods, and how to interpret the findings both from an overarching macro- and more specific micro-level approach that includes focus on statistical tests, effect sizes and confidence intervals. This revised 3rd edition offers thoroughly revised and updated chapters to bring them in line with current information in the field, the addition of R code for all examples, continued SAS and SPSS code for seven chapters, two new chapteTrade Review"Harlow breaks down concepts in simple terms and draws insightful comparisons across different statistical techniques. The text is an excellent resource for all who conduct statistical analyses, from undergraduates to professionals, and everywhere in between."A. Nayena Blankson, Full Professor of Psychology, Spelman College, USA"Once again, Harlow writes with authority and great clarity. There’s discussion of estimation, replication, and reproducibility, and all through there’s R code and guidance. This shrewdly revised new edition is a wonderfully future-oriented guide to the multivariate world."Geoff Cumming, Professor Emeritus, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia "The Essence of Multivariate Thinking provides a gentle introduction to an expansive toolkit of methods with a through line focused on aptly applying them to research questions. Dr. Harlow seamlessly ties together several modeling frameworks (e.g., multiple regression, MANOVA, discriminant function analysis, logistic regression, SEM, and latent growth modeling) by emphasizing commonalities in their underlying assumptions, statistical tests, and effect size interpretations. All this was done with a clear and accessible writing style accompanied by a unifying data example using R, SAS, and SPSS."Jolynn Pek, Associate Professor of Quantitative Psychology, Ohio State University, USA "In this third edition of her landmark text on multivariate methods, readers are furnished with ways to think about a variety of multivariate techniques from start to finish: preliminary considerations, testing assumptions, conducting analyses, and writing up and interpreting the results. They will learn how the various multivariate methods are related, and when each should be used. Readers can pattern their own analyses after those used as examples in the book. Her example analyses are easy to follow and emulate.Every chapter ends by summarizing a topic around a set of core themes to help researchers understand and select appropriate multivariate methods. Professor Harlow is known for her didactic style and ability to communicate complex topics in clear, approachable language. In this third edition she adds new material on multi-sample SEM and latent growth curve models. The provision of R code for all analyses is a welcome addition. Readers will emerge knowing about a variety of multivariate methods—how they are related and distinct, when to use them, how to conduct them, and how to communicate the results to readers. Harlow has a knack for explaining complicated methods in clear, approachable language. In this revised third edition of her landmark text, she provides readers with all the tools they need to become expert users and consumers of multivariate techniques."Kristopher J. Preacher, Lois Autrey Betts Chair in Education & Human Development, Vanderbilt University, USA "Lisa Harlow's third edition of The Essence of Multivariate Thinking is the perfect textbook for introductory graduate statistics or a multivariate statistics course. Each chapter provides readers with the foundational knowledge and relevant software code to start implementing the analyses in their own work right away. Harlow's accessible chapters strike the right balance of unique information and related themes." Alyssa Counsell, Assistant Professor in Quantitative Psychology, Toronto Metropolitan University, Ontario, CanadaTable of ContentsI. OVERVIEWChapter 1: Introduction and Multivariate ThemesChapter 2: Background ThemesII. INTERMEDIATE MULTIVARIATE METHODS WITH ONE CONTINUOUS OUTCOMEChapter 3: Multiple RegressionChapter 4: Analysis of CovarianceIII. MULTIVARIATE GROUP METHODS WITH CATEGORICAL VARIABLE(S)Chapter 5. Multivariate Analysis of VarianceChapter 6: Discriminant Function AnalysisChapter 7: Logistic RegressionIV. MULTIVARIATE DIMENSIONAL METHODS WITH CONTINUOUS VARIABLESChapter 8: Principal Components and Factor AnalysisV: STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELINGChapter 9: Structural Equation ModelingChapter 10: Path AnalysisChapter 11: Confirmatory Factor AnalysisChapter 12: Latent Variable ModelingChapter 13: Multiple Sample AnalysisChapter 14: Latent Growth ModelingVI: SUMMARYChapter 15: Integration of Multivariate Methods

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Book SynopsisWhen conducting research in developing countries, an ability to negotiate a bewildering array of cultural and logistical obstacles is essential. Overseas Research: A Practical Guide distills essential lessons from scores of students and scholars who have collected data and done fieldwork abroad, including how to prepare for the field, how and where to find funding for oneâs fieldwork, issues of personal safety and security, and myriad logistical and relational issues. By encouraging researchers to think through the challenges of research before they begin it, Overseas Research will help prepare fieldworkers for the practical, logistical, and psychological considerations of very demanding work, help save valuable time, make the most of scarce financial resources, and enhance the quality of the field research. This third edition contains new material on social media, including representation of research subjects/collaborators, studentsâ digital branding and imTrade Review"The authors offer practical advice on navigating the complexities of conducting research abroad. It tackles the challenges posed by diverse cultures, foreign infrastructures, and established norms in a refreshing and digestible way. Your research journeys will benefit from their insights."- Angela Evans, Dean of the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin"Simply indispensable reading for anyone considering conducting research overseas. From planning to execution, from the most basic personal considerations to high-minded professional and intellectual concerns, the book offers concrete, accessible, and indeed practical advice by emergent and experienced scholars from different disciplines on the joys and perils of conducting research abroad."- Carlos J. Vélez-Blasini, Dean of International Programs and Professor of Psychology, Middlebury College"Every researcher should read this book before beginning fieldwork. It’s like having an extended conversation with your advisor, best friend and parents, all wrapped into one. You might not need every piece of advice, but there are suggestions and stories in the book that even the most experienced field researcher can use." - Wendy W. Wolford, Vice Provost for International Affairs and Robert A. and Ruth E. Polson Professor of Global Development, Cornell UniversityTable of ContentsList of Field Narratives List of Contributors Preface and Acknowledgements to the Third Edition 1 Introduction 2 Identifying a Site and Funding Source Site Selection Exploratory Research Trips Language Training Finding Funding Summary 3 Predeparture Preparations Money and Travel Health Housing Packing: What to Bring, What to Leave Family Matters Being LGBTQ+ in the Field Academic Preparations Securing Approvals and Research Clearances 4 Setting Up to Live and Work Becoming Familiar with an Unfamiliar Environment Money and Housing Bureaucratic and Legal Matters With Family in the Field Issues of Identity in Your Daily Experiences Relations with Expatriates Maintaining Your Well-being in the Field Settling in Academically 5 The Logistics of Fieldwork Research Equipment Transportation Research Assistants 6 Safety and Security Matters Personal Safety: The Basics Less Obvious Safety Strategies Gender, Race and Sexual Orientation-based Violence Traffic Keeping Research Equipment and Data Safe 7 The Challenges of the Field Choosing and Cultivating Informants Crosschecking Data Broaching Sensitive Subjects Recording Interviews Managing and Minimizing Your Cultural and Ecological Footprint Giving Back and Maintaining Credibility in the Field 8 Knowing When to Go Home Narrowing the Topic Clearing the Decks Packing Up the Data 9 Pulling It All Together: The Postpartum Organizing Data Beginning (and Completing) the Writing Process Culture Shock 10 Epilogue: It’s Never Over Post-fieldwork Obligations Post-fieldwork Opportunities Selected Bibliography Archival Research Case Study Research and Comparative Method Ethnographic Methods and Qualitative Research on Human Subjects Fieldwork in General Grantswriting Living Abroad Quantitative Methods Research Ethics Study Abroad Survey Research Websites (Blogs, and Other Repositories of Useful Information) Index

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Book SynopsisDo you want to study influencers? Opinions and comments on a set of posts? Look at collections of photos or videos on Instagram? Qualitative Research Using Social Media guides the reader in what different kinds of qualitative research can be applied to social media data. It introduces students, as well as those who are new to the field, to developing and carrying out concrete research projects. The book takes the reader through the stages of choosing data, formulating a research question, and choosing and applying method(s).Written in a clear and accessible manner with current social media examples throughout, the book provides a step-by-step overview of a range of qualitative methods. These are presented in clear ways to show how to analyze many different types of social media content, including language and visual content such as memes, gifs, photographs, and film clips. Methods examined include critical discourse analysis, content analysis, multimodal anTrade Review''An indispensable guide for those who want to learn about, and practically undertake, qualitative social media research of popular platforms.'' —Professor Per Ledin, Södertörn University and author of Doing Visual Analysis, From Theory to Practice"Bouvier and Rasmussen provide an informative, clearly written and indispensable guide for readers investigating social media data or contemplating doing so. A welcome handbook for all research methods courses that seek to remain informed and up to date." —Paul Cobley, Professor in Language and Media, Middlesex UniversityTable of ContentsAbout the authors. 1. Introduction. 2. Qualitative Content Analysis – text and speech-based material. 3. Qualitative Visual Content Analysis. 4. Analyzing social media language with critical discourse analysis. 5. Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis. 6. Multimodal Narrative Analysis of Video Clips. 7. Online Ethnography. 8. Focus Group Interviews. 9. Conclusion. Bibliography. Acknowledgements.

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Book SynopsisResearch can seem difficult to get to grips with. However, at the heart of this new edition is the view that research is essentially a simple activity, the principles of which can be readily understood by students new to the subject. Each chapter guides the reader to uncover the mysteries' of research, exposing each aspect in turn, while demonstrating how research in healthcare is a practical activity, orientated directly to patient care. Fully updated to refer to the latest sources and studies, the third edition includes: a new chapter on systematic literature reviews; a new chapter on research ethics; a completely revised chapter on evidence-based practice which now focuses more tightly on the implementation of research and other forms of evidence.This book is designed for all students of nursing and allied health professions at any level but who find themselves studying research for the first time. Research is illustrated through Table of Contents1. Research Is Simple 2. Reviewing the Literature: Getting Started 3. Reviewing the Literature Systematically 4. Evidence-based Practice 5. Research Ethics 6. Data, and How Data is Collected 7. Research Methods and Design 8. Quantitative Analysis 9. Qualitative Research 10. Qualitative Research in Practice

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an overview of the innovative, arts-based research method of body mapping and offers a snapshot of the field. The review of body mapping projects by Boydell et al. confirms the potential research and therapeutic benefits associated with body mapping. The book describes a series of body mapping research projects that focus on populations marginalised by disability, mental health status, and other vulnerable identities. Chapters focus on summarising the current state of the art and its application with marginalised groups; analytic strategies for body mapping; highlighting body mapping as a creation and a dissemination process; emerging body mapping techniques including web-based, virtual reality, and wearable technology applications; and measuring the impact of body maps on planning, practice, and behaviour. Contributors and editors include interdisciplinary experts from the fields of psychology, sociology, anthropology, and beyond.Offering innovative ways of engaging in body mapping research, which result in real-world impact, this book is an essential resource for postgraduate students and researchers.Trade Review"Applying Body Mapping in Research provides the reader with an array of valuable lenses to explore body mapping approaches using ethical, inclusive, and respectful practices. Boydell and colleagues share a series of vivid examples as to how this arts-based, interdisciplinary approach allows for new ways to creatively engage, extend, and translate research." - Professor George Belliveau, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia, Canada"This book with its many perspectives, clear writing, and guiding principles will finally allow the powerful technique of body mapping to enrich the armamentarium of both researchers and clinicians. Body mapping allows for a visual, tangible image that allows for self-reflection and storytelling. It is a narrative approach using body sensations, often a private experience but also potentially a shared one that engages others. It puts us in touch with our senses, perceptions, positive and negative emotions, and drives home the fact that body and mind are one." - Mary V. Seeman, OC MDCM, Professor Emerita, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Canada"Creative arts-based methods for social research are gathering momentum. Body mapping is one such method. This edited collection provides many fascinating examples of how body mapping can be used. The contributors demonstrate exciting possibilities for using the method to encourage people to think about and represent their multisensory and affective experiences and memories through images as well as words. Readers will doubtless be inspired to experiment with body mapping in their own research or public engagement and knowledge translation activities." - Deborah Lupton, PhD, FASSA, DSocSci (honoris causa)Table of ContentsForeword by Jane X. Solomon Introduction Chapter 1 – Applying body mapping to research with marginalised and vulnerable groups Chapter 2 – Mapping conversations: body maps as relational objects in groups and dialogues Chapter 3 – Representations of complex trauma: body maps as a narrative mosaic Chapter 4 – Body mapping in process: observing how participants represent experiences of anxiety Chapter 5 – The logistics of making and preserving body maps as research data Chapter 6 – Meaning-making and research rigour: approaches to the synthesis of multiple data sources in body mapping Chapter 7 – Development of a web-based body mapping application Chapter 8 – Body mapping and virtual reality Chapter 9 – Wearable technology and body mapping Chapter 10 – Audience response to the dissemination of body mapping research via installation art Chapter 11 – Real-world integration: body maps as a planning tool Concluding remarks: remembering the body

