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Book SynopsisBuilding on the foundations of human geography and regional science, there has now emerged a powerful theoretical basis that underpins a spatially integrated approach in social science research. This approach explicitly recognizes the key role that geographical (or spatial) concepts - such as distance, distribution, location, proximity, connectivity, place, neighborhood and region - play in human society and the behavior of individuals, groups and organizations. It also promotes research that advances the understanding of spatial patterns and processes.The chapters in this unique Handbook provide broad coverage of the theoretical foundations and methodologies that typify research using a Spatially Integrated Social Science (SISS) approach. This insightful volume is intended chiefly as an introduction for students and budding researchers who wish to investigate social, economic and behavioural phenomena by giving explicit consideration to the roles of space and place. The majority of chapters provide an emphasis on demonstrating applications of methods, tools and techniques that are used in SISS research, including long-established and relatively new approaches.Accessible and packed with key instructions on organizing SISS research, the book is structured into five distinct parts which give the reader a unparalleled overview of the field:- A Spatially Integrated Social Science Approach- Setting Up Your Research- Data Sources, Data Collection and Information Generation- Research Tools and Techniques and Applications- Producing Research OutputThis volume will appeal to all students and researchers with an interest in understanding the techniques, method and application of the spatial dimension of social sciences.Contributors: Imran Azeezullah, Irfan Azeezullah, A. Beer, M. Bell, D. Brown, C. Brunsdon, P. Chhetri, J. Corcoran, G. Daraganova, D. Faulkner, M. Goodchild, K. Grossner, A. Harding, K.E. Haynes, B.W. Head, G. Hugo, D.G. Janelle, R. McCrea, T. McGee, P. McGuirk, L. Mazerolle, W. Mitchell, A. Murray, K. O'Connor, P. O'Neill, L. Mazerolle, P. Pattison, J. Poot, K. Risley, D. Rohde, T.-K. Shyy, A. Sorensen, R.J. Stimson, R. Stough, R. Tanton, M. Watts, M. Western, R. WickesTable of ContentsContents: Preface Robert J. Stimson PART I: A SPATIALLY INTEGRATED SOCIAL SCIENCE APPROACH 1. A Spatially Integrated Approach to Social Science Research Robert J. Stimson 2. Critical Spatial Thinking Michael Goodchild, Donald G. Janelle and Karl Grossner 3. Time Space Convergence Donald G. Janelle PART II: SETTING UP YOUR RESEARCH 4. Approaches to Conducting Research Robert J. Stimson 5. The Literature Review: The Fundamental Element of a Research Project Kevin O’Connor PART III: DATA SOURCES, DATA COLLECTION AND INFORMATION GENERATION 6. Issues to do with Data Robert J. Stimson 7. Using Census Data: An Australian Example Graeme Hugo 8. Survey Research Methods Robert J. Stimson 9. Using Quantitative Data in the Social Sciences Mark Western 10. Qualitative Methods in Socio-spatial Research Philip O’Neill and Pauline McGuirk 11. How to Use Primary and Secondary Data Andrew Beer and Debbie Faulkner 12. Forecasting in Social Science Research: Imperatives and Pitfalls Tony Sorensen 13. Meta-Analysis of Previous Empirical Research Findings Jacques Poot PART IV: RESEARCH TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS 14. Classification for Visualizing Data: Integrating Multiple Attributes and Space for Choropleth Display Tung-Kai Shyy, Imran Azeezullah, Irfan Azeezullah, Robert J. Stimson and Alan T. Murray 15. Spatial Indexes: A Focus on Segregation Martin Watts 16. Shift Share Analysis: Decomposition of Spatially Integrated Systems Kingsley E. Haynes and Jitendra Parajuli 17. Spatial Econometric Modelling William Mitchell 18. Spatial Clustering: Issues and Methods for Identifying Industry Clusters Roger R. Stough 19. Analysing Spatial Interactions: Inter-regional Migration Flows Martin Bell and Dominic Brown 20. Using Circular Statistics to Analyse Spatial Flow Data and temporal data Jonathan Corcoran and Chris Brunsdon 21. Analysing Human Social Networks Galina Daraganova and Philippa Pattison 22. Modelling the Effect of Intervening Variables Using Path Analysis Rod McCrea 23. Merging Survey and Spatial Data Using GIS-Enabled Analysis and Modelling Prem Chhetri and Robert J. Stimson 24. Web-based GIS to Support Visualization and Analysis of Community Variations in Crime Tung-Kai Shyy, Lorraine Mazerolle, Kate Risley and Robert J. Stimson 25. Policy and People at the Small Area Level: Using Micro-simulation to Create Synthetic Spatial Data Ann Harding and Robert Tanton 26. Graphical Models and Bayesian Networks as a Spatial Analytical Tool David Rohde and Jonathan Corcoran PART V: PRODUCING RESEARCH OUTPUT 27. Research and its Policy Relevance Brian W. Head 28. Navigating a Successful Doctoral Research Experience Rebecca Wickes and Tara McGee Index

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Book SynopsisQualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) is an emerging research method that is highly suitable for evaluation studies. Clear and concise, this book explains how researchers and evaluators can use QCA effectively for the systematic and thorough analysis of large infrastructure projects, while also acknowledging their complexity.Lasse Gerrits and Stefan Verweij present the key steps of this methodology to identify patterns across real-life cases. From collecting and interpreting data to sharing their knowledge and presenting the results, the authors use examples of megaprojects to emphasize how QCA can be used successfully for both single infrastructure ventures as well as more extensive projects. In addition to discussing the best practices and pitfalls of the methodology, further examples from current research are given in order to illustrate how QCA works effectively in both theory and practice.Being written with researchers and evaluators in mind, this book will be of great benefit for students and scholars of evaluation studies, public administration, transport studies, policy analysis and project management. The book is also highly applicable for those working in public or private organizations involved in infrastructure projects looking for an effective, detailed and systematic method of evaluation.Trade Review'Disentangling within-case complexity is a challenging task; even more so if one examines multiple cases. Gerrits and Verweij brilliantly demonstrate, using the latest conceptual and technical innovations, and through the concrete example of infrastructure projects, that QCA can produce qualitative leaps in taking on this challenge. This book is a must-read for researchers, evaluators and practitioners who take both complexity and comparison seriously.' --Benoit Rihoux, Universite catholique de Louvain, BelgiumTable of ContentsContents: 1. Not a Straightforward Path: Developing and Evaluating Infrastructure Projects 2. The Case 3. Calibration 4. Comparison 5. Complexity and Evaluation Revisited References Index

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Book Synopsis'Any student undertaking a politics degree at graduate level will find this book an indispensible introduction to the subject they are approaching and it will also be useful for teachers seeking to orientate themselves within the discipline as a whole. This is particularly true because of the supporting detail the book provides and the way it links up technical exposition to fundamental philosophical questions. From a student point of view it does not shrink from providing useful practical tips on how to present and publish research results and how to check out established themes with new data. This is a book which political scientists at all levels will benefit from reading. It should also stimulate them to take a fresh look both at their own work and that of others - and - who knows? - perhaps forge some of that unity across the discipline which is the main subject of its discussion.'- Colin Hay, University of Sheffield, UK and L'Institut d'Etudes Politiques at Sciences Po, France'This Handbook provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date account of the current state of empirical-analytical political science. The contributions share a systemic and multi-layered approach combining political actors, organizations, and institutions. In addition, types of data and data collection as well as advanced types of data analysis are described and explained. Finally, much can be learned about the evaluation of research output and publication strategies. The editors have motivated a stellar set of 40 authors to contribute to the 33 chapters of the Handbook. The index makes it easy to navigate the vast ocean of results and ideas. The Handbook is a ''must have'' for scholars interested in what political science can contribute to reliably answer the most important questions facing the complex world of politics today.'- Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (Berlin Social Science Center), GermanyThis Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art research methods and applications currently in use in political science. It combines theory and methodology (qualitative and quantitative), and offers insights into the major approaches and their roots in the philosophy of scientific knowledge. Including a comprehensive discussion of the relevance of a host of digital data sources, plus the dos and don'ts of data collection in general, the book also explains how to use diverse research tools and highlights when and how to apply these techniques. With wide-ranging coverage of general political science topics and systemic approaches to politics, the editors showcase research methods that can be used at the micro, meso and macro levels. Chapters explore applied and fundamental knowledge, approaches and their usefulness, meta-theoretical issues, and the art and practice of undertaking research. This highly accessible book provides hands-on information on research topics and methods, and offers the reader extensive bibliographies for in-depth exploration of cutting edge techniques. Finally, it discusses the relevance of political science research, as well as the art of publishing, reporting and submitting your research findings. An essential tool for researchers in political science, public administration and international relations, this book will be an important reference for academics and students employing research methods and techniques across the social sciences, including sociology, anthropology and communication studies.Trade Review'It is rare for a book these days to seek to review and draw together the whole range of what political scientists - in many different countries and with many different interests - actually do. Given the divisions in the discipline between quantitative and qualitative, description and theorising, empirical and normative, it is difficult to develop an integrated and coherent discussion, let alone do it well and in sufficient detail to be methodologically and philosophically illuminating. But that is just what the editors and their collaborators have achieved in this fine volume - partly by not evading the difficult issues of what, if anything, the various approaches have in common and what they contribute to each other and to practitioners and politicians in the every day world of politics. All of these questions are confronted head on in the various chapters, some of which provide original technical analyses which could well stand in their own right as contributions to the discipline. None are less than provocative and interesting presentations of their own point of view, whether this be philosophical or methodological - and they all contribute substantial points to the discussion of whether there is disciplinary unity or not.' --Ian Budge, Essex University, UK'This work is unique and impressive in scope, size and ambition. No summary can do justice to the wealth of material assembled in its 33 chapters. The originality lies in the discussion of core epistemological, methodological and technical questions of political science within a multilevel framework; in relation to substantive topics; in connection with disciplinary subsectors; and with suggestions on how to do the analysis, where to find the data, how to enhance the relevance of your results, down to the chance of publishing them at best. Almost everything you want to know about contemporary political science is there.' --Stefano Bartolini, European University Institute, Italy'If you want to do reflected research, this Handbook on methods and applications in political science will become an invaluable companion. Its linking of meta-theoretical foundations, theory-building, method development and data gathering by a large number of distinguished scholars gives unique insights into the knowledge production process in political science. The Handbook will without a doubt contribute to better and more informed research.' --Dietmar Braun, University of Lausanne, SwitzerlandTable of ContentsContents: Introduction by the Editors PART I POLITICAL SCIENCE: RANGE, SCOPE AND CONTESTED METHODOLOGIES 1. Political Science: Researching a Multifaceted Topic in Essentially Contested Ways Philippe C. Schmitter 2. Epistemology and Approaches: Logic, Causation and Explanation Dirk Berg-Schlosser 3. Taking Critical Ontology Seriously: Implications for Political Science Methodology Angela Wigger, Laura Horn 4. Relating Theory and Concepts to Measurements: Bridging the Gap Paul Pennings 5. On Time and Space: The Historical Dimension in Political Science Hans Keman 6. Systems Theory: The Search for a General Theory of Politics Hans Keman PART II APPROACHES: EXPLORING POLITICAL INTERACTIONS 7. Applying Multilevel Governance Arjan H. Schakel 8. Regime Types: Measuring Democracy and Autocracy Manfred G. Schmidt 9. Institutional Analysis: Progress and Problems B. Guy Peters 10. Political Actors: Parties – Interest Groups – Government Nicole Bolleyer 11. Social Movements and Political Action Bert Klandermans 12. International Relations and Transnational Politics Andreas Nölke 13. Political Economy: Economic Miracles and Socio-Economic Performance Barbara Vis, Jaap J. Woldendorp and Kees Van Kersbergen 14. Political Theory and its Normative Methods Keith Dowding PART III ANALYZING POLITICS: DATA – CONCEPTS – TECHNIQUES 15. Organizing and Developing Data Sets: Exemplified by Party Government Dataset Jaap J. Woldendorp 16. Political Institutions Klaus Armingeon 17. Studying Voting Behavior Joop J.M. Van Holsteyn and Galen A. Irwin 18. The Role of High Quality Surveys in Political Science Research Sarah Butt, Sally Widdop and Lizzy Winstone 19. Quantitative Data Analysis in Political Science Paul Pennings 20. Models in Political Science: Forms and Purposes Robin E. Best and Michael D. McDonald 21. Qualitative Methods in Political Science Selen A. Ercan and David Marsh 22. Multilevel Regression Analysis Jan Kleinnijenhuis PART IV RESEARCH TOOLS: QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE APPLICATIONS 23. Studying How Policies Affect the People: Grappling with Measurement, Causality and the Macro-Micro Divide Staffan Kumlin and Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen 24. Regression Analysis Uwe Wagschal 25. Configurational Comparative Methods (QCA And Fuzzy Sets): Complex Causation in Cross-Case Analysis Benoît Rihoux 26. Discourse Analysis, Social Constructivism and Text Analysis: A Critical Overview David Howarth and Steven Griggs 27. Case Study Analysis Esther Seha and Ferdinand Müller-Rommel 28. Cluster Analysis Uwe Wagschal 29. The Logic of process tracing: contributions, pitfalls and future directions Sherry Zaks PART V EVALUATION AND RELEVANCE OF RESEARCH OUTPUT 30. Political Science Research and its Political Relevance Ben Crum 31. What’s Methodology Got to Do With it? Public Policy Evaluations, Observational Analysis and Rcts Edward C. Page 32. Re-Analysis, Testability and Falsification Jan-Erik Lane 33. The Art of Publishing: How to Report and Submit Your Findings Richard S. Katz Index

