Research methods / methodology Books
Taylor & Francis Ltd Educational Research Practice in Southern
Book SynopsisBringing together a unique collection of 18 insightful and innovative internationally focused articles, Educational Research Practice in Southern Contexts offers reflections, case studies, and critically, research methods and processes which decentre, reframe, and reimagine conventional educational research strategies and operationalise the tenets of decolonising theory.This anthology represents a valuable teaching resource. It provides readers with the chance to read high-quality examples of research that critique current ways of doing research and to reflect on how research methods can contribute to the project of decolonising knowledge production in and about education in, for example, Africa, South Asia, Asia, and Latin America. It grapples with everyday dilemmas and tricky ethical questions about protection, consent, voice, cultural sensitivity, and validation, by engaging with real-world situations and increasing the potential for innovation and new collaborationTrade Review"Many universities are now exploring how to decolonise their curricula. But how can we transform the North-South hierarchies often taken as ‘given’ within educational research? This book brings together a stimulating collection of methodological and theoretical reflections by educational researchers working in diverse contexts in the Global South. Moving beyond the familiar ‘insider-outsider’ debates in educational research, these writers engage with the political, cultural and institutional aspects of knowledge construction. This exciting collection will prove invaluable to educational researchers committed to addressing inequalities in cultural values, voice, identities and knowledges."Anna Robinson-Pant, Professor/UNESCO Chair in Adult Literacy and Learning for Social Transformation, School of Education and Lifelong Learning, University of East Anglia, UK "Researching research itself – how knowledge is produced, what methodologies are deployed, what research practices are at play – in the context of resurgent and insurgent decolonisation of the 21st century is urgent and very necessary. This well-curated volume does just this very well from diverse vantage points, covering various aspects of ethics, gender, responsibility, reflexivity, spirituality, sovereignty, visuality, polyvocality, and inequality as they impinge on research itself. The field of education is the departure point in the agenda to critique hegemonic knowledge paradigms and articulation of submerged Southern epistemologies."Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Professor/Chair of Epistemologies of the Global South and Vice-Dean of Research in the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, University of Bayreuth, Germany "There's much talk now of decolonizing knowledge. What does that mean for education, and specifically for research in education? Sharlene Swartz, Nidhi Singal and Madeleine Arnot have put together a unique and wide-ranging collection, across continents and cultures. This book gives us distinctive perspectives on conceptual debates, hands-on research experience, and a remarkable range of research methods, from statistics to poetry, all considered from global South positions." Raewyn Connell, Professor Emerita, University of Sydney, AustraliaTable of Contents1. Recentring, reframing and reimagining the canons of educational research PART 1: RECENTRING SOUTHERN EXPERIENCES OF EDUCATION, KNOWLEDGE AND POWER 2. Towards a postcolonial research ethics in comparative and international education 3. Researching disability and education: Rigour, respect, and responsibility 4. Decentring hegemonic gender theory: The implications for educational research 5. Indigenous anti-colonial knowledge as ‘heritage knowledge’ for promoting Black/African education in diasporic contexts 6. Postcolonial models, cultural transfers and transnational perspectives in Latin America: A research agenda PART 2: REFRAMING THE CODES, RULES, AND RITUALS OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH PRACTICE 7. Reflexivity and the politics of knowledge: Researchers as ‘brokers’ and ‘translators’ of educational development 8. Non-Chinese researchers conducting research in Chinese cultures: Critical reflections 9. (Re)Centering the spirit: A spiritual black feminist take on cultivating right relationships in qualitative research 10. Fieldwork for language education research in rural Bangladesh: Ethical issues and dilemmas 11. Informed consent in educational research in the South: Tensions and accommodations PART 3: RE-IMAGINING EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH APPROACHES FOR EMANCIPATION 12. Indigenous data, indigenous methodologies and indigenous data sovereignty 13. Focus groups and methodological rigour outside the minority world: Making the method work to its strengths in Tanzania 14. Social Network Interviewing as an emancipatory Southern methodological innovation 15. Getting the picture and changing the picture: Visual methodologies and educational research in South Africa 16. Entering an ambiguous space: Evoking polyvocality in educational research through collective poetic inquiry 17. Researching family lives, schooling and structural inequality in rural Punjab: The power of a habitus listening guide 18. Pedagogy of absence, conflict, and emergence: Contributions to the decolonisation of education from the Native American, Afro-Portuguese and Romani experiences
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Research as Accompaniment
Book SynopsisThis volume expands conversations about participatory, community-engaged, and action-oriented research that inspires social change.The authors contend that long-term community partnerships, inspired by solidarity and characterized by equality and reciprocity, result in a deep understanding of community concerns and increase the likelihood that research findings will have an impact on both the community partners and the broader society. Such research relationships, the authors maintain, are best understood as accompaniment. This book recognizes the potential as well as constraints of conceptualizing research as accompaniment and emphasizes that this approach is both a continuum and a process.Suitable for students and scholars of ethnographic and qualitative methods (and professionals using those methods, such as those in non-government organizations), it will appeal to those interested in research with communities in a wide variety of social science and other d
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Embracing Ethnography
Book SynopsisThis book calls for those interested in robust construction research to embrace ethnography in all its forms, including rapid ethnographies, ethnographic-action research, autoethnography, as well as longer-term ethnographies.The diversification of ethnographic approaches, as well as ethnographers, will lead to rich insights that can advance the industry theoretically and practically. We share experiences, key considerations and recommendations from leading construction ethnographic researchers from around the world to provide discussion, reflection and understanding into doing ethnography in the construction industry.This book is aimed at academics, students, consultants, editors, reviewers, policymakers, funders and others interested in robust research in the construction industry and built environment but will also be useful for those undertaking research within organisations in other industries.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Experimental Design in Psychology
Book SynopsisThis text is about doing science and the active process of reading, learning, thinking, generating ideas, designing experiments, and the logistics surrounding each step of the research process. In easy-to-read, conversational language, Kim MacLin teaches students experimental design principles and techniques using a tutorial approach in which students read, critique, and analyze over 75 actual experiments from every major area of psychology. She provides them with real-world information about how science in psychology is conducted and how they can participate.Recognizing that students come to an experimental design course with their own interests and perspectives, MacLin covers many subdisciplines of psychology throughout the text, including IO psychology, child psychology, social psychology, behavioral psychology, cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, health psychology, educational/school psychology, legal psychology, and personality psychology, among others. ParTable of ContentsPreface Permissions Acknowledgements Part 1 - Basic Principles in Experimental Design 1. An Introduction to Scientific Inquiry 2. The Psychological Literature 3. Basic Experimental Design in Psychology 4. Advanced Design Techniques 5. Using Experimental Design to Control Variables 6. Control of Subject Variables 7. Design Critiques 8. Ethics of Experimental Research 9. The Research Process Part 2- Analysis of Experiments 10. The Look of Love 11. False Memories for Fake News 12. Emotions and Chronic Fatigue 13. Temperature and Loneliness 14. Violent Media 15. Aggression and Schizophrenia 16. Workplace Deviance 17. Controlling Racial Prejudice 18. Mandela Effect 19. False Confessions 20. Androgens and Toy Preference 21. Language-Trained Chimpanzees 22. Peer Excellence and Quitting 23. Remembering and Eyes 24. Non-Suicidal Self-Injury 25. Police Responses to Criminal Suspects 26. Sleep Final, Final Note Appendix A & B Glossary References Name Index Subject Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Statistical Analysis of Questionnaires
Book SynopsisStatistical Analysis of Questionnaires: A Unified Approach Based on R and Stata presents special statistical methods for analyzing data collected by questionnaires. The book takes an applied approach to testing and measurement tasks, mirroring the growing use of statistical methods and software in education, psychology, sociology, and other fields. It is suitable for graduate students in applied statistics and psychometrics and practitioners in education, health, and marketing.The book covers the foundations of classical test theory (CTT), test reliability, validity, and scaling as well as item response theory (IRT) fundamentals and IRT for dichotomous and polytomous items. The authors explore the latest IRT extensions, such as IRT models with covariates, multidimensional IRT models, IRT models for hierarchical and longitudinal data, and latent class IRT models. They also describe estimation methods and diagnostics, including graphiTrade Review"This book follows a well established approach to the psychometric analysis of questionnaire data as found in educational, survey and medical research. The authors provide an in-depth discussion of the analysis of score reliability and item properties grounded in classical test theory (CTT), and of the probabilistic modeling of individual responses based on latent variable models. … Chapter 5 is a bit different and focus on the estimation of item and person parameters and the diagnostic of IRT models. The first part is rather technical but it does a good job at describing Statistical Analysis of Questionnaires the pros and cons of each technique–joint, conditional and marginal maximum likelihood–and how they could be implemented using custom software. … The authors conclude (…) by highlighting multidimensional IRT models which allow to relax the strong hypothesis of unidimensionality that is attached to all previous models, as well as the main strengths of structural equation models which can be viewed as providing the glue between factor analytic methods and IRT. Overall, the authors succeed at presenting a solid and reliable framework for psychometric analysis of questionnaire data."— Christophe Lalanne, Paris-Diderot University, in the Journal of Statistical Software, November 2017Table of ContentsPreliminaries. Classical Test Theory. Item Response Theory Models for Dichotomous Items. Item Response Theory Models for Polytomous Items. Estimation Methods and Diagnostics. Some Extensions of Traditional Item Response Theory Models.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Expanding Approaches to Thematic Analysis
Book SynopsisExpanding Approaches to Thematic Analysis: Creative Engagements with Qualitative Data springboards readers into a world where generating themes from qualitative data is a creative, experimental, and wondrous process!While no one ever said it had to be, thematic analysis is invariably described as a step-by-step process that involves coding. Yet qualitative data analysis is more than a technical procedureit invokes imagination and inspirationintuitional engagements that are as vital to the data analysis process as they are difficult to describe. This edited book begins with two premises: (1) there is more than one way to theme data, and (2) qualitative researchers do not have to code to get to themes. Each chapter introduces readers to a different approach to thematic analysis, explores that approach's theoretical and disciplinary roots, and illustrates how that approach can be used to generate themes. Approaches include annotating, memoing, storying, writing, compo
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Meaningful Journeys
Book SynopsisMeaningful Journeys is an edited collection of autoethnographies underpinned by the conceptual, philosophical, and etymological origins of journeying,' questing,' and traditional and modern understandings of pilgrimage.'The volume contains chapters on the ways in which all these concepts intersect with identity and identity transformation. These range across narratives of sport; adventure; preferred identity; curative religion; revered location; nostalgia; grief resolution; out of suitcase' travels; and pilgrimage journeys understood in more traditional senses. The collection showcases and promotes the identity transformational quest as an important conceptual nuance of narrative autoethnography. Readers will engage with the ways in which contributing authors craft their emerging selves into preferred identities, which showcase personal and relational change in action.This book is essential reading for students and practitioners of autoethnography and q
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Taylor & Francis Social Statistics
