Social research and statistics Books
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
£59.50
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
University of Notre Dame Press Causality In Crisis
Book SynopsisIn the past fifty years statisticians and methodologists in the social sciences have developed and refined a family of closely related statistical methods for the study of social phenomena. While the value of such methods of analysis is universally acknowledged, their use has never been wholly uncontroversial. In 1993 prominent scholars from a variety of disciplines (social sciences, statistics, philosophy of science) gathered at the University of Notre Dame to debate whether causal modeling techniques old or new can really justify the drawing of causal conclusions on the basis of correlational statistical data. The resulting volume from that groundbreaking conference is Causality in Crisis? a comprehensive and sophisticated introduction to perhaps the most important set of issues confronting social scientific researchers in the 1990s and beyond.In the essays presented here contributors critically reassess the widely accepted view that statistical methods of analysis cTrade Review“This is a collection of essys by a distinguished group of authors that is a ‘must read’ for those with an interest in causal modeling.” —Piers Rawling, University of Missouri-St. Louis“[A]n attempt to set out what the problems with contemporary statistical methods are, what solutions are being proposed, and to open up the debates about their effectiveness to a wider audience.” —Social Studies of Science“. . . an exceptionally well written treatment of the current crisis in sociological methodology, with rich and lucid discussions, particularly by the editors, Vaughn McKim and Stephen Turner.” —Social Forces“This is a collection of essays by a distinguished group of authors that is a ‘must read’ for those interested in causal modeling.” —Philosophy in Review“The present book evaluates a striking new claim to provide the means for causal inference from statistical association. Readers can get a quick overview, or that plus a tutorial-like introduction to the statistical principles underlying the SGS algorithm, move on to discussions about the pros and cons of the method, and end with a deep understanding of the difficult issues that have surfaced here. And, what will prove most satisfying to the historically minded readers of JHBS, the endeavor is placed in a historical context that illuminates the nature of the issues at hand. It is refreshing to find an exception, an edited book with a consistent theme, an organization that encourages reading from beginning to end...Readers who take the time to do this will be rewarded with a new perspective on some old questions....the present book makes clear that the difficulties of inferring causation from correlational data are very much with us still. It is a pleasure to recommend this book to readers interested in opening the door to this fundamental issue in social science, whether in the form of the most recent statistically sophisticated approaches, or to the very first attempts to grapple with it.” —Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences,
£999.99
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
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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.
£65.50
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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University of California Press Data Mining for the Social Sciences
Book SynopsisWe live in a world of big data: the amount of information collected on human behavior each day is staggering, and exponentially greater than at any time in the past. Providing an introduction to data mining, the authors discuss how data mining substantially differs from conventional statistical modeling familiar to most social scientists.Table of ContentsPART 1. CONCEPTS 1. What Is Data Mining? 2. Contrasts with the Conventional Statistical Approach 3. Some General Strategies Used in Data Mining 4. Important Stages in a Data Mining Project PART 2. WORKED EXAMPLES 5. Preparing Training and Test Datasets 6. Variable Selection Tools 7. Creating New Variables Using Binning and Trees 8. Extracting Variables 9. Classifiers 10. Classification Trees 11. Neural Networks 12. Clustering 13. Latent Class Analysis and Mixture Models 14. Association Rules Conclusion Bibliography Notes Index
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University of California Press Other Please Specify Queer Methods in Sociology