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Book SynopsisThis book asks the important question; Can the by-products of research activity be treated as data and of research interest in themselves? This groundbreaking interdisciplinary volume considers the analytic value of a range of 'by-products' of social research and reading. These include electronically captured paradata on survey administration, notes written in the margins of research documents and literary texts, and fieldnotes and ephemera produced by social researchers. Revealing the relational nature of paradata, marginalia and fieldnotes, contributions examine how the craft of studying and analyzing these by-products offers insight into the intellectual, social and ethical processes underpinning the activities of research and reading. Unique and engaging, this book is a must read for social researchers and sociologists, narrative analysts, literary scholars and historians. Bridging methodological boundaries, it will also prove of great value to quantitative and qualitative methodologists alike.Contributors include: K. Bell, J. Boddy, R.G. Burgess, G.B. Durrant, R. Edwards, H. Elliott, E. Fahmy, J. Goodwin, H.J. Jackson, D. Kilburn, O. Maslovskaya, H. O'Connor, A. Phoenix, W.H. ShermanTrade Review'This is an extremely important book that brings to the attention of social researchers and methodologists the fascinating potential and intrinsic interest of three kinds of by-product of the research process - field notes, paradata, and marginalia. Many of us are unfamiliar with all or some of these sources. The book is full of worked examples of their use which greatly enhances the book's utility for all of us. The editors and authors have done us all a great service in bringing to our attention research sources that can no longer be ignored.' --Alan Bryman, University of Leicester, UK'Paradata will become increasingly important to researchers, both as an insight into the complexity and richness of participants and contexts, but also it has great potential to improve the quality of our research. Ros Edwards and her colleagues have provided us with a wonderfully comprehensive set of essays that are both insightful and valuable. This is a book which will have great appeal to students and professional researchers from both the quantitative and qualitative traditions.' --Malcolm Williams, Cardiff University, UK'Taking an expansive and inclusive approach to its topic, Working with Paradata, Marginalia and Fieldnotes offers a stimulating tour of a neglected domain of methodology. Readers who customarily regard paradata as a ''dry and dull'' element of data archiving will be delighted to read of the hidden corners of the research enterprise that this book's understanding of paradata and marginalia illuminates. Launching what is effectively a new field of inquiry, the book shows how these materials contribute to the field's renewed process of self-discovery.' --Nigel Fielding, University of Surrey, UKTable of ContentsContents: Marginalia - A Poem by Billy Collins Preface Robert G. Burgess 1. Introduction: Working with Paradata, Marginalia and Fieldnotes John Goodwin, Henrietta O’Connor, Ann Phoenix and Rosalind Edwards 2. Paradata for Non-response Investigations in Social Surveys Gabrielle B. Durrant and Olga Maslovskaya 3. Using Paradata to Evaluate Survey Quality: Behaviour Coding the 2012 PSE UK Survey Eldin Fahmy and Karen Bell 4. ‘Another Long and Involved Story’: Narrative Themes in the Marginalia of the Poverty in the UK Survey Ann Phoenix, Janet Boddy, Rosalind Edwards and Heather Elliott 5 ‘The House Seemed to be Falling Down Around Their Ears’: Contesting and Amplifying Observations of Housing Through Qualitative Survey Paradata Daniel Kilburn 6. The Secondary Analysis of Fieldnotes, Marginalia and Paradata from Past Studies of Young People Henrietta O’Connor and John Goodwin 7. John Adam’s Marginalia: Then and Now H.J. Jackson 8. ‘Soiled by Use’ or ‘Enlivened by Association’? Attitudes Towards Marginalia William H. Sherman 9. Afterword: The Craft of Paradata, Marginalia and Fieldnotes Rosalind Edwards, Ann Phoenix, John Goodwin and Henrietta O’Connor Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.This state-of-the-art book takes a forward-looking perspective on the field of Human Resource Management (HRM). Each contribution takes a view, or position, on the likely development of the HR function, and identifies interesting areas and subjects of research that would help address this future positioning. The book's expert contributors provide short and succinct reviews of 12 key topics in strategic HRM, including HR strategy and structure, talent management, selection, assessment and retention, employee engagement, workplace well-being, leadership, HR analytics, productivity, innovation, and globalisation. Each chapter identifies the strengths and gaps in our knowledge, maps out the important intellectual boundaries for their field, and outlines current and future research agendas and how these should inform practice. In examining these strategic topics the authors point to the key interfaces between the field of HRM and cognate disciplines, enabling researchers and practitioners to understand the models and theories that help tie this agenda together.Offering a comprehensive guide to current research and pioneering perspectives for future avenues of inquiry, this Research Agenda will be essential reading for academics, practitioners and researchers in the field of HRM.Contributors include: J.W. Boudreau, C. Brewster, S. Cartwright, W.F. Cascio, A.H. Church, J. Coetsee, D.G. Collings, C. Cooper, P.C. Flood, J.A. Gruman, A. Hesketh, K. Jiang, J. Kautz, D. Lepak, V. Lin, A. McDonnell, J. McMackin, W. Mayrhofer, L. Otaye-Ebede, R.E. Ployhart, A.M. Saks, K. Sanders, H. Shipton, A. Smale, P. Sparrow, H. YangTrade Review'An excellent guide to the state of play and challenges in human resources. Especially useful for researchers and thoughtful practitioners interested in developing priorities for the future.' --Peter Cappelli, University of Pennsylvania, US'The field of HR has reached a critical crossroads where research must meet practice in a way that benefits both. Cary Cooper and Paul Sparrow have brought together a group of expert researchers who also have deep understanding of current HR practice to provide an HR research agenda that can effectively enable the field of HR to promote the well-being and effectiveness of both organisations and the people who work in them.' --Patrick M. Wright, University of South Carolina, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: The Future Research Agenda for HRM Paul Sparrow and Cary L. Cooper 2. HR Strategy, Structure, and Architecture Dave Lepak, Kaifeng Jiang and Robert E. Ployhart 3. Talent Management David G. Collings, Anthony McDonnell and John McMackin 4. Using a Risk-Optimisation Lens: Maximizing Talent Readiness for an Uncertain Future. Wayne F. Cascio, John W. Boudreau and Allan H. Church 5. Managing the Selection and Retention of Human Capital Resources Robert E. Ployhart and Jason Kautz 6. Human Resource Management and Employee Engagement Alan M. Saks and Jamie A. Gruman 7. Workplace well-being: Responsibilities, challenges and future directions Susan Cartwright 8. Leadership Models: The Future research agenda for HRM Johan Coetsee and Patrick C. Flood 9. Architectures of Value: Moving leaders beyond analytics and big data Anthony Hesketh 10. HRM and Productivity Paul Sparrow and Lilian Otaye-Ebede 11. ‘We are not creative here!’ Creativity and Innovation for non-creatives through HRM Helen Shipton, Veronica Lin, Karin Sanders and Huadong Yang 12. Globalisation and Human Resource Management Chris Brewster, Adam Smale and Wolfgang Mayrhofer Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.This state-of-the-art book takes a forward-looking perspective on the field of Human Resource Management (HRM). Each contribution takes a view, or position, on the likely development of the HR function, and identifies interesting areas and subjects of research that would help address this future positioning. The book's expert contributors provide short and succinct reviews of 12 key topics in strategic HRM, including HR strategy and structure, talent management, selection, assessment and retention, employee engagement, workplace well-being, leadership, HR analytics, productivity, innovation, and globalisation. Each chapter identifies the strengths and gaps in our knowledge, maps out the important intellectual boundaries for their field, and outlines current and future research agendas and how these should inform practice. In examining these strategic topics the authors point to the key interfaces between the field of HRM and cognate disciplines, enabling researchers and practitioners to understand the models and theories that help tie this agenda together.Offering a comprehensive guide to current research and pioneering perspectives for future avenues of inquiry, this Research Agenda will be essential reading for academics, practitioners and researchers in the field of HRM.Contributors include: J.W. Boudreau, C. Brewster, S. Cartwright, W.F. Cascio, A.H. Church, J. Coetsee, D.G. Collings, C. Cooper, P.C. Flood, J.A. Gruman, A. Hesketh, K. Jiang, J. Kautz, D. Lepak, V. Lin, A. McDonnell, J. McMackin, W. Mayrhofer, L. Otaye-Ebede, R.E. Ployhart, A.M. Saks, K. Sanders, H. Shipton, A. Smale, P. Sparrow, H. YangTrade Review'An excellent guide to the state of play and challenges in human resources. Especially useful for researchers and thoughtful practitioners interested in developing priorities for the future.' --Peter Cappelli, University of Pennsylvania, US'The field of HR has reached a critical crossroads where research must meet practice in a way that benefits both. Cary Cooper and Paul Sparrow have brought together a group of expert researchers who also have deep understanding of current HR practice to provide an HR research agenda that can effectively enable the field of HR to promote the well-being and effectiveness of both organisations and the people who work in them.' --Patrick M. Wright, University of South Carolina, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: The Future Research Agenda for HRM Paul Sparrow and Cary L. Cooper 2. HR Strategy, Structure, and Architecture Dave Lepak, Kaifeng Jiang and Robert E. Ployhart 3. Talent Management David G. Collings, Anthony McDonnell and John McMackin 4. Using a Risk-Optimisation Lens: Maximizing Talent Readiness for an Uncertain Future. Wayne F. Cascio, John W. Boudreau and Allan H. Church 5. Managing the Selection and Retention of Human Capital Resources Robert E. Ployhart and Jason Kautz 6. Human Resource Management and Employee Engagement Alan M. Saks and Jamie A. Gruman 7. Workplace well-being: Responsibilities, challenges and future directions Susan Cartwright 8. Leadership Models: The Future research agenda for HRM Johan Coetsee and Patrick C. Flood 9. Architectures of Value: Moving leaders beyond analytics and big data Anthony Hesketh 10. HRM and Productivity Paul Sparrow and Lilian Otaye-Ebede 11. ‘We are not creative here!’ Creativity and Innovation for non-creatives through HRM Helen Shipton, Veronica Lin, Karin Sanders and Huadong Yang 12. Globalisation and Human Resource Management Chris Brewster, Adam Smale and Wolfgang Mayrhofer Index

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Book SynopsisDavid Colander has been writing about economic methodology for over 30 years. His pragmatic approach sees applied policy methodology as rooted in what economists actually do, not in what methodologists say they should do. It sees applied policy methodology as constantly evolving as analytic and computational technology changes, evolving far too fast to be subject to any rigid scientific methodology.That problem is that economists generally think of applied policy analysis as applied science. Colander argues that using a scientific methodology to guide applied policy undermines good policy analysis. Instead, he contends that economists should use a much looser engineering methodology that blends science, heuristics, inescapable moral judgments, and creativity into what he calls the art and craft of economics. Here, Huei-chun Su has selected seventeen of Colander's articles that spell out and capture his arguments at various levels - some formal academic articles dealing with cutting edge methodology, and some more popular articles making the case for his approach. An original introduction and annotated bibliography serve as excellent resources for further exploring his arguments. Clear, well-structured, and written in plain English with little jargon, the book is approachable and suitable for anyone interested in the current and future state of economics and the economics profession. This includes students at any level as well as methodologists, applied economists, historians and critics of modern economics.Trade Review'How Economics Should Be Done is an excellent book that discusses the methodological approaches of economics and economic policy.. . . The text demonstrates how a better understanding of the methodological framework used in economics and the economic profession can help the reader to have a better insight into the ways that real-world problems can be better approached and investigated.' --Economic IssuesTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction Part I Methodological Framework and Methodology For Economic Policy As Art 1. “Why Aren’t Economists as Important as Garbagemen?” 2. ‘Vision, Judgment, and Disagreement among Economists’ 3. ‘Retrospectives: The Lost Art of Economics’ 4. ‘The Systemic Failure of Economic Methodologists’ 5. ‘The Death of Neoclassical Economics’ Part II Methodology for Microeconomics 6. ‘Applied Policy, Welfare Economics, and Mill’s Half-truths’ 7. ‘A Failure to Communicate: The Fact-Value Divide and the Putnam-Dasgupta Debate’ 8. ‘Framing the Economic Policy Debate’ 9. ‘Complexity economics and workaday economic policy’ Part III Methodology For Macroeconomics 10. ‘The Macrofoundations of Micro’ 11. ‘Post Walrasian Macro Policy and the Economics of Muddling Through’ 12. ‘How Economists Got It Wrong: A Nuanced Account’ 13. ‘Economists, Incentives, Judgment, and the European CVAR Approach to Macroeconometrics’ 14. ‘Beyond DSGE Models: Toward an Empirically Based Macroeconomics’ Part IV Pragmatic Methods For Doing Economics As A Profession 15. ‘Written Testimony of David Colander, Submitted to the Congress of the United States, House Science and Technology Committee, July 20th, 2010’ 16. ‘Moving Beyond the Rhetoric of Pluralism: Suggestions for an “Inside-the-Mainstream” Heterodoxy’ 17. ‘Creating Humble Economists: A Code of Ethics for Economists’ Annotated Bibliography of Colander’s Methodological Work List of Book Reviews