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This fully updated fourth edition explores the foundations of statistical reasoning, focusing on how to interpret psychological data and statistical results. This edition includes three important new features. First, the book is closely integrated with the free statistical analysis program JASP. Thus, students learn how to use JASP to help with tasks such as constructing grouped frequency distributions, making violin plots, conducting inferential statistical tests, and creating confidence intervals. Second, reflecting the growing use of Bayesian analyses in the professional literature, this edition includes a chapter with an introduction to Bayesian statistics (also using JASP). Third, the revised text incorporates adjunct questions, that is, questions that challenge the studentâs understanding, after each major section. Cognitive psychology has demonstrated how adjunct questions and related techniques such as self-explanation can greatly improve comprehen

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Book SynopsisThe Wounded Researcher addresses the crises of epistemological violence when we fail to consider that a researcher is addressed by and drawn into a work through his or her complexes. Using a Jungian-Archetypal perspective, this book argues that the bodies of knowledge we create degenerate into ideologies, which are the death of critical thinking, if the complexity of the research process is ignored. Writing with soul in mind invites us to consider how we might write down the soul in writing up our research.Trade Review‘Soul work and academic research have been so split apart that both have been lamed – soul psychology without intellectual respectability and scholarly research utterly irrelevant to the soul’s concerns. Romanyshyn’s book not only follows from all his earlier diligent explorations in the Western history of soul, but charts a course that joins the integrity of scholarly work with devotion to the soul’s vital needs. New winds, new directions, new methods.’ – James Hillman‘In this sparkling new book, Romanyshyn re-imagines depth psychology as a praxis of "research that keeps soul in mind" in several ways at once: as a practice of mourning what has been lost in one’s experience; as an alchemical hermeneutics that consists in transference dialogues with one’s unconscious psyche; and as an ethics of self-examination by the researcher that acknowledges his or her wounded state in the complexes that underlie perception and judgment. Building on the premise that the chasm between psyche and nature must be bridged, Romanyshyn re-visions both therapy and theory. Therapy becomes much more sensitive to the imagistic in its attention to reverie; theory reinstates the archetypal, collective and psychoid unconscious as primary reality. This exciting book takes bold steps that are as original as they are timely.’ – Edward S. Casey, SUNY at Stony Brook; Pacifica Graduate Institute‘Like Orpheus who steps into the gaps of seemingly unbridgeable differences, Romanyshyn has alchemically transformed our understanding of what it means to do truly profound and ethical psychological research. This groundbreaking contribution to the field of Jungian/archetypal psychology and hermeneutic phenomenology could well begin a revolution in the way psychological research is imagined and practiced.’ – Stanton Marlan, Jungian psychoanalyst, Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychology, Duquesne University‘Romanyshyn engagingly explores the gap between the motivation to do embodied, soulful research and the failure of language to communicate the unknowable core that can give meaning to a research project. For students on the dissertation journey, this book is a map that makes it possible to travel in territory traditionally excluded from academia. Romanyshyn defends his controversial proposition with passion and a powerful dedication to introducing eros into academic research.’ – Ginette Paris, Core Faculty, Pacifica Graduate Institute, author of The Wisdom of the Psyche: Beyond NeuroscienceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. Preface. Prologue: Falling into the Work. Introduction: Towards a Poetics of the Research Process. Part I: Theory. Soul and the Complex of Psychology. Re-search: Under the Spell of Orpheus. An Imaginal Approach to Re-search. Part II: Process. Re-search as Vocation. The Transference Field between the Researcher and the Work. The Transference Field: Student Examples. Part III: Method. Recovering the Soul of Method. Hermeneutics and the Circle of Understanding. Towards a Hermeneutics of Deep Subjectivity. Alchemical Hermeneutics: Part One. Alchemical Hermeneutics: Part Two. Part IV: Implications. Writing down the Soul. Towards an Ethical Epistemology. Prologue: Letting Go of the Work. Appendix. Notes. Index.

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Book SynopsisDigital Research Methods for Translation Studies introduces digital humanities methods and tools to translation studies.This accessible book covers computer-assisted approaches to data collection, data analysis, and data visualization and presentation, offering authentic examples of these approaches in both translation studies research and projects from related fields. With a diverse range of examples featuring various contexts and language combinations to ensure relevance to a wide readership, this volume covers the strengths and limitations of computer-assisted research methods, as well as the ethical challenges specific to this kind of research. This is an essential text for advanced undergraduate and graduate translation studies students, as well as researchers looking to adopt new research methods.Trade Review"Digital Research Methods for Translation Studies is a timely, welcomed, and much-needed contribution to the field. Both established researchers and early career researchers will find this book helpful, particularly in the way that it provides plain language guidance on how to select and use digital and online methods and tools in Translation Studies judiciously, effectively, efficiently, and – most importantly – legally and ethically. McDonough Dolmaya encourages readers to be adaptable and flexible and her suggestion to integrate tools incrementally, to build on existing knowledge, and to seek out training opportunities provides encouraging advice at a time when some might struggle with or feel overwhelmed by the pace at which the digital landscape evolves. Readers will especially appreciate the chapter take-aways that aptly summarize the book’s key points. Digital Research Methods for Translation Studies may target a niche audience, i.e. Translation Studies, but researchers working on multilingual and transnational projects are also likely to benefit from its content, thus indicating its interdisciplinary value."Renée Desjardins, Ph.D., Associate professor, School of Translation, Université de Saint-BonifaceTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Methods, Data, and Tools 2. Managing Research Projects and Organizing Research Data 3. Open Data and Freedom of Information 4. Collecting Data from and through the Internet 5. Data Preparation 6. Analyzing Textual Data 7. Analyzing Multimodal and Non-Text Data 8. Analyzing Structured Datasets 9. Quantitative Visualizations 10. Qualitative Data Visualization 11. Geographic Visualizations 12. Network Visualizations 13. Web Presentations and Open Data Repositories Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe Theoretical Framework in Phenomenological Research: Development and Application is an introduction to phenomenology in which the authors overview its origin, main ideas and core concepts. They show the application and relevancy of phenomenological tenets in practical qualitative research, as well as demonstrate how aligning theory and method enhances research credibility.In this detailed but digestible explanation of phenomenological theories, the authors explore the ideas of the main founders pertaining to the meaning of perceived reality and the meaning of being, and how these founders articulated their methodologies. In doing so, The Theoretical Framework in Phenomenological Research fills the well-documented gap between theory and practice within phenomenology by providing a much-needed bridge between the foundational literature and applied research on the subject, focusing equally on theory and practice. The book includes practical demTable of Contents1. Pragmatic Perspectives on Phenomenology in Social Research Methods 2. Understanding the Phenomenological Theory of Experience (Consciousness, Intentionality and Essence) 3. Understanding Epoché and Bracketing 4. Navigating Through the Tenets of Phenomenology 5. Understanding the Rationale and Role of Developing Theoretical/Conceptual Framework 6. Developing Theoretical/Conceptual Framework 7. Applying Theoretical/Conceptual Framework (At the Data Analysis Phase) 8. A Guide for Designing Phenomenological Research

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Book SynopsisNegotiating the Complexities of Qualitative Research in Higher Education illuminates the complex nature of qualitative research, while attending to issues of application. This text addresses the essentials of research through discussion of strategies, ethical issues, and challenges in higher education. In addition to walking through the methodological steps, this text considers the conceptual reasons behind qualitative research and explores how to conduct qualitative research that is rigorous, thoughtful, and theoretically coherent. Seasoned researchers Jones, Torres, and Arminio combine high-level theory with practical applications and examples, showing how research in higher education can produce improved learning outcomes for students, especially those who have been historically marginalized. This book will help students in higher education graduate programs to cultivate an appreciation for the complexity and ambiguity of the research and the ways to think through queTable of Contents1. Situating the Research: First Steps 2. Using Theory and Literature to Conceptualize Qualitative Research 3. Designing a Qualitative Study 4. Methodological Approaches 5. Understanding Sampling 6. Challenges in Data Collection 7. Analyzing and Interpreting Data 8. Researchers’ Ethical Responsibilities 9. Researchers’ Obligations to High Quality Research 10. Writing Findings 11. Epilogue: Reflections for the Future

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Book SynopsisSocial media has fundamentally transformed political life, driving a surge in far-right extremism. In recent years, radical anti-democratic ideologies have entered into the political mainstream, fueled by energy from extreme online environments. But why do far-right extremist movements seem to thrive so well on social media platforms? What takes place within the fringe online spaces that seem to function as incubators for violent extremists? To answer these questions, this book goes inside the murder capital of the racist Internet, examining 20 years of conversations on Stormfront.org. Using a combination of computational text analysis and close reading, we seek a deeper understanding of the emotional and social effects of being part of an extremist community. We lay the foundation of a new way of understanding online extremism, building on the tradition of Émile Durkheim and Randall Collins. We find that online radicalization is not merely an effect of repeated one-sided arguments,Trade Review“Research on the far right is still rare, and the far right has even more rarely been addressed as a social movement. This engaging and important book, with its systematic analysis of identities, discourses and affects represents a valuable exception and great contribution to this scholarship. This volume not only provide a superb analysis (and analytically sounded) of Stormfront and the use of social media , but also offer insights to the current far right politics landscape and dynamics overall, much deeper than could any electoral result”- Manuela Caiani, Associate Professor, Political Science at the Scuola Normale Superiore“This ambitious and pioneering book casts new light on the process of radicalization online. Weaving together insights derived from digital ethnography, social network analysis, and natural language processing, Intimate Communities of Hate, reveals how shared emotions and collective identity power the Stormfront extremist community in the United States. Essential reading for those who are interested in studying extremism, or how to combine cutting-edge qualitative and quantitative techniques to do so.”- Chris Bail, Professor of Sociology, Political Science, and Public Policy at Duke University"From two of the top experts on far-right extremism, Intimate Communities of Hate: Why Social Media Fuels Far-Right Extremism represents a truly innovative and breakthrough work of research. Its contribution lies in what is the most long-term and detailed analysis of far-right online communities coupled with a cutting-edge and much needed call to reconsider how we think about and explain what has become known as “online radicalization.” Intimate Communities of Hate raises the bar for the entire field of extremism and terrorism research showing how an extensive empirical investigation of a single case study can be conducted in a way that employs sophisticated analytic procedures and provides thought provoking and policy relevant theoretical insights. Without a doubt this is a must read!"- Pete Simi, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology at Chapman UniversityTable of Contents1. Situating Stormfront in Social Media Debates 2. A More Social Theory of Online Politics 3. Methodology, Data, and Ethics 4. Introducing Stormfront 5. Identity: Becoming a Community 6. Discourse: Constructing a Worldview 7. Affect: Building Emotional Energy 8. Stormfront and the Rise of the Far Right