Book SynopsisThis provocative collection showcasesthe work of emerging and established sociologists in the fields of sexuality and gender studies as they reflect on what it means to develop, practice, and teach queer methods.Located within the critical conversation about the possibilities and challenges of utilizing insights from humanistic queer epistemologies in social scientific research,Other, Please Specifypresents to a new generation of researchers an array of experiences, insights, and approaches, revealing the power of investigations of the social world. With contributions from sociologists who have helped define queer studies and who use a range of interpretative and statistical methods, this volume offers methodological advice and practical strategies in research design and execution, all with the intent of getting queer research off the ground and building a collaborative community within this emerging subfield. Trade Review"This is an engaging and vital book that provides methodological advice and practical strategies for undertaking queer research." * LSE Review of Books *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Queer Work in a Straight Discipline Kristen Schilt, Tey Meadow, and D’Lane Compton PART I ANTI-ORTHODOXIES 1. The “Not Sociology” Problem Kristen Schilt 2. The Methods Gatekeepers and the Exiled Queers Jane Ward 3. Trans Issues in Sociology: A Trans-Centered Perspective Emilia Lombardi 4. Beyond Academia: Strategies for Using LGBT Research to Influence Public Policy Gary J. Gates and Jody L. Herman 5. Pornographics as Queer Method Angela Jones PART II RELATIONSHIPS 6. Not Out in the Field: Studying Privacy and Disclosure as an Invisible (Trans) Man Cayce C. Hughes 7. Thank You for Coming Out Today: The Queer Discomforts of In-Depth Interviewing Catherine Connell 8. Studying the “Right” Can Feel Wrong: Reflections on Researching Anti-LGBT Movements Tina Fetner and Melanie Heath 9. The Mess: Vulnerability as Ethnographic Practice Tey Meadow PART III STRATEGIES 10. Challenges, Triumphs, and Praxis: Collecting Qualitative Data on Less Visible and Marginalized Populations Mignon R. Moore 11. How Many (Queer) Cases Do I Need? Thinking Through Research Design D’Lane Compton 12. Queer Spatial Analysis Amin Ghaziani 13. Queer Persistence in the Archive Amy L. Stone 14. Gendering Carnal Ethnography: A Queer Reception Kimberly Kay Hoang PART IV EPISTEMOLOGIES 15. Translation as Queer Methodology Evren Savci 16. Queer and Punishment: Sexual Social Control and the Legacy of “Nuts, Sluts and Preverts” Trevor Hoppe 17. The Demography of Sexuality: Queering Demographic Methods Amanda K. Baumle 18. What to Do with Actual People? Thinking Through a Queer Social Science Method C. J. Pascoe 19. Queer Accounting: Methodological Investments and Disinvestments Carla A. Pfeffer List of Contributors Index
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University of California Press In the Field Life and Work in Cultural
Book SynopsisThis book offers an invaluable look at what cultural anthropologists do when they are in the field. Through fascinating and often entertaining accounts of their lives and work in varied cultural settings, the authors describe the many forms fieldwork can take, the kinds of questions anthropologists ask, and the common problems they encounter. From these accounts and the experiences of the student field workers the authors have mentored over the years, In the Field makes a powerful case for the value of the anthropological approach to knowledge.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii 1. The Fieldwork Tradition 1 2. First Fieldwork: Irish Travellers 7 3. Politics and Fieldwork: Nomads in English Cities 31 4. Applying Anthropology in an Alaskan National Park 50 5. Studying Subsistence in Sitka 70 6. On the Move: Work and Mobility in Newfoundland 87 7. Native Anthropology: Studying the Culture of Baseball 105 8. Falling into Fieldwork in Japan 120 9. Photography and Film in Ireland and Alaska 142 10. Taking Students to the Field: Barbados 164 11. When the Field Is a City: Hobart, Tasmania 185 12. In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro: Students in Tanzania 201 13. Fieldwork from Campus 221 14. The Changing Nature of Fieldwork 238 Appendix Discussion Points 251 Notes 259 References 271
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University of California Press Knowledge Discovery in the Social Sciences A Data
