Social research and statistics Books
The University of Chicago Press The Total Survey Error Approach A Guide to the
Book SynopsisPresents a unified method for conducting good survey research centered on the various types of errors that can occur in surveys - from measurement and nonresponse error to coverage and sampling error. This comprehensive guide is built on theoretical elements drawn from specific disciplines, with detailed treatments of the specific types of errors.Trade Review"This book is appropriate for many survey research methods courses. It will be useful for both instructors and for survey research professionals. I would use it in my survey methods class and recommend it to the staff in my organization." - John Kennedy, director of the Center for Survey Research, Indiana University"
£34.20
Columbia University Press Research Techniques for Program Planning
Book SynopsisEach section, program planning, monitoring, and evaluation, begins with a description of the administrative function to which it is devoted, followed by a set of selected research techniques, each illustrated with a hypothetical case and an exercise for the reader in applying the technique.Table of Contents1. Introduction 1. Program Planning 2. Constructing Questionnaires for Need-Assessment Surveys 3. Interviewing for Resource Surveys 4. Assessing Research in Planning Intervention Strategies 5. Using Observational Techniques for Planning Staff Training Pograms 2. Program Monitoring 6. Using Forms to Conduct a Client Census 7. Using Forms to Monitor Staff Activities 8. Using Smapling in Monitoring Staff Performance 9. Data Analysis and Interpretation for Program Monitoring 3. Program Evaluation 10. Interrupted Time Series Designs 11. Replicated Cross-Sectional Survey Designs 12. Comparative Experimental Designs 13. Crossover Designs 14. Summary and Conclusions
£60.00
Columbia University Press Research in Social Work
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£66.00
Columbia University Press Research in Social Work
Book SynopsisSets forth a scientific framework for practicing and examining applications of research concepts and techniques for social workers.Table of ContentsPart I. Social Work and Research 1. Understanding the World 2. The Contribution of the Scientific Approach to Social Work Part II. Generation of Inquiry Theory 1. Developing a Problem for Research 2. Considerations for a Useful Research Problem 3. Current Knowledge 4. Formulating Hypotheses and Questions 5. Explication of the Problem Part III. The Social Context of Research 1. The Profession of Social Work 2. Theory as Framework for Research 3. The Site of the Research 4. The Social and Political Context 5. Protection of Human Subjects Part IV. Dimensions of Research Design 1. The Investigator's Control Over the Phenomena Studied 2. Knowledge-Building Purposes and Functions 3. Methodological Orientation 4. Establishing Causality 5. Threats to Internal Validity Part V. Naturalistic Designs 1. Designs with Exploratory-Descriptive Functions 2. Designs with Explanatory Functions Part VI. Single-System Experiments 1. The Case Study 2. The Basic Time Series (AeMDRVOABAeMDNMO) Design 3. Withdrawal Reversal Designs 4. The Multiple Baseline Design 5. Generalization (External Validity) Part VII. Group Experiments 1. Uncontrolled Single Group Experiment 2. Strengthening the Design 3. Equivalent Group Designs 4. Nonequivalent Group Designs 5. The Experimental Intervention 6. Generalization from Group Experiments 7. Laboratory Experiments: Analog Studies of Intervention Effects Part VIII. Sampling 1. The Nature and Purposes of Sampling 2. Samples and the Research Question 3. Basic Types of Samples 4. Generalization from Probability Samples 5. Size of Sample Part IX. Measurement 1. Definition of Measurement 2. Role of Measurement 3. Levels of Measurement 4. Criteria for Evaluating Measurement Procedures Part X. Data Collection 1. Selecting a Data Collection Method 2. Bias in Data Collection Methods 3. Self-Report Methods 4. Observation 5. Available Data Part XI. Quantitative Data Analysis 1. Quantitative Data 2. Categorization and Coding 3. Univariate Analysis 4. Ivariate Analysis 5. Inferential Statistics 6. Multivariate Analysis 7. Analysis of Time Series Data 8. Meta-Analysis Part XII. Qualitative Research 1. Modes of Qualitative Research 2. The Methods of Qualitative Research Part XIII. Assessment 1. Research Procedures in Assessment for Generalist Practice Part XIV. Evaluating Outcome at Different Levels of Practice 1. Program Levels and Evaluation Designs 2. Outcome Criteria 3. From Criteria to Data 4. Sources and Types of Data 5. Variations in Outcome Measures Part XV. Study of Intervention Characteristics 1. Data from Practitioners'Reports 2. Data from Clients 3. Direct and Electronic Observation 4. Change Process Research 5. Intervention Analogs Part XVI. Intervention Design and Development 1.The Design and Development Paradigm (D&D) Appendix 1. The Library Research Process: Mary Jane Brustman Appendix 2. Guidelines for Preparing a Research Report
£66.00
Columbia University Press Social Work Research and Evaluation
Book SynopsisReamer demonstrates how case-workers, program directors, and administrators evaluate the effectiveness of interventions, conduct needs assessments, draw on empirically-based literature and findings to inform their practice, and, finally, create and disseminate information for use by other professionals.Table of ContentsThe Relevance of Social Work Research and Evaluation Skills Understanding Research and Evaluation Questions Designing Social Work Research and Evaluation Ethical Issues in Social Work Research and Evaluation Sampling Measurement Issues Data Collection: Standardized Instruments Data Collection: Instrument Development Data Collection: Procedures Program Evaluation Data Analysis Preparing Research and Evaluation Reports Locating and Critiquing Literature
£64.00
Columbia University Press Postmodern Social Work
Book SynopsisKen Moffatt turns to postmodern philosophy’s grappling with late capitalism and the omnipresence of technology in order to develop a new approach to reflective social work practice and critical pedagogy. He attempts to reconcile postmodern thinkers with the realities of teaching social work to diverse student populations in a precarious era.Trade ReviewKen Moffatt has successfully provided a new take on how postmodern thinking influences the core areas of social work education. Essential to rethinking and redesigning syllabi and pedagogy, this book will function as a refreshing framework from which to revisit new curricula. All social work educators, new and experienced, will find this book invaluable. -- Janis Fook, author of Social Work: A Critical Approach to PracticePostmodern Social Work responds to the challenges of co-creating social work practice and education. Moffatt provides an intellectually rigorous and accessible approach to social work for the precarious times in which we live. Drawing on critical and feminist postmodern perspectives, Moffatt proposes new ways we can promote openness to the marginalized other and to multiple forms of knowing. The book offers renewed hope for reflective and creative forms of critical social work education and practice. -- Karen Healy, author of Social Work Theories in Context: Creating Frameworks for PracticePostmodern Social Work offers a valuable perspective on social work teaching and education. In today’s multifaceted, global environment, the ability to think critically and complexly is essential to productive social work. Integrating postmodern concepts with reflective practice, Ken Moffatt provides an alternative pedagogy that embraces these challenges. Both new and veteran educators—and their students—can benefit from the ideas discussed in this book. -- Stanley Witkin, author of Transforming Social Work: Social Constructionist Reflections on Contemporary and Enduring IssuesIn this insightful book, Moffatt deploys his magical touch again, transforming ordinary experience into extraordinary unforgettable learning – the hallmark of a brilliant educator. Here’s a unique take on the many creative ways social work engages postmodern concepts and an invitation to vulnerability where Moffatt models self-reflection as ongoing critical engagement. -- Martha Kuwee Kumsa, Wilfrid Laurier UniversityPostmodern Social Work straddles the areas of critical pedagogy and social work, offering a method for teaching in a manner that examines the academic climate, which is being so negatively impacted by neoliberalism and managerialism. -- Laura Béres, author of The Narrative PractitionerTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Discourse in the Context of Precariousness2. Reflective Social Work Practice: The Social and the Self3. Reflective Practice as a Form of Consciousness4. The Social Work Classroom as a Play of Dynamic Elements5. The Dispossessed Self6. Arts-Based Reflection7. Reflective Postmodern Social Work in the Context of PrecariousnessWorks CitedIndex
£27.00
Columbia University Press Research Techniques for Clinical Social Workers
Book SynopsisIntended for students and practitioners of social work, this work presents research concepts and skills. It reflects contemporary developments in practice research, such as an evidence-based practice; the importance of evaluation within the managed-care environment; the role of social work ethics in practice research; and, more.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1 Assessment 1. Research Interviewing and Questionnaires 2. Using Available Instruments 3. Systematic Observation 4. Specification and Rating of Problems and Goals Part 2 Selecting, Implementing, and Monitoring Intervention 5. Selection of Treatment Interventions 6. Content Analysis 7. The Development and Use of Forms for Client Self-Monitoring 8. Qualitative Methods in Practice Research Part 3 Evaluating Treatment 9. Single-Case Designs 10. Variations and Replications of Single-Case Designs 11. The Use of Sample Surveys in Follow-up Evaluations 12. Simple Group Designs for Use in Evaluation 13. The Use of Data Aggregation and Analysis for Treatment Monitoring 14. Research and Clinical Social Work Practice Postscript Index
£108.90
Columbia University Press Research Methods in Child Welfare
Book SynopsisCovers the methodological challenges and the real-life constraints of research in child welfare settings. This volume addresses topics that include the ethics involved in researching children and their families and the limits of confidentiality within this population.Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Foreword, by Christine James-Brown Acknowledgments 1. Introduction to Child Welfare Research Part 1. Planning and Developing Research Studies 2. The Philosophy and Logic of Research 3. Ethical Considerations 4. Problem Formulation 5. Sampling Theory Part 2. Design Strategies 6. Single-System Design 7. Group Designs 8. Using Existing Data Part 3. Measurement Strategies 9. Measurement Theory and Measure Selection 10. Surveys 11. Case Studies 12. Focus Groups 13. In-Depth Interviews Part 4. Data Analysis and Writing Up and Sharing Research Results 14. Data Analysis Techniques 15. Dissemination of Research Findings Part 5. Special Topics in Agency Practice 16. Continuous Quality Improvement in Agency Practice 17. Agency-Based Program Evaluation 18. Final Thoughts Classroom Discussion and Activities Glossary 1. Social Science Research Methods Terms Glossary 2. Child Welfare Practice and Policy Terms References Index
£102.00
Columbia University Press Research Methods in Child Welfare
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Foreword, by Christine James-Brown Acknowledgments 1. Introduction to Child Welfare Research Part 1. Planning and Developing Research Studies 2. The Philosophy and Logic of Research 3. Ethical Considerations 4. Problem Formulation 5. Sampling Theory Part 2. Design Strategies 6. Single-System Design 7. Group Designs 8. Using Existing Data Part 3. Measurement Strategies 9. Measurement Theory and Measure Selection 10. Surveys 11. Case Studies 12. Focus Groups 13. In-Depth Interviews Part 4. Data Analysis and Writing Up and Sharing Research Results 14. Data Analysis Techniques 15. Dissemination of Research Findings Part 5. Special Topics in Agency Practice 16. Continuous Quality Improvement in Agency Practice 17. Agency-Based Program Evaluation 18. Final Thoughts Classroom Discussion and Activities Glossary 1. Social Science Research Methods Terms Glossary 2. Child Welfare Practice and Policy Terms References Index
£31.50
Columbia University Press Qualitative Research in Social Work
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis edition continues with an emphasis on qualitative program evaluation and ends with some exemplary studies in strong practice domains in our field. -- Deborah Gioia, University of Maryland, School of Social WorkTable of ContentsPreface Part I The Big Picture 1. Standards for Qualitative Studies and Reports, by James W. Drisko 2. Ethics in Qualitative Research, by Frederick Reamer 3. Deconstructing the Epistemological Question with a Focus on the Knower, by Robert L. Miller Jr. Part II. Approaches to Qualitative Research 4. Constructivist Research in Social Work, by James W. Drisko 5. Grounded Theory, by Jane F. Gilgun 6. Ethnography, by Roberta G. Sands 7. Analysis of Personal Narratives, by Catherine Kohler Reissman 8. "We have a situation here!": Using Situation Analysis for Health and Social Research, by Lesley Green Rennis 9. Action Research: An Intervention for Change, by Shirley J. Jones Part III: Methods of Data Collection and Analysis 10. Qualitative Interviewing, by Judy L. Postmus 11. Focus Groups, by Raymie Wayne 12. Qualitative Data Analysis Software: An Overview and New Possibilities Part IV: Qualitative Program Evaluation 13 Qualitative Program Evaluation: Overview 14. Program Evaluation: Departures 15. The Application of Qualitative Research to Organizational Decision-Making Part V: Generating New Knowledge for Social Work 16. Coping with the Dual Demands of Psychiatric Disability and Parenting: The Parents' Perspective 17. Assessing Young Children's Perceptions of Family Relationships: Theory and Applications of the Narrative Story-Stem Technique, by Tim Page 18. Parenting and Child Neglect among Families in Urban Poverty: A Qualitative Approach 19. Doing the Best You Can? The Relationship between Caseworker and Parent: A Case Study 20. Scholarships and Support Available to Foster Youth: A Qualitative Approach to Understanding Service Delivery 21. Collaboration between Social Workers and Physicians: Development and Application of a Typology Appendix
£46.50
Columbia University Press Time and the Other