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Book SynopsisSocial capital is fundamentally concerned with resources in social relations. This Handbook brings together leading scholars from around the world to address important questions on the determinants, manifestations and consequences of social capital. Various mechanisms of formal and informal social involvement, its relationship with other forms of social exclusion and its role in civic, instrumental and expressive domains of our socio-economic and community lives are explored. This unique Handbook:* combines cutting-edge theory with appropriate data and methods* explores the mechanisms of formal and informal social involvement including the role of parental class and cultural influence, and the consequences for our personal and community lives* links social capital with other domains of social inequality such as cultural practice and philanthropic behaviour in an in-depth examination of the social stratification processes* conducts a thorough analysis of formal and informal social involvement, and bonding and bridging social ties on trust, tolerance, community cohesion, educational attainment, labour market position, quality of life and ethnic entrepreneurism* analyzes social capital as both an outcome and as a mediating variable at the micro, meso and macro levels.Accessible yet rigorous, this Handbook presents a challenge to both social capital researchers interested in explaining social inequality and to policy-makers with responsibility for designing effective measures for combating social exclusion. It will also be essential reading for students in sociology, political science, developmental economics and management studies.Contributors: N. Allum, R. Andersen, L. Bécares, Y. Bian, F. Buscha, C. Cheng, R.R. Côté, D. Cutts, N. Demireva, F. Devine, J.K. Dhillon, L. Donato, B.H. Erickson, J. Fiel, J. Field, E. Fieldhouse, A. Gamoran, A. García-Macías, D. Griffiths, A. Heath, X. Huang, P.S. Lambert, J. Laurence, Y. Li, M. Lubbers, J.L. Molina, J. Nazroo, J. Pampalona, R. Patulny, J. Rodríguez Menés, M. Savage, M. Shoji, P. Sturgis, E.M. Uslaner, H. Valenzuela-García, P.-P. Verhaeghe, W. Wang, A. Warde, M. Western, L. Zhang, L. Zhang, W. ZhangTrade Review'This is a wonderful and inspiring book. It integrates the latest research results on social capital and includes contributions by influential western and eastern scholars. It will provide a unique reference for researchers and students in this field.' --Haifeng Du, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China'This Handbook, edited by Yaojun Li, one of the leading scholars on social capital, is a timely and comprehensive collection of chapters on social capital by some of the most important contributors from North America, Europe and Asia. The introduction, in which Professor Li provides an extensive and in-depth review and evaluation of the theory, measurement and research on social capital, is by itself one of the most significant, state-of-the-art contributions on social capital available today. It is a must-read volume for scholars and students interested in social capital from a comparative perspective.' --Nan Lin, Duke University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Social Capital in Sociological Research: Conceptual Rigour and Empirical Application Yaojun Li 2. Social Stratification, Social Capital and Cultural Practice in the UK Yaojun Li, Mike Savage and Alan Warde 3. The Flow of Soul: A Sociological Study of Generosity in England and Wales (2001 – 2011) Yaojun Li 4. The Roots of Trust Eric M. Uslaner 5. Social Connectedness and Generalized Trust: A Longitudinal Perspective Patrick Sturgis, Roger Patulny, Nick Allum and Franz Buscha 6. Social Capital and Ethnic Tolerance: The Opposing Effects of Diversity and Competition Rochelle R. Côté, Robert Andersen and Bonnie H. Erickson 7. Diversity and Social Capital in the US and UK: The Role of Bridging Friendships David Cutts and Edward Fieldhouse 8. Informal, Associational Bonding and Associational Bridging: Which Ties Matter Most for Minority Involvement and Integration? Neli Demireva and Anthony Heath 9. The Efficacy of Neighbourhood Attitudes as Measures of Social Capital: Returning to Norms and Values and the Centrality of Networks James Laurence 10. The Position Generator Approach to Social Capital Research: Measurements and Results Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe and Yaojun Li 11. Formal and Informal Social Connections in the UK Yaojun Li, Anthony Heath and Fiona Devine 12. Social Capital and the Social Relations of Occupational Structure Dave Griffiths and Paul S. Lambert 13. Social Capital and Life Satisfaction in Australia Xianbi Huang and Mark Western 14. Social Capital, Ethnic Density and Mental Health Among Ethnic Minority People in England: A Mixed-methods Study Laia Bécares and James Nazroo 15. An Intervention Approach to Building Social Capital: Effects on Grade Retention Jeremy Fiel, Megan Shoji, and Adam Gamoran 16. Social Ties, Agency, and Change: Education and Social Capital in Adult Life John Field 17. Social Capital in Inter-organisational Partnership Research Jaswinder K Dhillon 18. Social Capital, Social Cohesion and Cognitive Attainment Jorge Rodríguez Menés and Luisa Donato 19. Institution-Spanning Social Capital and its Income Returns in China Yanjie Bian, Lei Zhang, Wenbin Wang and Cheng Cheng 20. Social Capital and Marketization in the Chinese Labour Market Wenhong Zhang and Li Zhang 21. Social Capital in Ethnic Enclaves: Indians in Lloret de Mar, and Pakistanis in Barcelona José Luis Molina, Hugo Valenzuela-García, Alejandro García-Macías, Miranda Lubbers and Judith Pampalona Index

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Book SynopsisPresenting original contributions from the key experts in the field, the Research Handbook on the Sociology of Education explores the major theoretical, methodological, empirical and political challenges and pressing social questions facing education in current times. This Research Handbook covers the theoretical foundations of the discipline; methodological problems; the effects of modernisation; educational systems; benefits of continued education; migration and social integration; and wider policy implications. Chapters discuss education as a life-long process as well as adults returning to education. Schools, families and other social contexts and influences are also considered, as well as skills formation and ways to measure achievement. Offering an analysis of policy outcomes from an empirical social-scientific perspective and emphasising the impact of social and ethnic inequality in educational opportunity, this influential Research Handbook defines the discipline and its agenda for future research. Researchers and students interested in education, sociology and social policy including the effects of inequality will find this Research Handbook a highly relevant reference tool. It also offers an important message for policy makers and other stakeholders in the field of educational policy and training.Trade Review'With bridges to psychology and economics, this Research Handbook presents a rich collection of outstanding studies on the present state of knowledge in core areas of the sociology of education. Leading experts discuss theoretical and methodological advances and challenges and integrate a wealth of research results especially on the generation and consequences of educational inequality.' --Walter Müller, University of Mannheim, Germany'This Research Handbook provides a comprehensive state of the art on the contemporary challenges addressed by sociology of education, based on up-to-date empirical findings as well as diverse theoretical and methodological approaches. The internationally renowned contributors analyse the key interactions between educational processes and social inequalities, and particularly within the life course.' --Jake Murdoch, Université de Bourgogne, France'In this Research Handbook top authors deliver cutting-edge contributions on both the state of the art and open issues in theory, measurement, methods and empirical findings in the sociology of education. It is an invaluable resource for researchers planning new projects, instructors interested in the cumulative state of knowledge and students who want the very best introduction to key problems.' --Karl Ulrich Mayer, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: Part I Introduction 1. Key Challenges for the Sociology of Education – Theoretical, Methodological, and Empirical Issues Rolf Becker Part II Theoretical Foundations 2. A Sociological Perspective on Education as a Lifelong Process Gwendolin Josephine Blossfeld, Pia Nicoletta Blossfeld and Hans-Peter Blossfeld 3. How does Education depend on Social Origin? Robert Erikson 4. The Rational Choice Paradigm in Sociology of Education Volker Stocké 5. Multiple Social Contexts of Education: Systematic Commonalities, Differences and Interrelations Steffen Hillmert 6. The Problem of Meritocracy: The Belief in Achievement, Credentials, and Justice David B. Bills 7. Measurement of Skills and Achievement – A Critical Assessment of Theoretical and Methodological Concepts Sabine Weinert and Cordula Artelt Part III Methodological Problems 8. Longitudinal Data Analysis in the Sociology of Education – Key Concepts and Challenges Thorsten Schneider 9. Experiments in the Sociology of Education: Causal Inference and Estimating Causal Effects in Sociological Research on Education Christoph Zangger and Rolf Becker Part IV Modernisation and Educational Expansion 10. Educational Expansion and Inequalities: How did Inequalities by Social Origin and Gender decrease in Modern Industrial Societies? Andreas Hadjar 11. Gender Segregation in Education Irene Kriesi and Christian Imdorf Part V Organization of Education and Outcomes 12. How do Educational Systems affect Social Inequality of Educational Opportunities? The Role of Tracking in Comparative Perspective Jan Skopek, Moris Triventi and Sandra Buchholz 13. Early Educational Inequality – Growing up in different Learning Environments Birgit Becker 14. The Equalising Effect of Schools and its Limits Anne Christine Holtmann and Fabrizio Bernardi 15. Educational Institutions and Inequalities in Educational Opportunities Jörg Dollmann 16. Vocational Education and Training in Comparative Perspective Corinna Kleinert and Marita Jacob 17. Vertical and Horizontal Stratification in Higher Education David Reimer and Jens Peter Thomsen 18. Still a Safety Net? Revisiting the Role of Vocational Education and Training in School-to-Work Transitions in Europe Irena Kogan 19. The Social Structure of Schools and Classrooms Dominik Becker 20. Teachers – Their Characteristics and their Role in the Education System Martin Neugebauer 21. Disability and Inequality in Educational Opportunities in Life Course Perspective Justin J.W. Powell and Lisa Pfahl Part VI Benefits of education and returns to education 22. Returns to Adult Education and Inequality – A Life Course Perspective Felix Weiss 23. Socioemotional Skills in Education and Beyond: Recent Evidence and Future Research Avenues Clemens M. Lechner, Silke Anger and Beatrice Rammstedt 24. Returns to Education in the Life Course Michael Gebel and Guido Heineck 25. Knowledge Capital and Economic Growth Eric A. Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann Part VII Migration, education, and social integration 26. Ethnic Inequality in Educational Attainment Bernhard Nauck 27. Language Assimilation and the Education of Immigrant Students Cornelia Kristen Part VIII Policy Implications of Research in Sociology of Education 28. Large-scale Assessments of Educational Systems Manfred Prenzel and Christine Sälzer 29. Simulation of Outcomes of Educational Policies and Programmes Volker Müller-Benedict 30. Beyond Schools – The Social Embeddedness of Educational Inequality Camilla Borgna, Christian Brzinsky-Fay, Martina Dieckhoff, Anne Christine Holtmann and Heike Solga Index

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Book SynopsisShowcasing ways in which the theory of the lifecourse has been applied in demographic research, this innovative Handbook uses key datasets to offer a deeper understanding of the causes and consequences of demographic change across the lifecourse. This Handbook features contributions from leading international demographers and social scientists, covering a range of substantive areas such as employment, health, migration, social security, family formation, housing and inequality to give substance to investigations into the individual's lifecourse. Chapters highlight major theoretical and methodological advances in lifecourse research and present research that sheds light on family dynamics, health and mobility over the lifecourse, illustrating the implications of lifecourse research for policy and reform. Comprehensive and cutting-edge, this Handbook will be crucial reading for students and researchers of demography, social policy, sociology and gerontology at all levels looking to enhance their own research agendas. Policy makers and practitioners of demographic research will also benefit from its insights into the key methodological avenues for advanced investigations. Contributors include: K. Barclay, M. Benzeval, L. Bernardi, A. Berrington, A. Börsch-Supan, P. Bridgen, P. De Jong, H. De Valk, T. Emery, M. Evandrou, A. Evans, L. Fadel, J. Falkingham, A.E. Fasang, A. Findlay, I. Garfinkel, A.H. Gauthier, A. Goodman, E. Graham, J. Holmes, J. Huinink, K. Keenan, K. Kiernan, S. Kim, D. Kneale, M. Kolk, H. Kulu, M. Lyons-Amos, K.U. Mayer, D. McCollum, S. McLanahan, A. McMunn, T. Meyer, J. Mikolai, M. Qin, A. Sabater, L. Sariscsany, R.A. Settersten, C. Van Mol, L. Vargas, A. Villadsen, A. Vlachantoni, J. Waldfogel, M. WrightTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction to the Handbook on Demographic change and the Lifecourse Maria Evandrou, Jane Falkingham and Athina Vlachantoni PART I: THEORETICAL & METHODOLOGICAL ADVANCES IN LIFECOURSE RESEARCH 2. Linking Demographic Change and the Life Course: Insights from the “Life Course Cube” Laura Bernardi, Johannes Huinink and Richard A. Settersten, Jr. 3. Life Course and Social Inequality Anette Eva Fasang and Karl Ulrich Mayer 4. Studying individuals across the life course: A review of longitudinal methods Júlia Mikolai and Mark Lyons-Amos PART II: DATA & INNOVATION IN LIFECOURSE RESEARCH 5. Current and future contributions of the Generations and Gender Programme to life course research Luisa Fadel, Tom Emery and Anne H. Gauthier 6. Life history analyses with SHARE Axel Börsch-Supan 7. The contribution of the 1958 and 1970 British Cohort Studies to lifecourse research on family transitions Aase Villadsen, Ann Berrington, Alissa Goodman and Dylan Kneale 8. Understanding families’ lives across the life course: the value of panel studies. Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Survey Michaela Benzeval PART III: FAMILY DYNAMICS AND LIVING ARRANGEMENTS OVER THE LIFECOURSE 9. Unmarried families in the UK and the US Kathleen Kiernan, Sara McLanahan, John Holmes and Melanie Wright 10. Ethnic fertility and ethnic intermarriage in Australia Ann Evans 11. Demographic Perspectives on Population Change and Housing across the Life Course Elspeth Graham and Albert Sabater PART IV: HEALTH OVER THE LIFECOURSE 12. Birth spacing and health outcomes: differences across the lifecourse and developmental contexts Kieron Barclay and Martin Kolk 13. Work, family and health over the life course: Evidence from the British birth cohort studies Anne McMunn PART V: MIGRATION & MOBILITY OVER THE LIFECOURSE 14. The case for a life course perspective on mobility and migration research David McCollum, Katy Keenan and Allan Findlay 15. Family Changes, Housing Transitions, and Residential Mobility Júlia Mikolai and Hill Kulu 16. Migration, welfare and the lifecourse in the context of the European Union: A case study of the Netherlands Petra de Jong, Christof Van Mol, Helga De Valk PART VI: POLICY 17. The American Welfare State in the Economic Lives of Children Irv Garfinkel, Laurel Sariscsany and Laura Vargas 18. Elder Care and the Role of Paid Leave Policy Soohyun Kim and Jane Waldfogel 19. The poverty risks of migrants who retire in their host country. Evidence from the first post-war wave of migration into Europe. Paul Bridgen and Traute Meyer 20. Employment history and later life satisfaction among three cohorts in the UK: Unravelling the mediating pathways of pension security, housing tenure and health Jane Falkingham, Maria Evandrou, Min Qin and Athina Vlachantoni Index