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection examines the potential of dance training for developing socially engaged individuals capable of forging ethical human relations for an ever-changing world and in turn frames dance as a fundamental part of human experience.This volume draws together a range of critical voices to reflect the inclusive potential of dance. The contributions offer perspectives on contemporary dance training in Britain from dance educators, scholars, practitioners and artists. Through examining the politics, values and ethics of learning dance today, this book argues for the need of a re-assessment of the evolving practices in dance training and techniques. Key questions address how the concept of âtechniqueâ and associated systems of training in dance could be redefined to enable the collaboration of skills and application of ideas necessary to twenty-first-century dance. The editors present these ideas in different modes of writing. This collection of essays, conversations Table of ContentsIntroduction: Noyale Colin & Cathy Seago; Section 1 – Ethics and Values; Chapter 1: Movement as a Social Project- Fiona Bannon; Chapter 2: Emergence -how do we assess / access becoming?- Adesola Akinleye; Chapter 3: Values, technique and creativity- Noyale Colin; Chapter 4: Democratizing dance: inclusion at the core of dance education and its impact- Betina Panagiotora; Chapter 5: African based dance technique in Higher education-Funmi Adewole; Section 2 – Practices; Chapter 6: Precision and Particularity- Jamie Dryburgh; Chapter 7: Embodying Unpredictability- Cathy Seago; Chapter 8: Digital Tools in Formal and Informal Dance Education Environments - Rosemary E. Cisneros, Marie-Louise Crawley, Karen Wood- Chapter 9: Improvisation and Spirituality in Dance- Eline Kieft; Section 3 – Conversations- Inclusive Practice Conversations; Chapter 10: Training for intergenerational dancing- Debbie Lee Anthony and Diane Amans; Chapter 11: Neurodiverse Collaborations: Changing perceptions of abilities in neuro-diverse populations- Caroline Hotchkiss; Chapter 12: Translating technique: Approaches to inclusive dance training in the UK- Imogen Aujila; Dance and Education Conversations; Chapter 13: Choreographic pedagogies: Training students’ experiences- Shantel Ehrenberg; Chapter 14: Choreography as technique- Sarah Alexander; Chapter 15: School Dance Teacher Roundtable- Noyale Colin & Cathy Seago; Independent Artist Conversations; Chapter 16: Training and citizenship- Stefanie Schober; Chapter 17: Training and solidarity- Charlotte Spencer; Chapter 18: Dance training and the potential of embodied practices- Henrietta Hale; Section 4 - Manifestos; Chapter 19: The End of Technique- Baptiste Bourgougnon and Lise Uytterhoeven; Chapter 20: Staying Alive: the dance technique class as a means for survival- Erica Stanton; Chapter 21: Dance training and the potential of strategies of self-organisation- Joe Moran

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the innovative, sociological approach adopted by Harriet Martineau in her efforts to develop a scientific' approach to understanding social and societal change. With attention to her focus on the key social structures and societal issues of her day the economy, education, the condition of women and the evils of slavery the authors highlight her creation and application of what we now recognise as sociological methodology, fieldwork and analysis. Through an examination in each chapter of the writings that best illustrate Martineau's sociological perspective, Reintroducing Harriet Martineau discusses her enduring contribution to sociology. As such, it will appeal to scholars and students of sociology with interests in the history of the discipline and questions of methodology.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introducing Harriet MartineauChapter 2: Sociological Analysis and MethodologyChapter 3: The Condition of WomenChapter 4: Educational PerspectivesChapter 5: Fighting SlaveryChapter 6: Health Care and HospitalsChapter 7: Environmentalism and ExperimentationChapter 8: Journey to SecularismChapter 9: Experience of Disability to Sociology of DisabilityChapter 10: Harriet Martineau’s Sociological LegacyBibliography: selected works of Harriet MartineauBibliography: secondary sources

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Book SynopsisWinner, ICQI 2022 Outstanding Qualitative Book AwardIn Writing the Self in Bereavement: A Story of Love, Spousal Loss, and Resilience, Reinekke Lengelle uses her abilities as a researcher, poet, and professor of therapeutic writing to tell a heartfelt and fearless story about her grief after the death of her spouse and the year and a half following his diagnosis, illness, and passing. This book powerfully demonstrates that writing can be a companion in bereavement. It uses and explains the latest research on coming to terms with spousal loss without being prescriptive. Integrated with this contemporary research are stories, poetry, and reflections on writing as a therapeutic process. The author unflinchingly explores a number of themes that are underrepresented in existing resources: how one deals with anger associated with loss, what a healthy response might be to unfinished business with the deceased, continuing conversations with the beloved (even for agnostics and atheists), ongoing sexual desire, and secondary losses. As a rare book where an author successfully combines a personal story, heart-rending poetry, up-to-date research on grief, and an evocative exploration of taboo topics in the context of widowhood, Writing the Self in Bereavement is uniquely valuable for those grieving a spouse or other loved one, those supporting others in bereavement, and those interested in the healing power of poetry and life writing. Researchers on death and dying, grief counsellors, and autoethnographers will also benefit from reading this resonant resource on love and loss.Trade Review"As human beings, we seek a life story we can make sense of, and that can make sense of us. In this autoethnography of loss, as lucid as it is captivating, Reinekke Lengelle not only reveals but also reflects candidly on her grief over her partner's death, and her reconstruction of their relationship in its wake. More than a mirror of her bereaved soul, her writing is also a magnifying lens that artfully brings into sharper definition the human drama of love and loss, and the power of poetry and prose to foster its transformation."—Robert A. Neimeyer, PhD, Editor of Death Studies and Techniques of Grief Therapy"In this highly original autoethnographic work, Reinekke Lengelle writes not only about her deceased love but continues to dialogue with him. As a "vulnerable researcher" she explores the depths of her own mind where her lost lover is recreated as a living figure in a poetic composition where truth and beauty meet." —Professor Emeritus Dr. Hubert Hermans, creator of Dialogical Self Theory"Diving into death is both call and response to words and to witness. This book, with its crystal-clarity, bids readers to lean in, to listen. To accept the call to be unafraid. To stand in direct gaze with the tepid, terrifying, and tumultuous days of living with loss, longing, and love's relentless, vivid invitation to survive. And to thrive." —Margot Van Sluytman, Poet, BA, MA, Executive Director, Theodore's Place Healing Home for Crime Survivors"Reinekke Lengelle writes: "I hope in writing this grief journey, awakenings are inspired that ripple out and offer comfort to others". This was certainly true for me. This book is not only for those bereaved by death, but also for those, like me, who are bereaved of parts of a wider relationship as age or illness takes its toll. An honest and powerful story of a journey towards the end of a life and relationship." —Kim Etherington, Professor Emerita of Narrative and Life Story Research, University of Bristol, UK. Author of ‘Becoming a reflexive researcher: using ourselves in research’; ‘Narrative approaches to working with adult male survivors of childhood sexual abuse’ ; ‘Trauma, the body and transformation’ and other work. "Part tribute, part love story, part memoir, part investigation into our most nascent drive to confront death on its own terms, Reinekke Lengelle’s Writing the Self in Bereavement: A story of love, spousal loss and resilience is an unflinching account of her husband’s determination to die as he lived, with humor and dignity. A frank and moving portrait of one woman’s journey through grief and through the power of personal writing that is both poetic and therapeutic, Lengelle’s narrative includes the turbulent, sometimes angry, sometimes affectionate emotions tied to grief. This book will appeal to scholars and to laypeople alike; but moreover, it will appeal to any reader who has experienced the death of a loved one, which, one way or another, touches all of us." —Judith Harris Ph.D, Author of Signifying Pain: Constructing the Self Through Writing and books of poetry: Atonement, The Bad Secret, and Night Garden. Her poems have appeared in The Atlantic, New Republic, Nation, Slate and the New York Times blog"Reinekke’s brave honest enquiry will support and inspire the bereaved, those who anticipate loss, and those who work with them. She tells herself ‘don’t miss it. Use all that fate gives you to to deepen your connection with yourself and life.’ She demonstrates and illustrates how fate cracked, chipped or even seem to break her, but writing illuminated and healed with a seam of gold." —Dr Gillie Bolton, author of The Writer’s Key: Creative Solutions for Life"Writing the self in bereavement is a deeply useful book: helpful in its honesty, its companionship for those who are bereaved, and leads by being inspirational in the field of grief-writing. It is also a story of real love, to which many people will relate. It is rhythmic, accessible, theoretically and socially aware, and sensitive to the risks of representing life as it is experienced. We all have something to learn from Reinekke Lengelle’s work." —Claire Williamson, Author of Visiting the Minotaur, and Programme Leader for Master of Science in Creative writing for Therapeutic Purposes, UK"In this remarkable description of the first year of widowhood, Reinekke Lengelle displays courage and vulnerability as she uses expressive writing to process her grief. She locates her own experience in the academic literature on bereavement and early on identifies resilience as a key factor in her being able to continue to ‘live forward’ whilst acknowledging the enormity of her loss.The early part of the book includes verbatim journal entries, personal poems, dialogues between her and her late husband, and an examination of unfinished business between them. There are unflinching and moving accounts of the pain of grief, the process of watching a loved one die, sexual desire in bereavement and the delicacy of a developing new relationship. Later, there is a sense of gaining new perspectives and a need to look more questioningly at sensitive issues and the gains as well as challenges that come with loss. She draws on her own academic work on the Dialogical Self to theorise how writing accompanied and strengthened her resilience during these challenges in a year of profound changes.Her determination to keep writing through her grief, as well as fulfilling the demands of work, family life and a wide network of friends, provides the reader with the gift of witnessing the power of expressive writing in action. Her perspective as a theorist and teacher of writing for healing creates a reflective and reflexive space where the raw data of her journal entries and poems are held up to the light and interrogated for meaning. She also includes many allusions to her correspondence with other writers on grief, including autoethnographer, Carolyn Ellis with whom she shares a parallel story. In later chapters, she discusses what it means to put sensitive material into the public domain, and the process of deciding what is appropriate to share and what is rightly personal.Expressive writing can facilitate much-needed sense-making during grief and mourning. In Western culture where mourning is often secular and individual, personal writing can provide solace, wisdom and resolution as Reinekke demonstrates. This book will be a useful road-map for those interested in using these techniques personally or facilitating their use with others. Writing the Self in Bereavement is Reinekke’s homage to her late husband and their relationship, two academics who were work partners as well as spouses. She shares how he respected her poetic soul but also urged her to write an academic book. Reinekke ‘channels’ the voice of Frans in her writing and his presence permeates this brave and unusual book. It is a true testimony to their time together." —Victoria Field, Writer, Researcher and Poetry Therapist"As human beings, we seek a life story we can make sense of, and that can make sense of us. In this autoethnography of loss, as lucid as it is captivating, Reinekke Lengelle not only reveals but also reflects candidly on her grief over her partner's death, and her reconstruction of their relationship in its wake. More than a mirror of her bereaved soul, her writing is also a magnifying lens that artfully brings into sharper definition the human drama of love and loss, and the power of poetry and prose to foster its transformation." —Robert A. Neimeyer, PhD, Editor of Death Studies and Techniques of Grief Therapy"In this highly original autoethnographic work, Reinekke Lengelle writes not only about her deceased love but continues to dialogue with him. As a 'vulnerable researcher' she explores the depths of her own mind where her lost lover is recreated as a living figure in a poetic composition where truth and beauty meet." —Professor Emeritus Dr. Hubert Hermans, creator of Dialogical Self Theory"Diving into death is both call and response to words and to witness. This book, with its crystal-clarity, bids readers to lean in, to listen. To accept the call to be unafraid. To stand in direct gaze with the tepid, terrifying, and tumultuous days of living with loss, longing, and love's relentless, vivid invitation to survive. And to thrive." —Margot Van Sluytman, Poet, BA, MA, Executive Director, Theodore's Place Healing Home for Crime Survivors"Reinekke Lengelle writes: 'I hope in writing this grief journey, awakenings are inspired that ripple out and offer comfort to others.' This was certainly true for me. This book is not only for those bereaved by death, but also for those, like me, who are bereaved of parts of a wider relationship as age or illness takes its toll. An honest and powerful story of a journey towards the end of a life and relationship." —Kim Etherington, Professor Emerita of Narrative and Life Story Research, University of Bristol, UK. Author of Becoming a Reflexive Researcher: Using Ourselves in Research; Narrative Approaches to Working with Adult Male Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse; Trauma, the Body and Transformation and other work. "Part tribute, part love story, part memoir, part investigation into our most nascent drive to confront death on its own terms, Reinekke Lengelle’s Writing the Self in Bereavement: A Story of Love, Spousal Loss and Resilience is an unflinching account of her husband’s determination to die as he lived, with humor and dignity. A frank and moving portrait of one woman’s journey through grief and through the power of personal writing that is both poetic and therapeutic, Lengelle’s narrative includes the turbulent, sometimes angry, sometimes affectionate emotions tied to grief. This book will appeal to scholars and to laypeople alike; but moreover, it will appeal to any reader who has experienced the death of a loved one, which, one way or another, touches all of us." —Judith Harris PhD, Author of Signifying Pain: Constructing the Self Through Writing and books of poetry: Atonement, The Bad Secret, and Night Garden. Her poems have appeared in The Atlantic, New Republic, Nation, Slate and the New York Times blog"Reinekke’s brave honest enquiry will support and inspire the bereaved, those who anticipate loss, and those who work with them. She tells herself ‘don’t miss it. Use all that fate gives you to to deepen your connection with yourself and life.’ She demonstrates and illustrates how fate cracked, chipped, or even seemed to break her, but writing illuminated and healed with a seam of gold." —Dr Gillie Bolton, author of The Writer’s Key: Creative Solutions for Life"Writing the Self in Bereavement is a deeply useful book: helpful in its honesty, its companionship for those who are bereaved, and leads by being inspirational in the field of grief-writing. It is also a story of real love, to which many people will relate. It is rhythmic, accessible, theoretically, and socially aware, and sensitive to the risks of representing life as it is experienced. We all have something to learn from Reinekke Lengelle’s work." —Claire Williamson, author of Visiting the Minotaur, and Programme Leader for Master of Science in Creative writing for Therapeutic Purposes, UK"In this remarkable description of the first year of widowhood, Reinekke Lengelle displays courage and vulnerability as she uses expressive writing to process her grief. She locates her own experience in the academic literature on bereavement and early on identifies resilience as a key factor in her being able to continue to ‘live forward’ whilst acknowledging the enormity of her loss.The early part of the book includes verbatim journal entries, personal poems, dialogues between her and her late husband, and an examination of unfinished business between them. There are unflinching and moving accounts of the pain of grief, the process of watching a loved one die, sexual desire in bereavement, and the delicacy of a developing new relationship. Later, there is a sense of gaining new perspectives and a need to look more questioningly at sensitive issues and the gains as well as challenges that come with loss. She draws on her own academic work on the Dialogical Self to theorise how writing accompanied and strengthened her resilience during these challenges in a year of profound changes.Her determination to keep writing through her grief, as well as fulfilling the demands of work, family life and a wide network of friends, provides the reader with the gift of witnessing the power of expressive writing in action. Her perspective as a theorist and teacher of writing for healing creates a reflective and reflexive space where the raw data of her journal entries and poems are held up to the light and interrogated for meaning. She also includes many allusions to her correspondence with other writers on grief, including autoethnographer, Carolyn Ellis, with whom she shares a parallel story. In later chapters, she discusses what it means to put sensitive material into the public domain, and the process of deciding what is appropriate to share and what is rightly personal.Expressive writing can facilitate much-needed sense-making during grief and mourning. In Western culture where mourning is often secular and individual, personal writing can provide solace, wisdom, and resolution as Reinekke demonstrates. This book will be a useful road-map for those interested in using these techniques personally or facilitating their use with others. Writing the Self in Bereavement is Reinekke’s homage to her late husband and their relationship, two academics who were work partners as well as spouses. She shares how he respected her poetic soul but also urged her to write an academic book. Reinekke ‘channels’ the voice of Frans in her writing and his presence permeates this brave and unusual book. It is a true testimony to their time together." —Victoria Field, writer, researcher, and poetry therapistWriting the Self in Bereavement is a courageous story, filling a glaring gap in the literature on widowhood and grief. It offers a tender, brutally honest, and sometimes humorous inside look at the thoughts, emotions, and identity re-formation of a couple knowing that their finite time together was very quickly slipping away and of a widow, deeply and fully grieving that incomprehensible loss... It is robust enough to serve as a textbook but tender enough to gift to a friend or family member seeking solace in the midst of inexplicable grief. -- Roberta Borgen (Neault), Life Strategies Ltd. and University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada"I highly recommend this book, whether to scholars, to practitioners of therapeutic arts, to instructors as a tertiary textbook, or to the bereaved and those supporting others in grief. One of the things that struck me most about Writing the Self in Bereavement is Lengelle’s unflinching honesty—it has inspired me and stayed with me long after I put down the book." --Katrin Den Elzen, PhD, Curtin University, Perth, AustraliaTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Early grief 2. Unfinished business 3. Our relationship history and physical longing in bereavement 4. Grief’s ebb and flow 5. Writing again and in touch with feelings 6. Beginnings and adaptive emotions 7. Death 8. Sexual desire and asking to be held 9. Secondary losses and collateral beauty 10. Sharing the work 11. Writing the self in bereavement Epilogue