Book SynopsisWith a clear, engaging writing style and fascinating examples using a variety of real data, this text covers the contemporary statistical techniques that students will encounter in the world of social research. It covers these techniques at an introductory level and carefully guides students through increasingly complex examples without intimidating them. Recurrent examples using four timely topicsâimmigration, income inequality, the distribution of household labor, and health (including attitudes toward doctors and pandemic restrictions)âhelp students understand how the techniques fit together and how to use the techniques in combination with one another. A superb author-created web resource accompanies the text. How to make clear presentations of research results is also a feature of the text.New to this edition: Most of the literature examples that end each chapter are new and use very recent research from top academic journals (over half of the new literature examples are from 2023 or 2024). They feature research about some of the most pertinent and provocative social issues of the day: political polarization, conspiracy beliefs, mental health, transgender support, racial stereotypes, vaccine refusal, sexual harassment, and numerous facets of the COVID-19 pandemic. Examples throughout the book use the most recent data from the General Social Survey. Four timely topics are threaded throughout the book: immigration, income inequality, the distribution of household labor, and health. Linneman uses these topics recurrently with different statistical techniques to illustrate how the techniques are related to one another. The new edition more explicitly emphasizes that the various techniques the students are learning are often used in combination with one another. Linneman carefully scaffolds the techniques, introducing a new technique and then showing how this technique can be combined with techniques taught in previous chapters. He does this with a new emphasis on psychologically supporting students who might be trepidatious about their newfound statistical skills.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Exoskeletal Devices and the Body
Book SynopsisThis book enquires from a sociological perspective into contemporary corporeal transformations brought about by exoskeletal devices.Challenging material boundaries of human bodies, their capacities, (in)abilities and skills, exoskeletal devices question social norms of corporeal deviance and extension. Through multi-sited ethnography, interviews and analyses of contemporary science and technology studies (STS), sociological literature and current approaches from the phenomenology of the body, this book shows how exoskeletons contribute to forging three contemporary corporeal worlds: impairment, ability and above-average ability.The text questions deeply held ideas about enhancement and augmentation, corporeal deviance and normality, in the three studied fields of rehabilitation, industry and the armed forces. It will appeal to scholars and advanced students across the social sciences and humanities, including from sociology, philosophy, body studies, and science and teTable of Contents1. Introduction: From science fictions to science facts Part I. Technological objects facing embodied subjects 2. Among bodies, exoskeletons and sites 3. Where exoskeletons aim to enter: Realms of human bodies Part II. Exoskeletons and their corporeal worlds 4. Impaired bodies 5. Able bodies Part III. What exoskeletons do to the body: Advancing corporealities6. New body shapes 7. Reinvesting corporeal capabilities: "Deviance" and "extension" redefined 8. Epilogue: Producing bodies while extending them
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Intersectional Feminist Research Methodologies
Book SynopsisIntersectional Feminist Research Methodologies: Applications in the Social Sciences and Humanities is a multi-disciplinary volume in which emerging and established scholars present new feminist research methods and re-evaluate existing approaches.This collection examines how both new and established feminist methods address intersecting identities and structures of inequality including gender, race, sexuality, and class. Each chapter provides a case study of a methodology or methodologies that have been adopted, developed, or adapted within the author''s field including sociology, criminology, political science, history, literature, and performance studies. The volume articulates the importance of knowledge production that arises from the situated and lived experiences of individuals, groups, and communities. It discusses how we survive as feminists in today's neoliberal universities, and includes research on trans and nonbinary people, Indonesian
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Taylor & Francis Ltd How to QuantCrit
Book SynopsisHow to QuantCrit equips researchers and users of quantitative data with practices to alter how they collect and analyze quantitative data. Using Quantitative Critical Race Theory (QuantCrit) as a framework, this book develops the foundation for an iterative praxis to explore a range of questions that prompt practitioners and stakeholders to be engaged critics in working towards a more just and equitable society.The book begins with an overview of QuantCrit and its five tenets; 1) the centrality of racism; 2) numbers are not neutral; 3) categories are neither natural' nor given 4) the importance voice and insight (data cannot speak for themselves); and 5) a social justice/equity orientation (Gillborn et al, 2018). Each subsequent chapter begins with a more detailed explanation and exploration of the tenet. Then, the chapters move into actionable steps that researchers and data users can take to implement QuantCrit into applied practice. Finally, the book closes with tho
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Taylor & Francis Social Psychology
Book SynopsisThis topical textbook provides a thorough insight into the discipline of social psychology, presenting students with a rich and engaging account of the human social experience.Fully revised, the second edition includes a greater emphasis on cutting-edge topics within social psychology, including AI, virtual reality, social media, and political polarization. The textbook uses an accessible and readable style to show how the fieldâs dizzying and highly fragmented array of topics, models, theories, and paradigms can best be understood through a coherent conceptual narrative that builds on learning from previous chapters. The text also examines recent developments, such as how computer simulations and big data supplement the traditional methods of experiment and correlation. It contains a range of features, including key term glossaries and compact âœsumming up and looking aheadâ overviews for ease of reading.Social Psychology: Exploring the Dynamics of Human Experience
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Doctoral Proposal Writing
Book SynopsisDoctoral Proposal Writing is an essential guide for current and prospective international doctoral students wishing to apply and study for a PhD in the UK, and other countries where courses are conducted in English.The book supports students in choosing a suitable research topic and writing an effective proposal for investigating this topic across a range of forms of doctoral research, across several disciplines, with an emphasis on international students and students with English as an additional language. The author offers guidance for prospective doctoral students in their applications to study for a doctorate, in writing their initial proposals once they have been enrolled and, if necessary, in writing subsequent extended proposals. The book also includes content on developing academic writing, including paragraph writing, argumentation, doing literature reviews, constructing methodologies and using evidence and referencing. The book ends by covering giving a propo
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Taylor & Francis Ltd How to Use SPSS
Book SynopsisHow to Use SPSS is designed with the novice computer user in mind and for people who have no previous experience using SPSS. Each chapter is divided into short sections that describe the statistic being used, important underlying assumptions, and how to interpret the results and express them in a research report.The book begins with the basics, such as starting SPSS, defining variables, and entering and saving data. It covers all major statistical techniques typically taught in beginning statistics classes, such a descriptive statistics, graphing data, prediction and association, parametric inferential statistics, nonparametric inferential statistics and statistics for test construction.More than 275 screenshots (including sample output) throughout the book show students exactly what to expect as they follow along using SPSS. The book includes a glossary of statistical terms and practice exercises. A complete set of online resources including video tutorials and output files for students, and PowerPoint slides and test bank questions for instructors, make How to Use SPSS the definitive, field-tested resource for learning SPSS.New to this edition: Fully updated to the reflect SPSS version 29. Every screen shot has been recaptured. New video supplements for all practice exercises. References to significance levels have been updated to reflect the new SPSS output format. Effect size is now shown in output for many procedures and reference to some effect size has been moved from Appendix A to be more integrated into the chapters. Sample results sections now also include effect size where SPSS directly calculates effect size. A new section covering the EXPLORE command has been added to Chapter 3. Table of ContentsPreface to the Twelfth Edition 1. Getting Started 2. Entering and Modifying Data 3. Descriptive Statistics 4. Graphing Data 5. Prediction and Association 6. Basic Parametric Inferential Statistics and t-tests 7. ANOVA Models 8. Nonparametric Inferential Statistics 9. Test Construction Appendix A. Effect Size Appendix B. Practice Exercise Data Sets Appendix C. Sample Data Files Used in Text Appendix D. SPSS Syntax Basics Appendix E. Glossary Appendix F. Selecting the Appropriate Inferential Test Appendix G. Answer Key
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Taylor & Francis Ltd International Business Research
Book SynopsisDrawing on contributions from nine prominent scholars, the book reflects on global aspects of research in work, employment, leadership, management, and business. It follows current trends in global business research and recommends directions for closing the gaps between theory and practice for the benefit of executives in multinational corporations, academics, and international transients.Work and employment remain important and a core part of life, giving not only a sense of purpose, routine and meaning, but also independence and the ability to connect and contribute to the lives of others and society. Leadership styles and management behaviors in earlier multi-country studies did not demonstrate significant associative patterns regarding interpersonal leadership in different countries, and the use of mainstream single-country leadership meta-categories was invalidated. Thus, future studies of leadership should focus on investigating interpersonal leadership across nationaTable of ContentsPreface Introduction - Half a century of culture, work, employment, and leadership scholarship 1. ISMO and international business: past and future 2. Perspectives on work, employment and management: Asia, comparisons and convergence 3. Bringing context back into international business studies: own research experiences, reflections and suggestions for future research 4. Interpersonal leadership across cultures: a historical exposé and a research agenda 5. From ‘elites’ to ‘everyone': re-framing international mobility scholarship to be all-encompassing 6. From Comparative Management to Supranational Management
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Taylor & Francis Mythologizing the Past
Book SynopsisThis book examines the origins, development, and current state of myths surrounding 'lost civilizations' and, more importantly, how these myths contribute to modern political ideologies. By examining the myths, legends, and scientific record concerning Atlantis, the Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons, and the Celts, pre-Contact North America and the Aryans, this book reveals the faulty science, logical fallacies, anti-intellectualism, and outright racism motivating the recurrent interest in them. It delineates the development of pseudohistory from its allegorical Classical origins, through renaissance and enlightenment literature, to nineteenth-century popular writing, and finally to modern pseudoscience. It describes how at every stage pseudohistory has been used to reinforce and reproduce dominant ideologies by marginalizing subordinate groups in favor of social elites. This book is ideal not only for the general reader interested in world history, but also for courses across the humanitie
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Taylor & Francis The Disabled Anthropologist
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Taylor & Francis Ltd An Introduction to Metascience
Book SynopsisAn Introduction to Metascience delves into core metascientific concepts, offering a critical examination of current knowledge creation processes and scrutinising researchers and their methodologies across disciplines.This book stands alone as a comprehensive guide to metascience, offering readers a singular resource for understanding and implementing metascientific principles into their research practices. Readers will find this book invaluable for perfecting their research skills and enhancing the quality of their academic work. It exposes the reader to the intricacies of research processes, prompting a reevaluation of preconceived notions and fostering a deeper understanding of the flaws and solutions inherent in knowledge creation. Furthermore, it offers thought-provoking insights into implementing strategies to enhance research productivity, and it elucidates both the benefits and pitfalls of incorporating artificial intelligence in research production.Desig
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Taylor & Francis Research Methodology and Quantitative Techniques