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Book SynopsisProviding an up-to-date portrait of the concepts and methods of analytical sociology, this pivotal Research Handbook traces the historical evolution of the field, utilising key research examples to illustrate its core principles. It investigates how analytical sociology engages with other approaches such as analytical philosophy, structural individualism, social stratification research, complexity science, pragmatism, and critical realism, exploring the foundations of the field as well as its major explanatory mechanisms and methods.Chapters examine the ways in which analytical sociology addresses crucial concepts, including norms, structures, context, contingency, action theory, and models of social interactions. Offering an in-depth analysis of cumulative advantage, complex contagions, and network amplification, this comprehensive Research Handbook discusses the range of data sources and methods available to analytical sociologists for empirical research, in particular digital traces, historical archives, game-theoretic models, causal inference techniques, social networks analysis, and agent-based simulations.Creating a new synthesis of the theoretical and methodological resources required to carry out research using analytical sociology tools, the Research Handbook will be a key pedagogical resource for students and scholars of sociology and sociological theory, research methods, demography, social psychology, economics, and computer science.Trade Review‘Analytical Sociology emerged as a distinct area of Sociology around the turn of the millennium. Twenty years later, the Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology provides an opportunity to assess what it has achieved and what its prospects are. The editor and contributing authors are well known analytical sociologists and their chapters provide authoritative overviews of a range of fascinating and important topics. Not only professional sociologists but anyone interested in the social sciences will profit greatly from reading this comprehensive and stimulating book.’ -- Richard Breen, Nuffield College, University of Oxford, UK‘This Research Handbook provides an excellent introduction to the central concepts and methods employed by leading scholars in analytical sociology. It compellingly positions analytical sociology as a viable approach to doing rigorous science in which data supports theoretical advancement. The authors embed analytical sociology in its proper historical and contemporary context, articulating commonalities and differences with related intellectual movements and fields within our discipline.’ -- Arnout van de Rijt, European University Institute, Italy and President of the International Network of Analytical SociologyTable of ContentsContents: Preface ix Does analytical sociology practice what it preaches? An assessment of analytical sociology through the Merton award 1 Gianluca Manzo PART 1 THEORETICAL CONVERSATIONS 1 Understanding the Coleman boat 49 Petri Ylikoski 2 Analytical sociology, analytic philosophy and analytical Marxism 64 Daniel Little 3 Analytical sociology and its lesser-known antecedents: structural individualism in European sociology 80 Werner Raub 4 Analytical sociology and complexity research 100 Michael Mäs 5 Analytical sociology and social stratification research 119 Carlo Barone 6 Analytical sociology and critical realism 135 Francesco Di Iorio and Francisco J. León-Medina 7 Analytical sociology and cultural sociology 155 Filippo Barbera 8 Analytical sociology and pragmatism 170 Matthew Norton PART 2 PIVOTAL CONCEPTS AND MECHANISMS 9 Action 186 Clemens Kroneberg and Andreas Tutic 10 Interactions 204 Michael Mäs 11 Structure 220 Emily Erikson and Eric Feltham 12 Norms 233 Pierre Demeulenaere 13 Coupled contexts 249 Filippo Barbera and Nicola Negri 14 Contingency and randomness: a modal approach 264 Ivan Ermakoff 15 Cumulative advantage 286 Freda B. Lynn and Hannah W. Espy 16 Network amplification 308 Filiz Garip and Mario D. Molina 17 Complex contagions 321 Damon Centola PART 3 PIVOTAL METHODS 18 Archival data 337 Katharina Burgdorf and Henning Hillmann 19 Digital data and methods 352 Viktoria Spaiser 20 Advances in mediation analysis 364 Kinga Makovi and Christopher Winship 21 Experiments 392 Giuseppe A. Veltri 22 Game-theoretic models 414 Wojtek Przepiorka 23 Network mechanisms and network models 432 Christoph Stadtfeld and Viviana Amati 24 Agent-based computational models 453 Andreas Flache and Carlos A. de Matos Fernandes 25 The many model approach 474 Scott E. Page Coda—The past and future of analytical sociology 490 Peter Hedström Index 506

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Book Synopsis22 out of the 26 Chapters are available Open Access on Elgaronline under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. The complete Handbook containing all 26 chapters is available on Google Play (guide price £10) see link in 'More Information' below.The Handbook of Sociological Science offers a refreshing, integrated perspective on research programs and ongoing developments in sociological science. It highlights key shared theoretical and methodological features, thereby contributing to progress and cumulative growth of sociological knowledge.Reflecting ‘unity in diversity’, chapters explore a wide variety of research fields, ranging from cultural capital, migration, social networks, gender inequality, historical sociology and ethnography to the intersection of sociology and the life sciences. Examining basic methodological standards for theory construction and empirical research, the Handbook exemplifies commonalities between research programmes within these fields.The contributors also explore rigorous sociology related to theory construction, empirical research, and methods, including statistical modelling and the integration of theoretical and empirical research. Forward-thinking and original, the Handbook concludes by illustrating the common core of rigorous sociology, how it can contribute to understanding societal problems and to policy making, and how research into sociological science can continue to thrive in the future.Accessible and engaging, this Handbook will be invaluable for scholars and researchers of sociology and sociological theory, research methods in sociology and social policy, and comparative social policy. Exploring new developments and applications, it will also act as a useful reference guide for policy makers. The Handbook will likewise be an important resource for teaching advanced courses and training graduate students.Trade Review‘The Handbook of Sociological Science offers an overview of theories, models, and methods in sociology including future developments with an explicit focus on a scientific approach to sociological inquiry.’ -- R.M., Population and Development Review‘This is an ambitious, comprehensive, and much-needed Handbook that aims to bring back rigor to the current practice of sociology. The emphasis is on rigor, not old battles of theory versus empiricism or quantitative versus qualitative research. I recommend it to anyone who wishes to conduct or understand sociological research.’ -- Yu Xie, Bert G. Kerstetter ‘66 University Professor of Sociology, Princeton University and Visiting Chair Professor of Center for Social Research, Peking University‘This ambitious book tackles the challenge posed by the fragmentation of 21st-century sociology. Arguing that knowledge accumulation is possible if sociologists reach consensus on a common core of methodological standards, the authors construct a tent large enough to encompass multiple subfields and theoretical approaches. The result is inspired sociological research at its best.’ -- Mary C. Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Harvard University‘This Handbook covers substantive areas from sociogenomics to climate change and methodological issues from causal inference with observational data to rigorous ethnography and reproducibility. This is sociology at its best.’ -- Karl Ulrich Mayer, Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin and Yale University‘The Handbook of Sociological Science: Contributions to Rigorous Sociology seeks to demonstrate that explanatory sociology is possible, even with the diversity of opinion about the prospects of scientific sociological inquiry. The editors and authors use the rubric—rigorous sociology—to avoid arousing the overdrawn debates revolving around whether or not sociology can be a true science. The editors clearly understand the fragmented nature of much sociology and, thus, have sought to collect 26 chapters from scholars working in different areas of specialization using different methodologies and theoretical frameworks to illustrate that sociology can have, at the very least, a consistent core of shared methodologies and theoretical approaches that can integrate rather than divide and partition sociological inquiry.Every serious sociologist pursuing knowledge about the nature of the social universe—whether graduate student, academic scholar, practitioner, and even interested lay scholars—will find this book useful because it illustrates rather than preaches what a rigorous approach to assembling can produce: a large body of cumulative knowledge about the fundamental properties and processes of the social universe. Most of the authors in this volume seek in their own unique ways to be rigorous in their empirical and theoretical investigations, whether at the micro, meso, or macro levels of human social organization. The nature of theorizing in sociology can thus vary in style and focus, as can the methodologies used to test theories or to report empirical data, but in the end, the simple criterion of rigor will integrate rather than divide scholarship in the discipline and, indeed, the social sciences as a whole.Thus, whatever the level of inquiry (micro, meso, or macro), whatever the methodological approach (qualitative or quantitative, experimental or ethnographic) for collecting data, and whatever the scope, range, and modes of theorizing (formal or discursive), there must be rigor in how knowledge is to be accumulated; and this rigor will contribute to a science of sociology that unites rather than divides sociologists. Sociology and sociologists can thus be diverse in their approaches and orientations but still have a common or shared purpose to explain theoretically how the social universe operates and to verify these explanations with diverse collections of data. For, in reality, most sociologists share a common interest in achieving this goal through a variety of routes, and if modes of inquiry and theorizing are rigorous, then sociology can become more coherent and scientific. Commitment to rigorous analysis is what will unite the diversity of approaches and topics in sociology. And indeed, what the chapters of this book clearly illustrate is that there are many ways to be rigorous but, at the same time, pursuit of rigor will ultimately realize the ultimate goal of all of the social sciences: explaining the operative dynamics of the social universe. And, if sociologists commit to the rigor involved in achieving this goal, they will be in a better position to use knowledge in applied applications for human and societal betterment.’ -- Jonathan H. Turner, 38th University Professor, University of CaliforniaTable of ContentsContents: INTRODUCTION 1. Rigorous sociology 2 Werner Raub, Nan Dirk de Graaf, and Klarita Gërxhani PART I RESEARCH PROGRAMS 2. Order from chaos: sociology as a population science 21 Michelle Jackson 3. Analytical sociology 38 Gianluca Manzo 4. Computational approaches in rigorous sociology: agent-based computational modeling and computational social science 57 Andreas Flache, Michael Mäs, and Marijn A. Keijzer 5. Stochastic network modeling as generative social science 73 Christian E.G. Steglich and Tom A.B. Snijders 6. Rational choice sociology: heuristic potential, applications, and limitations 100 Andreas Diekmann PART II NEW AND ONGOING DEVELOPMENTS IN SELECTED FIELDS 7. Cultural capital and educational inequality: an assessment of the state of the art 121 Mads Meier Jæger 8. Integration in migration societies 135 Frank Kalter 9. Social networks: effects and formation 154 Vincent Buskens, Rense Corten, and Werner Raub 10. Gender inequality, households, and work 176 Eva Jaspers, Tanja van der Lippe, and Marie Evertsson 11. Validation strategies in historical sociology (and beyond) 196 Ivan Ermakoff 12. Rigorous ethnography 215 Federico Varese 13. Evolution, biology, and society 232 Rosemary L. Hopcroft, Joseph Dippong, Hexuan Liu, and Rachel Kail 14. Sociogenomics: theoretical and empirical challenges of integrating molecular genetics into sociological thinking 250 Melinda C. Mills PART III METHODS 15. Causal inference with observational data 272 Richard Breen 16. Longitudinal designs and models for causal inference 287 Markus Gangl 17. Experimental sociology 309 Klarita Gërxhani and Luis Miller PART IV RIGOROUS SOCIOLOGY IN ACTION: SHOWCASES 18. Explaining educational differentials: towards a formal rational action theory 325 Richard Breen and John H. Goldthorpe 19. ‘Explaining educational differentials’ revisited: an evaluation of rigorous theoretical foundations and empirical findings 356 Rolf Becker 20. Structural holes and good ideas 372 Ronald S. Burt 21. Network mechanisms in innovation: borrowing and sparking ideas around structural holes 423 Balazs Vedres 22. Experimental study of inequality and unpredictability in an artificial cultural market 443 Matthew J. Salganik, Peter Sheridan Dodds, and Duncan J. Watts 23. Self-correcting dynamics in social influence processes 446 Arnout van de Rijt PART V FURTHER PERSPECTIVES 24. The climate crisis: what sociology can contribute 475 Dingeman Wiertz and Nan Dirk de Graaf 25. Roots of sociology as a science: some history of ideas 493 Thomas Voss 26. How to increase reproducibility and credibility of sociological research 512 Katrin Auspurg and Josef Brüderl Index 528

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Book SynopsisThe Counselor as Practitioner-Researcher: A Practical Guide to Research Methods is designed to help readers integrate a researcher's perspective and research methodology into their professional practice. Approaching practice as a practitioner-researcher not only facilitates the gathering of data and the drawing of useful conclusions, but also results in more ethical and effective practice decisions.Section I provides readers with an overview of the need and value of research in support of the counseling profession and as a basis for sound and successful practice decisions. In Section II, the fundamentals of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed designs are reviewed. Section III highlights specific designs and their value to the counselor as practitioner-researcher, including between group, within subject, action research, and case study designs. The text concludes with an extensive case illustration of counselor research and the steps necessary to developing a specific research plan.The Counselor as Practitioner-Researcher assists those in training and those in practice to not only become informed consumers of research, but also "doers" of research as it guides their practice decisions, affords measures of accountability, and supports program evaluation.