Book SynopsisTime and the Other is a classic work that critically reexamined the relationship between anthropologists and their subjects and reoriented the approach literary critics, philosophers, and historians took to the study of humankind.Trade ReviewPraise for the first edition: "A radical epistemological critique of anthropological writing." -- George Marcus, University of California, Irvine "The confidence and optimism that Fabian expresses contributes in no small way to the exhilarating intellectual experience this book offers." -- Gauri Viswanathan, Columbia University xTable of ContentsForeword: Syntheses of a Critical Anthropology, by Matti Bunzl Preface to the Reprint Edition Preface and Acknowledgments 1. Time and the Emerging Other 2. Our Time, Their Time, No Time: Coevalness Denied 3. Time and Writing About the Other 4. The Other and the Eye: Time and the Rhetoric of Vision 5. Conclusions Postscript: The Other Revisited Notes References Cited Index
£85.50
Columbia University Press Narrative in Social Work Practice
Book SynopsisNarrative in Social Work Practice features first-person accounts by social workers who have successfully integrated narrative theory and approaches into their practice. Throughout, the book showcases the flexibility and appeal of narrative methods and demonstrates how they can be empowering and fulfilling for clients and social workers alike.Trade ReviewBrava! I congratulate the editors and contributors for this spellbinding book. I became engrossed in the various narratives, each presenting its own portrait of courage, resilience, and professional and personal discovery. The authors give voice to the hidden social work heroes who make a difference in people's everyday lives. Thank you for sharing your commitment, your creativity, and your humanity. This book is a magnificent read! -- Alex Gitterman, University of Connecticut School of Social Work Within the context of the helping process, our stories, our clients' stories, and the stories of our time and times past enlighten social work practice. The complexities of humanity cannot be adequately understood through a digitalized format-well-crafted narrative continues to be a cornerstone of the social work profession. Narrative in Social Work Practice is a thoughtfully edited collection, essential for any social worker who wants to better understand why, when, and how we address the human condition. -- Thomas Sedgwick, vice-president, the Society for Social Work Leadership in Health Care This pathbreaking book is essential reading for social work practitioners, educators, supervisors, and researchers and their allies in related professions and disciplines who focus on human dialogue, interpretation, memory, and creativity as tools of their trade. -- Barbara Levy Simon, Columbia University School of Social Work This beautifully written book illustrates a variety of narrative methods and how they can be personalized in practice to reflect the unique experiences and skills of the individual social worker. For social workers and other helping professionals, this book is just the ticket. -- Martha Dore, Director of Social Work Research (ret.), Cambridge Child Guidance Center, Harvard University Department of PsychiatryTable of ContentsForeword, by Rita Charon Preface: A Carnival of Possibilities, by Ann Burack-Weiss Acknowledgments Introduction: Many Ways of Knowing, by Ann Burack-Weiss Part I. Writing as Discovery and Healing 1. Stuck: An Intersection of Stories, by Lynne Bamat Mijangos 2. Garden at Vaucresson: It's Not All a Bed of Roses, by Lynn Sara Lawrence 3. Another Kind of Witnessing: Narrative Medicine and the Trauma Therapist, by Kristen Slesar Part II. Narrative Social Work with Individuals and Families 4. The Reluctant Storyteller: The Use of Self in Narrative Social Work, by Millet Israeli 5. Grace Notes: Singing in Marion's Hospital Room, by Constance H. Gemson 6. One Family's Experience of Falling Out of Health: A Mother Remembers; a Daughter Reflects, by Jessica Greenbaum and Isabel Marcus 7. Scheherazade: The Social Worker as Interpreter of Social, Cultural, and Familial Maladies, by Judith Levi 8. Sharing a Narrative Meal: The Therapeutic Use of Narrative with Older Adults, by Lauren Taylor Part III. Narrative Social Work with Groups 9. Storytelling and Listening to Combat HIV/AIDS: Stigma and Secrecy in Kenya, by Benaifer Bhadha 10. I Like Dancing and Singing and Prancing and Flinging: Using Poetry in Dementia Care, by Mary Hume 11. Jesse's Story: A Mother's Voice-a Social Work Journey, by Heidi Mandel 12. With Every Story We Rise: Narrative Means to Social Justice Ends, by Nora McCarthy and Rachel Blustain Part IV. Narrative Social Work in Education, Supervision, and Research 13. Transnational Parenting: The Hidden Costs of the Search for a "Better Life", by Christiana Best-Giacomini 14. The Worker-Mentor Story: Narrative Approaches in Social Work Supervision, by Alicia Fry 15. Narrative Research: Discoveries in Listening to Clinician-Scholars' Experiences of Working Across Trauma and Loss, by Madelyn Miller 16. Reading and Writing Really Are Fundamental: How Stories Shape Professional Development, by Mary Sormanti Conclusion: On Narrative Competence and Narrative Humility, by Ann Burack-Weiss, Lynn Sara Lawrence, and Lynne Bamat Mijangos List of Contributors Index
£27.00
Columbia University Press Stories from the Field A Guide to Navigating
Book SynopsisStories from the Field is a relatable, thoughtful, and unorthodox guide to field research in political science. It features personal stories from working political scientists: some funny, some dramatic, all fascinating and informative.Trade ReviewThe breadth of life experience captured in this collection is the reason this volume has great pedagogical potential. A lot of graduate students will flip to find their academic heroes and crushes and then keep reading. Authors are writing with different agendas, but always in a first-person voice. The effect is to give the volume both intellectual heft and a personal touch. -- Jesse Driscoll, author of Doing Global Fieldwork: A Social Scientist’s Guide to Mixed-Methods Research Far From HomeI love this book. I want every first-year political science student, all graduate students, and each of my colleagues to read it. Krause and Szekely deliver the real deal: how to do rigorous field research while remaining candid, agile, and curious. In every chapter here, I laughed and I learned. -- Cynthia Enloe, author of The Big Push: Exposing and Challenging Persistent PatriarchyScholars seldom share their personal stories and lessons drawn from field research with others, limiting our ability to learn from one another's experiences. This book is unique in making available stories and insights from forty-four such experiences from scholars for whom fieldwork is a central part of their research. I wish it had been available when I first went to the field, and hope that young scholars today will take advantage of it, both to convince them of the importance of fieldwork and to help to prepare them for what to expect from it. -- Sidney Tarrow, coeditor of The Resistance: The Dawn of the Anti-Trump Opposition MovementOffers a wealth of personal insights, methodological discussions, and ways of creatively coping with the unexpected during research carried out around the globe....This is a good volume for use in a methods course...Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Learning Through Stories, by Peter Krause and Ora SzekelyPart I. Welcome to the Field1. Fieldwork and Emotions, by Ian S. Lustick2. Cooking Soup and Killing Chickens: Navigating Gender and Food-as-Fieldwork in West Africa, by Zoe Marks3. Recite! Interpretive Fieldwork for Positivists, by Richard A. NielsenPart II. Designing Your Research and Deciding Where to Go4. Fieldwork by Decree, Not by Design, by Stathis N. Kalyvas5. Conducting 1,500 Surveys in New York City (With Great Uncertainty and a Limited Budget), by Christina M. Greer6. Hezbollah Will Take Your Data: How to Plan for Research Among Insurgents, by Krista E. Wiegand7. When the Linguistic Lightweight Goes Abroad: Relying on Sharp Students by Stephen M. Saideman8. Navigating Data Collection in War Zones, by Fotini ChristiaPart III. Make a Plan . . . Then Be Ready to Toss It9. Let Go and Let Ali, by Nadya Hajj10. Be Prepared (To Go Off Script), by Daniel N. Posner11. Radio Gaga: Evolving Field Experiments in Mali, by Kristin Michelitch12. Crossed Wires: Interviewing the Wrong People, by Bethany Lacina13. “You Don’t Know What You’re Getting Into”: Dealing with Dishonesty in the Field, by Matthew Franklin Cancian and Kristin E. Fabbe14. Successful Fieldwork for the Fieldwork-Hater, by Amelia Hoover GreenPart IV. Creatively Collecting Data and Evidence15. How to Interview a Terrorist, by Jessica Stern16. Stumbling Around in the Archives, by Marc Trachtenberg17. Details in the Doodles: Documenting Covert Action, by Lindsey A. O’Rourke18. My Stint as a Ukrainian Taxi Driver, by Keith Darden19. Conducting Fieldwork in a Virtual Space: Exploring ISIS’s Encrypted Messaging on Telegram, by Mia Bloom and Ayse Lokmanoglu20. All the Signs Are There: Incidental Discoveries During Fieldwork on Gender Discrimination in Russia, by Valerie Sperling21. Learning from Foreign Colleagues, by Robert RossPart V. Developing Local Knowledge22. On Field-Being, by Wendy Pearlman23. Fieldwork on Foot, by Paul Staniland24. The Onion Principle, by David D. Laitin25. The Intoxication of Fieldwork: Obtaining Authorizations in Burkina Faso, by John F. McCauley26. Field Research and Security in a Collapsed State, by Will Reno27. Building Field Networks in the Era of Big Data, by Amaney JamalPart VI. Seeing and Being Seen: Identity in the Field28. Researching an Old Civil War Close to Home, by Laia Balcells29. Positionality and Subjectivity in Field Research, by Enze Han30. Race and the Study of a Racial Democracy, by Melissa Nobles31. “Why Are You Interested in That?” Studying Racial Inequality in the United States from the Outside, by Desmond King32. Navigating Born and Chosen Identities in Fieldwork, by Peter KrausePart VII. Being Ethically Accountable33. On Research That “Matters,” by Erica Chenoweth34. The Field Is Everywhere, by Zachariah Cherian Mampilly35. Things Change: Protecting Yourself and Your Sources in Uncertain Times, by Marc Lynch36. Ethnography with Extremists: Living in a Fascist Militia, by Alessandro Orsini37. Building Trust with Ex-Insurgents, by Emil Aslan Souleimanov38. On Being Seen, by Ora SzekelyPart VIII. Staying Safe and Healthy39. Conducting Safe Fieldwork on Violence and Peace, by Sarah Zukerman Daly40. Your Safety and Theirs: Interviewing Sex-Traffickers, by Carla B. Abdo-Katsipis41. Shingles on the Campaign Trail, by Ravi Perry42. Drink the Tea, by Vipin NarangOne Last Thing Before You Go . . .Conclusion: What Does It Mean to Do Fieldwork?, by Peter Krause and Ora SzekelyIndex
£105.30
Columbia University Press Statistics in Social Work
Book SynopsisThis concise and approachable introduction to statistics limits its coverage to the concepts most relevant to social workers. Besides presenting key concepts, it focuses on real-world examples that students will encounter in a social work practice.Trade ReviewStatistics in Social Work is a practical and effective resource for social work students. Batchelor requires no prior knowledge of statistics from her readers and explains topics in plain language with relatable examples. Most importantly, she offers a social justice perspective that emphasizes and integrates the core value of the social work profession. -- Ashley Davis, Boston UniversityThis is an excellent introduction to statistics for both students and practitioners in social work—it demystifies terms and procedures and uses real world examples to help the reader to see the everyday applicability of statistical knowledge, whether in practice or in study. -- John Devaney, coauthor of Quantitative Research Methods for Social Work: Making Social Work CountTable of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Introduction2. Creating Useful Data3. Understanding People and Populations4. Variance: The Distance Between Us5. The Statistics of Relationships6. Sampling: The Who and the How7. What Works? Hypothesis Testing and Inferential Statistics8. When Two Is Not Enough: Testing with Multiple Groups9. An Introduction to Advanced ConceptsAppendix I: GlossaryAppendix II: Answer Key for Review QuestionsAppendix III: Equations Cheat SheetReferencesIndex
£71.25
Columbia University Press Doing Global Fieldwork
Book SynopsisJesse Driscoll offers a how-to guide for social scientists who are considering extended mixed-methods international fieldwork. Doing Global Fieldwork is an up-to-date handbook for graduate students and social science researchers of all stripes who need blunt, no-nonsense advice about how to make the best of their time in the field.Trade ReviewIn Doing Global Fieldwork, Jesse Driscoll has given researchers a comprehensive guide to getting into the field and navigating the complexity of field-based research. He brings to bear his vast knowledge of the topic, based on his own years of experience. He does so with unexpected humor. This book should be required for scholars at any stage of their career who are considering jumping into the complexities of fieldwork. Most importantly, the book provides unparalleled insight into the nuts and bolts of fieldwork, that are often unspoken and that you will not find anywhere else. -- Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili, author of Informal Order and the State in AfghanistanIf you have time to read only one book before you leave to do field research, read this one. If you have time to read two books before you leave, read this one twice. Driscoll's advice is honest, down-to-earth, and practical about reconciling the ideals of scientific inquiry with the messy realities of fieldwork. Reading it feels like having a conversation about your research with a wise friend. -- Richard A. Nielsen, author of Deadly Clerics: Blocked Ambition and the Paths to JihadMany graduate students (and even those who are more senior) wish to go on a journey to the other side of the world, explore for a while, collect something never before collected, and then come back to wherever home is and tell others within the academy (as well as hopefully some civilians) about what exists in the place/time that was visited. Employment, fame, and a decent wage await the successful (wealth not likely). Unfortunately, most academics are not prepared to go, or, if they are, they are not prepared to see things for what they are or if they are they are not prepared to report back on what was seen, presenting it in a manner that is simultaneously coherent, approachable, and maybe even elegant. Guided by an insight referred to as “improvisational pluralism” (a heightened ability to adjust both within as well as across diverse aspects of knowledge