Book SynopsisResearch Methodology and Quantitative Techniques is a guide tailored for students and research scholars navigating the intricate landscape of research degrees across various disciplines.From clearing coursework to formulating research synopses, selecting methodologies, conducting analysis, and penning impactful theses, this book is a roadmap for every stage of the research journey. It empowers scholars to undertake original, quality research that not only fulfills academic requirements but also contributes to the burgeoning pool of knowledge in diverse fields. Uniquely structured to address the specific needs of researchers, this guide goes beyond traditional boundaries, delving into areas like IPRs and research ethics often overlooked in discipline-oriented texts. By offering comprehensive support, from topic selection to publication, it aims to be the go-to resource for researchers seeking a seamless path from inception to dissemination.This book, Research
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Taylor & Francis Critical Qualitative Research Social Justice
Critical Qualitative Research & Social Justice is an encyclopedia-esque book that is a must have for any researcher interested in critical and social justice qualitative research.It helps readers understand and navigate the labyrinthine of critical and social justice concepts available for qualitative research studies. The book focuses on critical, decolonial, transformative, critical interpretivist, participatory, or related approaches that disrupt dominant paradigms, unapologetically name issues of power, identify and overturn oppressive policies, and engage with communities in meaningful ways. There are 28 Chapters that take up a different critical and/or social justice research concept and defines it for readers in the chapter. The chapters are not mutually exclusive but overlap and connect with each other. As such, readers can draw from different chapters as they create their own critical and/or social justice research designs.This book will be of interest
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Taylor & Francis A StepbyStep Guide to Qualitative Data Coding
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Taylor & Francis The Making of a Sociologist
Book SynopsisThis book offers a journey through the problems and the progress of the discipline of sociology in the UK and Europe throughout the second half of the twentieth century via an exploration of seven social settings from the life of a now eminent sociologist. It conceptualises the complex relation that exists between being and knowing, and between the personal knowledge that comes from lived experience and the essentially impersonal knowledge that any science seeks to pursue. The seven â very contrasting â settings are described in detail, together with reference to some of their leading personalities, such as David Glass, Karl Popper, Norbert Elias, Sebastian Sprott, Noel Annan, E. M. Forster, GÃsta Rehn, Chelly Halsey, Fred Hirsch and JÃrgen Habermas. In each case, the author shows how his lived experience within these settings formed a substratum of his sociology and how he navigated the line between personal knowledge as a creative resource and personal knowledge as bias using meth
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Taylor & Francis Doing Excellent Social Research with Documents
Book SynopsisIn todayâs society we increasingly create and consume written content and images. This includes a range of sources, from social media posts to records held within organisations, and everything in between, including news articles, blogs, shopping lists and official government documents. Critically reading these âdocumentsâ can help us to understand a huge amount about society. Doing Excellent Social Research with Documents includes guidance on how to âread between the linesâ, and provides an overview of six research projects which use documents as data.Chapter 8 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. Trade Review'Grant’s text offers an excellent overview of the practicalities attendant on the use of documents in social research. It will no doubt prove to be an indispensable guide for both novice and practiced researchers, and is worthy of a prime slot on the bookshelf.'- Lindsay Prior, Emeritus Professor of Sociology & Honorary Professor, School of Public Health, Queen’s University of Belfast'This truly is an excellent resource for both students and fully-fledged academics seeking to get their teeth into documentary research. Aimee Grant's style is clear and accessible, whilst also unflinching in its approach to dealing with the nitty-gritty of the practicalities of accessing, sampling and analysing documents for effective scholarship. The 'how' of documentary research is clearly underpinned by the 'why', tutoring the reader in the theoretical and ethical context of research with documents. The practical approach, complete with hands-on activities and detailed examples, makes this an essential resource for anyone looking for a step-by-step guide to doing documentary research.'- Nadia von Benzon, Lecturer in Human Geography, Lancaster University'Documents, be they digital or paper, are central to our social life, yet they often receive little attention. Aimee Grant’s excellent book really helps us think about the practical and conceptual issues we can face when working with documents. She shows us, through a range of really useful examples, the wonderful possibilities of doing social research with documents.'- Tim Rapley, Professor of Applied Health Care Research, Northumbria University"This book makes a compelling case for why documents make great data for social science research. Doing EXCELLENT social research with documents is an accessible guide and a very welcome addition to the methods literature." - Amanda Coffey, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Student Experience and Academic Standards, Cardiff University'This is essential reading for anyone using documentary analysis in their research – I only wish it had been available during my doctoral studies! It is interdisciplinary in nature and, as a socio-legal scholar using documentary analysis in researching the influence of non-governmental organisations in international human rights law, I found much of the content to be really valuable. The author notes that many researchers may have been improvising up until now. Improvise no more, the handbook for documentary analysis has arrived.'- Fiona McGaughey, Director of Higher Degrees (Coursework), University of Western Australia Law School"This fantastic text will support those conducting research with documentary sources, especially through its practical examples and guidance. The author skilfully discusses both historical and contemporary documents in this lively, engaging and accessible text for researchers and students."- Sarah Mills, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, Loughborough University'This is a well written and highly useful book. It covers theoretical and empirical issues in an accessible way, and enables researchers to improve the quality and impact of their work.'- Kirstein Rummery, Professor of Social Policy and Co-Director of Centre for Gender and Feminist Studies, University of StirlingTable of Contents1. Introduction: Documents, Documents Everywhere 2. How to Do Excellent Research with Documents: General Principles Section I: Documents Found in Isolation from Their Authors 3. Traditional Media: Investigating the Construction of Societal Norms 4. Historical and Official Documents: Moving Beyond Simple Interpretations 5. Documents Created by Individuals: Collection and Analysis of Multi-Modal Content Section II: Documents as An Addition to Existing Qualitative Research Methods 6. Triangulation of Findings from Primary Research: Things We Might Not Have Otherwise Been Able to Establish 7. Documents in Ethnographic Research: Things We Might Not Have Been Able to Observe 8. Participant Created Documents as An Elicitation Tool: Things We Might Not Have Otherwise Been Told 9. Reviewing and Applying Concepts to Your Research Project
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Taylor & Francis Interviewing in a Changing World
Book SynopsisInterviewing in a Changing World offers students the broadest coverage of interviewing available today by including several unique interview situations. Students begin to develop a better understanding of how to utilize strong interviewing skills in several different settings, as this text demonstrates that interviewing techniques differ in accordance with varying situations and contexts. The Second Edition covers employment contexts such as job interviews, persuasive interviews, performance and appraisal interviews, as well as media interviews on radio, television, newspapers, and political reporting. There are two full chapters on research, including interviewing skills needed for both qualitative and quantitative research. The book covers several unique interviewing situations that are on the cutting edge of communication research with an interview with a professional from the field and multiple sidebars on related theoretical and applied issues within each chapter.Table of ContentsSECTION 1: INTRODUCTION The Basics of Interviewing I. Types of InterviewsA. Workplace InterviewsB. Informational InterviewsC. InterrogationsD. Health InterviewsII. Phases in the Interview ProcessA. PreparationB. OpeningC. Q & AD. ClosingIII. Techniques for InterviewsA. Question SequenceB. Verbal Tools1. Types of Questions2. The Use of SilenceC. MonitoringD. FeedbackV. Interview StructureVI. Interviewer/Interviewee RelationshipVII. Nonverbal Issues in the InterviewVIII. SummarySECTION 2: INTERVIEWING IN THE ORGANIZATIONAL SETTING2. The Employment Interview: The Employer’s PerspectiveI. The Purpose of Job InterviewsII. The Interviewer’s PreparationA. Assessing the Organization’s NeedsB. Advertising the PositionC. Filtering the ApplicantsIII. Conducting the InterviewA. Assessing CapabilityB. Assessing Work EthicC. Assessing Interpersonal MaturityIV. The Behavioral InterviewV. Varying by Employment PurposeVI. The Resume ProbeVII. Puzzle-Based InterviewsVIII. The Legal Side of Employment InterviewsIX. Summary3. The Employment Interview: The Job Applicant’s PerspectiveI. Starting the ProcessII. ResumesA. What to DoB. What Not to DoIII. Cover LettersIV. Preparing for the InterviewV. Summary4. Online Employment Interviews: Changing the GameI. The Online Process: First the Ad and then the InterviewII. On-line InterviewsIII. Nailing the Online Interview Preparation & Practice Technology and set-up The Interview IV. Follow-upV. Summary5. Performance Appraisal and Exit InterviewsI. Purposes of Appraisal InterviewsII. Levels of AssessmentIII. Legal IssuesA. DiscriminationB. HarassmentIV. Common Problems with Appraisal InterviewsA. Problems with ReliabilityB. Problems with ValidityV. Methods of Performance AppraisalA. Management by Objectives.B. Behavioral EvaluationsC. Forced RankingsVI. Improving Performance AppraisalsVII. Employee ResponsesVIII. The Exit InterviewIX. SummarySECTION 3: INTERVIEWING IN THE MEDIA6. Newspaper InterviewsI. The Priority of AccuracyII. The Interview ProcessIII. Types of Journalistic InterviewsA. News/Features InterviewsB. Press ConferencesC. Roundup InterviewsD. Reluctant SourcesIV. Levels of ConfidentialityV. Summary7. Interviews on Radio and TelevisionI. The Sound BiteII. Types of Broadcast InterviewsA. Live InterviewsB. Spot InterviewsC. Public Official InterviewsD. Celebrity Interviews.III. Tricks of the TradeIV. The Other Side of the MicrophoneV. Checkbook JournalismVI. Summary8. Interviews in the Political ArenaI. The Press SecretaryII. Media InterviewsA. Newspaper InterviewsB. Broadcast InterviewsIII. Spin DoctorsA. PrimingB. FramingC. Word ChoiceIV. Sunday News ShowsV. Campaign DebatesVI. Legislative HearingsVII. SummarySECTION 4: RESEARCH INTERVIEWS9. Qualitative Research InterviewsI. In-Depth InterviewsA. Retrospective InterviewsB. Known Associates InterviewsC. Field InterviewingD. Extended Telephone InterviewsII. Focus GroupsIII. Participant-Observation ResearchIV. Data AnalysisV. Ethical QuestionsVI. Summary10. Quantitative Research InterviewsI. Public Opinion SurveysII. The Polling ProcessA. Questionnaire DevelopmentB. SamplingC. InterviewingIII. What Can Go WrongIV. Intercept InterviewingA. Mall InterceptsB. Exit PollingC. Convenience InterviewsD. Mystery ShoppersV. The Ethics of Audience AnalysisVI. Pseudo-PollingVII. Summary11. Oral History InterviewsI. Elements of Oral HistoryA. Background ResearchB. Technical PreparationsC. The Oral InterviewD. The Written TranscriptE. Back to the LibraryF. More InterviewsG. Editing the NarrativeII. Oral History for Academic ResearchIII. Oral History as a Narrative of Family HistoryIV. Things to ConsiderV. Summary12. Interviews in ContextI. Forensic InterviewingA. Police InterviewsB. Lawyer InterviewsII. Medical Interviews Functions of Medical Interviews Barriers to Effective Medical Interviews Types of Medical Interviews The Reverse Interview: What the Patient Should Ask the Doctor
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Whats Wrong With Ethnography
Book SynopsisThis stimulating and refreshing study, written by one of the leading commentators in the field, provides novel answers to these crucial questions. What''s Wrong With Ethnography provides a fresh look at the rationale for and distinctiveness of ethnographic research in sociology, education and related fields, and succeeds in slaying a number of currently fashionable sacred cows. Relativism, critical theory, the uniqueness of the case study and the distinction between qualitative and quantitative research are all examined and found wanting as a basis for informed ethnography. The policy and political implications of ethnography are a particular focus of attention. The author compels the reader to reexamine some basic methodological assumptions in an exciting way, Martin Bulmer, London School of Economics.Table of ContentsPart One: Ethnography, Theory and Reality 1. What's wrong with ethnography? The myth of theoretical description 2. Some questions about theory in ethnography and history 3. Ethnoraphy and realism 4. By what criteria should ethnographic research be judged? Part Two: Ethnography, Relevance and Practice 5. The relevance of ethnography 6. Critical theory as a model for ethnography 7. Parts that even ethnography cannot reach: Some reflections on the relationship between research and policy 8. On practitioner ethnography Part Three: Qualitative versus Quantitative Method 9. Deconstructing the quantitative-qualitative divide 10. Keeping the converstion open: the relationship between quantitative and qualitative 11. The logic of theory-testing in case study research 12. So, what are case studies?