Book SynopsisKnowledge Discovery in the Social Scienceshelps readers findvalid, meaningful, and useful information. It is written for researchers and data analysts as well as studentswho have no prior experience in statistics or computer science. Suitable for a variety of classesincluding upper-division courses for undergraduates, introductory courses for graduate students, and courses in data management and advanced statistical methodsthe book guides readers in the application of data mining techniques and illustrates the significance ofnewlydiscovered knowledge. Readers will learn to: appreciate the role of data mining in scientific research develop an understanding of fundamental concepts of data mining and knowledge discovery use software to carry out data mining tasks select and assess appropriate models to ensure findings are valid and meaningful develop basic skills in data preparation, data mining, model selection, and validation apply concepts with end-of-chapter exercises and review summaries Table of ContentsPART I. KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY AND DATA MINING IN SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. New Contributions and Challenges PART II. DATA PREPROCESSING Chapter 3. Data Issues Chapter 4. Data Visualization PART III. MODEL ASSESSMENT Chapter 5. Assessment of Models PART IV. DATA MINING: UNSUPERVISED LEARNING Chapter 6. Cluster Analysis Chapter 7. Associations PART V. DATA MINING: SUPERVISED LEARNING Chapter 8. Generalized Regression Chapter 9. Classification and Decision Trees Chapter 10. Artificial Neural Networks PART VI. DATA MINING: TEXT DATA AND NETWORK DATA Chapter 11. Web Mining and Text Mining Chapter 12. Network or Link Analysis Index
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University of California Press Time Series Analysis in the Social Sciences The
Book SynopsisSuitable for students and researchers whose mathematical background is limited to basic algebra, this book focuses on fundamental elements of time series analysis that social scientists need to understand so they can employ time series analysis for their research and practice.Table of ContentsPreface 1 * Time Series Analysis in the Social Sciences 2 * Modeling (1) Preliminary Definition (2) Preparing for Analysis (3) Seasonal Components and Trend (4) Systematic Patterns of Residuals (5) Fitting the Residuals (6) Further Reading 3 * Diagnostics (1) Residual Assumptions (2) The Case of Monthly Violent Crime Rates, 1983-1992 (3) Further Reading 4 * Forecasting (1) How to Forecast Values (2) Measuring the Accuracy of Time Series Models (3) The Case of Monthly Violent Crime Rates, 1983-1992 (4) Further Reading 5 * Smoothing (1) Moving Average Smoothing 07 (2) Exponential Smoothing (3) The Case of Monthly Violent Crime Rates, 1983-1992 (4) Further Reading 6 * Time Series Analysis with Two or More Time Series (1) Correlation and Regression Analysis (2) Prewhitening (3) Multiple Time Series Analysis with Lagged Variables (4) Diagnostics (5) Further Reading 7 * Time Series Analysis as an Impact Analysis Method (1) Interrupted Time Series Analysis (2) The Case of Monthly Violent Crime Rates, 1985-2004 (3) Further Reading Appendices 1. Links to Online Time Series Analysis Program Manuals 2. U.S. Monthly Violent Crime Rates, 1983-2004 3. Data Resources for Social Science Time Series Analysis 4. Statistical Tables Notes References Index
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University of California Press Time Series Analysis in the Social Sciences The
Book SynopsisSuitable for students and researchers whose mathematical background is limited to basic algebra, this book focuses on fundamental elements of time series analysis that social scientists need to understand so they can employ time series analysis for their research and practice.Table of ContentsPreface 1 * Time Series Analysis in the Social Sciences 2 * Modeling (1) Preliminary Definition (2) Preparing for Analysis (3) Seasonal Components and Trend (4) Systematic Patterns of Residuals (5) Fitting the Residuals (6) Further Reading 3 * Diagnostics (1) Residual Assumptions (2) The Case of Monthly Violent Crime Rates, 1983-1992 (3) Further Reading 4 * Forecasting (1) How to Forecast Values (2) Measuring the Accuracy of Time Series Models (3) The Case of Monthly Violent Crime Rates, 1983-1992 (4) Further Reading 5 * Smoothing (1) Moving Average Smoothing 07 (2) Exponential Smoothing (3) The Case of Monthly Violent Crime Rates, 1983-1992 (4) Further Reading 6 * Time Series Analysis with Two or More Time Series (1) Correlation and Regression Analysis (2) Prewhitening (3) Multiple Time Series Analysis with Lagged Variables (4) Diagnostics (5) Further Reading 7 * Time Series Analysis as an Impact Analysis Method (1) Interrupted Time Series Analysis (2) The Case of Monthly Violent Crime Rates, 1985-2004 (3) Further Reading Appendices 1. Links to Online Time Series Analysis Program Manuals 2. U.S. Monthly Violent Crime Rates, 1983-2004 3. Data Resources for Social Science Time Series Analysis 4. Statistical Tables Notes References Index
£27.00
University of California Press Encountering Correctional Populations