production) and a strong ethical compass/guardian angel, Jesse Driscoll in Doing Global Fieldwork prepares his reader with advice somewhere between Italo Calvino, Coach Carter, and James Scott. With this engagingly delivered as well as detailed guidance and encouragement, the reader will not only be ready to go on a journey into the unknown but they will also be ready to return from it with stories, data, and insights that will regale as well as with little to no harm being done to oneself or to others. Buy the book, absorb it, and then jump. You’ll thank him later. -- Christian Davenport, coauthor of The Peace Continuum: What It Is and How to Study ItDriscoll invites the reader to think seriously about what it really means to do field research in political science—methodologically, intellectually, and emotionally. Based on his own considerable experience, he writes honestly about what’s hard about fieldwork and why it’s worth doing anyway. -- Ora Szekely, coeditor of Stories from the Field: A Guide to Navigating Fieldwork in Political ScienceEvery researcher headed for the field should read this book. Doing Global Fieldwork brings to the reader in plain and direct terms the reality that field research rarely goes according to plan. Experienced readers and those about to embark for field research for the first time will profit from the descriptions of how people's lives and the tumult of everyday events can sidetrack the most well thought out research designs. This book also is a guide to workarounds and ad hoc adaptations that will help the reader to get research done, especially for those headed to one of the many unstable, but not quite war-zone sorts of places. It is especially valuable for Driscoll's advice on making the oftentimes unexpectedly rough adjustment to life back home as one is called upon to translate the kaleidoscopic chaos of experience and improvisation into the cool, ordered product that will be read by people who did not get their hands dusty in the field or sweat as things fell apart. -- William Reno, author of Warfare in Independent AfricaThe book is a valuable addition to the literature, offering insights into the backstage workings of an otherwise quite closed ‘guild’. * International Affairs *Table of ContentsFigures and TablesPreface1. Welcome to the Guild2. How to Prepare to leave your home institution3. How to Think About Self-Presentation Once You Arrive4. How to Think About Solo Data Collection5. How to Think Like a Manager6. How to Weigh Risks in Difficult Settings7. How to Come HomeAcknowledgmentsAppendix I: How to Retell the Story of Your Journey to the FieldAppendix II: Additional ReadingNotesBibliographyIndex
£80.00
Columbia University Press Experimental Research Designs in Social Work
Book SynopsisThis book presents a comprehensive overview of the theory and practice of experimental research in the field of social work. Bruce A. Thyer illustrates key principles through examples of how social workers have evaluated real-world practice approaches.Trade ReviewI wish I had this book years ago! This comprehensive and beautifully written volume will be useful to both aspiring and seasoned experimental researchers. Experimental Research Designs in Social Work will be a work I reach to again and again as I plan and execute my next experimental trial. -- Joseph Himle, University of MichiganBruce Thyer has been a long-term advocate for clients receiving careful appraisals of potential service outcomes. Experimental Research Designs in Social Work is an important contribution for its extensive account of social work experiments and an up-to-date description of how to discover opportunities to evaluate practices and policies, adding to our knowledge about outcomes. -- Eileen Gambrill, University of California BerkeleyThyer skillfully presents the key principles and importance of experimental designs to social work. Easy to follow yet intellectually invigorating, this book seamlessly integrates theory, practice, and research methods. -- Harold Briggs, University of GeorgiaOutcome studies are essential to know whether or not an intervention is effective. This text—written by one of the foremost experts in experimental research—is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in designing, conducting, or evaluating intervention research. -- David R. Hodge, Arizona State UniversityThyer has helped to take the “experimenting” out of teaching experimental research design. This text provides a clear blueprint for teaching and learning about experimental research design. I trust that this book will be an invaluable resource for social work scholars for many years to come. -- Javonda Williams, University of Tennessee, KnoxvilleSocial work students will greatly benefit from this excellent book....The text provides a clear integration of theory, practice, and research methods. * Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment *Table of ContentsNote to the ReaderForeword by Gail S. SteketeePreface1. Why Does Social Work Need Experimental Designs?2. What Are Experiments?3. The Philosophy of the Science of Experimental Designs4. The Purpose of Experimental Designs5. Posttest-Only Experimental Designs6. Pretest–Posttest Experimental Designs7. Refinements in Experimental Designs8. Recruiting Participants from Diverse and Underrepresented Groups9. Alternatives to Group-Randomized Designs for Making Causal Inferences10. Ethical Considerations for the Use of Experimental DesignsReferencesIndex
£105.30
Columbia University Press Experimental Research Designs in Social Work
Book SynopsisThis book presents a comprehensive overview of the theory and practice of experimental research in the field of social work. Bruce A. Thyer illustrates key principles through examples of how social workers have evaluated real-world practice approaches.Trade ReviewI wish I had this book years ago! This comprehensive and beautifully written volume will be useful to both aspiring and seasoned experimental researchers. Experimental Research Designs in Social Work will be a work I reach to again and again as I plan and execute my next experimental trial. -- Joseph Himle, University of MichiganBruce Thyer has been a long-term advocate for clients receiving careful appraisals of potential service outcomes. Experimental Research Designs in Social Work is an important contribution for its extensive account of social work experiments and an up-to-date description of how to discover opportunities to evaluate practices and policies, adding to our knowledge about outcomes. -- Eileen Gambrill, University of California BerkeleyThyer skillfully presents the key principles and importance of experimental designs to social work. Easy to follow yet intellectually invigorating, this book seamlessly integrates theory, practice, and research methods. -- Harold Briggs, University of GeorgiaOutcome studies are essential to know whether or not an intervention is effective. This text—written by one of the foremost experts in experimental research—is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in designing, conducting, or evaluating intervention research. -- David R. Hodge, Arizona State UniversityThyer has helped to take the “experimenting” out of teaching experimental research design. This text provides a clear blueprint for teaching and learning about experimental research design. I trust that this book will be an invaluable resource for social work scholars for many years to come. -- Javonda Williams, University of Tennessee, KnoxvilleSocial work students will greatly benefit from this excellent book....The text provides a clear integration of theory, practice, and research methods. * Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment *Table of ContentsNote to the ReaderForeword by Gail S. SteketeePreface1. Why Does Social Work Need Experimental Designs?2. What Are Experiments?3. The Philosophy of the Science of Experimental Designs4. The Purpose of Experimental Designs5. Posttest-Only Experimental Designs6. Pretest–Posttest Experimental Designs7. Refinements in Experimental Designs8. Recruiting Participants from Diverse and Underrepresented Groups9. Alternatives to Group-Randomized Designs for Making Causal Inferences10. Ethical Considerations for the Use of Experimental DesignsReferencesIndex
£28.50
Columbia University Press After Positivism
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University of Illinois Press Sport History in the Digital Era
Book SynopsisFrom statistical databases to story archives, from fan sites to the real-time reactions of Twitter-empowered athletes, the digital communication revolution has changed the way sports fans relate to their favorite teams. In this volume, contributors from Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States analyze the parallel transformation in the field of sport history, showing the ways powerful digital tools raise vital philosophical, epistemological, ontological, methodological, and ethical questions for scholars and students alike. Chapters consider how the philosophical and theoretical understanding of the meaning of history influence a willingness to engage with digital history, and conceptualize the relationship between history making and the digital era. As the writers show, digital media''s mostly untapped potential for studying the recent past via blogs, chat rooms, gambling sites, and the like forge a symbiosis between sports and the internet, and ofTrade Review"Each essay is thought-provoking and grounded with examples or connections to sport history that challenge us to consider the utility of digital technologies—and our relationship to them—moving forward. . . . Osmond and Phillips show a keen awareness of the major developments, debates, and conversations in the digital humanities and offer an important book that will serve as an accessible conversation starter for historians of sport."--Sport in American History "Those who are interested in sport history will appreciate this resource on using the Internet in their work. Highly recommended."--Choice"This book should interest anyone who does research into sports history or who teaches a graduate-level class on doing research, especially archival work."--Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly "This book sets out to make history safe for the Internet age that has been thrust upon us ready or not in this century. . . . Sport historians, sports studies and sociology of sport scholars, and digital humanities scholars will all find useful ideas for their research and their efforts in the classroom in the volume's ten chapters."--ARETE"Sport History in the Digital Era offers a well-timed overview of the ways that sport historians can work in this milieu."--Sport History Review"Provides a thoughtful exploration of the strengths and weaknesses of online sport history, which is especially valuable for those reluctant to embrace the digital age."--New Media & Society"The stimulating ideas presented make this essential reading for all those interested in how sports history will fare in the digital age. The contributors, some cautious, others more polemic, discuss the limits and possibilities of digitized knowledge and assess the challenges and opportunities offered by digital technology."--Wray Vamplew, co-author of Mud, Sweat and Beers: A Cultural History of Sport and Alcohol"A digital revolution has already altered much of what sport historians do, from archival research to classroom pedagogy and options for publication, to attaining the rewards of professional advancement. But is it creating different tools for doing the same old work, or is the work itself being transformed? The question is unavoidable—avoiding it is its own response—but the answers aren't obvious. These instructive and provocative essays offer a timely guide to issues that will shape the future of the discipline."--Michael Oriard, author of Bowled Over: Big-Time College Football from the Sixties to the BCS Era "Reading the essays in this book opened me up to an unexpectedly broad array of ways to use internet tools and resources for both scholarship and teaching. It is a timely--indeed prescient--addition to the scholarship in the field and will likely be the standard text in this area for many years."--Susan Birrell, co-editor of Reading Sport: Critical Essays on Power and Representation "Taking a very balanced approach and careful not to pass judgment without adequate evidence, the editors make clear that there are advantages and disadvantages to using digital tools and that the engagement with digital history ultimately raises important methodological questions and concerns. A truly significant contribution to the field. The first volume of its kind."--David K. Wiggins, author of Out of the Shadows: A Biographical History of African American Athletes
£45.00
Indiana University Press Railroads and the American People Railroads Past
Book SynopsisIntroduces readers to life in this North African country through vivid accounts of fieldwork as personal experience and intellectual journeyTrade Review[T]he chapters of this eminently readable text 'build a richly textured portrait of the Kingdom of Morocco' . . . as well as a primer on the mode of ethnographic research. . . . the focus is on 'the daily struggles that underpin larger social processes', the dynamics of everyday life . . . . I can think of no better book to read for both a general audience and fellow scholars on Morocco as seen through the anthropological lens. * Contemporary Islam *[T]he book offers much food for thought, crossing disciplinary and professional boundaries. It also has the added value of de-exoticizing a country which is too often exoticized and romanticized by policy-makers, tourism operators and various other interest groups, both foreign and Moroccan. * Middle Eastern Studies *There are two groups of readers who will particularly welcome this book:rst, students of anthropology, who contemplate doingeldwork in Morocco; second, scholars interested in reections on the production of anthropological knowledge in Morocco and beyond. The book is lucidly written and, as it dispenses with jargon, it is also accessible for a broad audience. * Social Anthropology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction \ David Crawford and Rachel Newcomb1. Arabic or French? The Politics of Parole at a Psychiatric Hospital in Morocco \ Charlotte E. van den Hout2. Time, Children, and Getting Ethnography Done in Southern Morocco \ Karen Rignall3. Thinking about Class and Status in Morocco \ David A. McMurray4. Forgive Me, Friend: Mohammed and Ibrahim \ Emilio Spadola5. Suspicion, Secrecy, and Uncomfortable Negotiations over Knowledge Production in Southwestern Morocco \ Katherine E. Hoffman6. The Activist and the Anthropologist \ Paul A. Silverstein7. A Distant Episode: Religion and Belief in Moroccan Ethnography \ Rachel Newcomb8. Shortcomings of a Reflexive Tool Kit; or, Memoir of an Undutiful Daughter \ Jamila Bargach9. Reflecting on Moroccan Encounters: Meditations on Home, Genre, and the Performance of Everyday Life \ Deborah Kapchan10. The Power of Babies \ David Crawford11. Anthropologists among Moroccans \ Kevin DwyerReferencesContributorsIndex