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Essential Guide to Doing a Health and Social
Book SynopsisThis step-by-step guide takes the reader logically through the process of undertaking a literature review, from determining when this methodology might be useful, through to publishing the findings. It is designed particularly for students undertaking a dissertation using literature review methodology. However, it also caters to practitioners who wish to review the existing evidence in order to develop practice. Key features of the text include: a chapter on what makes a good literature review, so that readers are clear and confident about what they're aiming for; discussion of the value of literature reviews, whether for fulfilling the requirements of a course or for developing practice; a chapter structure that reflects the structure of a typical dissertation by literature review, making the material intuitive and easy to navigate; case examples throughout to illustrate how methodolTable of Contents1. What is Literature Review Methodology? 2. Why Carry Out a Literature Review? 3. What Constitutes a Good Literature Review? 4. The Background and Rationale for the Review 5. Developing the Review Question and Aims 6. Carrying out the Search 7. Appraising the Literature 8. Synthesizing the Findings 8. Discussing the Literature Review Findings 10. Drawing Conclusions and Making Recommendations 11. Disseminating the Findings of a Literature Review
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Understanding Critical Race Research Methods and
Book SynopsisDespite the growing urgency for Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the field of education, the how of this theoretical framework can often be overlooked. This exciting edited collection presents different methods and methodologies, which are used by education researchers to investigate critical issues of racial justice in education from a CRT perspective. Featuring scholars from a range of disciplines, the chapters showcase how various researchers synthesize different methodsincluding qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods, and historical and archival researchwith CRT to explore issues of equity and access in the field of education. Scholars discuss their current research approaches using CRT and present new models of conducting research within a CRT framework, offering a valuable contribution to ongoing methodological debates. Researchers across different levels of expertise will find the articulations of CRT and methods insightful and compelling.Table of ContentsPart I: Introduction Critical Race Theory, Racial Justice, And Education: Understanding Critical Race Research Methods and Methodologies. Part II: Critical Race Archival and Historical Analysis 2. Understanding the Why of Whiteness: Negrophobia, Segregation and, the Legacy of White Resistance to Black Education in Mississippi 3. CRT in Education: Historical/Archival Analyses 4. Can You Hear (and See) Me Now?: Race-ing American Language Variationist/Change and Sociolinguistic Research Methodologies Part III. Critical Race Qualitative Methods 5. A Match Made in Heaven: Tribal Critical Race Theory and Critical Indigenous Research Methodologies 6. Taking it to the streets: Critical Race Theory, Participatory Research and Social Justice 7. The Commitment to Break Rules: Critical Race Theory, Jazz Methodology and the Struggle for Justice in Education 8. Critical Race Perspectives on Narrative Research in Education: Centering Intersectionality 9. Not One, but Many: A CRT Research Team Approach to Investigate Student Experiences in Racially Diverse Settings 10. Bridging Theories to Name and Claim a Critical Race Feminista Methodology Part IV: Critical Race Quantitative and Mixed Methodologies 11. Quants & Crits: Using Numbers for Social Justice (Or, How Not to be Lied to With Statistics) 12. Expanding Educational Pipelines: Critical Race Quantitative Intersectionality as a Transactional Methodology 13. Critical Race Cartographies: Exploring Map-Making as Anti-Racist Praxis 14. Critical Race Mixed Methodology: Designing a Research Study Combining Critical Race Theory and Mixed Methods Research Part V: Future Directions in Critical Race Methods and Methodologies 15. "Where Do We Go From Here?A Future Agenda for Understanding Critical Race Research Methods and Methodologies.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Secondary Qualitative Data Analysis in the Health and Social Sciences
Book SynopsisDespite a long history in quantitative research, it is only recently that enthusiasm for secondary analysis of qualitative data has gained momentum across health and social science disciplines. Given that researchers have long known the inordinate amount of time and energy invested in conducting qualitative research, the appeal of secondary analysis of qualitative data is clear. Involving the use of an existing dataset to answer research questions that are different from those asked in the original study, this method allows researchers to once again make use of their hard-earned qualitative dataset and to listen to their participants' voices to the best of their ability in order to improve care and promote understanding. As secondary qualitative data analysis continues to evolve, more methodological guidance is needed. This book outlines three approaches to secondary data analysis and addresses the key issues that researchers need to wrestle with, such as ethical consideTable of Contents1. Introduction2. History of Secondary Qualitative Data Analysis3. Benefits and Concerns of Secondary Qualitative Data Analysis4. Debate over Archiving Qualitative Data5. Ethics in Secondary Qualitative Analysis 6. Process Involved in Conducting a Secondary Qualitative Data Analysis 7. International Qualitative Data Archives 8. Metaphor Analysis as a Creative Approach for Secondary Qualitative Data Analysis9. Theory Development Using Secondary Qualitative Data Analysis 10. Teaching Secondary Qualitative Data Analysis11. Publishing Secondary Qualitative Data Analysis12. Review of Secondary Qualitative Data Analysis in the Discipline of Nursing13. What is Around the Corner for Secondary Qualitative Data Analysis?
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Reviewers Guide to Mixed Methods
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Reviewer's Guide to Mixed Methods Analysis is a groundbreaking edited book the first devoted solely to mixed methods research analyses, or mixed analyses. Each of the 30 seminal chapters, authored by internationally renowned scholars, provides a simple and practical introduction to a method of mixed analysis.Each chapter demonstrates how to conduct the analysis in easy-to-understand language. Many of the chapters present new topics that have never been written before, and all chapters offer cutting-edge approaches to analysis. The book contains the following four sections: Part I Quantitative Approaches to Qualitative Data (e.g., factor analysis of text, multidimensional scaling of qualitative data); Part II Qualitative Approaches to Quantitative Data (e.g., qualitizing data, mixed methodological discourse analysis); Part III Inherently Mixed Analysis Approaches (e.g., qualitative comparative analysis, mixed methods social network analysis, sociTable of Contents1. Mapping the Emerging Landscape of Mixed Analysis; Part I: Quantitative Approaches to Qualitative Data 2. Exploratory Factor Analysis of Text 3. Correspondence Analysis of Qualitative Data 4. Multidimensional Scaling of Qualitative Data 5. Cluster Analysis for Mixed Methods Research 6. Chi-Square Automatic Interaction Detection Analysis of Qualitative Data 7. Multiple Linear Regression Analysis with Qualitative Data that Have Been Quantitized 8. Structural Equation Modeling with Qualitative Data that Have Been Quantitized 9. Hierarchical Linear Modeling with Qualitative Data that Have Been Quantitized 10. Bayesian Analyses with Qualitative Data 11. Item Response Theory Integrating Qualitative Data 12. Diachronic Analysis of Qualitative Data; Part II: Qualitative Approaches to Quantitative Data 13. Qualitizing Data 14. Coding Techniques for Quantitative and Mixed Data 15. Mixed Methodological Discourse Analysis; Part III: "Inherently" Mixed Analysis Approaches 16. Ethnographic Decision Models with Qualitative Data: A thoroughly Mixed Method 17. Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA): An Integrative Approach Suited for Diverse Mixed Methods and Multimethod Research Strategies 18. Q Methodology as Mixed Analysis 19. Social Network Analysis as Mixed Analysis 20. Social Media Analytics as Mixed Analysis 21. Geographic Information Systems as Mixed Analysis 22. Nonverbal Communication Analysis as Mixed Analysis 23. Development of a Joint Display as a Mixed Analysis 24. The Case Comparison Table: A Joint Display for Constructing and Sorting Simple Tables as Mixed Analysis; Part IV: Use of Software for Mixed Analysis 25. Mixing Beyond Mixed Methods: QDA Miner, SimStat and WordStat 26. Using MAXQDA for Mixed Methods Research 27. Introduction to Dedoose for Mixed Analysis 28. Introduction to ATLAS.ti for Mixed Analysis 29. Using NVivo for Mixed Methods Research 30. Introduction to SPSS for Mixed Analysis
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Applied Regression Analysis
Book SynopsisThis book is an introduction to regression analysis, focusing on the practicalities of doing regression analysis on real-life data.Contrary to other textbooks on regression, this book is based on the idea that you do not necessarily need to know much about statistics and mathematics to get a firm grip on regression and perform it to perfection. This non-technical point of departure is complemented by practical examples of real-life data analysis using statistics software such as Stata, R and SPSS. Parts 1 and 2 of the book cover the basics, such as simple linear regression, multiple linear regression, how to interpret the output from statistics programs, significance testing and the key regression assumptions. Part 3 deals with how to practically handle violations of the classical linear regression assumptions, regression modeling for categorical y-variables and instrumental variable (IV) regression. Part 4 puts the various purposes of, or motivations for, regression iTrade Review“This book finds a rare balance between applied statistical analysis and theory, giving students the confidence to apply regression analysis in their projects, while being aware of the potential pitfalls.” — Johan A. Elkink, Associate Professor in Social Science Research Methods, University College Dublin, Ireland“This book provides a short and bright path to understand the meaning and usefulness of regression analysis. If you are a student or policy maker with limited econometrics skills this book equips you with the right and sufficient skills.” — Dr. Maty Konte, United Nations UniversityTable of ContentsPart 1: The Basics 1. What is regression analysis? 2. Linear regression with a single independent variable 3. Linear regression with several independent variables: Multiple regression Part 2: The Foundations 4. Samples and populations, statistical uncertainty and testing of statistical significance 5. The assumptions of regression analysis Part 3: The Extensions 6. Beyond linear regression: Non-additivity, non-linearity and mediation 7. A categorical dependent variable: Logistic (logit) regression and related methods 8. An ordered (ordinal) dependent variable: Logistic (logit) regression 9. The quest for a causal effect: Instrumental variable (IV) regression Part 4: Regression Purposes, Academic Regression Projects and the Way Ahead 10. Regression purposes in various academic settings and how to perform them 11. The way ahead: Related techniques
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Social Assessment Theory and Practice
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1998, Social Assessment Theory and Practice provides an innovative and comprehensive theoretical and practical basis for social assessment. It examines both multi-disciplinary and multi-professional issues in social assessment and is based on perspectives drawn from all the major service users and oppressed social groups. The book integrates social theory and practice at multiple levels, using summaries, checklists, diagrams and a running case study.Trade Review’...provides a carefully and cogently argued theoretical basis for the process of assessment which underpins a clearly defined methodology for its execution...deserves a wide readership...’ British Journal of Social Work ’The book succeeds in making connections across a diversity of situations, theories and practices in social assessment, while at the same time remaining very close to the everyday practice of social work...of great value for trainers and professionals...’ European Journal of Social WorkTable of ContentsPart 1. Critical Auto/biography: Social Theory for Social Assessment. 1. Values and Methodology. 2. Taking Social Difference Seriously. 3. Reflexivity: Personal Involvement and Responsibility. 4. Historical Location. 5. Interacting Social Systems: The Personal and the Structural. 6. Power. Part 2. Critical Auto/biography: Developing Methods and Dialogues in Practice. 7. Social Assessment and Multi-Professional Practice. 8. Assessing Needs, Risks and Strengths. 9. Children and Families. 10. Mental Health and Distress. 11. Older People. 12. Disabled People. Part 3. Conclusion. 13. Towards Effective Social Assessment.