Book SynopsisWhile many researchers study offenders and offending, few actually journey into the correctional world to meet offenders face to face. This book offers researchers, practitioners, and students a step-by-step guide to effectively research correctional populations, providing field-tested advice for those studying youth and adults on probation, on parole, and in jails and prisons. The book addresses topics such as how to build rapport with offenders and those who monitor them; how to select from the many types of correctional data that can be collected; how to navigate the informed consent process and maintain research ethics; and how to manage the logistics of doing research. With personal stories, what if scenarios, case studies, and real-world tools like checklists and sample forms, the authors share methods of negotiating the complexities that researchers often face as they work with those behind bars.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Gaining Access to and Building Rapport with Correctional Populations 3. Types of Correctional Data That Can Be Collected 4. Informed Consent Process and Research Ethics 5. Logistics of Doing Research with Correctional Populations Appendix A. Agency Letter of Support Appendix B. Weekly Contact Sheet for Staff with Client Caseloads in the Experimental (SOCP) Group Appendix C. Weekly Contact Code Sheet for Staff with Client Caseloads in the Experimental (SOCP) Group Appendix D. Publically Available Data Sources Appendix E. “Thinking for a Change” Facilitator Peer Rating Form Appendix F. General Informed Consent for Traditional Placements in the Florida Faith and Community-Based Delinquency Treatment Initiative (FCBDTI) Appendix G. Example of Re-Consent for Youths Participating in the Faith and Community-Based Delinquency Treatment Initiative (FCBDTI) Appendix H. Informed Consent Form for Youth Interview Appendix I. Example IRB Protocol Appendix J. Application for a Research Assistant Position References Recommended Further Reading Index
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University of California Press Inside Ethnography
Book SynopsisWhile some books present ideal ethnographic field methods, Inside Ethnography shares the realities of fieldwork in action. With a focus on strategies employed with populations at society's margins, twenty-one contemporary ethnographers examine their cutting-edge work with honesty and introspection, drawing readers into the field to reveal the challenges they have faced. Representing disciplinary approaches from criminology, sociology, anthropology, public health, business, and social work, and designed explicitly for courses on ethnographic and qualitative methods, crime, deviance, drugs, and urban sociology, the authors portray an evolving methodology that adapts to the conditions of the field while tackling emerging controversies with perceptive sensitivity. Their judicious advice on how to avoid pitfalls and remedy missteps provides unusual insights for practitioners, academics, and undergraduate and graduate students. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Introduction Miriam Boeri and Rashi K. Shukla PART ONE BECOMING AN ETHNOGRAPHER 1 • Going Native with Evil Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard 2 • Lost in the Park: Learning to Navigate the Unpredictability of Fieldwork Elizabeth Bonomo and Scott Jacques 3 • Unearthing Aggressive Advocacy: Challenges and Strategies in Social Service Ethnography Curtis Smith and Leon Anderson 4 • Going into the Gray: Conducting Fieldwork on Corporate Misconduct Eugene Soltes PART TWO TEAM ETHNOGRAPHY 5 • Hide-and-Seek: Challenges in the Ethnography of Street Drug Users Merrill Singer and J. Bryan Page 6 • Into the Epistemic Void: Using Rapid Assessment to Investigate the Opioid Crisis Jason N. Fessel, Sarah G. Mars, Philippe Bourgois, and Daniel Ciccarone 7 • Conducting International Reflexive Ethnography: Theoretical and Methodological Struggles Avelardo Valdez, Alice Cepeda, and Charles Kaplan PART THREE NAVIGATING THE UNUSUAL 8 • Hidden: Accessing Narratives of Parental Drug Dealing and Misuse Ana Lilia Campos-Manzo 9 • Navigating Stigma: Researching Opioid and Injection Drug Use among Young Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in New York City Honoria Guarino and Anastasia Teper PART FOUR THE EMOTIONAL IMPACT OF DOING ETHNOGRAPHY 10 • Dangerous Liaisons: Reflections on a Serial Ethnography Robert Gay 11 • The Emotional Labor of Fieldwork with People Who Use Methamphetamine Heith Copes 12 • Ethnography of Injustice: Death at a County Jail Joshua Price Conclusion: Looking Back, Moving Forward Rashi K. Shukla and Miriam Boeri List of Contributors Index