£19.79
Indiana University Press Framing the Global
Book SynopsisExplores interdisciplinary approaches to the study of global issues. This title features essays that are framed around the entry points or key concepts that have emerged in each contributor's engagement with global studies in the course of empirical research, offering a conceptual toolkit for global research in the 21st century.Trade ReviewAll in all this is an important, wide-ranging, and carefully produced overview of the current state of the field. * New Global Studies *[T]his text should be read not only by graduate students, but all scholars preparing to conduct global social science research. It provides reflections on many of the complex theoretical, ethical, and practical issues that inevitably arise along the way, but that researchers are often unprepared to encounter. . . . The importance of interdisciplinary scholarship providing clear insights about how global research questions are asked and answered is rendered even more significant by this well-curated collection. * International Social Science Review *Table of ContentsForeword / Saskia SassenPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction / Hilary E. Kahn1. AFFECT—Making the Global through Care / Deirdre McKay2. DISPLACEMENT—Framing the Global Relationally / Faranak Miraftab3. FORMS—Art Institutions as Global Forms in India and Beyond: Cultural Production, Temporality, and Place / Manuela Ciotti4. FRAMES—Reframing Oceania: Lessons from Pacific Studies / Katerina Martina Teaiwa5. GENEALOGIES—Connecting Spaces in Historical Studies of the Global / Prakash Kumar6. LAND—Engaging with the Global: Perspectives on Land from Botswana / Anne Griffiths7. LOCATION—Film and Media Location: Toward a Dynamic and Scaled Sense of Global Place / Stephanie DeBoer8. MATERIALITY—Transnational Materiality / Zsuzsa Gille9. THE PARTICULAR—The Persistence of the Particular in the Global / Rachel Harvey10. RIGHTS—The Rise of Rights and Nonprofit Organizations in East African Societies / Alex Perullo11. RULES—Global Production and the Puzzle of Rules / Tim Bartley12. SCALE—Exploring the "Global '68" / Deborah Cohen and Lessie Jo Frazier13. SEASCAPE—The Chinese Atlantic /Sean Metzger14. SOVEREIGNTY—Crisis, Humanitarianism, and the Condition of Twenty-First-Century Sovereignty / Michael Mascarenhas ContributorsIndex
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Indiana University Press Islam and Politics in the Middle East
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAlthough the book does not change the state of our knowledge of the trends in opinion among Muslims on social and political issues, it is still different from surveys conducted by think thanks and institutes in that it provides a great deal of nuance, explanation and caution in reading the findings. * Journal of Islamic Studies *Tessler (Univ. of Michigan) analyzes the Carnegie data set surveys conducted in 15 Muslim-majority countries in the Middle East and North Africa from 1988 to 2011. . . Recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsA Note on the Carnegie Middle East Governance and Islam DatasetIntroduction: The Decline and Resurgence of Islam in the Twentieth Century1. A Two-Level Study of Attitudes Toward Political Islam: Data and Methods2. Islam in the Lives of Ordinary Muslims3. Why Individuals Hold Different Views about Islam's Political Role4. How and Why Explanations Vary across CountriesConclusion: What We Know and What Comes NextNotesBibliographyIndex
£35.10
Indiana University Press Group Conflict and Political Mobilization in
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewGengler presents a critical analysis examining the conventional wisdom of the rentier state theory and questions Bahrain's ability to buy the loyalty of its citizens despite its lagging political legitimacy. . . Recommended for upper-division undergraduate students of Middle Eastern studies. * Choice *This book is definitely unique and invaluable to anyone wanting a fuller understanding of the economic, political, and religious tensions within Bahrain that media outlets and published reports have scarcely revealed. * The Sociological Imagination *Using information gleaned from the first-ever mass political survey in Bahrain, Gengler challenges the assumptions underpinning rentier-state theory as applied to the Gulf nations. Reflecting on the Arab Spring uprisings, he argues that economic fulfilment does not inevitably breed political apathy. * Survival *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Mountain of Smoke: Bahrain, the First Post-Oil State1. Group-based Political Mobilization in Bahrain and the Arab Gulf2. Al-Fātih wa al-Maftūh: The Case of Sunni-Shi'i Relations in Bahrain 3. Religion and Politics in Bahrain4. Surveying Bahrain5. Rentier Theory and Rentier Reality6. Political Diversification in the Age of Regime InsecurityAppendixNotesBibliographyIndex
£52.70
Indiana University Press Group Conflict and Political Mobilization in Bahrain and the Arab Gulf
Book SynopsisThe oil-producing states of the Arab Gulf are said to sink or swim on their capacity for political appeasement through economic redistribution. Yet, during the popular uprisings of the Arab Spring, in Bahrain and all across the Arab Gulf, ordinary citizens showed an unexpected enthusiasm for political protest directed against governments widely assumed to have co-opted their support with oil revenues. Justin Gengler draws on the first-ever mass political survey in Bahrain to demonstrate that neither is the state willing to offer all citizens the same bargain, nor are all citizens willing to accept it. Instead, shared social and religious identities offer a viable basis for mass political coordination. Challenging the prevailing rentier interpretation of political life in the Gulf states, Gengler offers new empirical evidence and a new conceptual framework for understanding the attitudes of ordinary citizens.Trade ReviewGengler presents a critical analysis examining the conventional wisdom of the rentier state theory and questions Bahrain's ability to buy the loyalty of its citizens despite its lagging political legitimacy. . . Recommended for upper-division undergraduate students of Middle Eastern studies. * Choice *This book is definitely unique and invaluable to anyone wanting a fuller understanding of the economic, political, and religious tensions within Bahrain that media outlets and published reports have scarcely revealed. * The Sociological Imagination *Using information gleaned from the first-ever mass political survey in Bahrain, Gengler challenges the assumptions underpinning rentier-state theory as applied to the Gulf nations. Reflecting on the Arab Spring uprisings, he argues that economic fulfilment does not inevitably breed political apathy. * Survival *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Mountain of Smoke: Bahrain, the First Post-Oil State1. Group-based Political Mobilization in Bahrain and the Arab Gulf2. Al-Fātih wa al-Maftūh: The Case of Sunni-Shi'i Relations in Bahrain 3. Religion and Politics in Bahrain4. Surveying Bahrain5. Rentier Theory and Rentier Reality6. Political Diversification in the Age of Regime InsecurityAppendixNotesBibliographyIndex
£21.59
Indiana University Press Taking Stock Cultures of Enumeration in
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewTaking Stock is...an important contribution to a Jewish conversation about how we understand who we are and how we put this knowledge to use. The editors are to be commended for curating this argument in a way that will provoke further discussion and new consideration of quantitative data about individuals and communities. * Contemporary Jewry *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Counting in Jewish Michal Kravel-Tovi Part I. Counting the Dead: Iconic Numbers and Collective Memory1. Six Million: The Numerical Icon of the Holocaust Oren Baruch Stier 2. Breathing Life into Iconic Numbers: Yad Vashem's "Shoah Victims' Names Recovery Project" and the Constitution of a Posthumous Census of Six Million Holocaust Dead Carol A. Kidron 3. Putting Numbers into Space: Place Names, Collective Remembrance, and Forgetting in Israeli Culture Yael Zerubavel Part II. Counting the Living: Putting "the Jewish" in Social Science4. "Jewish Crime" by the Numbers, or Putting the "Social" in Jewish Social Science Mitchell B. Hart 5. Counting People: The Co-Production of Ethnicity and Jewish Majority in Israel-Palestine Anat Leibler 6. Wet Numbers: The Language of Continuity Crisis and the Work of Care among the Organized American Jewish Community Michal Kravel-Tovi Part III. Counting Objects: Material Subjects and the Social Lives of Enumerated Things7. "Let's Start with the Big Ones:" Numbers, Thin Description and the 'Magic' of Yiddish at the Yiddish Book Center Josh Friedman 8. 130 Kilograms of Matza, 3,000 Hard-boiled Eggs, 100 Kilograms of Haroset and 2,000 Balls of Gefilte Fish: Hyperbolic Reckoning on Passover Vanessa L. OchsPostscript: Balancing Accounts: Commemoration and Commensuration Theodore M. Porter BibliographyList of ContributorsIndex
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Indiana University Press Taking Stock Cultures of Enumeration in
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewTaking Stock is...an important contribution to a Jewish conversation about how we understand who we are and how we put this knowledge to use. The editors are to be commended for curating this argument in a way that will provoke further discussion and new consideration of quantitative data about individuals and communities. * Contemporary Jewry *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Counting in Jewish Michal Kravel-Tovi Part I. Counting the Dead: Iconic Numbers and Collective Memory1. Six Million: The Numerical Icon of the Holocaust Oren Baruch Stier 2. Breathing Life into Iconic Numbers: Yad Vashem's "Shoah Victims' Names Recovery Project" and the Constitution of a Posthumous Census of Six Million Holocaust Dead Carol A. Kidron 3. Putting Numbers into Space: Place Names, Collective Remembrance, and Forgetting in Israeli Culture Yael Zerubavel Part II. Counting the Living: Putting "the Jewish" in Social Science4. "Jewish Crime" by the Numbers, or Putting the "Social" in Jewish Social Science Mitchell B. Hart 5. Counting People: The Co-Production of Ethnicity and Jewish Majority in Israel-Palestine Anat Leibler 6. Wet Numbers: The Language of Continuity Crisis and the Work of Care among the Organized American Jewish Community Michal Kravel-Tovi Part III. Counting Objects: Material Subjects and the Social Lives of Enumerated Things7. "Let's Start with the Big Ones:" Numbers, Thin Description and the 'Magic' of Yiddish at the Yiddish Book Center Josh Friedman 8. 130 Kilograms of Matza, 3,000 Hard-boiled Eggs, 100 Kilograms of Haroset and 2,000 Balls of Gefilte Fish: Hyperbolic Reckoning on Passover Vanessa L. OchsPostscript: Balancing Accounts: Commemoration and Commensuration Theodore M. Porter BibliographyList of ContributorsIndex
£25.19
Pennsylvania State University Press The Anglican Communion at a Crossroads The Crises
Book SynopsisAnalyzes the tensions within the contemporary Anglican Communion, addresses the theological arguments and social forces involved, and explores the dynamics of religious conflict in a global era. Trade Review“A fascinating read, regardless of your personal faith or politics.”—Eric C. Miller Reading Religion“The interviews and the authors’ wide knowledge of the literature on church conflict, globalisation, and related issues combine to produce a book that clearly lays out the roots of the discord within the Anglican Communion and challenges some tired explanations for the conflict.”—Church Times“Of the books on the state of the Anglican Communion in the last two decades, Brittain and McKinnon offer the best analysis to date, offering a lucid, coherent, and balanced presentation of the situation the Anglican Communion finds itself in.”—James Tengatenga Anglican Theological Review“As closely tied to national identities as the churches are themselves, the nature and fate of the Anglican Communion will be a continuing research area for some time: this book is recommended for students, scholars, and practitioners.”—Abby Day Sociology of Religion“This timely, lucid, and admirably balanced book should be required reading for all those who care about the Anglican Communion. The debate about same-sex relationships is correctly perceived as the presenting issue of deeper tensions, which are then explored from a variety of perspectives. I recommend it warmly.”—Grace Davie,author of Religion in Britain: A Persistent Paradox“Americans seeking to understand the conflict raging within the Episcopal Church will gain perspective from this valuable book. It’s not just a battle in the ‘culture war.’ Homosexuality is the ‘presenting symbol’ of broader struggles within a 500-year-old, increasingly transnational institution. Making use of sociological theory, religious history, and interviews with church leaders around the world, Brittain and McKinnon assess the fate of Anglicanism in the context of its current crisis.”—R. Stephen Warner,author of A Church of Our Own: Disestablishment and Diversity in American Religion Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Cultural Logic of Symbols and Anglican “Orthodoxy”2. Globalization, Communication, and the Redistribution of Religious Authority3. The Global South and the Communion: Africa as the New Anglican “Center of Gravity” 4. Local Disagreement in the Midst of a Global Dispute: The View from the Pews in the Diocese(s) of Pittsburgh5. National Strictures, Global Structures, and the Ties That Bind6. Authority, Practice, and Ecclesial Identity7. Anglican Identity in the Twenty-First CenturyConclusion: The “End” of the Communion?NotesBibliographyIndex
£84.56
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Observers Observed Essays on Ethnographic
Book SynopsisThe theme of this collection of essays is the development of the fieldwork method in socio-cultural and ethnographic anthropology.
£18.86
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Fieldwork Dilemmas Anthropologists in
Book SynopsisFocusing on former socialist states in Eastern Europe, the contributors disclose the political and physical dangers inherent in field research. They reveal how communities undergo political and economic dislocations, plummeting living standards, and ethnic and nationalist violence.