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Book SynopsisThe stories in Narrating Estrangement: Autoethnographies of Writing Of(f) Family demonstrate the pain, anguish, and even relief felt by those who contemplate estranging or who are estranged, whether by choice or circumstance. Despite the social assumptions persisting about the everlasting nature of family relationships, when people make the complicated and often difficult decision to disconnect from family members, they experience shame, stigma, and isolation because of social pressures to maintain those relationships at all costs.Each contributor uses the act of storytelling and the autoethnographic mode of scholarship and writing to find clarity in their individual, unique, and complex situations. Several authors' explorations restore some of what they have lost through estrangementsuch as a sense of identity, emotional health and well-being, and feelings of belongingdue to the breakdowns in social and family support systems meant to be unconditional and permanent. TTrade Review"This charged collection takes us into the silent and sometimes violent dynamics of families, manifesting the mercurial movements of trauma, love, and hope of making kin with other beings." -- Stacey Holman Jones, Monash University & Dan Harris, RMIT Australia"A timely collection of research that is utterly compelling to read and invites rich reflections on the role of family in identity formation and negotiation, meaning, human development, cultural values, and trauma. Orbiting around estrangement as an important focus for family research, this diverse constellation of narratives will appeal to scholars in relational communication, family systems, social psychology, narrative research, and autoethnography." -- Elissa Foster, DePaul University, USA"Breakdowns in family communication can be painful, baffling, traumatic. This rich volume offers new ways to think, feel, and story our way through the complexities of estrangement." -- Christopher N. Poulos, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, USA"Engaging with their own and the contributors’ stories, Spinazola and Purnell show readers how to write brave narratives about family and estrangement—an excellent book that will greatly enrich research on family communication and autoethnography." -- Joyce L. Hocker, Clinical Psychologist and University of Montana (Ret.) Table of ContentsInroduction Section One: Estrangement due to lingering effects of childhood neglect, abuse, or abandonment 1. Writing of, off, to, and from my mother: Moving forward, word by word 2. Estrangement: A Father/Son Love Story 3. A Series of @!?#@!? Events: A Journey to Mother-Daughter Estrangement Section Two: Estrangement due to family secrets, betrayal, or death 4. Complicating the experience of estranging from a sibling 5. Sister mine: Understanding family estrangement in siblings 6. Blood is thicker than water! 7. Traci(ng) Estrangement: Sisters, Secrets and Suicide Section Three: Estrangement resulting from the search for identity, belonging, or home 8. An Autoethnography of the Ongoing Impact of Parental Divorce and Estrangement 9. Too far out all my life…but not drowning 10. Our Real-Life Matilda Moment: Redefining and Finding Family Section Four: Estrangement initiated by another and out of our hands 11. Writing of(f) family: Sarah’s family hand-me-downs 12. My Mum is a Dreamer: Losing Family but Learning to Love 13. The Roots are Gone Too: An Autoethnography of Estrangement and/in Mourning Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis handbook offers a contemporary and comprehensive review of critical research theory and methodology. Showcasing the work of contemporary critical researchers who are harnessing and building on a variety of methodological tools, this volume extends beyond qualitative methodology to also include critical quantitative and mixed-methods approaches to research. The critical scholars contributing to this volume are influenced by a diverse range of education disciplines, and represent multiple countries and methodological backgrounds, making the handbook an essential resource for anyone doing critical scholarship. The book moves from the theoretical to the specific, examining various paradigms for engaging in critical scholarship, various methodologies for doing critical research, and the political, ethical, and practical issues that arise when working as a critical scholar. In addition to mapping the field, contributions synthesize literature, offer concrete examples, and explore relTrade Review"This is the handbook we've been waiting for! The chapters in this crucial volume not only refuse the dehumanizing paradigm of research that has done so much harm in minoritized communities, they offer the deep, nuanced guidance for undertaking more liberatory inquiries we have so urgently needed in the field. Reckoning with anti-Blackness, settler colonialism, and multiple forms of oppression, rooted in histories of invisibilized expertise, resilience and joy, the authors provide profound ontological and epistemological insights as well as tangible methodological approaches that help light the way forward for scholars, students, and researchers at all stages!"--Ann Ishimaru, Associate Professor, Educational Foundations, Leadership, & Policy, University of Washington"How do two leading scholars and thinkers in the field of education policy and leadership—Michelle D. Young and Sarah Diem—follow up on their highly influential book, Critical Approaches to Education Policy Analysis: Moving Beyond Tradition? Simply, they push us to understand further, by comprehensively reviewing, complicating, and interrogating the very critical research methodologies that they and others of us in the field employ. In the Handbook of Critical Education Research: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Emerging Approaches, Diem and Young situate the significant expansion of education research methodological tools and approaches within histopolitical and contemporary sociocultural realities, to offer us a brave, engaging, and well-researched volume that brings together exciting and smart critical scholars from across the globe. It is not only a must read, but a must use for all education researchers."--Jill Koyama, Vice Dean and Professor, Educational Leadership & Innovation, Arizona State University"Given the continued weight of historical positivisms, this book marks how critical work is gaining parity across the paradigms in educational research. Neo-liberalism might remain hegemonic, but "remembering with" many of the authors in terms of origins, my hope is that the push of the book toward not so much ideology critique as against methodological conservatism engenders a "living into" more nuanced approaches alive to the "afters" of the many inequities so very much with us."--Patti Lather, Emeritus Professor, Cultural Foundations, Technology, & Qualitative Inquiry, The Ohio State UniversityTable of ContentsSection 1: Introduction: Why Critical Research? Why Now? 1. Critical Education Research: Emerging Perspectives on Methods and Methodologies 2. The Paradigm Wars Reconsidered: Looking for a Legacy 3. Critical Approaches to Quantitative Research: Review, Critique, and Applications 4. Black in Time: Critical Research Practices for Studying Anti-Blackness in Schools Section 2: Epistemology, Theory, and Paradigms 5. Education and Colonialism: Three Frameworks 6. The White Supremacist Core Ontological Architecture of Western Modernity 7. Queering Critical Educational Research: Methodological Activism Within a Cultural Location of the ‘Not Yet’ 8. Reflexivity 10.6: The Matter of Reflexivity or What Matter Matters in Postqualitative Inquiry 9. The Spatial Logic of Epistemic Imaginaries: Guided by Édouard Glissant 10. Where Are the Black Folx? A Queer Critical Race Theory Intersectional Analysis Section 3: Introduction: Critical Qualitative Research Design 11. Toward Critical Approaches to Case Study Research 12. Critical Ethnography in Education Research: More Than a Method 13. Critical Auto (-/) Ethnography in Everyday and Educational Research for Social Justice 14. Critical Narrative Inquiry: Reaching Toward Understanding, Moving to Resistance, and Acting in Solidarity 15. A "Good" University: Community-based Critical Participatory Action Research, University-Community Relations, and Affordable Housing 16. Using Critical Discourse Analysis to Challenge and Change Educational Practice and Policy 17. Toward a Critical History of Education: The Uses of the Past and its Possibilities for the Present Section 4: Introduction: Critical Quantitative Research Design 18. (Un)Learning White Supremacy Ideologies to Advance Critical Approaches to Quantitative Inquiry 19. Applied Quantitative Inquiry through a Critical Disability Studies Lens 20. Critical Quantitative Intersectionality: Maximizing Integrity in Expanding Tools and Applications 21. What is the Point?: Reimagining the Critical Quantitative Research of Big and Large-Scale Data Sets to Advance Racial Equity: Section 5: Introduction: Critical Emerging Approaches 22. Disrupting the Binary: Critical Mixed-Methods as Academic Resistance 23. Critical Networks in Critical Times 24. Critical Space Analysis: Integrating Geographic Information Systems into Critical Educational Research 25. Multimodal Inquiries Inspired by Post-Philosophies: More-than-Human Relationalities that Produce (Critical) Inquiry(ies) Section 6: Introduction: Data Collection in Critical Research 26. Listening and Learning Through Critical Interviewing Approaches in Qualitative Inquiry 27. Oral History as Critique: Memories Disrupting the Dominant Narrative 28. Critical and Feminist Cartographies of Observation: Procedural, Personal, and Political Considerations in the Documentation and Analysis of Life Worlds 29. Critical Survey Research Section 7: Introduction: Critical Data Analysis 30. Using Qualitative Data Analysis Software to Help Explore Critical Research Questions: A Tool, Not a Replacement 31. Shifting Policy Meanings: Argumentative Discourse Analysis and Historical Policy Research 32. The Ethics and Bureaucratization of Data Management 33. Advancing QuantCrit in Critical Race Spatial Research: Exploring Methodological Possibilities by Mapping Chicanx Baccalaureate Attainment 34. Beyond Representation: Decoloniality Content Analysis as a Methodology to De/Reconstruct the Sociology of Expectations in Curriculum Section 8: Introduction: Politics and Ethics of Doing Critical Educational Research 35. Critical Educational Research and Social Movements 36. "To Whom Are We Accountable?": Exploring the Tensions Inherent within Critical Scholarship 37. Families and Educators Co-Designing: Critical Education Research as Participatory Public Scholarship 38. Validity as Democratic Deliberation: The Pragmatist Imperative for Critical Inquiry 39. Topographies of Research as Relational: Exploring the Politics and Ethics of Positionality and Relationality in Research Processes 40. Institutional Review Boards: Processes and Critiques