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University of California Press Harassed Gender Bodies and Ethnographic Research
Book SynopsisResearchers frequently experience sexualized interactions, sexual objectification, andharassmentas they conduct fieldwork.These experiences are often left out of ethnographers' tales from the field and remain unaddressed within qualitativeliterature.Harassedargues that the androcentric, racist, and colonialist epistemological foundations of ethnographicmethodology contribute to the silence surrounding sexualharassmentand other forms of violence. Rebecca Hanson and Patricia Richards challenge readers to recognizehow these attitudes put researchers at risk, further the solitude experienced by researchers,lead others to question the validity of their work, and, inturn, negatively impact the construction of ethnographic knowledge. To improve methodological training, data collection,and knowledge produced by all researchers,Harassedadvocates for an embodied approach to ethnography that reflexively engages with theways in which researchers' bodies shape the knowledge they produce. By challenging these assumptions, the authors offer an opportunity for researchers, advisors, and educators to consider the multiple ways in which good ethnographic research can be conducted. Beyond challenging current methodological training and mentorship, Harassed opens discussions about sexual harassment and violence in the social sciences in general. Trade Review"Harassed is an important, insightful text that should become a staple for research methods classes in anthropology, sociology, and women’s and gender studies. . . . This is a must-read for anyone conducting or supervising ethnographic research. . . . Highly recommended." * CHOICE *"One of this book’s major contributions is to lay bare the gendered character of ethnography as practical endeavor and intellectual pursuit. Interview extracts vividly convey how prevailing conventions create pernicious traps and impossible binds for female researchers, for whom the very act of entering a field site alone and unknown frequently contravenes prescribed norms of feminine conduct and so renders them vulnerable to overtures and advances. . . . While positioned as a challenge to institutional silence, Harassed could instead be seen as throwing down the gauntlet, providing a comprehensive appraisal of the problem and setting out clear-headed proposals for change." * Times Higher Education *"When my friends and I faced gendered issues during fieldwork, we viewed it as an anomalous problem to manage as best we could. Hanson and Richards move beyond individual-level suggestions on how to handle risks; they challenge academic assumptions about the very nature of ethnography. Their vision of an embodied ethnography should inform ongoing conversations about how we produce knowledge as well as how to appropriately train and support our students and colleagues." * Social Forces *"Harassed should be required reading for any class on ethnography or in-depth interviewing, for any researcher conducting ethnography or interviews, and for any faculty member who is advising students conducting such work. Armed with this book, researchers will not only be better able to protect themselves but they will also gain a model for how to learn and teach from their own embodied experiences in the field." * Gender & Society *"The book is an essential read for any student and/or researcher using and/or teaching ethnography as a methodology, as it is a much-needed point of departure for a discussion about the roles of our bodies, gender, and sexuality in our interactions with other people and in the construction of ethnographic knowledge. Moreover, it is an essential read for anyone engaged in international development research as it complements calls within the wider research governance framework for increased safeguarding, accountability, and transparency." * Anthropology in Action *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 • Ethnographic Fixations 2 • Gendered Bodies and Field Research 3 • Sexual Harassment in the Field 4 • The Costs 5 • Constructing Knowledge 6 • Moving Forward Notes References Index
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University of California Press The Drugging of the Americas
Book Synopsis
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University of California Press Knowledge Discovery in the Social Sciences A Data