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Yale University Press Field Experiments and Their Critics
Book SynopsisIn recent years, social scientists have engaged in a deep debate over the methods appropriate to their research. This title offers a collection of essays by the influential figures on every side of this debate reveals its most important stakes and can provide useful guidance to students and scholars in many disciplines.Trade Review "An excellent book on a subject that lies at the center of current methodological debates in the social sciences. The volume brings together many of the leading protagonists and antagonists (i.e., skeptics) of the experimental method and in the process illustrates the strengths, and the limitations, of this powerful method. Astute and readable. Highly recommended."—John Gerring, author of Social Science Methodology: A Unified Framework -- John Gerring"Advocates and critics of experimental methods debate vigorously in this exceptionally important set of essays. Neither scholars nor policy makers can remain aloof from this great debate; all will be rewarded by a close reading of this indispensable and engaging guide to the core questions of our discipline." - David Waldner, author of State Building and Late Development -- David Waldner
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Applied Survey Methods
Book SynopsisEmphasizing the statistical aspects of survey methods, Applied Survey Methods describes the complete survey process, from design to publication. This valuable book provides an overview of the theory as well as the practical applications of survey research methods, such as item and unit non-response and the associated treatment.Table of ContentsPreface. 1. The Survey Process. 1.1. About Surveys. 1.2. A Survey, Step-by-Step. 1.3. Some History of Survey Research. 1.4. This Book. 1.5. Samplonia. Exercises. 2. Basic Concepts. 2.1. The Survey Objectives. 2.2. The Target Population. 2.3. The Sampling Frame. 2.4. Sampling. 2.5. Estimation. Exercises. 3. Questionnaire Design. 3.1. The Questionnaire. 3.2. Factual and Nonfactual Questions. 3.3. The Question Text. 3.4. Answer Types. 3.5. Question Order. 3.6. Questionnaire Testing. Exercises. 4. Single Sampling Designs. 4.1. Simple Random Sampling. 4.2. Systematic Sampling. 4.3. Unequal Probability Sampling. 4.4. Systematic Sampling with Unequal Probabilities. Exercises. 5. Composite Sampling Designs. 5.1. Stratified Sampling. 5.2. Cluster Sampling. 5.3. Two-Stage Sampling. 5.4. Two-Dimensional Sampling. Exercises. 6. Estimators. 6.1. Use of Auxiliary Information. 6.2. A Descriptive Model. 6.3. The Direct Estimator. 6.4. The Ratio Estimator. 6.5. The Regression Estimator. 6.6. The Poststratification Estimator. Exercises. 7. Data Collection. 7.1. Traditional Data Collection. 7.2. Computer-Assisted Interviewing. 7.3. Mixed-Mode Data Collection. 7.4. Electronic Questionnaires. 7.5. Data Collection with Blaise. Exercises. 8. The Quality of the Results. 8.1. Errors in Surveys. 8.2. Detection and Correction of Errors. 8.3. Imputation Techniques. 8.4. Data Editing Strategies. Exercises. 9. The Nonresponse Problem. 9.1. Nonresponse. 9.2. Response Rates. 9.3. Models for Nonresponse. 9.4. Analysis of Nonresponse. 9.5. Nonresponse Correction Techniques. Exercises. 10. Weighting Adjustment. 10.1. Introduction. 10.2. Poststratification. 10.3. Linear Weighting. 10.4. Multiplicative Weighting. 10.5. Calibration Estimation. 10.6. Other Weighting Issues. 10.7. Use of Propensity Scores. 10.8. A Practical Example. Exercises. 11. Online Surveys. 11.1. The Popularity of Online Research. 11.2. Errors in Online Surveys. 11.3. The Theoretical Framework. 11.4. Correction by Adjustment Weighting. 11.5. Correction Using a Reference Survey. 11.6. Sampling the Non-Internet Population. 11.7. Propensity Weighting. 11.8. Simulating the Effects of Undercoverage. 11.9. Simulating the Effects of Self-Selection. 11.10. About the Use of Online Surveys. Exercises. 12. Analysis and Publication. 12.1. About Data Analysis. 12.2. The Analysis of Dirty Data. 12.3. Preparing a Survey Report. 12.4. Use of Graphs. Exercises. 13. Statistical Disclosure Control. 13.1. Introduction. 13.2. The Basic Disclosure Problem. 13.3. The Concept of Uniqueness. 13.4. Disclosure Scenarios. 13.5. Models for the Disclosure Risk. 13.6. Practical Disclosure Protection. Exercises. References. Index.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Quantitative and Statistical Research Methods
Book SynopsisQuantitative and Statistical Research Methods This user-friendly textbook teaches students to understand and apply procedural steps in completing quantitative studies. It explains statistics while progressing through the steps of the hypothesis-testing process from hypothesis to results. The research problems used in the book reflect statistical applications related to interesting and important topics. In addition, the book provides a Research Analysis and Interpretation Guide to help students analyze research articles. Designed as a hands-on resource, each chapter covers a single research problem and offers directions for implementing the research method from start to finish. Readers will learn how to: Pinpoint research questions and hypotheses Identify, classify, and operationally define the study variables Choose appropriate research designs Conduct power analysis Select an appropriate statistic for the problem <Table of ContentsTables and Figures ix Preface xvii The Authors xix Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview 1 Review of Foundational Research Concepts 3 Review of Foundational Statistical Information 6 The Normal Distribution 14 Chapter 2 Logical Steps of Conducting Quantitative Research: Hypothesis-Testing Process 29 Hypothesis-Testing Process 30 Chapter 3 Maximizing Hypothesis Decisions Using Power Analysis 39 Balance between Avoiding Type I and Type II Errors 41 Chapter 4 Research and Statistical Designs 53 Formulating Experimental Conditions 54 Reducing the Imprecision in Measurement 55 Controlling Extraneous Experimental Influences 57 Internal Validity and Experimental Designs 59 Choosing a Statistic to Use for an Analysis 67 Chapter 5 Introduction to IBM SPSS 20 77 The IBM SPSS 20 Data View Screen 80 Naming and Defining Variables in Variable View 80 Entering Data 86 Examples of Basic Analyses 87 Examples of Modifying Data Procedures 96 Chapter 6 Diagnosing Study Data for Inaccuracies and Assumptions 99 Research Example 100 Chapter 7 Randomized Design Comparing Two Treatments and a Control Using a One-Way Analysis of Variance 129 Research Problem 130 Study Variables 131 Research Design 133 Stating the Omnibus (Comprehensive) Research Question 135 Hypothesis Testing Step 1: Establish the Alternative (Research) Hypothesis (Ha) 136 Hypothesis Testing Step 2: Establish the Null Hypothesis (H0) 137 Hypothesis Testing Step 3: Decide on a Risk Level (Alpha) of Rejecting the True H0 Considering Type I and II Errors and Power 138 Hypothesis Testing Step 4: Choose Appropriate Statistic and Its Sampling Distribution to Test the H0 Assuming H0 Is True 143 Hypothesis Testing Step 5: Select Sample, Collect Data, Screen Data, Compute Statistic, and Determine Probability Estimates 144 Hypothesis Testing Step 6: Make Decision Regarding the H0 and Interpret Post Hoc Effect Sizes and Confidence Intervals 162 Formula Calculations of the Study Results 166 Chapter 8 Repeated-Treatment Design Using a Repeated-Measures Analysis of Variance 183 Research Problem 184 Study Variables 185 Research Design 186 Stating the Omnibus (Comprehensive) Research Question 189 Hypothesis Testing Step 1: Establish the Alternative (Research) Hypothesis (Ha) 190 Hypothesis Testing Step 2: Establish the Null Hypothesis (H0) 191 Hypothesis Testing Step 3: Decide on a Risk Level (Alpha) of Rejecting the True H0 Considering Type I and II Errors and Power 192 Hypothesis Testing Step 4: Choose Appropriate Statistic and Its Sampling Distribution to Test the H0 Assuming H0 Is True 195 Hypothesis Testing Step 5: Select Sample, Collect Data, Screen Data, Compute Statistic, and Determine Probability Estimates 196 Hypothesis Testing Step 6: Make Decision Regarding the H0 and Interpret Post Hoc Effect Sizes and Confidence Intervals 216 Formula Calculations of the Study Results 218 Chapter 9 Randomized Factorial Experimental Design Using a Factorial ANOVA 231 Research Problem 232 Study Variables 232 Research Design 233 Stating the Omnibus (Comprehensive) Research Questions 237 Hypothesis Testing Step 1: Establish the Alternative (Research) Hypothesis (Ha) 238 Hypothesis Testing Step 2: Establish the Null Hypothesis (H0) 240 Hypothesis Testing Step 3: Decide on a Risk Level (Alpha) of Rejecting the True H0 Considering Type I and II Errors and Power 241 Hypothesis Testing Step 4: Choose Appropriate Statistic and Its Sampling Distribution to Test the H0 Assuming H0 Is True 247 Hypothesis Testing Step 5: Select Sample, Collect Data, Screen Data, Compute Statistic, and Determine Probability Estimates 248 Hypothesis Testing Step 6: Make Decision Regarding the H0 and Interpret Post Hoc Effect Sizes and Confidence Intervals 271 Formula Calculations of the Study Results 278 Chapter 10 Analysis of Covariance 297 Research Problem 298 Study Variables 299 Research Design 300 Stating the Omnibus (Comprehensive) Research Question 301 Hypothesis Testing Step 1: Establish the Alternative (Research) Hypothesis (Ha) 301 Hypothesis Testing Step 2: Establish the Null Hypothesis (H0) 302 Hypothesis Testing Step 3: Decide on a Risk Level (Alpha) of Rejecting the True H0 Considering Type I and II Errors and Power 302 Hypothesis Testing Step 4: Choose Appropriate Statistic and Its Sampling Distribution to Test the H0 Assuming H0 is True 306 Hypothesis Testing Step 5: Select Sample, Collect Data, Screen Data, Compute Statistic, and Determine Probability Estimates 307 Hypothesis Testing Step 6: Make Decision Regarding the H0 and Interpret Post Hoc Effect Sizes and Confidence Intervals 324 Formula ANCOVA Calculations of the Study Results 327 ANCOVA Study Results 339 Chapter 11 Randomized Control Group and Repeated-Treatment Designs and Nonparametics 345 Research Problem 346 Study Variables 346 Research Design 347 Stating the Omnibus (Comprehensive) Research Question 349 Hypothesis Testing Step 1: Establish the Alternative (Research) Hypothesis (Ha) 349 Hypothesis Testing Step 2: Establish the Null Hypothesis (H0) 350 Hypothesis Testing Step 3: Decide on a Risk Level (Alpha) of Rejecting the True H0 Considering Type I and II Errors and Power 350 Hypothesis Testing Step 4: Choose Appropriate Statistic and Its Sampling Distribution to Test the H0 Assuming H0 is True 354 Hypothesis Testing Step 5: Select Sample, Collect Data, Screen Data, Compute Statistic, and Determine Probability Estimates 355 Hypothesis Testing Step 6: Make Decision Regarding the H0 and Interpret Post Hoc Effect Sizes 370 Formula Calculations 376 Nonparametric Research Problem Two: Friedman’s Rank Test for Correlated Samples and Wilcoxon’s Matched-Pairs Signed-Ranks Test 382 Chapter 12 Bivariate and Multivariate Correlation Methods Using Multiple Regression Analysis 401 Research Problem 402 Study Variables 402 Research Method 403 Stating the Omnibus (Comprehensive) Research Question 405 Hypothesis Testing Step 1: Establish the Alternative (Research) Hypothesis (Ha) 405 Hypothesis Testing Step 2: Establish the Null Hypothesis (H0) 406 Hypothesis Testing Step 3: Decide on a Risk Level (Alpha) of Rejecting the True H0 Considering Type I and II Errors and Power 406 Hypothesis Testing Step 4: Choose Appropriate Statistic and Its Sampling Distribution to Test the H0 Assuming H0 is True 407 Hypothesis Testing Step 5: Select Sample, Collect Data, Screen Data, Compute Statistic, and Determine Probability Estimates 407 Hand Calculations of Statistics 423 Chapter 13 Understanding Quantitative Literature and Research 439 Interpretation of a Quantitative Research Article 440 References 461 Index 465
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Encyclopedia of Statistics in Behavioral Science