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Taylor & Francis Contemporary Issues in Branding
Book SynopsisThis book provides students and academics with a comprehensive analysis of the theory and practice of branding. The challenge to explore new and effective ways of harnessing the power of communication to engage with company stakeholders in interactive, immediate and innovative ways is ever-present in the digital era. Digital marketing and social media create opportunities for managers to communicate their brandâs identity to their consumers and stakeholders. Yet, limited empirical research exists to elucidate these issues, and less still that assists our understanding of branding issues at an international level.Recognising the complexity and plurality at the heart of the branding discipline, this text explores the relationship between brands, identity and stakeholders. Working through building, designing and maintaining a brand, the authors consider such aspects as strategic planning and campaign management, research and measurement, media relations, employee communication, Trade Review"Contemporary Issues in Branding … does what it states on the cover. To managers it engages the power of branding to stimulate target markets. To those studying branding it is a highly informative book covering concepts and applications with a diversity of examples and cases." — Professor Len Tiu Wright is Editor-in-Chief at Cogent OA Business & Management. She had previously been Professor of Marketing at the University of Huddersfield and De Montfort University, UK and Visiting Professor at the University of Keele, UK"This compendium focusing on contemporary issues in branding will be of interest to almost anyone with an interest in developments in branding. The book explores both traditional and novel perspectives on the territory. Contemporary Issues in Branding will engender deliberation and reflection among branding scholars and managers alike. Clearly, the editors are to be congratulated for broadening the branding oeuvre." — Professor John M.T. Balmer, Professor of Corporate Marketing and Director of the Marketing and Corporate Brand Research Group, Brunel University Business School, London, UK; quondam Professor of Corporate Identity/Brand Management, Bradford University School of Management, UK"The book is a nice collection of views contributed from a number of very well-known authors on brand building, brand design and the stakeholders in this process, followed by a concluding link with brand related outcomes. The research results and practical examples come from many perspectives and industries, reflecting the current state of development in brand management. It is an interesting read for people working in brand management both as academics and practitioners." — Professor Cleopatra Veloutsou is Professor of Brand Management at the Adam Business School, University of Scotland, UKTable of ContentsPart 1: Introduction 1. Introduction to Branding: Issues and Perspectives Part 2: Building a Brand 2. Understanding Brands with Contemporary Issues 3. Branding: Performance and Profit 4. Brands, culture, leadership and differentiation: testing the effectiveness of highly performance-oriented appeal in four European countries 5. The impact of GDPR on brands responsibility: Between a "new normal" customer-centricity and the risk of reputational damage 6. Branding: Ethic, sustainability, and Inclusion Part 3: Designing a Brand 7. Branding: Aesthetics. Building Brand Value through Art and Architecture 8. Branding: Voice 9. Sensory Branding: What it is, why it matters, and how to use it 10. Branding: Virtual space: past, present and new directions in virtual worlds Part 4: Branding and Stakeholders 11. Branding: Internal and External Stakeholders 12. Global branding 13. Office Branding in the Digital Age 14. Branding: Online community Part 5: Conclusion 15. Consumer-Brand Relationship: Building Consumer value, Consumer loyalty and Business Performance 16. Branding Customer Value
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Tact of Teaching
Book SynopsisIn The Tact of Teaching bestselling author Max van Manen offers teachers at every stage an original and inspiring interpretation of the notion of pedagogy, one that searches for its roots in the experience of in loco parentis. Using dozens of anecdotes and scenes taken directly from life in classrooms, including many from the often-neglected domain of high school, The Tact of Teaching explicates the meaning of pedagogical moments, the conditions of pedagogy, the relation between pedagogy and politics, the nature of pedagogical experience, and the practical forms of pedagogical understanding. The author: -Presents experiential analysis of the relation between pedagogical reflection and action-Explores how pedagogical tact manifests itself, what tact accomplishes, and how tact does what it does-Speaks of hope and humane practice in an era of schooling often given over to mindless technocracy or fashionable despairTable of ContentsChapter 1 Toward a Pedagogy of Thoughtfulness; Chapter 2 The Concept of Pedagogy; Chapter 3 The Pedagogical Moment; Chapter 4 The Nature of Pedagogy; Chapter 5 The Practice of Pedagogy; Chapter 6 The Nature of Tact; Chapter 7 Pedagogical Tact; Chapter 8 Tact and Teaching; Chapter 9 Conclusion;
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A StepbyStep Guide to Qualitative Data Coding
Book SynopsisA Step-by-Step Guide to Qualitative Data Coding is a comprehensive qualitative data analysis guide. It is designed to help readers to systematically analyze qualitative data in a transparent and consistent manner, thus promoting the credibility of their findings. The book examines the art of coding data, categorizing codes, and synthesizing categories and themes. Using real data for demonstrations, it provides step-by-step instructions and illustrations for analyzing qualitative data. Some of the demonstrations include conducting manual coding using Microsoft Word and how to use qualitative data analysis software such as Dedoose, NVivo and QDA Miner Lite to analyze data. It also contains creative ways of presenting qualitative findings and provides practical examples.After reading this book, readers will be able to: Analyze qualitative data and present their findings Select an appropriate qualitative analysis tool<Table of Contents1. Introduction to Qualitative Data Analysis2. Review of Qualitative Approaches and their Data Analysis Methods3. Understanding the Art of Coding Qualitative Data4. Preparing Data to Code5. Reflecting, Acknowledging and Bracketing Your Perspectives and Preconceptions6. Documenting Personal Reflections and Analytical Process7. Manually Assigning Codes to Data8. Developing Categories and Themes9. Connecting Themes and Developing Tables and Diagrams10. Using QDA Miner Lite to Analyze Qualitative Data11. Using NVivo 12 to Analyze Qualitative Data12. Using Dedoose to Analyze Qualitative Data13. Presenting Qualitative Findings14. Ensuring Credibility of the Analysis Process and FindingsAppendix
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Taylor & Francis Ltd How to Conduct Ethnographies of Institutions for
Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive analysis of the methodological, theoretical, and meta-theoretical considerations and guidelines involved in undertaking institutional ethnographic work involving people with cognitive and communicative disabilities.It presents a coherent platform for integrating theory and method built on classical and recent anthropological and sociological theory as well as classic and recent methodological considerations within the ethnographic tradition. Furthermore, it introduces readers to the challenging work of understanding the lifeworld of people who cannot express themselves in ordinary ways or who are deeply stigmatised and oppressed by dominating discourses telling them how to understand and define their role in society. It will be of interest to all scholars, students and researchers of disability studies, particularly those who undertake ethnographic research or want to understand the challenges involved in doing so.Table of ContentsPreface; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Epistemological considerations and challenges; Chapter 3. Metatheoretical questions; Chapter 4. Theoretical considerations; Chapter 5. Cultural studies in practice; Chapter 6. Ethnography in practice; Chapter 7. Investigating discourses, documents and professional intervention; Chapter 8. Validation; Chapter 9. Disability, politics and rehabilitation; Chapter 10. Disabilities which involves the brain; Chapter 11. Investigating services for people with mental illnesses; Chapter 12. A national survey of day care offered to pre-school children with autism; Chapter 13. Investigating national services for people with ADHD; Chapter 14. Investigating two residential homes for elder people with dementia and challenging behaviour; Chapter 15. Conducting master thesis; Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Methods in HumanAnimal Studies
Book SynopsisThis timely book provides a methodological guide for how to conduct and theorise research in human-animal studies. In response to critiques of the anthropomorphic slant to human-animal research and the increasing political relevance of animals in contemporary environmental debates, this book emphasises methods which bring to light the animal side of multispecies encounters. Drawing from the interdisciplinary strength of human-animal studies, this book contains contributions from practitioners and scholars working in sociology, anthropology, ethology and geography. Each chapter uses a case-study approach to present a theoretical framework and empirical application of cutting-edge methods in human-animal studies, from creative writing in multispecies ethnographies to visual methods like videography and body mapping. Organized in three parts theorizing; collaborating; visualizing the book equips readers with methodological tools to conduct human-animal studies research atTable of ContentsChapter 1: Hidden in plain sight: how (and why) to attend to the animal in human-animal relationsPART I THEORISING Chapter 2: Decentring humans in research methods: visibilising other animal realitiesChapter 3: Understanding human-animal relations from the perspective of workChapter 4: Re-thinking animal and human personhood: towards co-created narratives of affective, embodied, emplaced becomings of human and nonhuman lifePART II: COLLABORATINGChapter 5: Two species ethnography: honey bees as a case study of an interdisciplinary "more-than-human" methodChapter 6: Trekking a predator’s journey: paths through the Greater Yellowstone EcosystemChapter 7: How to do multispecies-ethnographies when exploring human-(wild) animal interactions: affect, multisensory communication and materialityPART III: VISUALISINGChapter 8: Shared sensory signs: mine detection rats and their handlers in CambodiaChapter 9: Doing multispecies ethnography with mobile video: exploring human-animal contact zonesChapter 10: Getting visceral: body mapping the humanimalian
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Secret Lives of Anthropologists