Book SynopsisKnowledge Discovery in the Social Scienceshelps readers findvalid, meaningful, and useful information. It is written for researchers and data analysts as well as studentswho have no prior experience in statistics or computer science. Suitable for a variety of classesincluding upper-division courses for undergraduates, introductory courses for graduate students, and courses in data management and advanced statistical methodsthe book guides readers in the application of data mining techniques and illustrates the significance ofnewlydiscovered knowledge. Readers will learn to: appreciate the role of data mining in scientific research develop an understanding of fundamental concepts of data mining and knowledge discovery use software to carry out data mining tasks select and assess appropriate models to ensure findings are valid and meaningful develop basic skills in data preparation, data mining, model selection, and validation apply concepts with end-of-chapter exercises and review summTable of ContentsPART I. KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY AND DATA MINING IN SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. New Contributions and Challenges PART II. DATA PREPROCESSING Chapter 3. Data Issues Chapter 4. Data Visualization PART III. MODEL ASSESSMENT Chapter 5. Assessment of Models PART IV. DATA MINING: UNSUPERVISED LEARNING Chapter 6. Cluster Analysis Chapter 7. Associations PART V. DATA MINING: SUPERVISED LEARNING Chapter 8. Generalized Regression Chapter 9. Classification and Decision Trees Chapter 10. Artificial Neural Networks PART VI. DATA MINING: TEXT DATA AND NETWORK DATA Chapter 11. Web Mining and Text Mining Chapter 12. Network or Link Analysis Index
£100.00
University of California Press Unsaid Analyzing Harmful Silences
Book SynopsisHarm takes shape in and through what is suppressed, left out, or taken for granted.This book is a guide tounderstanding and uncovering what is left unsaidwhether concealed or silenced, presupposed or excluded. Drawing on a variety of real-world examples, narrative criminologist Lois Presser outlines how to determine what or who is excluded from textual materials. With strategies that can be added to the tool kits of social researchers and activists alike, Unsaidprovides a richly layered approach to analyzing and dismantling the power structures that both create and arise from what goes without saying.Trade Review"Presser concedes the impossibility of creating a comprehensive, all-inclusive text in which nothing is left unsaid as she advocates for honest and critical reflection to identify the unspoken assumptions and silenced viewpoints characteristic of all texts." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgments 1. Kept Quiet 2. Too Little or Too Much Said 3. Figurative Expression 4. Missing Subjects 5. The Social Construction of Absences 6. Concluding Remarks: Boundless Texts, Better Worlds Appendix: A Word on Sampling Glossary Notes References Index
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University of California Press Stuck Moving
Book SynopsisThis one-of-a-kind literary and conceptual experiment does anthropology differentlyin all the wrong ways. No field trips. No other cultures. This is a personal journey within anthropology itself, and a kind of love story. A critical, candid, hilarious take on the culture of academia and, ultimately, contemporary society. Stuck Moving follows a professor affected by bipolar disorder, drug addiction, and a stalled career who searches for meaning and purpose within a sanctimonious discipline and a society in shambles. It takes aim at the ableist conceit that anthropologists are outside observers studying a messy world. The lens of analysis is reversed to expose the backstage of academic work and life, and the unbecoming self behind scholarship. Blending cultural studies, psychoanalysis, comedy, screenwriting, music lyrics, and poetry, Stuck Moving abandons anthropology's rigid genre conventions, suffocating solemnity, and enduring colonial model of extractive knowledge production. By satiTrade Review"Peter Benson takes his readers on a wild ride into the depths of his emotional turmoil and to the limits of his profession, propelled by writing that is genre-busting and beautiful." * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Acknowledgments Author’s Note 1. Sixteen Candles 2. Lost in Translation 3. And Everything Is Going Fine 4. Murmur of the Heart 5. Do the Right Thing 6. Rushmore 7. Toy Story 8. Shame 9. Life Is Sweet 10. The Graduate 11. My Own Private Idaho 12. Boyhood 13. Broken Flowers 14. Stagecoach 15. The Red Balloon 16. Planet of the Apes Credits Bibliography Index
£63.90
University of California Press Stuck Moving