Book SynopsisThe Encyclopedia of Statistics in Behavioral Science encompasses the refined statistical concepts and techniques that are essential to the advancement in psychology and its ever-widening fields of application.Trade Review"I congratulate the editors for a job well done. The coverage is thorough and accurate, and the levels are well matched to the anticipated readers." (Journal of the American Statistical Association) "... valuable for researcher[s], educators, and students in... neuroscience, behavior genetics, and the cognitive sciences... as well as for those in the fields of sociology, management sciences, market research, and human resources." (American Reference Books Annual, March 2007) "All libraries catering for post-16-year-olds should encourage their readers to work through these elementary texts." (Reference Reviews, 2006)Table of ContentsVOLUME 1 A Priori v Post Hoc Testing. ACE Model. Adaptive Random Assignment. Adaptive Sampling. Additive Constant Problem. Additive Genetic Variance. Additive Models. Additive Tree. Additivity Tests. Adoption Studies. Age-Period-Cohort Analysis. Akaike's Criterion. Allelic Association. All-X Models. All-Y Models. Alternating Treatment Designs. Analysis of Covariance. Analysis of Covariance: Nonparametric. Analysis of Variance. Analysis of Variance and Multiple Regression Approaches. Analysis of Variance: Cell Means Approach. Analysis of Variance: Classification. Ansari-Bradley Test. Arbuthnot, John. Area Sampling. Arithmetic Mean. Ascertainment Corrections. Assortative Mating. Asymptotic Relative Efficiency. Attitude Scaling. Attrition. Average Deviation. Axes in Multivariate Analysis. Bagging. Balanced Incomplete Block Designs. Bar Chart. Battery Reduction. Bayes, Thomas. Bayesian Belief Networks. Bayesian Item Response Theory Estimation. Bayesian Methods for Categorical Data. Bayesian Statistics. Bernoulli Family. Binomial Confidence Interval. Binomial Distribution: Estimating and Testing parameters. Binomial Effect Size Display. Binomial Test. Biplot. Block Random Assignment. Boosting. Bootstrap Inference. Box Plots. Bradley-Terry Model. Breslow-Day Statistic. Brown, William. Bubble Plot. Burt, Cyril Lodowic. Bush, Robert R. Calculating Covariance. Campbell, Donald T. Canonical Correlation Analysis. Carroll-Arabie Taxonomy. Carryover and Sequence Effects. Case Studies. Case-Cohort Studies. Case-Control Studies. Catalogue of Parametric Tests. Catalogue of Probability Density Functions. Catastrophe Theory. Categorizing Data. Cattell, Raymond Bernard. Censored Observations. Census. Centering in Multivariate Linear Models. Central Limit Theory. Children of Twins Design. Chi-Square Decomposition. Cholesky Decomposition. Classical Statistical Inference: Practice versus Presentation. Classical Statistical Inference Extended: Split-Tailed Tests. Classical Test Models. Classical Test Score Equating. Classification and Regression Trees. Clinical Psychology. Clinical Trials and Intervention Studies. Cluster Analysis: Overview. Clustered Data. Cochran, William Gemmell. Cochran's C Test. Coefficient of Variation. Cohen, Jacob. Cohort Sequential Design. Cohort Studies. Coincidences. Collinearity. Combinatorics for Categorical Variables. Common Pathway Model. Community Intervention Studies. Comorbidity. Compensatory Equalization. Compensatory Rivalry. Completely Randomized Design. Computational Models. Computer-Adaptive Testing. Computer-Based Test Designs. Computer-Based Testing. Concordance Rates. Conditional Independence. Conditional Standard Errors of Measurement. Confidence Intervals. Confidence Intervals: Nonparametric. Configural Frequency Analysis. Confounding in the Analysis of Variance. Confounding Variable. Contingency Tables. Coombs, Clyde Hamilton. Correlation. Correlation and Covariance Matrices. Correlation Issues in Genetics Research. Correlation Studies. Correspondence Analysis. Co-Twin Control Methods. Counter Null Value of an Effect Size. Counterbalancing. Counterfactual Reasoning. Covariance. Covariance Matrices: Testing Equality of. Covariance Structure Models. Covariance/variance/correlation. Cox, Gertrude Mary. Cramer-Von Mises Test. Criterion-Referenced Assessment. Critical Region. Cross Sectional Design. Cross-Classified and Multiple Membership Models. Cross-Lagged Panel Design. Crossover Design. Cross-validation. Cultural Transmission. Data Mining. de Finetti, Bruno. de Moivre, Abraham. Decision Making Strategies. Deductive Reasoning and Statistical Inference. DeFries-Fulker Analysis. Demand Characteristics. Deming, Edwards William. Design Effects. Development of Statistical Theory in the 20th Century. Differential Item Functioning. Direct and Indirect Effects. Direct Maximum Likelihood Estimation. Directed Alternatives in Testing. Direction of Causation Models. Discriminant Analysis. Distribution Free Inference, an Overview. Dominance. Dot chart. Dropouts in Longitudinal Data. Dropouts in Longitudinal Studies: Methods of Analysis. Dummy Variables. VOLUME 2 Ecological Fallacy. Educational Psychology: Measuring Change Over Time. Effect Size Measures. Eigenvalue/Eigenvector. Empirical Quantile-Quantile Plots. Epistasis. Equivalence Trials. Error Rates. Estimation. ETA and ETA Squared. Ethics in Research. Evaluation Research. Event History Analysis. Exact Methods for Categorical Data. Expectancy Effect. Expectation. Experimental Design. Exploratory Data Analysis. External Validity. Facet Theory. Face-to-Face Surveys. Factor Analysis of Personality Measures. Factor Analysis: Confirmatory. Factor Analysis: Exploratory. Factor Analysis: Multiple Groups. Factor Analysis: Multitrait-Multimethod. Factor Score Estimation. Factorial Designs. Family History Versus Family Study Methods in Genetics. Family Study and Relative Risk. Fechner, Gustav T. Field Experiment. Finite Mixture Distributions. Fisher, Sir Ronald Aylmer. Fisherian Tradition in Behavioral Genetics. Fixed and Random Effects. Fixed Effect Models. Focus Group Techniques. Free Response Data Scoring. Friedman's Test. Functional Data Analysis. Fuzzy Cluster Analysis. Galton, Francis. Game Theory. Gauss, Johann Carl Friedrich. Gene-Environment Correlation. Gene-Environment Interaction. Generalizability. Generalizability Theory: Basics. Generalizability Theory: Estimation. Generalizability Theory: Overview. Generalized Additive Model. Generalized Estimating Equations (GEE). Generalized Linear Mixed Models. Generalized Linear Models (GLM). Genotype. Geometric Mean. Goodness of Fit. Goodness of Fit for Categorical Variables. Gosset, William Sealy. Graphical Chain Models. Graphical Methods Pre-twentieth Century. Graphical Presentation of Longitudinal Data. Growth Curve Modeling. Guttman, Louise (Eliyahu). Harmonic Mean. Hawthorne Effect. Heritability. Heritability: Overview. Heteroscedasticity and Complex Variation. Heuristics. Heuristics: Fast and Frugal. Hierarchical Clustering. Hierarchical Item Response Theory Modeling. Hierarchical Models. High-Dimensional Regression. Hill's Criteria of Causation. Histogram. Historical Controls. History of Analysis of Variance. History of Behavioral Statistics. History of Correlational Measurement. History of Discrimination and Clustering. History of Factor Analysis: British Perspective. History of Factor Analysis: Statistical Perspective. History of Intelligence Measurement. History of Mathematical Learning Theory. History of Multivariate Analysis of Variance. History of Path Analysis. History of Psychometrics. History of Surveys of Sexual Behavior. History of the Control Group. Hodges-Lehman Estimator. Horseshoe Pattern. Hotelling, Howard. Hull, Clark L. Identification. Inbred Strain Study. Incidence. Incomplete Contingency Tables. Incompleteness of Probability Models. Independence: Chi-square and likelihood Ratio Tests. Independent Components Analysis. Independent Pathway Model. Index Plots. Industrial/Organizational Psychology. Influential Observations. Information Matrix. Information Theory. Instrumental Variable. Intention-to-Treat. Interaction Effects. Interaction Plot. Internal Consistency. Internal Validity. Internet Research Methods. Interquartile Range. Interrupted Time Series Design. Intervention Analysis. Intraclass Correlation. Intrinsic Linearity. Introduction to Probability. INUS Conditions. Item Analysis. Item Bias Detection: Classical Approaches. Item Bias Detection: Modern Approaches. Item Exposure Detection. Item Response Theory (IRT) Models for Dichotomous Data. Item Response Theory Models for Rating Scale Data. Item Response Theory: Cognitive Models. Item Response Theory Models for Polytomous Response Data. Jackknife. Jonckheere-Terpstra Test. Kendall, Maurice George. Kendall's Coefficient of Concordance. Kendall's Tau - t. Kernel Smoothing. K-Means Analysis. Kolmogorov, Andrey Nikolaevich. Kolmogorov-Smirnov Tests. Kruskal-Wallis Test. Kurtosis. Laplace, Pierre Simon (Marquis de). Latent Class Analysis. Latent Transition Models. Latent Variable. Latin Squares Designs. Laws of Large Numbers. Least Squares Estimation. Leverage Plot. Liability Threshold Models. Linear Model. Linear Models: Permutation Methods. Linear Multilevel Models. Linkage Analysis. Logistic Regression. Log-linear Models. Log-linear Rasch Models for Stability and Change. Longitudinal Data Analysis. Longitudinal Designs in Genetic Research. Lord, Frederic Mather. Lord's Paradox. VOLUME 3 M Estimators of Location. Mahalanobis Distance. Mahalanobis, Prasanta Chandra. Mail Surveys. Mallows Cp Statistic. Mantel-Haenszel Methods. Marginal Independence. Marginal Models for Clustered Data. Markov Chain Monte Carlo and Bayesian Statistics. Markov Chain Monte-Carlo Item Response Theory Estimation. Markov Chains. Markov, Andrei Andreevich.. Martingales. Matching. Mathematical Psychology. Maximum Likelihood Estimation. Maximum Likelihood Item Response Theory Estimation. Maxwell, Albert Ernest. Measurement: Overview. Measures of Association. Median. Median Absolute Deviation. Median Test. Mediation. Mendelian Genetics Rediscovered. Mendelian Inheritance and Segregation Analysis. Meta-Analysis. Microarrays. Mid-p Values. Minimum Spanning Tree. Misclassification Rates. Missing Data. Model Based Cluster Analysis. Model Evaluation. Model Fit: Assessment of. Model Identifiability. Model Selection. Models for Matched Pairs. Moderation. Moments. Monotonic Regression. Monte Carlo Goodness of Fit Tests. Monte Carlo Simulation. Multidimensional Item Response Theory Models. Multidimensional Scaling. Multidimensional Unfolding. Multigraph Modeling. Multilevel and SEM Approaches to Growth Curve Modeling. Multiple Baseline Designs. Multiple Comparison Procedures. Multiple Comparison Tests: Nonparametric and Resampling Approaches. Multiple Imputation. Multiple Informants. Multiple Linear Regression. Multiple Testing. Multi-trait Multi-method Analyses. Multivariate Analysis of Variance. Multivariate Analysis: Bayesian. Multivariate Analysis: Overview. Multivariate Genetic Analysis. Multivariate Multiple Regression. Multivariate Normality Tests. Multivariate Outliers. Neural Networks. Neuropsychology. New Item Types and Scoring. Neyman, Jerzy. Neyman-Pearson Inference. Nightingale, Florence. Nonequivalent Control Group Design. Nonlinear Mixed Effects Models. Nonlinear Models. Nonparametric Correlation (rs). Nonparametric Correlation (tau). Nonparametric Item Response Theory Models. Nonparametric Regression. Nonrandom Samples. Nonresponse in Sample Surveys. Nonshared Environment. Normal Scores & Expected Order Statistics. Nuisance Variables. Number Needed to Treat. Number of Clusters. Number of Matches and Magnitude of Correlation. Observational Study. Odds and Odds Ratios. One Way Designs:Nonparametric and Resampling Approaches. Optimal Design for Categorical Variables. Optimal Scaling. Optimization Methods. Ordinal Regression Models. Outlier Detection. Outliers. Overlapping Clusters. P Values. Page's 0rdered Alternatives Test. Paired Observations, Distribution Free Methods. Panel Study. Paradoxes. Parsimony/Occham's Razor. Partial Correlation Coefficients. Partial Least Squares. Path Analysis and Path Diagrams. Pattern Recognition. Pearson Product Moment Correlation. Pearson, Egon Sharpe. Pearson, Karl. Percentiles. Permutation Based Inference. Person Misfit. Pie Chart. Pitman Test. Placebo Effect. Point Biserial Correlation. Polychoric Correlation. Polynomial Model. Population Stratification. Power. Power Analysis for Categorical Methods. Power and Sample Size in Multilevel Linear Models. Prediction Analysis of Cross-Classifications. Prevalence. Principal Component Analysis. Principal Components and Extensions. Probability Plots. Probability: Foundations of. Probits. Procrustes Analysis. Projection Pursuit. Propensity Score. Proscriptive and Retrospective Studies. Proximity Measures. Psychophysical Scaling. Qualitative Research. Quantiles. Quantitative Methods in Personality Research. Quartiles. Quasi-Experimental Designs. Quasi-Independence. Quasi-Symmetry in Contingency Tables. Quetelet, Adolphe. VOLUME 4 R & Q Analysis. R Squared, Adjusted R Squared. Random Effects and Fixed Effects Fallacy. Random Effects in Multivariate Linear Models: Prediction. Random Forests. Random Walks. Randomization. Randomization Based Tests. Randomized Block Design: Nonparametric Analyses. Randomized Block Designs. Randomized Response Technique. Range. Rank Based Inference. Rasch Modeling. Rasch Models for Ordered Response Categories. Rater Agreement. Rater Agreement - Kappa. Rater Agreement - Weighted Kappa. Rater Bias Models. Reactivity. Receiver Operating Characteristics Curves. Recursive Models. Regression Artifacts. Regression Discontinuity Design. Regression Model Coding for the Analysis of Variance. Regression Models. Regression to the Mean. Relative Risk. Reliability: Definitions and Estimation. Repeated Measures Analysis of Variance. Replicability of Results. Reproduced Matrix. Resentful Demoralization. Residual Plot. Residuals. Residuals in Structural Equation, Factor Analysis, and Path Analysis Models. Resistant Line Fit. Retrospective Studies. Reversal Design. Risk Perception. Robust Statistics for Multivariate Methods. Robust Testing Procedures. Robustness of Standard Tests. Runs Test. Sample Size and Power Calculation. Sampling Distributions. Sampling Issues in Categorical Data. Saturated Model. Savage, Leonard Jimmie. Scales of Measurement. Scaling Asymmetric Matrices. Scaling of Preferential Choice. Scatterplot Matrices. Scatterplot Smoothers. Scatterplots. Scheffe, Henry. Second order Factor Analysis: Confirmatory. Selection Study (Mouse Genetics). Sensitivity Analysis. Sensitivity Analysis in Observational Studies. Sequential Decision Making. Sequential Testing. Setting Performance Standards - Issues, Methods. Sex-Limitation Models. Shannon, Claude. Shared Environment. Shepard Diagram. Sibling Interaction Effects. Sign Test. Signal Detection Theory. Signed Ranks Test. Simple Random Assignment. Simple Random Sampling. Simple V Composite Tests. Simulation Methods for Categorical Variables. Simultaneous Confidence Interval. Single and Double-Blind Procedures. Single-Case Designs. Skewness. Slicing