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the fertility and enigma of Erving Goffman's sociological reasoning and its capacity to shed fresh light on the fundamental features of human sociality. Thematically arranged, it brings together the work of leading scholars of Goffman's work to explore the concepts and themes that define Goffman's analytical preoccupations, examining the ways these ideas have shaped significant fields of study and situating Goffman's sociology in comparison to some eminent thinkers often linked with his name. Through a series of chapters informed by the same inventive and imaginative spirit characteristic of Goffman's sociology, the book presents fresh perspectives on his contribution to the field and reveals the value of his thought for a variety of disciplines now increasingly aware of the importance of Goffman's sociology to a range of social phenomena. A fresh perspective on the legacy of one of sociology's most important figures, The Routledge International HandbooTrade Review'Jacobsen and Smith’s International Handbook of Goffman Studies undoubtedly constitutes a new milestone in the recognition of Goffman’s work. Anyone who studies this work in depth needs to know and work with this book. Its thorough reading promises a wealth of impulses for the further exploration of Goffman’s work, which will hopefully continue to be an arena where different theoretical positions and controversial views of his publications can meet.' - Karl Lenz, Symbolic Interaction Table of ContentsPreface and acknowledgements. Contributors. Introduction- The persisting presence of Erving Goffman. PART I-CONCEPTS AND THEMES. Chapter 1 Dramaturgy. Chapter 2 Self-presentation. Chapter 3 Ritual. Chapter 4 Stigma. Chapter 5 Total institutions. Chapter 6 Moral career. Chapter 7 Face-work. Chapter 8 Interaction in public places. Chapter 9 Strategic interaction. Chapter 10 Frame analysis. Chapter 11 Re-framing ‘footing’. Chapter 12 The interaction order. PART II FIELDS AND STUDIES. Chapter 13 Goffman and the emotions- Timely reflections on Erving Goffman as ‘emotion theorist’. Chapter 14 Goffman and medical sociology. Chapter 15 Goffman and communication. Chapter 16 The reception of Goffman’s work in media studies. Chapter 17 About ‘face’- Reconsidering Goffman’s theory of face-work for digital culture. Chapter 18 Goffman and sociolinguistics. Chapter 19 Goffman and the sociology of the body. Chapter 20 A primal scene- Disability in everyday life. Chapter 21 Goffman and visual studies. Chapter 22 Goffman and gender studies. Chapter 23 Goffman and gambling studies. Chapter 24 Mobilities studies- Goffman on the move. Chapter 25 Goffman on police work- A pragmatic dance in action. Chapter 26 Erving Goffman and the sociology of death and dying. PART III COMPARISONS, INTERPRETATIONS AND ASIDES. Chapter 27 Goffman and Elias- Between deception and embarrassment. Chapter 28 Goffman and Garfinkel- Sociologists of the ‘information order’. Chapter 29 Goffman and Foucault- Framing the micro-physics of power.Chapter 30 Goffman and Giddens- Discovering a systematic theorist. Chapter 31 Ordering Goffman’s oeuvre- Two addenda. Chapter 32 Goffman and fieldwork- Mottke, the thief. Chapter 33 Nothing funny about that!- Erving Goffman and the (un)humorousness of everyday life. Chapter 34 Learning from Goffman- Toward a concept-driven transcontextual sociology. Chapter 35 Goffman’s footnotes- Excavating Erving Goffman’s revealing asides. Index.

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Book SynopsisFirst Published in 2004. An authoritative guide to the problems and procedures associated with data collection and analysis in field research.Trade Review'This is a classic text on research methods and will be of value to students at postgraduate level.' - T Eadie, Nottingham UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 From Coral Garden to City Street: Field Research ‘Comes Home’ 2 Starting Research and Gaining Access 3 Selection Strategies in Field Research 4 Methods of Field Research 1: Participant Observation 5 Methods of Field Research 2: Interviews as Conversations 6 Methods of Field Research 3: Using Personal Documents 7 Multiple Strategies in Field Research 8 Recording and Analysing Field Data 9 Ethical Problems, Ethical Principles and Field Research Practice 10 Evaluating Field Studies

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Book SynopsisSince its first edition in 1985, Patrick McNeill's Research Methods has become a classic introductory text for students of sociology at A level and in undergraduate courses as well as for a range of specialists in education, business, social care and medicine who need a brief but authoritative account of how sociologists set about conducting research. After a brief overview of the history of sociological research which introduces key concepts, this new edition, co-authored with Steve Chapman, describes the main sociological research methods, and includes sections on theory, science and values as well as: references to research studies developments in relevant sociological theory developments in research methodology new material on the presentation of research findings. Including an appendix of questions which students should ask when they are evaluating accounts of research, this lasting text retains the clarity of style of the second edition, and brings the content up-to-date. Table of ContentsPreface to First Edition. Preface to Second Edition. Preface to Third Edition. Acknowledgements 1. Research Methods in Sociology 2. Social Surveys 3. Experiments and the Comparative Method 4. Ethnography 5. Secondary Data 6. Theory, Science, and Values Appendix: Reading Sociological Research

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Book SynopsisStatistics for Sport and Exercise Studies guides the student through the full research process, from selecting the most appropriate statistical procedure, to analysing data, to the presentation of results, illustrating every key step in the process with clear examples, case-studies and data taken from real sport and exercise settings.Every chapter includes a range of features designed to help the student grasp the underlying concepts and relate each statistical procedure to their own research project, including definitions of key terms, practical exercises, worked examples and clear summaries. The book also offers an in-depth and practical guide to using SPSS in sport and exercise research, the most commonly used data analysis software in sport and exercise departments. In addition, a companion website includes more than 100 downloadable data sets and work sheets for use in or out of the classroom, full solutions to exercises contained in the book, plus over 1,300 PoTable of Contents1. Data, Information and Statistics 2. Using this book 3. Descriptive Statistics 4. Standardized scores 5. Probability 6. Data distributions 7. Hypothesis testing 8. Correlation 9. Linear Regression 10. t Tests 11. Analysis of Variances 12. Factorial ANOVA 13. Multivariate ANOVA 14. Nonparametric tests 15. Chi Square 16. Statistical Classification 17. Cluster Analysis 18. Data Reduction using Principal Components Analysis 19. Reliability 20. Statistical Power