Book SynopsisThis one-of-a-kind literary and conceptual experiment does anthropology differentlyin all the wrong ways. No field trips. No other cultures. This is a personal journey within anthropology itself, and a kind of love story. A critical, candid, hilarious take on the culture of academia and, ultimately, contemporary society. Stuck Moving follows a professor affected by bipolar disorder, drug addiction, and a stalled career who searches for meaning and purpose within a sanctimonious discipline and a society in shambles. It takes aim at the ableist conceit that anthropologists are outside observers studying a messy world. The lens of analysis is reversed to expose the backstage of academic work and life, and the unbecoming self behind scholarship. Blending cultural studies, psychoanalysis, comedy, screenwriting, music lyrics, and poetry, Stuck Moving abandons anthropology's rigid genre conventions, suffocating solemnity, and enduring colonial model of extractive knowledge production. By satiTrade Review"Peter Benson takes his readers on a wild ride into the depths of his emotional turmoil and to the limits of his profession, propelled by writing that is genre-busting and beautiful." * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Acknowledgments Author’s Note 1. Sixteen Candles 2. Lost in Translation 3. And Everything Is Going Fine 4. Murmur of the Heart 5. Do the Right Thing 6. Rushmore 7. Toy Story 8. Shame 9. Life Is Sweet 10. The Graduate 11. My Own Private Idaho 12. Boyhood 13. Broken Flowers 14. Stagecoach 15. The Red Balloon 16. Planet of the Apes Credits Bibliography Index
£22.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Thinking and Reasoning
Book SynopsisPresents a range of research on various aspects of thinking and reasoning. This title draws on a variety of approaches but locates its subject matter squarely within the theoretical framework of modern cognitive psychology and cognitive science.Trade Review"The strength of Thinking and Reasoning is its comprehensiveness. It covers not only the most important topics, from categorisation and reasoning to decision making and problem solving, but also other major perspectives on thinking such as expertise and developmental issues. The book also examines more recent topics, such as teaching thinking and creativity, which are not to be found in older textbooks. In general this is an excellent text: readable, comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date. I would be surprised if this did not become the major undergraduate text in the area for several years to come." European Journal of Cognitive Psychology "An outstanding work, which should be recognized both in the UK and the USA as the best introduction to the psychology of thinking. It is comprehensive and lucidly written - an impressive book." Professor P. N. Johnson-Laird, Princeton University "Garnham and Oakhill present their book under the guise of an objective text for 'intermediate and advanced undergraduate students'. It is, however, delightfully informative and charmingly opinionated. It should be read by upper-division under-graduate and graduate students, faculty, and researchers, as well as two-year technical program students." P. L. Derks, College of William and MaryTable of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgements. 1. Historical Background. 2. The Building Blocks of Thought. 3. Language and Thought. 4. Logic. 5. Deductive Reasoning. 6. Syllogistic Reasoning. 7. Induction. 8. Hypothesis Testing. 9. Statistical Reasoning. 10. Decision Making. 11. Problem Solving. 12. Game Playing and Expertise. 13. Creativity. 14. Everyday Reasoning. 15. Teaching Thinking. 16. The Development of Thinking: Piagetian and Information-Processing Approaches. 17. The Development of Thinking: Scientific and Conceptual Thought. 18. A Framework for the Study of Thinking. References. Name Index. Subject Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Eating Disorders
Book SynopsisIn an extensively revised new edition of the successful Anorexia and Bulimia, Richard Gordon includes new information and discussion of the latest ideas in this rapidly growing research field. The past two decades have witnessed an enormous increase in the number of cases of eating disorders in industrial societies.Trade Review"He (Gordon) has successfully produced a very useful volume, which can be recommended as a primer which is readable, informative and well referenced...interesting and persuasive...coverage of the field is broad and most approaches are represented. A good read." Paul Robinson, European Eating Disorders Review, 2000, Vol 9, No 1.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Preface. 1. Culture and Psychopathology: The Notion of an Ethnic Disorder. 2. Eating Disorders: Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa. 3. Dimensions of an Epidemic: The Epidemiology of Eating Disorders. 4. A Conflicted Female Identity. 5. The Thin Body Ideal. 6. The War Against Fat: Obesity, Dieting, and Exercise. 7. The Templates of a Disease. 8. The Cultural Politics of Eating Disorders. Index.