Inverse Regression. Snedecor, George Waddell. Social Interaction Models. Social Networks. Social Psychology. Social Validity. Software for Behavioral Genetics. Software for Statistical Analyses. Spearman, Charles Edward. Spearman's Rho. Sphericity Test. Standard Deviation. Standard Error. Standardized Regression Coefficients. Stanine Scores. Star and Profile Plots. State Dependence. Statistical Models. Statistical Models for Causation: A Critical Review. Stem and Leaf Plot. Stephenson, William. Stevens, S S. Stratification. Structural Equation Modeling and Test Validation. Structural Equation Modeling: Categorical Variables. Structural Equation Modeling: Checking Substantive Plausibility. Structural Equation Modeling: Mixture Models. Structural Equation Modeling: Multilevel. Structural Equation Modeling: Nontraditional Alternatives. Structural Equation Modeling: Overview. Structural Equation Modeling: Software. Structural Equation Modeling:Latent Growth Curve Analysis. Structural Equation Modeling:Nonstandard Cases. Structural Zeros. Subjective Probability and Human Judgement. Summary Measure Analysis of Longitudinal Data. Survey Questionnaire Design. Survey Sampling Procedures. Survival Analysis. Symmetry Plot. Symmetry: Distribution Free Tests for. Tau-Equivalent and Congeneric Measurements. Teaching Statistics to Psychologists. Teaching Statistics: Sources. Telephone Surveys. Test Bias Detection. Test Construction. Test Construction: Automated. Test Dimensionality: Assessment of. Test Translation. Tetrachoric Correlation. Theil Slope Estimate. Thomson, Godfrey Hilton. Three dimensional (3D) Scatterplots. Three-Mode Component and Scaling Methods. Thurstone, Louis Leon. Time Series Analysis. Tolerance and Variance Inflation Factor. Transformation. Tree Models. Trellis Graphics. Trend Tests for Counts and Proportions. Trimmed Means. T-Scores. Tukey Quick Test. Tukey, John Wilder. Tversky, Amos. Twin Designs. Twins Reared Apart Design. Two by Two Contingency Tables. Two-mode Clustering. Two-way Factorial: Distribution-Free Methods. Type I, Type II and Type III Sums of Squares. Ultrametric Inequality. Ultrametric Trees. Unidimensional Scaling. Urban, F M. Utility Theory. Validity Theory and Applications. Variable Selection. Variance. Variance Components. Walsh Averages. Wiener, Norbert. Wilcoxon, Frank. Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test. Winsorized Robust Measures. Within Case Designs: Distribution Free Methods. Yates' Correction. Yates, Frank. Yule, George Udny. Z-Scores.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Applying Theory to Educational Research
Book SynopsisApplying Theory to Educational Research provides educational researchers with an accessible introduction to the process of selecting and applying theories in their work. Offers an innovative and accessible approach to educational research by providing practical examples of the application of theory Gives ''hands-on'' accounts for the researcher and practitioner Explains and discusses complex ideas in the light of experience in using and applying them Covers the application of major theorists such as Bourdieu, Foucault, Weber, Derrida, and Vygotsky For beginning researchers, theory can be one of the most stimulating yet intellectually daunting aspects of academic work. Applying Theory to Educational Research provides new educational researchers with a uniquely accessible introduction to the process of selecting and applying theories in their own work. Written by a team of leading educationalists writing fromTable of ContentsAbout the Contributors vii Preface xiii Acknowledgements xv Introduction 1 Jeff Adams, Matt Cochrane and Linda Dunne Part I New Voices: Beginning Researchers Apply Theory 11 1 Learning and Maintaining Professional Expertise Within a Multi-Professional Critical Care Team 15 Jill Cochrane 2 The 'Q' Standards and Initial Teacher Training: The Discursive Formation of Teachers and their Trainers 31 Paul Bartle 3 Power and Status Theories in Teachers' Professional Development 47 Karen Castle 4 The Process of Technology Learning: Applying Bruner's Theory on Play, Discovery and Cultural Learning to the Acquisition of ICT Capability 61 Paula Beer Part II Emergent Voices: Accounts by Researchers Becoming Familiar with the Use of Theory 75 5 Teachers' Professional Identity: Theoretical Perspectives on Workplace Learning in the Teaching Context 81 Rob Foster 6 Children's University Aspirations and the Effects of Cultural and Social Capital 95 Matt Cochrane 7 Finding Theory Through Collaborative Research 109 Clare Woolhouse 8 How Applying a Discourse-Based Approach to Investigate Inclusion Changed a Research Project and a Way of Thinking 123 Linda Dunne Part III Voices of Experience: Accounts by Researchers Versed in the Use of Theory 139 9 Should I be Singing This, and if So, How High?: Theoretical Approaches to Boyhood and Masculinity 145 Martin Ashley 10 Theorizing from Bricolage: Researching Collaboration in Art and Design Education 157 Madeleine Sclater 11 Constructivism and the Pedagogy of Teacher Education: Reflections on Practice 175 Graham Rogers 12 Developing Professional Practice through Action Research: Theory-Generative Approaches in Practitioner Research 189 Mary McAteer 13 Art Practice as Education Research 203 Jeff Adams Postscript 219 Jeff Adams, Matt Cochrane and Linda Dunne Index 221
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Survey Sampling
Book SynopsisAn accessible book on sampling techniques with emphasis on and illustrations from surveys of human populations. Explains how to design and execute valid samples of moderate dimensions and difficulty, avoid selection biases and how to become more adept at evaluating sample results, judge their validity and limits of inference, applicability and precision. Contains numerous practical procedures, the domestic arts of sampling along with its science plus invaluable tricks that are usually learned only in apprenticeship.Table of ContentsFUNDAMENTALS OF SURVEY SAMPLING. Basic Concepts of Sampling. Stratified Sampling. Systematic Sampling; Stratification Techniques. Cluster Sampling and Subsampling. Unequal Clusters. Selection with Probabilities Proportional to Size Measures(PPS). The Economic Design of Surveys. SPECIAL PROBLEMS AND TECHNIQUES. Area Sampling. Multistage Sampling. Sampling from Imperfect Frames. Some Selection Techniques. RELATED CONCEPTS. Biases and Nonsampling Errors. Some Issues of Inference from Survey Data. Appendices. References. Answers to Selected Problems. Index.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Handbook of Psychotherapy Supervision
Book SynopsisThis book provides up-to-date in-depth coverage of psychotherapy supervision. Experienced psychotherapy supervisors and leading researchers/clinicians explore the theoretical underpinnings of supervision, examine the research on variables influencing the success of supervision, and offer clinical guidelines on effective supervision practices.Table of ContentsPartial table of contents: CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS. Defining Psychotherapy Supervision and Understanding SupervisorFunctioning (C. Watkins). APPROACHES TO PSYCHOTHERAPY SUPERVISION. Client-Centered Supervision (C. Patterson). TRAINING MODELS FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY SUPERVISION. The Discrimination Model (J. Bernard). SPECIALIZED FORMS AND MODES. An Experiential Group Model for Group Psychotherapy Supervision (D.Altfeld & H. Bernard). RESEARCHING PSYCHOTHERAPY SUPERVISION. The Effectiveness of Psychotherapy Supervision (M. Lambert & B.Ogles). PROFESSIONAL, ETHICAL, AND LEGAL ISSUES. Gender and Psychotherapy Supervision: The Partnership Model (C.Munson). ENDNOTES. Some Concluding Thoughts About Psychotherapy Supervision (C.Watkins). Indexes.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Analysis of Health Surveys
Book SynopsisThis applied statistics book examines sampling methods from a biomedical standpoint. The authors draw on their work at the National Cancer Institute, helping practitioners analyze real-world health data even with no prior experience in survey methods.Trade ReviewThe book fulfills the authors' purpose of providing neededexpertise for statisticians who are limited in their knowledge ofsurvey research. There are excellent questions at the end of eachchapter so it would make a good textbook for a course in surveyanalysis. (Journal of Official Statistics, Vol. 16, 2000) A strength of this book is the exercises at the ends of eachchapter [...]. This makes the book ideal either for independentstudy or for a survey methods course at final year undergraduate orpostgraduate level. Since the book is based on the two authors'many years of experience working in this field, it shows highlevels of sound judgement and good advice. (Biometrics, 2000) The analytic components of books about survey sampling oftenrestrict their discussion to the analysis of relatively simpleparameters of interest, such as population means and linearregression slopes. On the other hand, texts not devoted to surveysampling rarely discuss in detail the effect of complex sampledesigns on data analysis. This book provides a great service to thehealth research community by tying together the tools of modernstatistical analysis and survey research in one package. Korn andGraubard write clearly and concisely, using well-chosen examples toilluminate potentially confusing concepts. (JASA, March 2001) If you are involved in analyzing data from very large surveys, thenyou will want to buy this book. Statisticians who enjoy expandingtheir horizons in statistics by reading practical and usefulstatistics books should also get a copy of the book. More and moreof this health-survey data becomes available all the time, soperhaps data analysis no longer needed in industry can find a newhome somewhere analyzing health-survey data. (Technometrics, May2001, Vol. 42, No. 4) "...provides a great service to the health research community bytying together...tools of modern statistical analysis and surveyresearch...." (Journal of the American Statistical Association)Table of ContentsBasic Survey Methodology. Statistical Analysis with Survey Data. Sample Weights and Imputation. Additional Issues in Variance Estimation. Cross-Sectional Analyses. Analysis of Longitudinal Surveys. Analyses Using Multiple Surveys. Population-Based Case-Control Studies. Appendices. References. Indexes.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Essentials of Statistics for the Social and
Book SynopsisMaster the essential statistical skills used in social and behavioral sciences Essentials of Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences distills the overwhelming amount of material covered in introductory statistics courses into a handy, practical resource for students and professionals.Table of ContentsSeries Preface. One. Descriptive Statistics. Two. Introduction to Null Hypothesis Testing. Three. The Two-Group t II Test. Four. Correlation and Regression. Five. One-Way ANOVA and Multiple Comparisons. Six. Power Analysis. Seven. Factorial ANOVA. Eight. Repeated-Measures ANOVA. Nine. Nonparametric Statistics. Appendix A: Statistical Tables. Appendix B: Answers to Putting it into Practice Exercises. References. Annotated Bibliography. Index. Acknowledgments. About the Authors.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Cognition and Survey Research
Book SynopsisIntroducing the theory and tools of Cognitive Aspects of Survey Methodology (CASM), Cognition and Survey Research integrates cognitive science and survey methodology unlike any other survey textbook.Trade Review"This is overview material on a nonquantitative area of statistics. Persons involved with surveys would seem to benefit from an understanding of this material."(Technometrics Vol. 42, No. 3, August 2000) If you are interested in cognitive methods for improving the quality of data collected in surveys, then this book is for you. This book describes the frontiers of research on the cognitive aspects of survey methodology (CASM). It is an outcome of the Second Advanced Research Seminar in the Cognitive Aspects of Survey Methodology (CASM II). The book as a unique style. Four out of the six coeditors of this book, who organized the plenary sessions of the CASM II Seminar, edited four sections of the book (Chapters 2-22). The remaining editors contributed the first chapter. The purpose of the CASM II seminar and this book is to reflect on and evaluate past work, to demonstrate the exciting potential of focussed interdisciplinary research, and to stimulate creativity, thoughtfulness, and innovation for the future. Nationally and internationally known researchers from the United States have contributed to this book and they have to be congratulated for making the book informative and readable. (JASA, March 2001) ...this book is essential reading for serious survey practitioners and post-graduate students of survey methodology. Many of its individual chapters are also likely to become classic references in their own specialist fields. (The Statistician, Volume 49, No. 3, 2000) "This book...is an excellent summary of what has been accomplished and, perhaps equally important, what remains to be done." (Chance, Volume 13, No. 2, Spring 2000)Table of ContentsInterdisciplinary Survey Methods Research (M. Sirken & S. Schechter). Looking Backwards and Forwards at the CASM Movement (J. Tanur). CASM Revisited (M. Aborn). CASM: Successes, Failures, and Potential (C. O'Muircheartaigh). Cognitive Research into Survey Measurement: Its Influence on Survey Methodology and Cognitive Theory (N. Schwarz). Making Sense of Questions: An Interactional Approach (M. Schober). The Respondent's Confession: Autobiographical Memory in the Context of Surveys (M. Shum & L. Rips). Context Effects on Answers to Attitude Questions (R. Tourangeau). Is the Bandwagon Headed to the Methodological Promised Land? Evaluating the Validity of Cognitive Interviewing Techniques (G. Willis, et al.). Income Reporting in Surveys: Cognitive Issues and Measurement Error (J. Moore, et al.). Casting a Wider Net: Contributions from New Disciplines (R. Tourangeau). A Linguistic Look at Survey Research (C. Fillmore). The Use of Computational Cognitive Models to Improve Questions on Surveys and Questionnaires (A. Graesser, et al.). The View from Anthropology: Ethnography and the Cognitive Interview (E. Gerber). Survey Error Models and Cognitive Theories of Response Behavior (R. Groves). New Connectionist Models of Mental Representation: Implications for Survey Research (E. Smith). Potential Contributions of the CASM Movement Beyond Questionnaire Design: Cognitive Technology and Survey Methodology (D. Herrmann). The Application of Cognitive Science to Computer Assisted Interviewing (M. Couper). Customizing Survey Procedures to Reduce Measurement Error (F. Conrad). Visualizing Categorical Data (M. Friendly). Statistical Graphs and Maps: Higher Level Cognitive Processes (S. Lewandowsky). Toward a Research Agenda: Future Development and Applications of Cognitive Sciences to Surveys (E. Martin & C. Tucker). Index.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc CrossCultural Survey Methods