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Book SynopsisThere is a growing interest in, and acceptance of, qualitative research approaches in the health science disciplines, both as standalone methodologies and integrated with quantitative designs in mixed methods approaches. This comprehensive text provides deeper knowledge and application of a wide range of methodologies, methods and processes, enabling readers to develop their qualitative research skills. Divided into two parts, focusing first on methodologies and then on methods and processes, the text also includes revision of essential aspects of quantitative research as they apply to mixed methods research and a discussion of the uptake of qualitative research in the health sciences. The methodologies covered include: Grounded Theory; Historical Research; Ethnography; Phenomenology; Narrative Inquiry; Case Study Research; Critical Ethnography; Action Research and Mixed Methods.The methods and processes covered include: Interviewing and Analysis; Group Work andTrade Review'...a well-written guide to the basics of qualitative research methodologies and the process of data collection and analysis. Those wanting a nuts-and-bolts overview of qualitative research and how it can be utilized in the health sciences will be pleased with this logical, clear introduction to the subject. Summing Up: Recommended. All academic and professional libraries.' – C.A. Collins, in CHOICE, March 2014'A useful guide for those new to research, as well as clinical and academic staff looking to develop or refresh their knowledge of qualitative methodologies.' – Nursing StandardTable of ContentsPart 1: Methodologies 1. Introduction Beverley Taylor 2. Grounded Theory Beverley Taylor 3. Historical Research Karen Francis 4. Ethnography Karen Francis 5. Phenomenology Beverley Taylor 6. Narrative Inquiry Beverley Taylor 7. Case Study Research Beverley Taylor 8. Feminisms Beverley Taylor 9. Action Research Karen Francis 10. Mixed Methods Research Beverley Taylor Part 2: Methods and Processes 11. Introduction Beverley Taylor 12. Interviewing And Analysis Beverley Taylor 13. Group Work and Analysis Beverley Taylor 14. Narrative Analysis Beverley Taylor 15. Discourse Analysis Karen Francis 16. Creative Forms Of Qualitative Data Collection & Analysis Beverley Taylor 17. Uptake of Qualitative Research in Health Sciences Karen Francis

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Book SynopsisThis volume centers on theories and methodologies for postgraduate feminist researchers engaged in interdisciplinary research. In the context of globalization, this book gives special attention to cutting-edge approaches at the borders between humanities and social sciences and specific discipline-transgressing fields, such as feminist technoscience studies.Table of ContentsList of Figures. Series Editors’ Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgments. Editorial. Introduction: Researching Differently Rosemarie Buikema, Gabriele Griffin and Nina Lykke Section 1: Feminist Theories 1. Gender Research with ‘Waves’: On Re-Positioning a Neo-Disciplinary Apparatus Iris van der Tuin 2. Feminist Science and Technology Studies Maureen McNeil and Celia Roberts Section 2: Methodologies 3. Intersectionality – A Theoretical Adjustment Dorthe Staunæs and Dorte Marie Søndergaard 4. What to Make of Identity and Experience in Twenty-First Century Feminist Research Allaine Cerwonka 5. Histories and Memories in Feminist Research Andrea Pető and Berteke Waaldijk Section 3: Research Methods 6. Writing about Research Methods in the Arts and Humanities Gabriele Griffin 7. Feminist Perspectives on Close Reading Jasmina Lukić and Adelina Sánchez Espinosa 8. Visual Cultures: Feminist Perspectives Rosemarie Buikema and Marta Zarzycka Section 4: Multi-, Inter-, Trans- and Post-disciplinarity 9. This Discipline Which Is Not One: Feminist Studies as a Post-Discipline Nina Lykke 10. Why Interdisciplinarity? Interdisciplinarity and Women’s/Gender Studies in Europe Mia Liinason 11. Transdisciplinary Gender Studies: Conceptual and Institutional Challenges Antje Lann Hornscheidt and Susanne Baer Section 5: Professionalization 12. The Professionalization of Feminist Researchers: The Nordic Case Harriet Silius 13. The Professionalization of Feminist Researchers: The Spanish Case Isabel Carrera Suárez 14. The Professionalization of Feminist Researchers: The German Case Marianne Schmidbaur and Ulla Wischermann Section 6: The Choice of Topic and Research Questions – Some Examples 15. My Dissertation Photo Album: Snapshots from a Writing Tour Doro Wiese 16. Intimate Truths about Subjectivity and Sexuality: A Psychoanalytical and a Postcolonial Approach Henrietta L. Moore and Gloria D. Wekker Coda: The Desires of Writing 17. If Writing Has to Do with Desire, What ‘Kind’ of Desire is That? Between Jacques Lacan and Gilles Deleuze Edyta Just. Contributors. Index

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Book SynopsisTension has long existed in the social sciences between quantitative and qualitative approaches on one hand, and theory-minded and empirical techniques on the other. The latter divide has grown sharper in the wake of new behavioural and experimental perspectives which draw on both sides of these modelling schemes. This book works to address this disconnect by establishing a framework for methodological unification: empirical implications of theoretical models (EITM). This framework connects behavioural and applied statistical concepts, develops analogues of these concepts, and links and evaluates these analogues. The authors offer detailed explanations of how these concepts may be framed, to assist researchers interested in incorporating EITM into their own research. They go on to demonstrate how EITM may be put into practice for a range of disciplines within the social sciences, including voting, party identification, social interaction, learning, conflict and cooperation to macro-polTrade Review'Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models is a major contribution to political science. Granato, Lo, and Wong explain the rationale for establishing a systematic ‘dialogue between theory and test,’ and how this produces important breakthroughs in the study of campaigns and elections, comparative and international political economy and other fields. The book is essential reading for students of political science in particular and of social science in general.' John R. Freeman, University of Minnesota'A book that systematically expounds the idea and reaps the harvest of EITM is long overdue. The publication of this book is a triumphant celebration of the tremendous achievements a scientifically rigorous framework has brought to political, social, and economic sciences.' Tse-min Lin, University of Texas at Austin'Success in science is defined by the presence of a powerful exemplar. For the EITM movement, this book is such an exemplar. It is more than an argument for closing the gap between theory and evidence; it lays out the steps that any student of the social sciences might emulate when tackling complex questions of humans and their institutions. This book belongs on the shelf of every serious scholar concerned with the empirical and theoretical study of social behavior.' Rick K. Wilson, Rice University'Based on extensive experience in teaching the EITM approach, the authors work through many examples that make it an invaluable teaching tool for graduate research courses. A rewarding read for those who want to contribute to the advancement of the social sciences'. Norman Bradburn, University of Chicago'The goal of social science is to understand more and more by less and less. In this effort the spirit of EITM plays a big part - a unified field for both the theoretical and the empirical components, a unified methodology encompassing mathematical tools for the formal work and statistical tools for the empirical work, someday the surprise of unifying seemingly disparate topical domains. Granato, Lo, and Wong have written a masterly guide to every aspect of EITM, providing a wealth of tools and describing a wide range of applications. This book will be invaluable to all researchers, seasoned and novice alike, dedicated to the growth of knowledge in the social sciences.' Guillermina Jasso, New York University'Too often in the social sciences, formal theories and empirical studies have occupied separate worlds. This book is a masterful overview of a more modern approach, demonstrating how empirical implications can be rigorously derived from theoretical models. The new framework not only lets researchers test models more reliably, but more importantly, it directs them to previously unsuspected empirical findings that conventional empirical analysis will not uncover. This is a volume that every empirical researcher will want to read.' Christopher H. Achen, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsPart I. EITM: Background and Framework: 1. Modeling Insights and Pathbreaking Institutions A Sketch; 2. Contemporary Methodological Practices; 3. The EITM Framework; Part II. EITM in Practice: 4. Economic Voting; 5. Strategists and Macropartisanship; 6. Macro Policy; 7. Information Diffusion; 8. Political Parties and Representation; 9. Voter Turnout; 10. International Political Economy; 11. Macro Political Economy; 12. Social Behavior and Evolutionary Dynamics; 13 Competition and Reward Valuation; 14. An Alternative Unification Framework; 15. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis is the ideal companion for those needing guidance when carrying out a research project in a management or a business-related subject. The text is succinct and concise, written with modular courses in mind for the reader to quickly gain an overall perspective of the fundamental areas and identify the key points that need to be addressed. This clear and practical book also covers the requirements of more general areas of business research and consultancy. New to this edition is a chapter devoted to the analysis of qualitative data - an area many students find they want to focus on. A new accompanying student website also gives practical guidance on some of the problems students face: assistance with writing a research proposal; the structure of a dissertation; collecting data - how much is enough; citing references; links to other resources.Dissertations and projects form an integral part of many MBA and degree programmes and this text is invaluable when tackling this area for the first time. The authors approach the research task in a step-by-step manner, covering areas such as data collection, observational methods, and data analysis.Table of ContentsIntroductionManaging your development as a managerIntroduction to research in managementManagement consultancy and researchThe consultancy research processOverview of data collection: approaches, methods and techniquesData collection: secondary dataData collection: observational researchData collection: experimental, quasi-experimental and action researchData collection: asking questionsAnalysing data: nature and purposeAnalysing qualitative dataActioning researchAppendicesActivity solutionsReference and further readingGlossary