Book SynopsisThis book addresses the difficult conditions researchers may face in the field and provides lessons in how to navigate the various social, political, economic, health, and environmental challenges involved in fieldwork. It also sheds important light on aspects often considered secret or taboo. From anthropologists just starting out to those with over forty years in the field, these researchers offer the benefit of their experience conducting research in diverse cultures around the world. The contributions combine engaging personal narrative with consideration of theory and methods. The volume emphasizes how being adaptable, and aware, of the many risks and rewards of ethnographic research can help foster success in quantitative and qualitative data collection. This is a valuable resource for students of anthropological methods and those about to embark on fieldwork for the first time.Table of ContentsIntroduction Bonnie L. Hewlett Part 1: Paths into the Field 1. Learning Fields Vishvajit Pandya 2. Stumbling Around the Sacred: Some Personal Observations Benjamin Grant Purzycki 3. From the Orinoco to Sorority Row: Searching for a Field Site as an Evolutionary Anthropologist Nicole Hess Part 2: Gendered Relations and Other Challenges in the Field 4. Doing Ethnomusicological Research as a White Woman in Cameroon and the Central African Republic Susanne Fürniss 5. A Boss, a Mother, a Red Antelope, and All the Things in Between Sylvie Le Bomin 6. Culturally Appropriate Solutions to Fieldwork Challenges Among the Mbendjele BaYaka Hunter-Gatherers of the Congo Basin Daša Bombjaková Part 3: The Observer and the Observed: The Metamorphosis of Research, Methods, and the Researcher 7. My Life in the School of Hard Knocks: How an Aspiring Anthropologist Became a White Cameroonian Robert Moïse 8. Spā߀min, Ethnographers and Mixed Methods Robert Quinlan 9. Mothering in the Field: Participant Observation on Cultural Transmission Victoria Reyes-García 10. The Quiet Joy of Fieldworkers in the Kalahari Akira Takada Part 4: Dangerous Fields 11. The Origins of Surviving Fieldwork - Nancy Howell 12. When All Hell Breaks Loose: Conducting Ethnographic Fieldwork Amid Gunplay, Catastrophe, and Mayhem J. Christopher Kovats-Bernat Part 5: Ethics, Advocacy, and Other Everyday Moral Dilemmas of Research 13. Surviving Agta Fieldwork Thomas N. Headland with Janet D. Headland 14. Do You Consent to Participate in the Research Study? Paul Verdu 15. Who Owns the Poop? And Other Ethical Dilemmas Facing an Anthropologist Who Works at the Interface of Biological Research and Indigenous Rights Alyssa Crittenden 16. But What if the "Field" is a Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory? How it Happened, What it’s Like. The Good, the Bad, and the Downright Ugly James J. McKenna Appendix: Regional Packing List and Other Favorite Items in the Field
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Illustrated Guide to the Content Analysis
Book SynopsisThe Illustrated Guide to the Content Analysis Research Project makes mass media research more accessible through an informal and humorous student-centered approach.Author Patricia Swann provides a colorful, step-by-step guide to developing a typical mass media research project using the content analysis method. The fundamental elements of this research method are presented in plainspoken language perfect for undergraduates and new researchers, complete with engaging illustrations and an informal narrative that tackle students' most common sticking-points when learning and applying research methods.Supplemented by online worksheets for further reflection, this book is an excellent companion to research-centered courses in mass media, communication studies, marketing, and public relations at the introductory level. Trade Review"A book like this is long overdue. Hands down, this is one of the clearest, easiest-to-understand research writing texts available. This is an excellent investment for students and professors alike. [...The] images reinforceconcepts in a simple, yet memorable way. [...] Perfect for almost any discipline including communications, public relations, advertising, or marketing."Regina Luttrell, Syracuse University, USA, in Journalism & Mass Communication Educator October 2020Table of Contents1. Getting Started 2. Understanding the Scientific Method 3. Finding Your Research Approach 4. Ethical Considerations 5. Picking Your Research Topic 6. Writing the Literature Review Section 7. Writing the Hypothesis and Research Question 8. Writing the Method Section 9. Writing the Results Section 10. Writing the Discussion and Conclusion Sections 11. Writing the Abstract 12. Formatting, References, and Appendices 13. Sharing Your Research
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Strategies for Quantitative Research
Book SynopsisIt is little secret that most archaeologists are uneasy with statistics. Thankfully, in the modern world, quantitative analysis has been made immensely easier by statistical software packages. Software now does virtually all our statistical calculations, removing a great burden for researchers. At the same time, since most statistical analysis now takes place through the pushing of buttons in software packages, new problems and dangers have emerged. How does one know which statistical test to use? How can one tell if certain data violate the assumptions of a particular statistical analysis? Rather than focusing on the mathematics of calculation, this concise handbook selects appropriate forms of analysis and explains the assumptions that underlie them. It deals with fundamental issues, such as what kinds of data are common in the field of archaeology and what are the goals of various forms of analysis. This accessible textbook lends a refreshing playfulness to an oftenTable of ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesList of BoxesList of Formula PrefaceChapter 1: Introduction: How Does Quantitative Analysis Fit Into Archaeological Research? Chapter 2: Basics: Knowing Your DataChapter 3: Preparing Your Data: Aggregation, Standardization, and TransformationChapter 4: Numerical and Graphical Approaches to Summarizing Your DataChapter 5: Basic Approaches for Statistical Hypothesis Testing Using Univariate DataChapter 6: Bivariate Analysis: Linear Regression and CorrelationChapter 7: Multivariate Techniques for Data Reduction and Pattern RecognitionChapter 8: Multivariate Approaches to Statistical Hypothesis TestingChapter 9: Clustering and Discrimination: Grouping Data According to SimilarityChapter 10: Conclusion: Numerical Facts in the World of Archaeological Ambiguity
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Creative Reflective Practitioner
Book SynopsisThe Creative Reflective Practitioner explores research and practice through the eyes of people with a wholehearted commitment to creative work. It reveals what it means to be a reflective creative practitioner, whether working alone, in collaboration with others, with digital technology or doing research, and what we can learn from listening and observing closely. It gives the reader new insights into the fascinating challenge that having a reflective creative mindset can bring.Creative reflective practice is seen through practitioner ideas and works which have informed the writing at every level, supported by research studies and historical accounts. The practitioners featured in this book represent a broad spectrum of interdisciplinary creative activities producing works in film, music, drama, dance and interactive installations. Their work is innovative, full of new ideas and exciting to experience, offering engagement and challenge for audiences and participants alTrade ReviewThis book makes an important contribution to the literature of creative studies. Drawing on contemporary research in the field with particular insight into the value of recent digitally based practice, the author introduces a rigorous and illuminating analysis of the often enigmatic nature of the creative process, grounded in lively interviews with practising artists, scientists and technologists, providing a deeper understanding of the ways in which artworks, and indeed any other creative outcomes, evolve in all their complexity.Siân Ede, author of ‘Art & Science’Linda Candy shows us how the powerful paradigm of reflective practice can be used to understand creative thought in such diverse fields as science, engineering, art, design and music. Her interviews with distinguished practitioners provide a privileged glimpse into especially creative minds and her analysis reveals fascinatingly generic aspects of cognition. This book deserves to become a standard text in the field; there is every chance that it will.Bryan Lawson (Emeritus Professor: Dip Arch (dist) (Oxford), Msc (dist), PhD (Aston), RIBA, Registered Architect.)Linda Candy has created an incredible book on creativity. Her deep reflections on the nature of creativity will be of vital importance to anyone engaging with reflective creative practice. Through the voice of many significant artists and practitioners from a broad range of fields and disciplines, Candy weaves together a framework with which to understand their reflective practices, but more importantly how we, the readers, can benefit and enhance our own creativity.Craig Vear, Professor of Digital Performance (Music), De Montfort University, Leicester, UKTable of ContentsList of FiguresList of Practitioner PortraitsAcknowledgementsPreface1. Reflection, Practice and the Creative Practitioner 2. Reflective Professional Practice 3. Reflective Creative Practice Practitioner Interviews4. Reflective Collaborative Practice Practitioner Interviews5. Digitally Amplified Reflective Practice Practitioner Interviews6. Reflection through Research 7. Learning from the Reflective Practitioner AfterwordReferences
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Nexus of Practices
Book SynopsisThe Nexus of Practices: connections, constellations, practitioners brings leading theorists of practice together to provide a fresh set of theoretical impulses for the surge of practice-focused studies currently sweeping across the social disciplines. The book addresses key issues facing practice theory, expands practice theory's conceptual repertoire, and explores new empirical terrain. With each intellectual move, it generates further opportunities for social research. More specifically, the book's chapters offer new approaches to analysing connections within the nexus of practices, to exploring the dynamics and implications of the constellations that practices form, and to understanding people as practitioners that carry on practices. Topics examined include social change, language, power, affect, reflection, large social phenomena, and connectivity over time and space. Contributors thereby counter claims that practice theory cannot handle large phenomena and that it ignTrade Review"This dazzling volume demonstrates the power of rich diversity among practice theories and theorists. It has started a conversation that will engender a new generation of practice-based studies and reshape the field, as researchers respond to the book’s empirical and theoretical challenges. Essential reading." Professor Emeritus Stephen Kemmis, Charles Sturt University, AustraliaTable of ContentsIntroduction, (Allison Hui, Theodore Schatzki and Elizabeth Shove)1. Learning in and Across Practices: Enablement as Subjectivation, (Thomas Alkemeyer and Nikolaus Buschmann)2. Qualities of Connective Tissue in Hospital Life: How Complexes of Practices Change, (Stanley Blue and Nicola Spurling)3. Sociomateriality in Posthuman Practice Theory, (Silvia Gherardi)4. Variation and the Intersection of Practices, (Allison Hui)5. Epigenetics, Theories of Social Practice and Lifestyle Disease, (Cecily Maller)6. Technologies Within and Beyond Practices, (Janine Morley)7. Is Small the Only Beautiful? Making Sense of ‘Large Phenomena’ From a Practice-Based Perspective, (Davide Nicolini)8. Practices and their Affects, (Andreas Reckwitz)9. Sayings, Texts and Discursive Formations, (Theodore Schatzki)10. Reflexive Knowledge in Practices, (Robert Schmidt)11. Matters of Practice, (Elizabeth Shove)12. Placing Power in Practice Theory, (Matt Watson)13. How Should We Understand ‘General Understandings’?, (Daniel Welch and Alan Warde)References
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ethnographies in Sport and Exercise Research