Book SynopsisPRACTICAL METHODOLOGIES FOR CROSS-CULTURAL RESEARCH Since all research is in a sense comparative, it is sometimes argued that methods and requirements remain the same, no matter what country or nationality is involved. The editors of this volume contend that this philosophy is an oversimplification.Trade Review"…there is a need for more efforts at cross-cultural and cross-national survey research. The diverse efforts of the participants in the conference as represented in this book…could serve as a stimulus for such research." (Journal of the American Statistical Association, September 2004) "If you like reading books about statistical science and its application to modern society, here is a book that you might consider." (Technometrics, Vol. 45, No. 2, May 2003) "...a useful addition to a comparative researcher's library...recommended..." (Choice, Vol. 40, No. 9, May 2003)Table of ContentsContributors. Preface. PART I: INTRODUCTION. Comparative Research (J. Harkness, et al.). PART II: DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION. Questionnaire Design in Comparative Research (J. Harkness, et al.). Questionnaire Translation (J. Harkness). Communication and Social Cognition (M. Braun). Developing Comparable Questions in Cross-National Surveys (T. Smith). Culture-Sensitive Context Effects: A Challenge for Cross-Cultural Surveys (N. Schwarz). Background Variables (M. Braun & P. Mohler). Sampling and Estimation (S. Hader & S. Gabler). PART III: ERROR AND COMPARATIVE SURVEYS. Errors in Comparative Survey Research: An Overview (M. Braun). Bias and Equivalence: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (F. Van de Vijver). Nonresponse in Cross-Cultural and Cross-National Surveys (M. Couper & E. de Leeuw). Data Collection Methods (K. Skj?k & J. Harkness). Social Desirability in Cross-Cultural Research (T. Johnson & F. Van de Vijver). PART IV: ANALYSIS OF COMPARATIVE DATA. Bias and Substantive Analyses (F. Van de Vijver). Multidimensional Scaling (J. Fontaine). Cross-Cultural Equivalence with Structural Equation Modeling (J. Billiet). Multitrait - Multimethod Studies (W. Saris). Response Function Equality (W. Saris). PART V: DOCUMENTATION AND SECONDARY ANALYSIS. Using Published Survey Data (J. van Deth). Documenting Comparative Surveys for Secondary Analysis (P. Mohler & R. Uher). The Use of Meta-Analysis in Cross-National Studies (E. de Leeuw & J. Hox). Glossary (T. Johnson). References. Author Index. Subject Index.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Applied Bayesian Modelling Wiley Series in
Book SynopsisBayesian statistics uses information from past experience to infer the results of future events. With recent advances in computing power and the development of computer intensive methods for statistical estimation, Bayesian approaches to model estimation have become more feasible and popular.Trade Review"I recommend…highly to statisticians, [and] health researchers...among others to consider keeping on their bookshelf." (Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, April 2005) "…a great book…fills a critical gap in existing literature. It is an excellent book for anyone interested in Bayesian modeling…" (Journal of the American Statistical Association, March 2005) "It is certainly a fine choice as a supporting reference in either a first or second Bayesian methods course…” (Technometrics, May 2004) "...has a contemporary feel, with recent developments in financial time series modelling and epidemiology included..." (Short Book Reviews, Vol 23(3), December 2003)Table of ContentsPreface. The Basis for, and Advantages of, Bayesian Model Estimation via Repeated Sampling. Hierarchical Mixture Models. Regression Models. Analysis of Multi-Level Data. Models for Time Series. Analysis of Panel Data. Models for Spatial Outcomes and Geographical Association. Structural Equation and Latent Variable Models. Survival and Event History Models. Modelling and Establishing Causal Relations: Epidemiological Methods and Models. Index.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Analysing Design Activity
Book SynopsisDesign encompasses some of the highest cognitive abilities of human beings, including creativity, synthesis and problem solving.Table of ContentsPartial table of contents: The Design Problem and Its Structure (K. Dorst). The Designer as a Team of One (G. Goldschmidt). Ingredients of the Design Process: A Comparison Between Group andIndividual Work (S. Dwarakanath & L. Blessing). Design Strategies (C. Baykan). Analysis of Design Protocol by Functional Evolution Process Model(H. Takeda, et al.). Design Activity Structural Categories (V. Popovic). Comparing Paradigms for Describing Design Activity (K. Dorst &J. Dijkhuis). Observations of Teamwork and Social Processes in Design (N. Cross& A. Cross). Concurrency of Actions, Ideas and Knowledge Displays within aDesign Team (D. Radcliffe). Can Concurrent Verbalisation Reveal Design Cognition? (P. Lloyd, et al.). References.
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Wiley Making Research Work
Book SynopsisMaking Research Work demonstrates how research can be fostered and applied more effectively to child care policy and practice. Drawing on a wealth of experience, current literature and government documents, the contributors present a comprehensive discussion of key contemporary issues relating to child care research.Trade Review"a solid overview of issues relevant to agency--based research in child care." "..provides a useful complement to the specialised research literature." ----European Journal of Social Work, Volume 3/2, 2000Table of ContentsTHE RELATIONSHIP OF RESEARCH TO POLICY AND PRACTICE. Research and Development Strategies in the National Health Serviceand Personal Social Services in the United Kingdom (D.Iwaniec). The Impact of Research on Policy and Practice: A SystemicPerspective (J. Pinkerton). The Influence of Research on Child CarePolicy and Practice: The Case of 'Children Who Wait' and theDevelopment of the Permanence Movement in the United Kingdom (G.Kelly). CHILD CARE RESEARCH: SOME CHALLENGING CONTEMPORARYDEVELOPMENTS. Evidencing Effectiveness: The Use of Single-Case Designs in ChildCare Work (K. Dillenburger). Literature Reviewing: Towards a More Rigorous Approach (K. HigginsJ. Pinkerton). The Importance of and Difficulties with Official Statistics: A CaseStudy of Child Care Data (V. Switzer). Researching Hidden Populations(K. Higgins). Child Participatory Research: Ethical and MethodologicalConsiderations (C. McAuley). Developing a Strategy for Disseminating Research Findings (M.Monteith). PROMOTING AND SECURING A BASIS FOR RESEARCH. Preparing a Research Proposal for Funding Purposes (P.McCrystal). Commissioning Research (M. Monteith). Who and How to Approach Regarding Research Sponsoring (P.McCrystal). Promoting Research Through the Establishment of Research Centres(D. Iwaniec). Index.
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The University of Michigan Press Research Confidential
Book SynopsisWhile the methods literature is indeed large, it is rare for authors to discuss the practical issues and challenges they confronted in the course of their research projects. As a result, the author argues, each new cohort is effectively forced to reinvent the wheel, making mistakes that previous generations have already confronted and resolved.
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The University of Michigan Press Complex Systems in the Social and Behavioral Sciences
Book SynopsisProvides a sophisticated yet accessible account of complexity science or complex systems research. The authors range from the implications for artificial intelligence and computing to questions about how to model complex systems through agent-based modelling, to complex phenomena exhibited in international relations and organisational behaviour.
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University of California Press Anthropological Locations
Book SynopsisAmong the social sciences, anthropology relies most on "fieldwork" - the long-term immersion in another way of life as the basis for knowledge. The essays in this text explore the notion of "field", show how the concept is historically constructed and explore the consequences of its dominance.Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS 1. Discipline and Practice: "The Field" as Site, Method, and Location in Anthropology Akhil Gupta andjamesFerguson 2. Mter Ishmael: The Fieldwork Tradition and Its Future Henrika Kuklick 3· Locating the Past Mary Des Chene 4· News and Culture: Transitory Phenomena and the Fieldwork Tradition Liisa H. Malkki 5· Mrican Studies as American Institution Deborah Amory 6. The Waxing and Waning of "Subfields" in North American Sociocultural Anthropology ]aneF. Collier 7· Anthropology and the Cultural Study of Science: From Citadels to String Figures Emily Martin 8. "You Can't Take the Subway to the Field!": "Village" Epistemologies in the Global Village Joanne Passaro g. The Virtual Anthropologist Kath Weston 10. Spatial Practices: Fieldwork, Travel, and the Disciplining of Anthropology James Clifford REFERENCES CONTRIBUTORS INDEX
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University of California Press Yanomami The Fierce Contreoversy and What We
Book SynopsisRaises questions central to the field of anthropology - questions concerning the practice of fieldwork, the production of knowledge, and anthropology's intellectual and ethical vision of itself. This book discusses the Yanomami controversy, identifies the ethical dilemmas of the controversy and assesses the state of anthropology.Trade Review"If there is one book that redefines anthropology for the twenty-first century, this is it. It is a ground-breaking study that takes us to the ethical heart of the social sciences. This is an essential book for our times." - Carolyn Nordstrom, University of Notre Dame; "What better way to learn anthropology than through one of its great controversies? Written in a lucid and concise manner, Yanomami is really two books in one: First, it is a riveting, issues-oriented text that is ideal for sparking interest and provoking discussion among introductory students; second it is an invaluable analysis of critical disciplinary questions that every anthropologist and anthropologist-in-the-making need ponder." - Alex Hinton, Rutgers University"Table of ContentsA Note to Teachers A Personal Note to Undergraduates Suggested Yanomami/Yanomamo Films Helping the Yanomami Map PART I 1 The Controversy and the Broader Issues at Stake 2 Chagnon and Tierney in Their Own Words 3 How the Controversy Has Played Out in American Anthropology 4 Broader Issues at Stake in the Controversy 5 Keeping Yanomami Perspectives in Mind 6 You Decide 7 A Platform for Change photographic interlude PART II 8 Round One 9 Round Two 10 Round Three 11 Three Assessments Appendix: Summary of the Roundtable Participants' Positions References Index
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University of California Press Damned Lies and Statistics
Book SynopsisHere, by popular demand, is the updated edition to Joel Best's classic guide to understanding how numbers can confuse us. In his new afterword, Best uses examples from recent policy debates to reflect on the challenges to improving statistical literacy. Since its publication ten years ago, Damned Lies and Statistics has emerged as the go-to handbook for spotting bad statistics and learning to think critically about these influential numbers.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Introduction: The Worst Social Statistic Ever 1. The Importance of Social Statistics 2. Soft Facts: Sources of Bad Statistics 3. Mutant Statistics: Methods for Mangling Numbers 4. Apples and Oranges: Inappropriate Comparisons 5. Stat Wars: Conflicts over Social Statistics 6. Thinking about Social Statistics: The Critical Approach Afterword Notes Index
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