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Book SynopsisAs in previous editions, this highly practical book is written with beginning MPA students and practitioners in mind. It focuses on the interpretation and use of research findings, not just number crunching. It covers the entire research process, from initial questions to final report, in clear, jargon-free language, and includes numerous easy-to-understand examples and exercises that provide opportunities for concrete applications of the concepts. It is solidly grounded in public administration and recognizes both the promise and limitations of research within a political environment.Key features of the book:--It is highly practical and written to accommodate a mix of readers: those who want to become analysts, managers who will oversee research contracts, and citizens who need to know whether to believe the facts and data they read in today's news;--It minimizes the use of jargon and explains difficult concepts in clear language. Plentiful end-of-chapter exercises provide opportunities for concrete application of the concepts;--Key points are highlighted as takeaway lessons so readers are reminded about what really matters. The tough questions to ask are suggested in every chapter;--Examples and applications are used throughout the book to illustrate concepts and add topical interest;--It covers the entire research process, from initial questions to the final report. This book demystifies and makes practical the research every public administrator and policy analyst needs to do the job well. Online instructor's materials, including a Test Bank, PowerPoint slides, and a Survey and Documental Analysis (SDA) guide, are also available to adopters.Trade Review"Research Methods for Public Administrators is presented in a clear and comprehensible fashion which enhances the ability of even those with limited knowledge of research methods to understand the topic. The book is well structured, covers the topic with a minimum of jargon, and is designed to develop the critical thinking skills of students. Many examples of research concepts that are relevant to public administrators make the book extremely useful for students and practitioners alike." -- William Leavitt, Old Dominion University"Research Methods for Public Administrators is extremely remarkable as it treats both qualitative and quantitative research methods in a comprehensive manner without compromising clarity and readability. The rare combination of broad coverage and reader-friendliness really makes this book an excellent resource for students learning basic research tools." -- Chih-Wei Hsieh, University of New Mexico"Finally we have an approachable methods book. Gail Johnson's practitioner background helps her to discuss a very complex topic, research methods, in an understandable and practical manner. While covering the basics of research design and statistics, she also gives attention to the important topic of communicating research findings. Additionally, Johnson ties research methods to its uses in the public sector. This book is well suited for a variety of public administration programs, but it is particularly useful for those with many in-service students." -- Jami Taylor, University of Toledo"This is the consummate methods survey text for public administration and policy study, somehow improved in the new edition over already superlative previous ones. In the new edition, conceptual frames continue to be covered with even greater nuance and depth--topics such as policy and program complexity, complex causation, logic modeling, the inter-relation of normative and descriptive/empirical questions in public sector research, research ethics, and the refinement of research questions in these contexts, for instance translating research questions into hypotheses. Most highly recommended!" -- Mario Rivera, University of New Mexico"This textbook offers a comprehensive yet understandable overview of the process of research and its use in the field of public administration. The author's focus on how to use and interpret research findings is a welcome addition to the topic and the real-world exercises provide students with practical application of research skills essential for public managers. A great textbook for MPA students!" -- Pamela T. Dunning, Troy UniversityTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsPreface and Acknowledgments1. Introduction: Research Methods for Public AdministratorsOverview Goals: Research as a Critical Thinking Tool Research in the Public Sector What Is Research? Types of Research Ethics and Principles of Good ResearchOverview of This BookExercises2. Basic Research ConceptsOverviewThe Secret Language of Social Science Theory Hypothesis in Its Many Forms Variables Values Levels of Measurement Determining Causality Independent and Dependent Variables Control Variables Direction of Relationships Program Evaluation: Research in the Public SectorUsing Models for a Holistic View of RelationshipsThe Logic ModelApplying the Logic ModelConclusionExercises3. What Is the Question?OverviewDetermining the Research QuestionLearning from OthersEngaging the StakeholdersWorking TogetherTypes of Questions Descriptive Questions Normative Questions Relationship Questions ConclusionExercises4. Identifying Measures and Measurement StrategyOverviewDefining Key Terms Conceptual Definitions Operational Definitions Setting BoundariesValid and Reliable Measures Validity Reliability Why Measurement MattersConclusionExercises5. Designs for Research: The Xs and Os FrameworkOverviewDesigning an ExperimentApplying the Design Elements: The Xs and Os Framework Nonexperimental Design Quasi-Experimental Design Classic Experimental Design Design Variations Using Statistical Controls to Create Comparison Groups Longitudinal Studies Internal ValidityWhy Validity MattersExternal ValidityConclusionExercises6. Other Research ApproachesOverviewSecondary Analysis of DataEvaluation Synthesis (Meta-Analysis)Content AnalysisSurvey ResearchCase StudiesCost-Benefit AnalysisConclusionExercises7. Data Collection I: Available Data and ObservationOverviewData Collection: The Degree of StructureAvailable DataData Collection InstrumentsObservationObtrusive and Unobtrusive Data CollectionThe Design MatrixConclusionExercises8. Data Collection II: Interviews and Focus GroupsOverviewGeneral Guidelines About Choosing the Appropriate MethodEncouraging ParticipationIn-Person InterviewsFocus GroupsOther Group Data Collection: Expert Panels, Public HearingsConclusionExercises9. Data Collection III: SurveysOverviewBasic MethodsResponse RatesTelephone SurveysMail SurveysCyber-Research: E-mail and Web-Based SurveysDeveloping Closed-Ended QuestionsUsing One-Way and Two-Way Intensity ScalesRanking QuestionsDemographic QuestionsConclusionExercises10. Sampling DemystifiedOverviewSampling JargonRandom and Nonrandom Samples Random Samples Nonrandom Samples Random Samples: The Options Simple Random Sample Systematic Random Sample Stratified Random Sample Proportional Stratified Sample Disproportionate Stratified Sample Cluster Sample Nonrandom Samples: The OptionsDetermining Sample SizeNonsampling ErrorsConclusionExercises11. Qualitative Data AnalysisOverviewAnalyzing Qualitative DataIdentifying Themes and QuotesWorking with Qualitative DataConclusionExercises12. Data Analysis for DescriptionOverviewSimple Descriptive Statistics in Public AdministrationCommonly Used Descriptive Statistics Counts Percents Rates Ratios Rates of Change Distributions Measures of Central Tendency Which Measure to Use? Comparison of Means Measures of DispersionConclusionExercises13. Analyzing Survey ScalesOverviewHandling Exits and the Middle of a Five-Point ScaleSetting Benchmarks and Extreme AnalysisHandling the Middle Category in One-Way Intensity ScalesShould Means Be Used with Nominal and Ordinal Scales?The Analytical Tool: Cross TabulationsConclusionExercises14. Data Analysis: Exploring RelationshipsOverviewUsing Crosstabs to Examine RelationshipsControlling for a Third VariableExploring Relationships: Comparison of Means and MediansMeasures of AssociationFrequently Used Measures of AssociationWorking with Interval or Ratio DataConclusionExercises15. Data Analysis: RegressionOverviewBivariate Regression: Key ElementsUsing Bivariate Regression Analysis: Sunshine and TourismMultiple Regression Beta Weights: Relative Predictive Strength Regression in the NewsWhy Did the Violent Crime Rate Drop After 1991?ConclusionExercises16. Data Analysis Using Inferential StatisticsOverviewStatistical Significance: Basic ConceptsThe Logic of Statistical Significance TestingErrors in Tests for Statistical SignificanceCommon Tests for Statistical Significance Chi-Square t-Tests: Analyzing Difference in Means Analysis of Variance Tests for Statistical Significance in Regression AnalysisReporting Results of Statistical SignificancePopulation Estimates and Confidence IntervalsConclusionExercises17. Communicating Research ResultsOverviewEffectively Reporting ResultsReporting DataGeneral Guide for Communicating Research ResultsGuide for Writing an Executive SummaryGuide for Writing a Formal ReportGuide for Using Charts and TablesGuide for Oral PresentationsPresenting Unwelcome InformationMaking Sense of Research ResultsConclusionExercises18. Conclusion: Research at the Intersection of Politics and AdministrationOverviewThe Research Process Revisited Planning Doing Reporting Ethics and Social JusticeManaging Research ProjectsAssessing CredibilityThe Limitations of ScienceThe Intersection of Research, Politics, and AdministrationClosing ObservationsExercisesAppendix A. Mathematical Formulas for Selected StatisticsAppendix B. Statistics as a Second LanguageAppendix C. BibliographyAppendix D. Logic Model TemplateAppendix E. The Generic Design MatrixIndexAbout the Author

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Book SynopsisMahajan and Peterson have provided an introduction to diffusion models that bridges the disciplines and sets out the basic findings in a clear and consistent way. Their book is a lucid, state-of-the-art description of the powerful tools for investigating the temporal diffusion of any innovation. The approach they use is abstract and general, but the inclusion of a number of helpful examples makes it accessible to a wider range of readers.Table of ContentsBasic Concepts The Fundamental Diffusion Model Flexible Diffusion Models Extensions and Refinements Illustrative Applications Status and Outlook

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Book SynopsisA bonus is the insightful introduction by series editor Jan de Leeuw, putting applied statistics into perspective, blurring the somewhat artificial distinction between exploratory and confirmatory analysis. . . . Throughout the volume, strong attention is paid to the practical issues and to limitations of the analytical approaches (e.g., the effects of the number of categories within a variable on the resulting model). This seems especially useful, given that the intended audience includes 'nitty-gritty' users and less theoretically inclined readers. John P. Van de Geer is careful to head off the reader's temptation to base interpretation on the old 'the computer says it, so it must be right' routine, by pointing out easy but faulty conclusions, such as those that might result from interactions and confounding factors. --Elizabeth L. Rose in Structural Equation Modeling Quote for both books The set would be appropriate for use in a graduate course, with guidance from an instructor Trade Review"This set would be appropriate for use in a graduate course, with guidance from an instructor who has expertise in this approach to multivariate analysis. The interested researcher will find the set to be very helpful, particularly in terms of developing a coherent and accurate interpretation of the results." -- Elizabeth L. Rose * Structural Equation Modeling *Table of ContentsPRIMALS HOMALS ANACOR PRINCALS CANALS OVERALS Some Conclusions

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Book SynopsisMethodological Issues in Aging Research is the first volume in the Notre Dame Series on Quantitative Methodology. This new series provides practical training on the latest quantitative methods used in social and behavioral research. Each volume features contributions from leading experts in state-of-the-art techniques applicable to a selected substantive topic.The first series volume provides researchers with innovative techniques for the collection and analyses of data focusing on aging and lifespan development. The book addresses such techniques as structural equation modeling, latent class analysis, hierarchical linear growth curve modeling, dynamical systems analysis, multivariate Rasch models, survival analysis, multilevel modeling, and quantitative genetic methods. These new techniques provide: better estimates of the direct effect of environmental or treatment effects and the dynamic pattern of genetic and environmental influences on adult development <Trade Review "The illustrative chapters of current methods for studying age change in Bergeman and Boker's 'Methodological Issues in Aging Research' exemplify the quantum leap that developmental methods have taken in the last 40 years.... one can appreciate the welcome benefits and scientific advances these new methods bring with them."—PsycCRITIQUES "The illustrative chapters of current methods for studying age change in Bergeman and Boker's 'Methodological Issues in Aging Research' exemplify the quantum leap that developmental methods have taken in the last 40 years.... one can appreciate the welcome benefits and scientific advances these new methods bring with them."—PsycCRITIQUES Table of ContentsContents: C.S. Bergeman, S.M. Boker, Preface. J.R. Nesselroade, Quantitative Modeling in Adult Development and Aging: Reflections and Projections. C.S. Bergeman, K.A. Wallace, The Theory-Methods Interface. J.J. McArdle, F. Hamagami, Longitudinal Tests of Dynamic Hypotheses on Intellectual Abilities Measured Over Sixty Years. P.J. Curran, D.J. Bauer, M.T. Willoughby, Testing and Probing Interactions in Hierarchical Linear Growth Models. C. Johnson, S.W. Raudenbush, A Repeated Measures, Multilevel Rasch Model With Application to Self-Reported Criminal Behavior. C. Schuster, Latent-Class Analysis Approaches to Determining the Reliability of Nominal Classifications: A Comparison Between the Response-Error and the Target-Type Approach. S.M. Boker, T.L. Bisconti, Dynamical Systems Modeling in Aging Research. M.J. Wenger, C. Schuster, L.E. Petersen, R.C. Petersen, Applying Proportional Hazards Models to Response Time Data. M.C. Neale, S.M. Boker, C.S. Bergeman, H.H. Maes, The Utility of Genetically Informative Data in the Study of Development.

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Book SynopsisThis accessible introductory text addresses the core knowledge domain of research methods. It provides concise coverage of the central concepts, techniques, problems and debates in this key area, while encouraging a critical approach and developing students' higher level skills. Activities help readers build the underpinning generic critical thinking and transferable skills they need in order to become independent learners, and to meet the relevant requirements of their programme of study. The text provides core information on designing psychology research studies with key chapters on both quantitative and qualitative designs. Other chapters look at ethics, common problems, and advances and innovations.Table of ContentsIntroduction Designing Psychology Research Studies Ethics Levels of Measurement Experimental Designs Time Course Studies Correlational Designs Introducing Qualitative Design Qualitative Data Collection Qualitative Data Analysis Mixed Methods Common Problems Report Writing

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book to analyze empirically supported treatments by using the newest criteria from the APA''s Society of Clinical Psychology. Providing up-to-date information for clinicians, scholars, and students; this book points readers to many other useful resources--

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Book SynopsisHow can societies effectively reduce crime without exacerbating adversarial relationships between the police and citizens? In recent decades, perhaps the most celebrated innovation in police reform has been the introduction of community policing, where citizens are involved in building channels of dialogue and improving police-citizen collaboration. Despite the widespread adoption of community policing in the United States and increasingly in the developing world, there is still limited credible evidence about whether it realistically increases trust in the police or reduces crime. Through simultaneously coordinated field experiments in a diversity of political contexts, this book presents the outcome of a major research initiative into the efficacy of community policing. Scholars from around the world uncover whether, and under what conditions, this highly influential strategy for tackling crime and insecurity is effective. With its highly innovative approach to cumulative learning, this project represents a new frontier in the study of police reform.

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Book SynopsisIn this Element, the authors introduce Bayesian probability and inference for social science students and practitioners starting from the absolute beginning and walk readers steadily through the Element. The readers will understand Bayesian theory and practice using social science data.