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Book SynopsisFocusing specifically on scientific research in criminal justice, the 4th Edition of this text introduces students to qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research in a uniquely applied, relevant manner easily understood by future criminal justice professionals.Divided into four sections (introduction to research in criminal justice; sampling methods; statistics; and common errors in presenting and interpreting research findings and technology), the chapters are easy to read, accessible, and chock-full of real-world criminal justice examples and data. There are also helpful pedagogical resources such as chapter learning objectives, examples, and key terms along with an excerpt of the Code of Ethics from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences found at the end of the book.This edition has been updated throughout to include descriptions of new practices and approaches, such as mixed methods data collection and analysis, and technological applications in data collection and analysis. In addition, some chapters have been combined to make room for new information such as an expanded discussion of qualitative research methods.

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Book SynopsisThis thoroughly revised, extended and updated second edition of Silvia Gherardi's classic book gives the reader a must-read orientation through the myriad of methods and styles involved in practice-based research. Practice-based approaches to knowing, learning, innovating, and managing have thrived in recent years. Calling upon numerous narratives from a range of research fields, the author offers insight into the many possibilities of practice research, highlighting the inextricable links between humans and technology as the key emergent trend in management studies. Developing an innovative posthumanist approach, this novel book offers a useful and insightful compass for the navigation of practice-based studies through the lens of exemplar vignettes from internationally acclaimed researchers. A valuable and instructive work, this book is critical to any scholars of practice theories, as well as management and organizational studies and those with a keen interest in research methods. Masters students seeking insight into the development of practice-based studies, and PhD researchers developing their own methodologies will also find the guidance of this book indispensable in their studies.Trade Review'This new edition summarises key themes in practice theory and illustrates them with a colourful patchwork of cases and examples. The result is a very accessible introduction to practice-based research in organization studies and beyond.' --Elizabeth Shove, Lancaster University, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. Practice as accomplishment 2. Practice as collective knowledgeable doing 3. Practice as sensible knowing 4. Practice as sociomateriality 5. The normative infrastructure of practices 6. Talking while practicing 7. Practices as socially sustained 8. The texture of practices 9. Tricks of the trade 10. Towards a posthumanist practice theory of organizing Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of current developments, issues and good practices regarding assessment in social science research. It pays particular attention to the challenges in evaluation policies in the social sciences, as well as to the specificities of publishing in the area. The Handbook discusses the current societal challenges facing researchers, from digital societies, to climate change and sustainability, to trust in democratic societies. Chapters provide ways to strengthen research assessment in the social sciences for the better, by offering a diverse range of experiences and views of experts from all continents. The Handbook also outlines major data sources that can be used to assess social sciences research, as well as looking at key dimensions of research quality in the social sciences including journal peer review, the issue of identifying research quality, and gender disparities in social science research.This book will be an essential read for scholars interested in research assessment in the social sciences. It will also be useful to policy makers looking to understand the key position of the social sciences in science and society and provide appropriate frameworks for key societal challenges.Trade Review‘The Handbook provides an overview of current developments, points of attention, specificities and good practices regarding the assessment of social sciences research, including professional communication and societal interaction. Chapters show how the evaluation and funding procedures in general can be improved to appropriately represent social science research. With the editors, I hope that this collection of chapters on research assessment in the social sciences will have a great impact and inspire researchers, evaluators, funders and policy makers worldwide.’ -- Ronald Rousseau, KU Leuven, BelgiumTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction: Research assessment in the social sciences 1 Tim C.E. Engels and Emanuel Kulczycki 2 A tribute to Puay Tang, Judit Bar-Ilan and Paul Benneworth 7 Stefan P. L. de Jong PART I DIMENSIONS OF RESEARCH QUALITY IN SOCIAL SCIENCES 3 An epistemic approach to research assessment in the social sciences 14 Andrea Bonaccorsi 4 Identifying research quality in the social sciences 48 Michael Ochsner 5 Efficacy, efficiency, and models of journal peer review: the known and unknown in the social sciences 67 Marco Seeber 6 Gender research in academia: a closer look at variables 83 Alesia A. Zuccala and Gemma Derrick 7 Open science and open access publishing in social sciences 105 Mikael Laakso 8 Assessing interdisciplinary research in the social sciences: are we on the right track? 119 Joshua Eykens PART II DATA SOURCES FOR ASSESSMENT OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES 9 The bright and dark sides of national databases for research output 136 Linda Sīle 10 Using research metrics in support of assessing social sciences research performance: a comparison of major bibliographic systems 148 Thed van Leeuwen 11 Google Scholar as a data source for research assessment in the social sciences 162 Güleda Doğan 12 Current research evaluation topics in social sciences 181 Zehra Taşkın 13 Social media and altmetrics 196 Sanam Ebrahimzadeh, Juan Pablo Alperin and Stefanie Haustein 14 Journal evaluation systems: evolution and practices in China’s social sciences 211 Ying Huang, Ruinan Li, Xiaoting Liu and Lin Zhang PART III PUBLISHING IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES 15 The use of bibliometrics in assessments of social scientists 231 Gunnar Sivertsen 16 Publishing in the social sciences and its representation in research evaluation and funding systems 238 Gunnar Sivertsen 17 Journal lists in social sciences and the spectrum of quality standards 262 Raf Guns and Marek Hołowiecki 18 Open access and research assessment in the social sciences 278 Janne Pölönen and Mikael Laakso 19 Towards proper evaluation of book publishing in social sciences 295 Elea Giménez Toledo, Nataša Jermen, and Gunnar Sivertsen PART IV CHALLENGES IN EVALUATION POLICIES FOR SOCIAL SCIENCES 20 Between the traditional, the neo-liberal and the open university: early career investigators caught in the triple bind of academic career requirements 316 Marc Vanholsbeeck 21 Challenges of reporting societal impacts for research evaluation purposes—the case of sociology 335 Reetta Muhonen and Silje Tellmann 22 Multilingualism of social sciences 350 Emanuel Kulczycki, Tim C.E. Engels and Janne Pölönen 23 The challenges for research evaluation ethics in the social sciences 367 Aldis Gedutis, Maria Teresa Biagetti and Lai Ma 24 Engaging stakeholders to induce societal innovation 386 Jack Spaapen and Ad Prins 25 Social science research making an impact on public decision-making 403 Kimberley R. Isett and Diana Hicks PART V ASSESSMENT OF SOCIAL SCIENCES IN PRACTICE 26 National research evaluation systems and the social sciences 416 Michael Ochsner and Ginevra Peruginelli 27 Research assessment in Australia: journal ranking, research classification and ratings 434 Gaby Haddow 28 Assessment of the social sciences in China 451 Lin Zhang, Mengting Sun, Ying Huang and Gunnar Sivertsen 29 Producing knowledge in Latin America: social sciences research assessment with a geopolitical perspective 472 Hebe Vessuri and Leandro Rodriguez-Medina 30 Assessment of law journals in Croatia, Italy and Spain 491 Ginevra Peruginelli, Jadranka Stojanovski, Elias Sanz-Casado and Tommaso Agnoloni 31 Evaluation of the social sciences in Norway 508 Jon Holm Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.This Advanced Introduction provides a critical review and discussion of research concerning spatial statistics, differentiating between it and spatial econometrics, to answer a set of core questions covering the geographic-tagging-of-data origins of the concept and its theoretical underpinnings, conceptual advances, and challenges for future scholarly work. It offers a vital tool for understanding spatial statistics and surveys how concerns about violating the independent observations assumption of statistical analysis developed into this discipline.Key Features: A concise overview of spatial statistics theory and methods, looking at parallel developments in geostatistics and spatial econometrics, highlighting the eclipsing of centography and point pattern analysis by geostatistics and spatial autoregression, and the emergence of local analysis Contemporary descriptions of popular geospatial random variables, emphasizing one- and two-parameter spatial autoregression specifications, and Moran eigenvector spatial filtering coupled with a broad coverage of statistical estimation techniques A detailed articulation of a spatial statistical workflow conceptualization The helpful insights from empirical applications of spatial statistics in agronomy, criminology, demography, economics, epidemiology, geography, remotely sensed data, urban studies, and zoology/botany, will make this book a useful tool for upper-level students in these disciplines. Trade Review‘With widespread and increasingly available georeferenced data, this book offers a timely assessment of contemporary methods, models, and metrics—such as the eigenvector spatial filtering approach to handling spatial autocorrelation—in spatial statistics. I salute the authors for this enlightening contribution! The book will greatly empower us to better uncover mechanisms behind georeferenced data.’ -- Li An, San Diego State University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. An advanced introduction to spatial statistics: motivation and scope 2. Describing spatial random variables 3. Spatial statistical model parameter estimation 4. A spatial statistical modeling workflow 5. Applications from A to Z of spatial statistical modeling 6. Nonparametric spatial statistical models Afterword References Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.This Advanced Introduction provides a critical review and discussion of research concerning spatial statistics, differentiating between it and spatial econometrics, to answer a set of core questions covering the geographic-tagging-of-data origins of the concept and its theoretical underpinnings, conceptual advances, and challenges for future scholarly work. It offers a vital tool for understanding spatial statistics and surveys how concerns about violating the independent observations assumption of statistical analysis developed into this discipline.Key Features: A concise overview of spatial statistics theory and methods, looking at parallel developments in geostatistics and spatial econometrics, highlighting the eclipsing of centography and point pattern analysis by geostatistics and spatial autoregression, and the emergence of local analysis Contemporary descriptions of popular geospatial random variables, emphasizing one- and two-parameter spatial autoregression specifications, and Moran eigenvector spatial filtering coupled with a broad coverage of statistical estimation techniques A detailed articulation of a spatial statistical workflow conceptualization The helpful insights from empirical applications of spatial statistics in agronomy, criminology, demography, economics, epidemiology, geography, remotely sensed data, urban studies, and zoology/botany, will make this book a useful tool for upper-level students in these disciplines. Trade Review‘With widespread and increasingly available georeferenced data, this book offers a timely assessment of contemporary methods, models, and metrics—such as the eigenvector spatial filtering approach to handling spatial autocorrelation—in spatial statistics. I salute the authors for this enlightening contribution! The book will greatly empower us to better uncover mechanisms behind georeferenced data.’ -- Li An, San Diego State University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. An advanced introduction to spatial statistics: motivation and scope 2. Describing spatial random variables 3. Spatial statistical model parameter estimation 4. A spatial statistical modeling workflow 5. Applications from A to Z of spatial statistical modeling 6. Nonparametric spatial statistical models Afterword References Index