Book SynopsisEthnography has become an important method for researching and interpreting the social world, not least in the field of sport and exercise studies. Ethnographies in Sport and Exercise Research is the first book to provide a contemporary overview of the current state of ethnographic research and its application within sport and exercise, introducing and explaining a range of well-established and emerging ethnographic approaches.Featuring a heavyweight line-up of sport and exercise researchers, the book is divided into three parts. The first considers the methodological and theoretical aspects of ethnographic research, including: a history of ethnography in sport and exercise research the definition of the ethnographic field methods of gathering ethnographic data methods of representing ethnographic research. In the second part of the book, a series of chapter-length case studies, spanTrade Review‘This book is great for sport-focused individuals in the academy who are new to ethnographic research, who want to have a deeper understanding of what ethnography is in general, and who would like to explore ethnography as a research-method option … it opens a door for students to be involved in a somewhat underutilized but valuable research technique’, Boyun Woo, International Journal of Sport CommunicationTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Ethnography in sport-related research: influences, continuities, possibilities Part 1: Ethnography: methodological and theoretical considerations 3. Finding the Field: Ethnographic Research in Exercise Settings 4. Ethnography as a sensual way of being: Methodological and representational challenges 5. Ethnographic creative non-fiction: Exploring the what’s, why’s and how’s Part 2: Case Studies 6. Women’s lived experiences of health and ageing in physical activity 7. Suffering and the Loneliness of the Fell Runner: An Ethnographic Foray 8. The boxer in the mirror: The ethnographic-self as a resource while conducting insider research among professional boxers 9. Considering micropolitical (under)‘currents’: Reflections on fieldwork within an elite men’s rowing programme 10. Reflecting on the ‘perils of ethnography’: A case study of football fan rivalry in Birmingham 11. The legitimacy of ethnographic filming: Literary thoughts and practical realities 12. Traversing ontological dispositions: The intersection between remote Indigenous communities and elite urban-based men’s football organisation Part 3: Future considerations and directions 13. Walking the streets: The flâneur and the sociology of sport 14. The marginal place of ethnographic research in sport management
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Taylor & Francis Research Methods in Applied Settings
Book SynopsisThis text teaches readers how to plan, conduct, and write a research project and select and interpret data through its integrated approach to quantitative research methods. Although not a statistics book, students learn to master which technique to use when and how to analyze and interpret results, making them better consumers of research. Organized around the steps of conducting a research project, this book is ideal for those who need to analyze journal articles. With teaching experience in various departments, the authors know how to address the research problems faced by behavioral and social sciences students. Independent sections and chapters can be read in any order allowing for flexibility in assigning topics.Adopters applaud the bookâs clarity and applied interdependent approach to research. The book emphasizes five research approaches: randomized experimental, quasi-experimental, comparative, associational, and descriptive. These five approaches lead to threeTrade Review"Gliner, Morgan, and Leech have built upon and enhanced their previous work in designing this clear and comprehensive 3rd edition, perfect for a quantitative research design course, or as a go-to text for the quantitatively-focused researcher." —Erica Eckert, Kent State University, USA"We have used this textbook for a number of years. It is clear, well-organized, and written at a level suited to doctoral students who do applied work using a variety of research methodologies. The latest edition improves upon an already good book by adding sections from research articles that exemplify points the authors are making, tables and diagrams for visual learners, and references to effect size and power that reinforce the need for consideration of the research design from multiple perspectives. Our students do a good job of writing a research proposal using the information from this book." —Kathy Green, University of Denver, USA"This third edition is a comprehensive and well-written book for graduate students and researchers doing research in education and other applied areas. The book provides not only an in-depth discussion of research methods concepts, but also a lot of real life examples for illustration. It is an excellent reference source for anyone doing research." —Michael C. W. Yip, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong"This is an indispensable text for students of applied research and even though I have many years of experience myself, I find it very helpful in doing my own research projects and teaching research to graduate students. It sets out key messages about how to do research properly, and in this 3rd edition bases much of its advice on practical case studies." —Paul Kiff, The Research Academy, UK"This is an excellent textbook for any education or social science course on quantitative methods. The authors break down the elements of the research process into easily digestible segments that use examples from published research studies to demonstrate each step. This is a must for faculty introducing graduate students to quantitative methods and also as an easy to use reference for the experienced researcher." —Mark Kretovics, Kent State University, USATable of ContentsPart I. Introductory Chapters 1. Definitions, Purposes, and Dimensions of Research 2. Planning a Quantitative Research Project Part II: Quantitative Research Approaches, Questions, and Designs 3. Variables, Research Questions, and Hypotheses 4. Research Approaches 5. Randomized Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs 6. Single-Subject Designs 7. Non-experimental Approaches/Designs 8. Internal Validity Part III: Sampling, Measurement and Data Collection 9. Sampling and Introduction to External Validity 10. Measurement and Descriptive Statistics 11. Measurement Reliability 12. Measurement Validity 13. Types of Data Collection Techniques 14. Ethical Issues in Conducting the Study 15. Practical Issues in Data Collection and Coding Part IV: Data Analysis and Interpretation 16. Making Inferences from Sample Data I: The Null Hypothesis Significance Testing Approach 17. Making Inferences From Sample Data II: The Evidence-Based Approach 18. General Design Classifications for Selection of Difference Statistical Methods 19. Selection of Appropriate Statistical Methods: Integration of Design and Analysis 20. Data Analysis and Interpretation – Basic Difference Questions 21. Analysis and Interpretation of Basic Associational Research Questions 22. Analysis and Interpretation of Complex Research Questions Part V: Evaluating and Writing Research Reports 23. Evaluating Research Validity: Part I 24. Evaluating Research Validity: Part II 25. Evaluating Research for Evidence-Based Practice 26. Writing the Research Report
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Engaging with Ethics in International
Book SynopsisDespite a voluminous literature detailing the procedures of research ethics boards and institutional ethical review processes, there are few texts that explore the realpolitik of conducting criminal research in practice. This book explores the unique lived experiences of scholars engaging with ethics during their criminological research, and focuses on the ethical dilemmas that researchers encounter both in the field and while writing up results for publication. Who benefits from criminological research? What are the roles and impacts of ethics review boards? How do methodological and theoretical decisions factor in to questions of ethical conduct and research ethics governance?This book is divided into four parts: Part I, Institutional arrangements and positionality, explores the ongoing and expanding process of ethics protocol and procedures, principles of confidentiality, and the positionality of the researcher. Part II, TruTrade Review"Engaging with Ethics in International Criminological Research brings the ethical issues and challenges confronted by the criminological researcher to life. Rather than provide dry guidance on how to navigate institutional ethics review, it contains a wealth of insights – from international scholars at the forefront to contemporary criminology – into the ethical thinking and decision-making involved in all serious criminology. These contributions are full of interesting and thought-provoking discussion of profound moral issues. It will be of interest to anyone researching, studying, or teaching criminology." Gerry Johnstone, Professor of Law, University of Hull, UK "Drawing on scholars studying myriad international sites, Engaging with Ethics goes beyond other books that merely criticize the power structure providing a blockade for research, instead offering programmatic statements and examples of how to navigate through these barriers to produce empirically rich, theoretically driven, yet ethical research that honors both those we study and those who write about criminals and criminal justice settings." Patricia A. Adler, Professor Emeritus, University of Colorado, and Peter Adler, Professor Emeritus, University of Denver, USA "Universities have defined ‘ethics up’. In doing so they have fundamentally reshaped, and are actively reshaping, how research is done. Nowhere is this more evident than in Criminology. Engaging with Ethics offers insightful reflections on this ‘ethical creep’ – its history and its implication across geographically dispersed research areas. It calls for an ‘ethical imagination’ grounded in the ‘lived experiences’ of active, experienced and sensitive researchers." Clifford Shearing, Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University, Australia "Adorjan and Ricciardelli and the contributors have assembled a valuable set of materials on a critical, yet understudied topic. They take the reader inside the dynamics of field research to explore areas not covered in traditional methods texts. A must-read for both experienced and novice field researchers." Curt Taylor Griffiths, Professor and Director of thePolice Studies Centre, Simon Fraser University, Canada Table of Contents1. Introduction (Michael Adorjan and Rose Ricciardelli) Part I: Institutional Arrangements & Positionality 2. Ethics Creep: Governing Social Science Research in the Name of Ethics (Kevin Haggerty) 3. The Ethical Imagination - Reflections on conducting research in Hong Kong (Michael Adorjan) 4. Ethics, Politics and the Limits to Knowledge (Pat Carlen) Part II: Trust and Research with Vulnerable Populations 5. A History of Coercive Practices: The Abuse of Consent in Research involving Prisoners and Prisons in the United States (Mark Israel) 6. Indigenous Peoples, Research and Ethics (Maggie Walter) 7. Ethics as Witnessing: ‘Science’, Research Ethics, and Victimization (Dale Spencer) Part III: Research on and with Police 8. Navigating Research Relationships: Academia and Criminal Justice Agencies (Erin Gibbs Van Brunschot) 9. Commanding Officer, faculty member, and student: Auto-ethnographic experiences of academic-police collaborative partnerships (Rose Ricciardelli, Laura Huey, Hayley Crichton, and Tracy Hardy) 10. Criminologizing Everyday Life and Doing Policing Ethnography in China (Jianhua Xu) Part IV: Emerging Areas 11. Carceral Tours and Missed Opportunities: Revisiting conceptual, ethical and pedagogical dilemmas (Justin Piché, Kevin Walby and Craig Minogue) 12. Illuminating the Dark Net: Methods and Ethics in Cryptomarket Research (James Martin) 13. Conclusion (Rose Ricciardelli and Michael Adorjan)
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Anthropologies and Futures