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Book SynopsisThe influence of partisan news is presumed to be powerful, but evidence for its effects on political elites is limited, often based more on anecdotes than science. Using a rigorous quasi-experimental research design, observational data, and open science practices, this book carefully demonstrates how the re-emergence and rise of partisan cable news in the US affected the behavior of political elites during the rise and proliferation of Fox News across media markets between 1996 and 2010. Despite widespread concerns over the ills of partisan news, evidence provides a nuanced, albeit cautionary tale. On one hand, findings suggest that the rise of Fox indeed changed elite political behavior in recent decades. At the same time, the limited conditions under which Fox News'' influence occurred suggests that concerns about the network''s power may be overstated.

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Book SynopsisFirst textbook on contests for advanced undergraduates and graduates in economics, social sciences, and applied mathematics. A new way to reconsider old economic problems - markets, voting, welfare, labour, economics and development - and study non-standard ones: sports, conflicts among groups, sabotage, war, and affirmative action among others.

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Book SynopsisShared leadership entails a dynamic, interactive influence process among groups and teams. Whereas traditional models of leadership emphasize the importance of vertical leadership as a role occupied by an individual in a designated position, shared leadership emphasizes the importance of leadership as an unfolding social process, shifting the influence to the person with the most relevant knowledge, skills and abilities, juxtaposed against the emerging task related requirements. Research shows that shared leadership is a robust predictor of group, team and organizational outcomes across a variety of organizations, industries and cultural contexts. In fact, shared leadership is a better predictor of outcomes than vertical leadership. This Element provides a comprehensive review of the research on shared leadership, and points to promising directions for the future, in terms of both research and the practical application of shared leadership in action. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Book SynopsisDesigned for those undertaking research for the first time, this fully updated edition of The Researcher''s Toolkit is a practical and accessible guide for all those partaking in small-scale research. Jargon-free and assuming no prior knowledge, it covers the entire research process, from defining a research topic or question through to its completion.This second edition has been fully revised by a collaborating team with a wealth of knowledge and practical experience in research project work. Including activity boxes to highlight key concepts and short summary boxes to indicate fundamental elements of various research areas, the chapters cover: The importance of research and framing your research question and research ethics Practical elements associated with planning and executing your research activity The application of survey-based research methods and the value provided by social media as data collection devices Table of Contents1. Why research? What to look out for and what to think of 2. Planning the research 3. Collecting your data: literature and other forms of data 4. Analysing your data 5. Writing it all up 6. Research Impact

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Book SynopsisPsychological Statistics: The Basics walks the reader through the core logic of statistical inference and provides a solid grounding in the techniques necessary to understand modern statistical methods in the psychological and behavioral sciences. This book is designed to be a readable account of the role of statistics in the psychological sciences. Rather than providing a comprehensive reference for statistical methods, Psychological Statistics: The Basics gives the reader an introduction to the core procedures of estimation and model comparison, both of which form the cornerstone of statistical inference in psychology and related fields. Instead of relying on statistical recipes, the book gives the reader the big picture and provides a seamless transition to more advanced methods, including Bayesian model comparison.Psychological Statistics: The Basics not only serves as an excellent primer for beginners but it is also the perfectTrade Review"This book cuts to the very heart of the core principles of statistical inference and does so in a way that is accessible and easily digestible. I honestly wish a book like this one had existed when I was a student – I would have clutched it hard and never let it go!" -- Dr. Ruth Horry, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Swansea University, UK"I see this book as a very useful resource, not only for those who have just started their journey at the university, but also for senior students to experience "aha!" moments while recapping the basics from a unique and nicely presented perspective. I am looking forward to recommending this book to my students as soon as it is available." -- Dr. Krzysztof Cipora, Lecturer in Mathematical Cognition, Loughborough University, UK"As a new graduate student, I was suddenly faced with academic papers presenting statistical methods. But with hardly any statistical understanding myself, I struggled to do this well. I longed for a book that I could easily refer back to. This is that book. The explanations are very accessible, the examples are relatable, and the book is concise. I thoroughly recommend it." -- Jennifer Read, Graduate Student in Education, University of Derby, UK"If you want to understand why we use statistics in psychology, this is the book for you!" -- Dawn Short, Ph.D. student in Psychology, Abertay University, UK"This is an accessible and helpful educational tool that students with a variety of backgrounds will enjoy. The author incorporates clear examples and is able to frame advanced concepts in a simple and straightforward way." -- Dr. Dawn Weatherford, Associate Professor of Psychology, Texas A&M University - San Antonio, USATable of Contents1. A (Very) Brief Introduction to Statistical Inference 2. Describing the Observed Data 3. Modeling the Observed Data 4. How Likely is the Observed Data? 5. Comparing Statistical Models 6. Introduction to the t-test 7. Bayesian Model Comparison 8. Recap and Next Steps

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Book SynopsisThe Generic Qualitative Approach to a Dissertation in the Social Sciences: A Step by Step Guide is a practical guide for the graduate students and faculty planning and executing a generic qualitative dissertation in the social sciences. Generic qualitative research is a methodology that seeks to understand human experience by taking a qualitative stance and using qualitative procedures. Based on Sandra Kostere and Kim Kostere's experiences of serving on dissertation committees, this book aims to demystify both the nuances and the procedures of qualitative research, with the aim of empowering students to conduct meaningful dissertation research and present findings that are rigorous, credible, and trustworthy. It examines the fundamental principles and assumptions underlying the generic qualitative method, then covers each stage of the research process including creation of research questions, interviews, and then offers three ways of analyzing the data gathered and presentiTable of Contents1. Beginning the Journey 2. The Research Question 3. Research Plan 4. Preparing for the Interview 5. Other Qualitative Data Collection Methods 6. Data Analysis 7. Presentation of the Data 8. Completing the Journey

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Book SynopsisQuantitative Psychological Research: The Complete Student''s Companion, expertly guides the reader through all the stages involved in undertaking quantitative psychological research: designing a study, choosing a sample of people, undertaking the study, analysing the data, and reporting the research.Accessibly written and clearly presented, the book is designed for anyone learning to conduct quantitative psychological research as well being a reference work for professional psychologists. It covers the full research process, from the original idea to reporting the completed study, emphasizing the importance of looking beyond statistical significance in evaluating data. The book provides step-by-step guidance on choosing, interpreting and reporting the appropriate analysis, featuring worked examples and extended calculations as appendices for readers who wish to delve further.This edition features a new chapter examining ideas on how causality might be identified when dTable of ContentsDetailed contents of chapters Preface Part 1Introduction 1 The methods used in psychological research Part 2Choice of topic, measures and research design 2 The preliminary stages of research 3 Variables and the validity of research designs 4 Research designs and their internal validity Part 3Methods 5 Asking questions I: Interviews and surveys 6 Asking questions II: Measuring attitudes and meaning 7 Observation and content analysis Part 4Data and analysis 8 Scales of measurement 9 Summarising and describing data 10 Going beyond description 11 Samples and populations 12 Analysis of differences between a single sample and a population 13 Effect size and power 14 Parametric and non-parametric tests 15 Analysis of differences between two levels of an independent variable 16 Preliminary analysis of designs with one independent variable with more than two levels 17 Analysis of designs with more than one independent variable 18 Subsequent analysis after ANOVA or χ2 19 Analysis of relationships I: Correlation 20 Analysis of relationships II: Regression 21 Analysis of relationships III: Logistic regression22 Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) 23 Screening data 24 Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA)25 Multivariate analysis 26 Meta-analysis 27 Bayesian statistics28 Cause and effectPart 5Sharing the results 29 Reporting research AppendixesI. Descriptive statistics (linked to Chapter 9)II. Sampling and confidence intervals for proportions (linked to Chapter 11)III. Comparing a sample with a population (linked to Chapter 12 and Chapter 11)IV. The power of a one-group z-test and finding sample sizes via confidence intervals (linked to Chapter 13)V. Data transformation and goodness-of-fit tests (linked to Chapter 14)VI. Seeking differences between two levels of an independent variable (linked to Chapter 15)VII. Seeking differences between more than two levels of an independent variable (linked to Chapter 16)VIII. Analysis of designs with more than one independent variable (linked to Chapter 17)IX. Subsequent analysis after ANOVA or χ2 (linked to Chapter 18)X. Correlation and reliability (linked to Chapter 19)XI. Linear Regression (linked to Chapter 20)XII. Logistic regression (linked to Chapter 21)XIII. ANCOVA (linked to Chapter 22)XIV. Evaluation of measures: Item and discriminative analysis, and accuracy of tests (linked to Chapter 6)XV. Unbalanced designs(linked to Chapter 23)XVI Exploratory Factor Analysis (linked to Chapter 24)XVII. Meta-analysis (linked to Chapter 26)XVIII. Bayesian statistics(linked to Chapter 27)XIX. Probability tables XX. Power tables XXI. Miscellaneous tables References Glossary of symbols Author indexSubject index

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Book SynopsisThis book revisits the arguments by which Harvey Sacks and Harold Garfinkel opposed the widespread attempt in the social sciences to construct disciplinary theories and methods in place of common-sense knowledge of human action, and proposed instead an alternative that would investigate the organised methods of natural language use and common-sense reasoning that constitute social orders arguments that led to the establishment and proliferation of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. As the very constructive analysis that they opposed has begun to be incorporated into influential lines of research in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, the authors return to the founding insights of the field and reiterate the importance of Garfinkel and Sacks' original and controversial proposals for an alternate sociology of practical action and practical reasoning. Showing how constructive analysis has become entrenched in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis and arguiTable of ContentsIntroduction. Part I: Foundations 1. On Formal Structures of Practical Action. 2. Sequential Analysis as an Investigation of Formal Structures of Practical Action. 3. Ethnomethodological Studies of Work. Part II: Conversation Analysis. 4. Autonomous Structures of Conversational Actions. 5. Technical and Vernacular Description. Part III: Studies of Work and Organisational Contexts. 6. Institutional Talk. 7. Workplace and Work-Practice Studies. Part IV: Normalising EMCA. 8. Importing Constructive Analytic Theory and Method. 9. The Problem with Collections. 10. A Case Study: Apologies and Constructive Analysis. 11. Conclusion. References.

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Book SynopsisMost organizations today operate in volatile economic and social environments and qualitative research plays an essential role in investigating leadership and management problems. This unique volume offers novice and experienced researchers a brief, student-centric research methods text specifically devoted to the multiple case study design.The multiple case study design is a valuable qualitative research tool in studying the links between the personal, social, behavioral, psychological, organizational, cultural, and environmental factors that guide organizational and leadership development. Case study research is essential for the in-depth study of participants'' perspectives on the phenomenon within its natural context. Rigorously designed management and leadership case studies in the extant literature have a central focus on individual managers'' and leaders'' stories and their perceptions of the broader forces operating within and outside their organizations. This Table of Contents1. A Refresher on the Philosophical Foundations of Academic Research 2. Research Methodologies: The Basics 3. The Role of Theory in Qualitative Research 4. How does the Novice Researcher Design a Multiple Case Study? 5. The Advantage of the Multiple Case Study Design for Management Researchers 6. Applying Data Collection Methods in Multiple Case Study Research 7. The Data Analysis Process for Multiple Case Study Research 8. Extending Theory with Multiple Case Study Design 9. Incorporating Multiple Case Design and Methodologies into Teaching and Professional Practice 10. Writing and Publishing Multiple Case Study Research 11. Concluding Thoughts

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