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Book SynopsisCapturing years of innovation within contemporary action research, Hilary Bradbury highlights where action research for transformations (ART) is directed: towards responding to climate change and achieving global sustainability goals. Paying particular attention to social justice, the book brings together the human and social sciences, exploring the impact action research can make.Chapters introduce a metamodel and quality choicepoints around which pioneering techniques are displayed. Illustrated with rich personal cases throughout, the book examines agents of change who are also subjects of change. With a strong relational focus, the book also utilizes these cases to show how a broad uptake of ART for policy, health and social care, education, and management looks in practice. This book will be a vital tool for social science researchers looking to better understand social science as a participatory practice, as well as the methods and importance of action research. Community organizers, policy makers and activists seeking to become more active in realizing a more sustainable world will also find this to be an invigorating read.Trade Review‘Bradbury’s alternative approach to knowledge-creation invites educators and change leaders to combine leadership, collaboration and “a social laboratory of action” for finding creative local solutions with global ripple effects to construct a sustainable future. Visualizing how brilliant visionary ideas are connected to grounded practical steps, readers committed to a transformational participatory worldview leave the book inspired, but most importantly, knowing exactly how to do this work.’ -- Sonia M. Ospina, New York University, US‘For anyone involved in transformational processes for a more sustainable world – whatever your role might be, whatever scale you are operating on or whatever the context is – this book is a must and one of a kind. We get rich, reflexive, practical as well as philosophical perspectives on the key components of ART, Action Research for Transformation. The many voices, experiences and stories combined with easy-to-understand practices will help you advance the never-ending learning journey to become a better ARTist. This is also a book that you will return to repeatedly for continuous inspiration and learning; a vast resource to bring with you in whatever transformational initiatives you are involved in.’ -- Svante Lifvergren, MD., Ph.D., Development Director, Skaraborg hospital group and Affiliated Lecturer, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden‘This book builds on Hilary Bradbury’s years of scholarship and practice as an action researcher with an expertise in organisational development, and a particular interest in sustainable development. Action Research for Transformations is a form of action research that is evolving in response to the eco-social crises that we face. Using an innovative model which integrates relational, conceptual and experimental spaces, she develops a values-based approach to social learning which creates a bridge between community and university, action research and sustainability. This is a must-read book for any person who is wishing to learn how to integrate personal development with positive social change for the benefit of self and society.’ -- Joan Walton, York St John University, UK‘Long an expert curator of crucial handbooks, here we meet more of Bradbury herself, micro practices that can move quickly into intermediate and macro spaces of transformation. Highly relevant to planners, both citizen and professional, Bradbury offers a scaffolding to push us beyond personal, political or disciplinary biases and generate relational spaces genuinely receptive to diversity. A good read, in addition to seriously enhancing our repertoire of how to foster transformations for just sustainabilities in our sadly divided world.’ -- Lake Sagaris, Pontificia Universidad Catòlica, Chile‘Hilary Bradbury has made many important contributions to the field of action research over some decades. Yet, I found this book to be her most interesting piece of writing. It is experimental in form and successfully mixes stories of real-world change processes, with auto-biographical reflection and conceptual analysis in a way which really made me think. The book is an erudite and passionate articulation of pathways to action at a time when the world urgently needs to nurture the “proliferating micro worlds” that she describes.’ -- Danny Burns, Institute of Development Studies, The University of Sussex, UK‘Mother Earth is burning, drowning, and asphyxiating. Action Research for social Transformation (ART) usefully steps into this planetary peril. ART is knowledge as social practice that rouses us from our sleepwalking and offers grassroot solutions to the environmental crisis. Bradbury shares examples of transformative work in communities including the “cocinas convergentes” (Convergent kitchens) in Medellin, Colombia; the International Development ARTists in Asia and America working to transform local cultures; and the ARTists at the USC Center for Sustainable Cities in partnership with the port of Los Angeles tackling pollution implicated in childhood asthma to name a few. For anyone concerned about the prospect for life on earth, this book is a must- read.’ -- Nathalis Wamba, Queens College, City University of New York, US‘In facing the global environmental crises, the publication of this book is very timely. Action research transformation (ART) provides us with an alternative research strategy to explore multiple methods and create practical knowledge of how to respond to the various problems caused by global capitalism. I highly appreciate Hilary’s work which will spearhead the new direction of action research globally and create positive transformations in different parts of the world.’ -- Benjamin H.B. Ku, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China‘We are learning that the activation of a generative social field is held by a sense of shared aspiration — or as Hilary Bradbury puts it in this book, by a sense of “developmental friendship.” It’s a partnership and a friendship that is not to be confused with socializing. That is precisely why this book matters so much. It tells us why the integration of these things is so important: methods and tools, practice fields, and generative holding spaces. It helps us to broaden and deepen the movement of change makers that use Action Research for Transformation (ART) to evolve our systems and ourselves as needed by the challenges we face.‘With keen interest I have followed Hilary Bradbury’s work on action research for over twenty years. Action Research Transformation (ART) forms a new chapter. While pragmatic in its aims, its socio-political values – for sustainability conjoined with social justice – are center stage. Conceptually informed and context sensitive, ART is distinguished in its specific focus on action for a sustainable world. The practice of ART is a call to global consciousness of the imperative for collaborative action. My dearest hope is that the present work moves us toward this end.’ -- Kenneth J. Gergen, The Taos Institute, US‘Our circumstances are a multilayered contradiction which include stepping beyond good-bad polarities. You-I-we are all such paradoxes. You’ll find referenced in How to do Action Research Transformations conceptual frames which make sense of our contemporary disorientation. How to do Action Research Transformations offers radical, more manageable, assistance to evolve our capacities at this time of eco-social meta-crises.’ -- Simon Divecha, formerly of Greenpeace‘The practice of ART, a form of increasingly popular social science, is also community learning. It explicitly links personal development and sustainable development. It lessens the wall between academia and community leadership. It gets our universities re-involved with the reason they exist, namely, to serve society. I see in ART the opportunity and challenge to develop in spaces between communities and university settings, involving many more developmentally flourishing people and community. And so I add my encouragement – more ART, more ARTists please.’ -- Tomas Bjorkman, Ekskäret Foundation, SwedenTable of ContentsContents: Foreword: ART revitalizes social science by Kenneth J. Gergen Foreword: ARTists’ practice field of friendship by Otto Scharmer Personal invitation: Welcome to getting personal with ART PART I GROUNDINGS 1. Setting the table: How to Do Action Research Transformations 2. Starting action research transformations 3. Three spaces of ART: Relational, conceptual and experimental 4. Seven quality choicepoints of ART 5. Contemporary action research at a time of apocalypse PART II PRACTICE AT THE DEVELOPMENTAL EDGE 6. Developmental friendship 7. Stages of developmental feedback, power and collaborative action 8. Microworlds proliferating: Healing communities PART III MAKING CARING VISIBLE 9. Repurposing social science as ART 10. Distill, deliver and proliferate your ART 11. Relational Math and Circus: Deeper practice of developmental reflexivity 12 Game-changing coLABoratorship 13. Capacity-building for the ARTist’s repertoire Afterword: ART in the developmental space between community and university Tomas Björkman Appendix 1: What do we mean by “sustainability”? What does it look like in practice? by Christopher L. Juniper Appendix 2: ART conceptual and practice resources – Annotated short list Index

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Book SynopsisThis book offers insights into key research-based strategies that can help to alleviate global challenges faced by both individuals and groups in society. Focusing on conducting qualitative research, the chapters highlight an approach for understanding human thoughts and actions, and examining how things actually function in society.Explaining both the theoretical and practical aspects of doing qualitative research, the book uses examples from real-world research projects to emphasise how to conduct qualitative research in the social sciences. Pranee Liamputtong draws together contributions covering qualitative research in cultural and medical anthropology, sociology, gender studies, political science, criminology, demography, economic sciences, social work, and education. Each chapter discusses the essence of a discipline before examining the contribution of qualitative enquiry and then interrogating traditional qualitative research methods as well as emerging or innovative methods.This will be an invigorating read for students and scholars of the social sciences. Its combination of theoretical and practical insights will also be essential for qualitative researchers.Table of ContentsContents: Preface xii 1 Qualitative research in the social sciences: setting the scene 1 Pranee Liamputtong 2 ‘Theory’ in qualitative research: a framework that synthesises existing academic advice 14 Louise Keogh, Natalie Jovanovski, Sarah MacLean and Richard Chenhall 3 Conducting qualitative research in cultural anthropology 35 Katie Nelson and John Forrest 4 Qualitative methods in medical anthropology 55 Richard Chenhall and Kate Senior 5 Qualitative research in sociology: ‘seeing’ social class in qualitative data 74 Belinda Lunnay, Kristen Foley and Paul R. Ward 6 Qualitative research in Women’s and Gender Studies: the ‘radical focus group’ as feminist praxis 93 Natalie Jovanovski 7 Qualitative research in political science 115 Selen A. Ercan and Ariadne Vromen 8 Conducting qualitative research in criminology 132 Max Travers 9 Qualitative research in demography: marginal and marginalised 147 Joe Strong, Rishita Nandagiri, Sara Randall and Ernestina Coast 10 Qualitative methods in economic sciences 164 Mirjana Radović-Marković 11 Qualitative methods in social work 182 Catherine Flynn 12 Conducting qualitative research in education 204 Jennifer Gao and Radhika Chugh Index

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Book SynopsisThis Handbook provides an in-depth discussion on doing cross-cultural research more ethically, sensibly and responsibly with diverse groups of people around the globe. It focuses on cross-cultural research in the social sciences where researchers who are often from Western, educated and rich backgrounds are conducting research with individuals from different socio-cultural settings that are often non-Western, illiterate and poor.Covering both theoretical perspectives as well as practical ways to conduct research in cross-cultural settings, the contributors explore research work across Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe and North America. Chapters provide keen insights into Indigenous research methods and approaches to cross-cultural research with a range of different groups of Indigenous peoples, highlighting the ethical and methodological challenges for researchers conducting cross-cultural research. Top scholars in the field suggest practical tips and information on lessons they have learnt to make this a useful tool kit for early-career researchers and students.This will be a critical read for students of development studies, transnational studies and anthropology who are interested in pursuing cross-cultural research in diverse settings. It is also an invigorating read for researchers who conduct cross-cultural research as well as those who work with people from ethnic minorities and refugees.Trade Review‘The book provides an impressive and comprehensive set of views and methodological perspectives on how to be a true respectful and culturally sensitive cross-cultural researcher. Pranee Liamputtong has assembled a diverse group of contributors that include academics, field researchers and indigenous people; describing different approaches that range from community art to gardening. A must read!’ -- Maurizio Trevisan, VinUniversity, Vietnam‘This seminal book makes the critical contribution that cross-cultural research traditions are valid on and of their own. It is a major deconstruction of research approaches that privilege coloniality perspectives, challenging the predominant western research approaches and interpretations, and inviting alternative research culture values and orientations. Readers will gain new insights on the undoing of the neo-colonial polemics that inclusiveness and diversity in scholarly traditions is not just politics interfering with research practices, but that the research enterprise in the social sciences, like the personal, is political. The book makes the compelling argument that imported research traditions to cultural communities underplay or are dismissive of the real harm of coloniality to constructing authentic knowledge of and for cultural communities. This Handbook makes a clear, logical build-up to theoretical and conceptual frameworks of cross-cultural research approaches in the context of contemporary literature and elaborates on the implications of indigenist traditions for research practice, training, policy, and future directions.’ -- Elias Mpofu, University of North Texas, US; University of Sydney, Australia; and University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa‘Professor Liamputtong has created a landmark work that will be essential reading for ALL researchers. This book addresses the most complex challenges we have in international research today – of equity, diversity, inclusion, indigeneity, and accessibility. A powerful and needed work for the times.’ -- Allan Kellehear, University of Vermont, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface xvi 1 Conducting cross-cultural research qualitatively in social science: setting the scene 1 Pranee Liamputtong PART I THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS 2 Grounded ontologies: Indigenous methodologies in qualitative cross-cultural research 26 Marnee Shay, Grace Sarra and Annette Woods 3 Doing decolonial and indigenist research: a reflection 40 Lieketseng Ned, Mpoe Johannah Keikelame and Leslie Swartz 4 Kaupapa Māori research 56 Fiona Cram and Anna Adcock 5 Cultural insider–outsider: reflecting on positionality in shared and differing identities 85 Sonya Corbin Dwyer and Jennifer L. Buckle 6 Cultural sensibility in accessing participants in cross-cultural research 100 Rinchen Pelzang and Alison M. Hutchinson 7 Researcher’s refusals: ethical dilemmas, ethical practices in qualitative research. Interviews on the Thailand–Myanmar border 121 Nisha Toomey PART II QUALITATIVE CROSS-CULTURAL RESEARCH METHODS IN SOCIAL SCIENCE 8 Cross-cultural interviewing 142 Gabriele Griffin 9 Critical narrative inquiry as psychosocial accompaniment with Aboriginal communities 160 Amy Quayle and Christopher Sonn 10 Cross-lingual focus groups in cross-cultural community-based participatory research 180 Maira Quintanilha and Maria Mayan 11 Life histories and life diagrams 196 Johanna Söderström 12 The walking interview in cross-cultural research 214 Nigel Hunt and Danila D’Errico 13 Intercultural research: Aboriginal young people and the digital storytelling process as knowledge exchange 233 Fran Edmonds, Richard Chenhall and Emily Munro-Harrison 14 Body mapping: an empowering method for ethnoanatomical and ethnophysiological insights in qualitative research 256 Heather Julie Wallace 15 Ethnographic methods in cross-cultural research 273 Roseanne C. Schuster, Amber Wutich, Alexandra Brewis and Cindi SturtzSreetharan 16 Indigenising photovoice: infusing Māori cultural values into Western research methods 290 Glenis Mark and Amohia Boulton 17 Decolonising community-based participatory research: applying arts-based methods to transformative learning spaces 309 Carolyn M. Melro and Clifford T. Ballantyne 18 Cross-cultural community gardening as an Indigenist methodology: a learning ceremonial journey from a colour settler perspective 324 Ranjan Datta 19 Transnational cross-cultural research: modern challenges and solutions for field access, data collection, and analysis 335 Anson Au Index 356