Book SynopsisAnthropology has a critical, practical role to play in contemporary debates about futures. This game-changing new book presents new ways of conceptualising how to engage with a future-oriented research agenda, demonstrating how anthropologists can approach futures both theoretically and practically, and introducing a set of innovative research methods to tackle this field of research.Anthropology and Futures brings together a group of leading scholars from across the world, including Sarah Pink, Rayna Rapp, Faye Ginsburg and Paul Stoller. Firmly grounded in ethnographic fieldwork experience, the book's fifteen chapters traverse ethnographies with people living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda, disability activists in the U.S., young Muslim women in Copenhagen, refugees in Milan, future-makers in Barcelona, planning and land futures in the UK, the design of workspaces in Melbourne, rewilding in the French Pyrenees, and speculative ethnographies among emerging communities in Antarctica. Taking a Trade Review"This collection is the clearest articulation yet of a future-oriented practice for anthropology. It attempts nothing less than a re-centering of anthropology along future temporalities, opening up the field to new dimensions of public engagement by sketching the contours of a fieldwork-based practice centered on emergence, possibility and, ultimately, on the hope for better lives for people in the communities where we work. - Samuel Gerald Collins, Towson University, USA Anthropologies and Futures gathers a plethora of innovative perspectives and practices that brilliantly explore how the ethnographic can creatively and critically engage with the yet-to-come. This is an agenda-setting volume that by placing ‘futures’ at the heart of methodological engagement, re-configures the analytic, ethical and political landscapes of anthropology and beyond. - Mike Michael, University of Exeter, UK This book aims to put ethnography and anthropology at the heart of futures study right where they should be. Humans tend to be future-oriented in a social, but not uniform manner; the future is a site of struggle. This is a book which should make readers think and feel. Naturally, you will sometimes disagree with the positions taken, but if ever I met a book I'd like to be an author in, it would be this one. - Jonathan Paul Marshall, University of Technology Sydney, Australia"Table of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgments Notes on Contributors 1. A Manifesto for Future Anthropologies EASA Future Anthropologies Network 2. Anthropology and Futures: Setting the Agenda Sarah Pink, RMIT, Australia and Juan Francisco Salazar, University of Western Sydney, Australia 3. The Art of Turning Left and RightAndrew Irving, University of Manchester, UK 4. Cripping the Future: Making Disability CountFaye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp, New York University, USA 5. Contemporary Obsessions with Time and the Promise of the FutureSimone Abram, Durham University, UK 6. Pyrenean Rewilding and Colliding Ontological Landscapes: A Future(s) Dwelt-in Ethnographic ApproachAnthony Knight, University of Kent, UK 7. Digital Technologies, Dreams and Disconcertment in Anthropological World-MakingKaren Waltorp, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 8. Future in the Ethnographic WorldDébora Lanzeni and Elisenda Ardèvol, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain 9. Researching Future as an Alterity of the PresentSarah Pink, Yoko Akama and Annie Fergusson, RMIT, Australia 10. Speculative Fabulation: Modes for Researching Worlds to Come in AntarcticaJuan Francisco Salazar, University of Western Sydney, Australia 11. Ethno Science Fiction: Projective Improvisations of Future Scenarios and Environmental Threats in the Everyday Life of British YouthJohannes Sjöberg, University of Manchester, UK 12.Reaching for the Horizon: Exploring Existential Possibilities of Migration and Movement within the Past-Present-Future through Participatory Animation Alexandra D'Onofrio, University of Manchester, UK 13. Agency and Dramatic Storytelling: Roving through Pasts, Presents and FuturesMagdalena Kazubowski-Houston, York University, Canada 14. Remix as a Literacy for Future Anthropology Practice Annette N. Markham, Aarhus University, Denmark Afterword: Flying toward the Future on the Wings of Wind Paul Stoller, West Chester University, USA Index
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Left Coast Press Inc Qualitative Inquiry and Social Justice: Toward a Politics of Hope
Book SynopsisIn increasing numbers, qualitative researchers are leaving their ivory tower perches and entering the fray, focusing their research and actions on the promotion of social justice. In this tightly edited volume of original articles stemming from the 2008 International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry, leading figures in qualitative research demonstrate the potential for the research tradition to make contributions to the betterment of humankind.Table of ContentsIntroduction, Qualitative Inquiry and Social Justice: Toward a Politics of Hope, Section I: Ethics, Evidence, and Social Justice 1. Deploying Qualitative Methods for Critical Social Purposes, 2. Four Points Concerning Policy-Oriented Qualitative Research, 3. Institutional Review Boards and the Ethics of Emotion, 4. Evidence: A Critical Realist Perspective for Qualitative Research, 6 Qualitative Research and the Conservative Challenge, Section II: Qualitative Inquiry in Post-Disaster America 5. Education Research in the Public Interest 6. Performing Pedagogies of Hope in Post-Katrina America 7. Power-Shifting at the Speed of Light: Critical Qualitative Research Post-Disaster, Section III: Human Rights and Radical Performance, 8. Dangerous Ethnography 9. Risky Research: Investigating the "Perils" of Ethnography 10. Racializing Ethics and Bearing Witness to Memory in Research 11. The Death of a Cow 12. Rethinking Words, Concepts, Stories, and Theories: Sensing a New World? Qualitative Research and the Conservative Challenge, Coda: Mentoring Relationships: Creating a Future for Qualitative Inquiry
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Left Coast Press Inc Collaborative Autoethnography
Book SynopsisIt sounds like a paradox: How do you engage in autoethnography collaboratively? Heewon Chang, Faith Ngunjiri, and Kathy-Ann Hernandez break new ground on this blossoming new array of research models, collectively labeled Collaborative Autoethnography. Their book serves as a practical guide by providing you with a variety of data collection, analytic, and writing techniques to conduct collaborative projects. It also answers your questions about the bigger picture: What advantages does a collaborative approach offer to autoethnography? What are some of the methodological, ethical, and interpersonal challenges you’ll encounter along the way? Model collaborative autoethnographies and writing prompts are included in the appendixes. This exceptional, in-depth resource will help you explore this exciting new frontier in qualitative methods.Table of ContentsChapter 1 What Is Collaborative Autoethnography?; Chapter 2 Typology of Collaborative Autoethnography; Chapter 3 Getting Ready for Collaborative Autoethnography; Chapter 4 Data Collection; Chapter 5 Data Analysis and Interpretation; Chapter 6 Collaborative Autoethnographic Writing; Chapter 7 Applications of Collaborative Autoethnography; Epilogue1 Epilogue: Our Approach;
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Structural Equation Modeling with Mplus: Basic
Book SynopsisModeled after Barbara Byrne’s other best-selling structural equation modeling (SEM) books, this practical guide reviews the basic concepts and applications of SEM using Mplus Versions 5 & 6. The author reviews SEM applications based on actual data taken from her own research. Using non-mathematical language, it is written for the novice SEM user. With each application chapter, the author "walks" the reader through all steps involved in testing the SEM model including: an explanation of the issues addressed illustrated and annotated testing of the hypothesized and post hoc models explanation and interpretation of all Mplus input and output files important caveats pertinent to the SEM application under study a description of the data and reference upon which the model was based the corresponding data and syntax files available under "Supplementary Material" below The first two chapters introduce the fundamental concepts of SEM and important basics of the Mplus program. The remaining chapters focus on SEM applications and include a variety of SEM models presented within the context of three sections: Single-group analyses, Multiple-group analyses, and other important topics, the latter of which includes the multitrait-multimethod, latent growth curve, and multilevel models.Intended for researchers, practitioners, and students who use SEM and Mplus, this book is an ideal resource for graduate level courses on SEM taught in psychology, education, business, and other social and health sciences and/or as a supplement for courses on applied statistics, multivariate statistics, intermediate or advanced statistics, and/or research design. Appropriate for those with limited exposure to SEM or Mplus, a prerequisite of basic statistics through regression analysis is recommended.Trade Review"Barbara Byrne has published another winner--a practically oriented, thorough, and accessible resource for students and researchers who want to harness the power of Mplus for their SEM analyses. The writing is clear and engaging. I anticipate assigning the book in my graduate SEM course and recommending it to fellow researchers. This book will be a valuable resource for moving from knowing about SEM to using it." - Rick H. Hoyle, Duke University, USA"This book provides a good starting point to newcomers to Mplus. It focuses, as it should for an introductory text, on the basics of 'classical' SEM. If you are new to SEM, plan on using Mplus, and are looking for an introductory text with minimal statistical jargon, this is it." - Albert Maydeu-Olivares, University of Barcelona, Spain"A solid introduction to the use of Mplus for SEM. All of the common types of structural equation models are illustrated using real examples, building the Mplus syntax from start to finish. The book is an excellent and readable guide for researchers and students who want to learn more about SEM in the context of Mplus." - Roger E. Millsap, Arizona State University, USA"A hallmark of Byrne's books is their accessibility to new users. … Byrne has done a great service to the field by bringing thousands of students and researchers to structural equation modeling through her clear writing and accessible examples. This book will be another contribution along those same lines. .... I field many, many questions … that could be answered by simply referring the asker to a book like Byrne's." - Kristopher J. Preacher, University of Kansas, USA"The book is targeted to non-mathematical readers, and hence it focuses on the applications of SEM. It does this very nicely, beginning from the part that covers the basic ideas of SEM and shows how to get started with the Mplus. Overall, this book is an excellent resource for a beginner interested in SEM with Mplus." -Kimmo Vehkalahti, Department of Social Research, Statistics, University of Helsinki, Finland"Through the use of illustrative examples, this much-needed and well-written book provides an accessible presentation of SEM with Mplus. Those new to SEM and/or Mplus will find Byrne’s book extremely useful as a companion textbook and long-term reference guide." - Sara J. Finney, James Madison University, USATable of ContentsPart 1: Introduction. 1. Structural Equation Models: The Basics. 2. Using the Mplus Program. Part 2: Single-Group Analyses. Confirmatory Factor Analytic Models 3. Testing the Factorial Validity of a Theoretical Construct (1st-order CFA Model). 4. Testing the Factorial Validity of Scores from a Measuring Instrument (1st-order CFA Model). 5. Testing the Validity of Scores from a Measuring Instrument (2nd-order CFA Model). The Full Latent Variable Model 6. Testing the Validity of a Causal Structure. Part 3: Multiple-Group Analyses. Confirmatory Factor Analytic Models 7. Testing for the Factorial Equivalence of a Measuring Instrument (Analysis of Covariance Structures). 8. Testing for the Equivalence of Latent Factor Means (Analysis of Mean and Covariance Structures). The Full Latent Variable Model 9. Testing for the Equivalence of a Causal Structure (Analysis of Covariance Structures). Part 4: Other Important Topics. 10. Testing Evidence of Construct Validity: The Multitrait-multimethod Model. 11. Testing Change Over Time: The Latent Growth Curve Model. 12. Testing Within- and Between-level Variability: The Multilevel Model.
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