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Harvard University Press Shared Beginnings Divergent Lives
Book SynopsisThis book—arguably the longest longitudinal study of age, crime, and the life course to date—analyzes data on crime and social development up to age 70 for 500 men who were remanded to reform school in the 1940s. The authors find that men who desisted from crime were rooted in structural routines and had strong social ties to family and community.Trade ReviewThe accounts of individuals are quite riveting, and the book can be recommended strongly purely for the stories provided about diverse lives. However, the book is much, much more than that in terms of the serious challenge that the authors' findings and ideas present to some of the leading contemporary theories of both crime and development. A highly original and scholarly contribution of the highest quality. -- Sir Michael Rutter, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College LondonShared Beginnings, Divergent Lives is an extraordinary work which shows the deep insights gained by studying the whole life course, beginning in childhood and ending in later life. With access to a rare data archive, the authors provide compelling evidence on the remarkably varied adult lives of teenage delinquents who grew up in low-income areas of Boston (born 1925-1935). The story behind these varied life paths and their consequences inspires fresh thinking about crime over the life course through models of life trajectories and vivid narratives that reveal the complexity of lives. -- Glen H. Elder, Jr., University of North Carolina at Chapel HillThis book redraws the landscape of developmental criminology that Laub and Sampson already have done so much to define, setting new standards and benchmarks along the way. The authors both provide new evidence for earlier conclusions and challenge prevailing assumptions and assertions, thereby reshaping the criminological research agenda for years to come. -- John Hagan, Northwestern UniversityShared Beginnings, Divergent Lives by John H. Laub and Robert J. Sampson does not directly address current penal policy, but it provides devastating evidence refuting many fallacies that underlie it. The volume provides the conclusion to a classic criminological study. In the 1940s Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck began to study a sample of 500 Boston men who were remanded to reform school. Between 1940 and 1965 the Gluecks collected a mass of data on this sample (and a matched non-deliquent control group). They were interviewed at an average age of fourteen, again at twenty-five, and finally at thirty-two. The results were published in the Gluecks' seminal book Unravelling Juvenile Delinquency (1950) and subsequent works up to 1974. Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives reports on Laub and Sampson's attempts to contact and interview surviving members of the Gluecks' original cohort, now aged around seventy...Combining statistical analysis with qualitative depth interviewing, their study illuminates the sources of desistance from, and persistence in, crime over the men's lifetimes...There are many important lessons for current crime control discourse and policy that can be gained from this rigorous, sensitive and insightful study...If rehabilitation of offenders is possible (as this book demonstrates), then the current zero-sum refrain of crime control rhetoric that concern for victims precludes concern for offenders is refuted. Concern to protect victims requires concern for offenders. -- Robert Reiner * Times Literary Supplement *Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives is a profound, complex, and sometimes difficult book. Nevertheless, it is enormously rewarding. The book, destined to become a classic, will sharpen readers' awareness of adult development forever. The lessons of this book can be applied not only to criminality but also to the natural history of drug abuse, chronic unemployment, marital turmoil, and personality disorders. -- George E. Vaillant, M.D. * American Journal of Psychiatry *This is an invaluable and imaginative study that should provide data for criminologists to examine for years to come. The combination of quantitative and qualitative research methods is a refreshing break from the fetish with quantitative data that characterizes most criminological research They have provided an excellent example of the thinking and research methods of modern criminology along with a rich source of data on the life course of people who were once labeled as delinquent and were incarcerated in a reformatory. -- William Chambliss * American Journal of Sociology *This is an invaluable and imaginative study that should provide data for criminologists to examine for years to come. The combination of quantitative and qualitative research methods is a refreshing break from the fetish with quantitative data that characterizes most criminological research. -- William Chambliss * American Journal of Sociology *This book analyzes newly collected data on crime and social development up to age 70 for 500 men who were remanded to reform school in the 1940s. Born in Boston in the late 1920s and early 1930s, these men were the subjects of the classic study Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency by Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck (1950). Updating their lives at the close of the twentieth century, and connecting their adult experiences to childhood, this book is arguably the longest longitudinal study of age, crime, and the life course to date. John Laub and Robert Sampson's long-term data, combined with in-depth interviews, defy the conventional wisdom that links individual traits such as poor verbal skills, limited self-control, and difficult temperament to long-term trajectories of offending. The authors reject the idea of categorizing offenders to reveal etiologies of offending--rather, they connect variability in behavior to social context. They find that men who desisted from crime were rooted in structural routines and had strong social ties to family and community. By uniting life-history narratives with rigorous data analysis, the author shed new light on long-term trajectories of crime and current policies of crime control. * Adolescence *This book is arguably the longest longitudinal study of age, crime, and the life course to date. John Laub and Robert Sampson's long-term data, combined with in-depth interviews, defy the conventional wisdom that links individual traits such as poor verbal skills, limited self-control, and difficult temperament to long-term trajectories of offending...By uniting life-history narratives with rigorous data analysis, the authors shed new light on long-term trajectories of crime and current policies of crime control.Table of Contents* Acknowledgments *1. Diverging Pathways of Troubled Boys *2. Persistence or Desistance? *3. Explaining the Life Course of Crime *4. Finding the Men *5. Long-Term Trajectories of Crime *6. Why Some Offenders Stop *7. Why Some Offenders Persist *8. Zigzag Criminal Careers *9. Modeling Change in Crime *10. Rethinking Lives in and out of Crime * Notes * References * Index
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