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Book SynopsisEngaging with the key debates and issues in a continuously evolving field, Lavinia Bifulco and Vando Borghi bring together contributions from leading social scientists to debate the enduring relevance of public sociology in light of ongoing changes in the social world. This incisive Research Handbook explores the critical authors, texts, and research perspectives foundational to the discipline of public sociology. Multidisciplinary in approach, it advances dialogues between diverse scientific and environmental perspectives and considers how best to design and conduct research in different scientific fields. Chapters discuss current teaching and critical thought within the discipline, identify promising analytical approaches through which to research key aspects of social transformation, and investigate the relationship between sociology and its various publics. Rather than reproducing an already-fixed analytical programme, the Research Handbook explores the potential of public sociology to collaborate and hybridise with novel research paths. Pushing the frontiers of public sociology, this insightful Research Handbook will prove an engaging and invaluable resource for social scientists and sociological communities, as well as for students in the social sciences. Its exploration of the applications of public sociology in empirical research and teaching will further benefit professionals working within public organisations. Trade Review‘Public sociology has engaged scholars in different corners of the world to think further and develop a sociology of possibility, oriented to the improvement of citizens’ lives. This Research Handbook is an excellent account of how sociologists can approach possibility from very diverse and controversial angles. A must read.’ -- Marta Soler Gallart, University of Barcelona, SpainTable of ContentsContents: PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY: EXPLORING AN APPROACH ‒ AN INTRODUCTION 1 Public sociology, a perspective on the move 2 Lavinia Bifulco and Vando Borghi 2 Why public sociology? 19 Michael Burawoy PART I CONNECTIONS AND CONVERSATIONS: AUTHORS AND RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES IN DIALOGUE WITH PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY 3 Public inquiry in social sciences: a pragmatist outlook 23 Daniel Céfaï 4 Public sociology and the capability approach: exploring the potential of a fruitful combination 42 Jean-Michel Bonvin and Francesco Laruffa 5 Sociology and quantification: economics of convention as an approach to link quantification and public sociology 58 Rainer Diaz-Bone PART II FORTH AND BACK ACROSS (DISCIPLINARY) BORDERS: WAYS OF THINKING AND PRACTICING PUBLIC RESEARCH 6 What is at stake when social science goes public? 74 Didier Fassin 7 Public history 86 Serge Noiret 8 Public geography 104 Salvo Torre 9 Urban planning 114 Marco Cremaschi 10 Legitimacy of law and the expertise of public sociology 129 Supriya Routh 11 The foundational economy approach: a public social science of socio-economic life 142 Julie Froud, Angelo Salento and Karel Williams PART III THEMES AND RESEARCH ISSUES: DEEPENING PS POTENTIALITIES DEALING WITH DIFFERENT FIELDS 12 Science, the environment and the public 158 Luigi Pellizzoni 13 Public sociology in disaster situations: critical engagement and prefiguration against defuturing processes 174 Laura Centemeri and Davide Olori 14 Public sociology and populism 188 Paul Blokker 15 Borders and migrants in Europe 202 Tatjana Sekulić 16 Local/urban democracy and citizenship 218 Marisol Garcia 17 Associationalism: the past, present, and future of public sociology 234 Bruno Frère 18 Public, policy or politicized sociology? Notes from the field of social policy and poverty research 250 Sandro Busso 19 Critical sociologies of work in the cultural industries: pathways to ‘creative justice’? 265 Mark Banks 20 Sociologies of education in an era of new critique: getting out of methodological nationalism and reconsidering education through a global perspective 280 Romuald Normand 21 Sociology of expertise as public sociology 295 Gil Eyal 22 Poverty, the battle against stigmatization and the role of public sociology 311 Enrica Morlicchio and Dario Tuorto 23 Health 324 Magdalena Chiara PART IV FOR A PUBLIC ACADEMIA: PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY AND PUBLIC ACADEMIES 24 Paradoxes, contradictions, and deep feelings of ambivalence, or, academia still appeals 337 Eeva Berglund 25 Publicness and teaching: public knowledge as collective process of repoliticization of daily life 351 Vincenza Pellegrino 26 Postcolonialism and sociology 368 Manuela Boatcă, Sina Farzin and Julian Go Index

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Book SynopsisOffering a practical guide on How to be an Ethnographer, this book will be a valuable resource for advanced students and early career researchers of organization studies, anthropology and sociology. It will also be a useful introduction to scholars exploring ethnography as a new research method. This book explores the aims, main methods, and ethical and methodological standards of ethnography. Placing human beings at the centre, it showcases why ethnography is a valuable method of research. Highlighting the importance of ethnographic engagement as a means to learn about different ways of being human, the book employs a range of case studies from researchers at all career stages to provide examples of different methods used in research projects. Going beyond tools and techniques, the authors discuss moral and methodological principles as well as community related modes that are important in conducting ethnography.Trade Review‘How to Be an Ethnographer, written by Monika Kostera and Paweł Krzyworzeka, is an important work that provides unique, timely, and exceptional insights into the practice of ethnography. The authors provide a new chapter in the history of ethnography, encompassing theories and methods of conducting ethnography not only in anthropology, but also management and organization studies, by putting them in dialogue with one another. The volume introduces a state-of-the-art ethnography: an imaginative approach that is interdisciplinary, embodied, open-ended, reflexive as well as attends to how ethnographic practices are shaped by researcher’s professional and personal lives – from disciplinary norms and academic communities, to family and safety concerns, to issues of access. Vignettes from fieldwork illuminate the entire ethnographic journey from initial expectations to discovering less obvious aspects of everyday life in the field. The chapters in the book structured around different methods and principals – observing, sensing, studying up and down, and representing – will enable both experienced and aspiring ethnographers to develop a practice that will deepen and develop their ethnographic inquiry.’ -- Melissa S. Fisher, NYU Institute for Public Knowledge and School of Professional Studies, US‘This book on how to “do” ethnography written by Monika Kostera and Paweł Krzyworzeka offers a unique collection of chapters written by a number of scholars expertly engaged with this methodology and method. The reader will be able to enjoy considerable richness of knowledge and experience through book chapters written not only on specific methods linked to ethnography, but also on related processes, theories, practicalities and less explored topics pertaining to ethnographic research.’ -- Ilaria Boncori, University of Essex, UK‘How to be an Ethnographer delivers a powerful tour de force of ethnographic essentials. This valuable work is a profoundly insightful exploration of state-of-the-art ethnographic approaches, including multi-sited ethnography, visual ethnography, and the role of art. The authors provide a comprehensive overview of ethnography as a research tradition and show why consideration of this practice only as a method is insufficient. The volume covers the history of ethnography and major figures in the field. Key developments that moved the practice from the 19th to the 21st centuries are reviewed in depth. Valuable insights into the work of native ethnographers, both advantages and drawbacks are included, which are aimed at students who may be contemplating ethnography in their own cultures. A discussion of methods offers nuances of practices that may be taken for granted, such as issues that arise when interviewees read about themselves in ethnographic writing. It also describes intriguing field work experiences such as the “guerilla activities” of middle managers and potential consequences. The volume is especially useful for organizational ethnographers. Vignettes from fieldwork contain memorable details such as the role of gatekeepers. The authors explain why formal informed consent does not build trust and what should be done to establish and deepen relationships in the field. The volume is highly recommended for professionals teaching ethnography and students studying the practice. It includes numerous vignettes written by students based upon their own ethnographic research. Overall, How to Be an Ethnographer is an engaging textbook that will strengthen education in anthropology and beyond.’ -- Marietta Baba, Michigan State University and Foundation for Women and Children Enslaved in War, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Entering the field 2. Who is the ethnographer? 3. Looking and being 4. Talking and listening 5. Reading and writing 6. Good ethnographic research? 7. Why ethnography? References Index

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive Handbook illustrates the wide range of approaches to teaching and learning social research methods in the classroom, online, in the field and in informal contexts. Bringing together contributors from varied disciplines and nations, it represents a landmark in the development of pedagogical culture for social research methods.Spanning qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods research, this Handbook covers all aspects of teaching and learning, from introductory research methods courses to post-doctoral learning. Offering practical guidance, research evidence and reflective insights, it addresses some of the biggest challenges facing teachers and learners. It further advances ongoing debates, such as facilitating experiential learning online, supporting the development of reflexivity, embedding quantitative methods learning in university programmes and challenging orthodoxies with feminist, anti-racist, and decolonising pedagogies.This Handbook will be an invaluable resource for teachers of research methods across the social sciences, and for research methods training organisations looking to improve their courses. Researchers and students of pedagogy in higher education will also find it an enlightening read.Trade Review‘The Handbook of Teaching and Learning Social Research Methods is a path-breaking contribution toward closing the pedagogical culture gap in social research methods education. This gap will widen over time as the teaching and learning of methods shift from the classroom to various online digital environments that include learning and teaching emergent methods and new technologies. The Handbook Editor, Melanie Nind, strongly advocates “putting pedagogic models to work in research methods education.” She follows through with this goal brilliantly by curating a stellar array of Handbook chapters that together provide a vibrant pedagogical culture for research methods education. Handbook contributors are expert researchers and methods teachers that share their pedagogical strategies for addressing this gap. Many chapters cover different pedagogical approaches to teaching and learning online, offline, and in the field. The Handbook primarily focuses on a range of qualitative methods and analysis, with some chapters focusing on quantitative and mixed methods research. Handbook contributors provide teaching strategies and resources to address the diversity of students’ learning needs. The Handbook introduces a range of emergent teaching strategies and devices for engaging students in the learning process through applying storytelling, experiential, inclusive, and de-colonizing teaching approaches. Melanie Nind reminds the reader that teaching research methods “. . . should not be the low point of the week for teachers and learners.” Melanie Nind's Handbook builds a vibrant pedagogical culture that provides a "way forward" toward closing the pedagogical gap in teaching and learning social research.’ -- Sharlene Hesse-Biber, Boston College, US‘This premiere collection of insightful chapters by some of the world’s most notable research educators provides readers unique, behind-the-scenes pedagogical practices for both in-person and online instruction of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods courses. Through engaging narratives, personal stories, and curriculum outlines, this valuable resource addresses how to both teach and learn the craft and art of human inquiry in education and the social sciences.’ -- Johnny Saldaña, Arizona State University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the handbook: putting pedagogic models to work in research methods education 1 Melanie Nind PART I TEACHING AND LEARNING SOCIAL RESEARCH METHODS IN THE CLASSROOM 2 Research literacy and the relationship between research and teaching: the case of research about teaching about research 15 Martyn Hammersley 3 Feminist pedagogies: careful(l) ethics in teaching qualitative research methods 27 Kelly W. Guyotte, Stephanie Anne Shelton and Maureen A. Flint 4 Facilitating learners’ reflexive thinking in qualitative research courses 39 Amy Orange 5 Pedagogies for collaborative qualitative research 51 Thalia Mulvihill and Raji Swaminathan 6 Enhancing the teaching of qualitative methods: teaching the ‘breadth and depth method’ for analysis of ‘big qual’ 67 Sarah Lewthwaite, Lynn Jamieson, Emma Davidson, Rosalind Edwards, Melanie Nind and Susie Weller 7 Teaching mixed methods research to address diverse learners’ needs: pedagogical strategies and adaptations 86 Nataliya V. Ivankova and Vicki L. Plano Clark 8 Teaching mixed methods using an open-space learning approach 107 Rebecca Johnson and Marie Murphy 9 Active learning, constructive alignment, and research methods: toward a programme level approach 120 Tom Clark and Liam Foster 10 Post-philosophies inspire the teaching/learning of qualitative inquiry 135 Candace R. Kuby 11 Shaping researcher learning through scribbles: embodied pedagogical practices in classroom inquiry 151 David Higgins and Ali Rostron 12 Teaching and learning social research methods in social work: challenges and benefits of experiential and applied learning contexts 167 Sandra Lopes and Sandra Saúde 13 Teaching the art of qualitative research interviewing: a developmental approach 184 Kathryn Roulston and Brigette A. Herron 14 What are we teaching for? Humility and responsibility in social science research 200 Jennifer R. Wolgemuth, Yi-Hsin Chen, Liliana Rodríguez-Campos, John Ferron, Eunsook Kim, Robert F. Dedrick and David Lamb PART II TEACHING AND LEARNING SOCIAL RESEARCH METHODS ONLINE 15 Using intentionality to frame how we teach research methods online 216 Cheryl Hunter, Tamara Hoffer and Joshua Hunter 16 Experiential pedagogies in the online space 228 Nicole Brown, Helen Butcher, Belen Febres-Codero and Chuying (Trista) Wu 17 Back to the basics: teaching research online in the time of the Covid-19 pandemic 242 Maja Miskovic and Jamie Kowalczyk 18 ‘No choice’ but remote learning: non-traditional students making sense of social research methods 257 Rossana Perez-del-Aguila, Heather Allison and Naveed Kazmi 19 The use of online materials to support the development of quantitative skills 274 Steve Cook and Duncan Watson 20 Teaching and learning research methods and statistics in eLearning environments pre-, during, and post-pandemic 287 Adam J. Rock, Kylie Rice, Natasha M. Loi, Einar B. Thorsteinsson and Methuen I. Morgan 21 “Mixing” traditional and non-traditional online technologies to build community in an online mixed methods research methods course 301 Jori N. Hall and Sara Campbell 22 Integrating the online teaching of qualitative analysis methods and technologies: challenges, solutions and opportunities 318 Christina Silver, Sarah L. Bulloch, Michelle Salmona and Nicholas W. Woolf 23 Teaching research methods online: informal or semi-formal professional development 334 Janet Salmons, Andy Nobes, Nicola Pallitt and Tony Carr PART III TEACHING AND LEARNING SOCIAL RESEARCH METHODS IN THE FIELD AND OTHER CONTEXTS 24 An analysis of doctoral supervision as pedagogic practice in social science and the role of social research methods in supervision 353 Rosemary Deem and Sally Barnes 25 Pedagogical approaches in inclusive research 368 Edurne García Iriarte, Maria Pallisera, Judit Fullana, Brian Donohoe, Kathleen McMeel and Marc Crespo 26 Research methods learning in temporary online communities during Covid-19 383 Andy Coverdale, Melanie Nind and Robert Meckin 27 Understanding research methods textbooks: pedagogy, production and practice 397 Patrick Brindle and Sarah Lewthwaite 28 Rethinking safeguarding: an opportunity to establish a decolonial teaching framework for social research practice 413 Leona Vaughn 29 Managing distance when teaching, learning, and doing oral history: a case study from Vietnam 428 Siobhan Warrington, Laura Beckwith, Hue Nguyen, Graham Smith, Lan Nguyen, Thuy Mai Thi Minh, Chamithri Greru, Tanh Nguyen, Oliver Hensengerth, Pam Woolner and Matt Baillie Smith Index

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Book SynopsisWith contributions from leading scholars in Southern Europe, this compelling book demonstrates the plurality of migratory circumstances and analyses the significance of the Mediterranean migration model.Highlighting the challenges of studying the variability and heterogeneity of migratory patterns in the Mediterranean, this insightful book provides a comprehensive examination of the spatial-temporal scales and sedimentation of different migratory configurations. Chapters explore the continuities between colonial past, postcolonialism and migration; the integration and exploitation in the labour market; and the impact of political discourses on migrants and non-migrants.Contributors analyse the links between race and gender relations, colonialism, and migration policies across countries including Greece, Italy, Lebanon, the Maghreb region, and Spain.Proposing that the ‘principle of coexistence’ can be an interpretive tool for studying migration in the Mediterranean, this book will be essential for students and researchers in comparative social policy, cultural sociology, development studies, history and migration studies. It will also be beneficial for policymakers and practitioners in national and international political bodies and agencies.Trade Review‘An indispensable contribution to comparative immigration studies, this book brings together an impressive group of country specialists on southern European migration, working in a broad range of disciplines. While deeply sensitive to historical context, the contributors offer original insights into ongoing policy issues like the tension between child/elder-care needs of native-born families and restrictive immigration measures. This book is a model of cross-national scholarship that breaks new theoretical ground.’ -- Wayne A. Cornelius, University of California, San Diego, US‘With a multidisciplinary and outward looking (not Eurocentric) perspective, this book offers one of the most comprehensive surveys of research on migration in the Mediterranean area. The contributions cover countries on the European side and those on the opposite side of the Mediterranean. They examine the policies adopted, the motivations and the aims of the multiple parties involved.’ -- Paola Corti, University of Turin, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: broadening the scope of Southern European migration 1 Adelina Miranda and Antía Pérez-Caramés An extended foreword to a critique on Mediterranean Europe as a place of migration 11 Natalia Ribas-Mateos and Jorge Malheiros PART I MOBILITIES AND COLONIALISMS 1 Human mobility in the pre-modern Mediterranean 30 Wolfgang Kaiser and Claudia Moatti 2 Migration and otherness in the Mediterranean region: colonial past and postcolonial continuities through the conception of the ‘Other Moor’ 50 María-Jesús Cabezón-Fernández 3 The weight of colonial cultural legacy in scholarly and political discourses on migration: for a denationalisation of the migration issue 67 Mustapha El Miri PART II BEYOND NATIONAL MIGRATORY DYNAMICS 4 Migration in Italy: a multiscalar analysis 85 Fabio Amato 5 The Maghreb of transit, new laboratory of postcolonial migrations 99 Michel Peraldi 6 Gender and emigration: labour market integration and work‒life balance strategies of young Spanish female migrants to France and Germany 113 Belén Fernández-Suárez and Alberto Capote Lama 7 A Southern European model of migrant agricultural labour: two case studies in Andalusia (Spain) and Calabria (Italy) 130 Francisco Checa y Olmos, Francesco Saverio Caruso and Alessandra Corrado 8 The care shortage and social acceptance: why the welfare needs of native families subvert immigration policies 145 Maurizio Ambrosini 9 Lebanese migration policy since 2011 and its role in the Syrian refugee movement 162 Kamel Doraï and Imad Amer 10 Repoliticising gendered vulnerability: the blind spots of vulnerability-focused humanitarian programmes in Greece 180 Alice Latouche Conclusions: migration patterns across the Mediterranean 195 Adelina Miranda and Antía Pérez-Caramés Index

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Book SynopsisResponding to the trend of formulaic writing in the academic community, How To Write Differently offers a refreshing approach to academic writing in a practical format.The book explores how, in order to write differently, an author needs to embrace complexity and alterity and write to be read. Highlighting the importance of bringing joy and enlightenment to readers rather than simply writing for the metrics, experienced contributors delve into the significance of poetry and idiom, writing from the heart and what to write about. Chapters also consider key practicalities such as, how to make an argument and not slide into reductionism? How to engage with literature without being dull and formulaic? How to describe important issues such as empirical research and insights? Finally, the book sheds light on the review process, where to publish, reflective referencing and how to revise your writing.Aiming to inspire academic writers and readers, while offering practical guidance, How to Write Differently will be a valuable resource for business and management researchers and students seeking to write in a new way.Trade Review‘Nanni Moretti, the Italian film director, once said: “those who speak badly, think badly and live badly”. This masterly written book teaches us that this adage applies, and even more, to the written word. Academics have in their texts their most powerful weapon and sharpest tool. This book reminds us that we need to manage both with the deserved care and respect.’ -- Paolo Quattrone, The University of Manchester, UK‘How to Write Differently: A Quest for Meaningful Academic Writing has much to recommend it to those researchers who want to produce engaging and valued publications rather than simply meeting the demands of being published. This book offers guidance as well as helpful examples for following a writerly path to academic success.’ -- Mary Jo Hatch, University of Virginia, US‘How to Write Differently is a text which stands against scientific, rational, and masculinist writing. Written differently, the reader is taken on a journey into what creative writing can look like. Full of possibility, alterity, solidarity, and hope – a must read for anyone curious and interested in writing, reading, and publishing.’ -- Alison Pullen, Macquarie University, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: Yiannis Gabriel: Foreword xiii Introduction 1 Monika Kostera 1 Resolving the ambivalences of editing a journal 9 Arndt Sorge 2 What to write about? The parable of Diogenes 17 Jerzy Kociatkiewicz 3 Writing the personal 22 Ilaria Boncori 4 Literary machines and subjective narrators 34 Piotr Graczyk 5 Stories from the field and from the heart 44 Sara Persson 6 Making connections through poetry: A showering of words that matter 54 Matilda Dahl and Jenny Helin 7 Untranslatable management, or the choice of idiom 67 Ghislain Deslandes 8 Art and social science: Anger, reflections, and possibilities 80 Terrence Letiche and Hugo Letiche 9 Caring reviews 88 Monika Kostera 10 Rethinking revisions: The art of devision 99 Daniel Ericsson 11 On reflective referencing 109 Barbara Czarniawska 12 Writing to be read, not for the stars 120 Joanna Średnicka 13 Reducing reductionism, halting holism – some reflections on writing for humans 129 Michał Izak 14 Where to publish and not perish? 138 Martyna Śliwa 15 How to be a good editor – ten (very personal) commandments 147 Annette Risberg 16 ‘If you have any doubts, go to a library’ 149 Tytus Olszewski Index

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Book SynopsisProviding an in-depth and cutting-edge investigation into the rise of Asian research practices and paradigms, Mats Benner examines how this rise has been accomplished, what effects it has had, and how it has shaped universities across seven Asian countries.Broad and comprehensive, chapters analyse the research and education systems of China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Macau, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan, considering how their universities operate, their models and policy priorities. Benner studies the historical, social and political causes behind the variations between these countries, before highlighting the effects of globalization on education, research and innovation. Assessing whether we are witnessing a tectonic shift in how and where education and research are carried out, the book ultimately concludes that regional disparities will remain, but that practices and priorities are becoming increasingly similar in the process of globalization.With Asia showing an increasingly marked presence in research and in scientific and technological capability, this timely book will be invaluable to university policy makers looking to innovate their education and research models, alongside students and scholars interested in Asian development, innovation and technology.Trade Review‘Mats Benner’s new book provides an expansive and much needed analysis on the campaign by Asian universities, and their governments, to be among the world’s most productive in research, with a laser focus on building nation-state economies. What sets Asia’s Rising Research Dominance apart is the nuance provided in the distinct national case studies – China, Hong Kong and Macau, Taiwan, India, Japan, South Korea. Here is a story of a dramatic trajectory, where the goal at first was simply quantity in research productivity, and now increasingly quality and economic impact.’ -- John Aubrey Douglass, University of California, Berkeley, US‘If you want to understand how the global balance of research power is rapidly shifting, then this is the book. Moving authoritatively across Asian “knowledge nations”, the emerging research landscape is expertly navigated, probed and explored. One is left convinced that research policy is crucially bound up with processes of nation-building, globalization and international power. Asia is ascending. And Mats Benner is the perfect analyst and guide. Highly recommended for anyone curious to learn more about the scientific rise of Asia – and to ponder what this will mean for universities, researchers and states across the world.’ -- Alan Irwin, Copenhagen Business School, DenmarkTable of ContentsContents: 1. Overture: A new academic landscape? 2. China: a global academic hegemon in the making? 3. India: the perils of institutional churn 4. Japan: resilient stagnation? 5. ‘Hospitality, not a country’: the anatomy of academic prominence in Singapore 6. South Korea: straddling tradition and modernity 7. Taiwan: resilient exceptionalism 8. Hong Kong and Macau: straddling and thriving in the shadow of hierarchy 9. Reprise: universities, state-building and globalization Index

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Book SynopsisIntroducing the idea of conversational storytelling interviewing (CSI) as an 'indirect' method of interviewing, David Boje and Grace Ann Rosile explore this innovative methodological framework as a way for respondents to tell their own story, without resorting to structured or semi-structured interviews. Bringing together theory, method and praxis of storytelling in an iterative process of self-correcting induction, How to Use Conversational Storytelling Interviews for Your Dissertation offers researchers ways to move beyond the bystander role, urging them to be co-creators of their findings. Complete with exercises to train practitioners in new methods of inquiry and in-depth discussions of an array of philosophical issues, this illuminating book illustrates how rigorous self-correcting methods move inquiry from conversation to storytelling science. Pioneering in both method and framework, this book is a crucial guide for using CSI in qualitative research for PhD students and researchers in management and organizational studies. Scholars of feminist and indigenous studies and other critical studies fields will benefit from alternative interviewing methods as these disciplines undergo an ontological turn.Trade Review'Over several decades David Boje and Grace Ann Rosile have been characterized as the theorists' theorists, the methodologists' methodologists and the practitioners' practitioners. Their latest book - How to Use Conversational Storytelling Interviews for Your Dissertation - lives up to that characterization. The book introduces their latest iteration and development of storytelling as ''conversational storytelling interviewing'', which, they contend, is an alternative to semi-structured interviewing. With its readability and clear, detailed enunciation, this book is destined to be a major influence on a new generation of scholars.' --Albert J. Mills, Saint Mary's University, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: Brief History, Topics Addressed, How to Use this Book, and Glossary of Terms 2. Dialogical and Dialectical conversational interviews: Using Self-Correcting AID phases and 4 Tests with the CIW case example 3. Choosing your research question: and using the storytelling paradigm theories including narrative retrospective, antenarrative prospective, counternarrative, living story, ensemble storytelling, and Grounded Theory 4. Storytelling Paradigm Method, including types of induction, narrative retrospective, antenarrative prospective, integrative qualitative-quantitative methods, narrative inquiry, and multiplicities 5. Storytelling Paradigm Praxes 6. Why Karl Popper is rolling over in his grave 7. Writing Dialectical/Dialogical and Big/little Storytelling Science Conclusions 8. Managing the oral examination and post-submission process Index

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Book SynopsisThis expansive Handbook guides readers through a multi-layered landscape of the interpretations and uses of transdisciplinary thinking and practices worldwide. It advances understanding of the strengths and limits of transdisciplinary research in the context of societal power relations, institutional structures and social inequalities.Original chapters from 116 scholars and experts in 27 countries create a multi-cultural constellation of conceptual and methodological approaches to transdisciplinary research, teaching, training and community projects, showcasing the diversity and plurality of transdisciplinary contributions. Framed through the core themes of thinking, doing and being, this Handbook thoroughly reviews key topics including philosophies and theories, research and practice, education and training and financial and institutional resources with examples from innovative transdisciplinary global projects.Inclusive in its approach, this Handbook will be an ideal resource for public and private domain professionals wishing to explore collaborative working practices. Scholars looking for a better understanding of transdisciplinarity and how it differs from interdisciplinarity will find the case studies illustrative and informative.Trade Review‘An indispensable Handbook on transdisciplinarity that unifies conceptual, pedagogic and practical contributions from over 100 authors across five continents. Transdisciplinarity is a global approach to complexity that progresses “between”, “through” and “beyond” individual disciplines. It is an obligatory yet challenging process, helping us to understand the (unstable) current world and to generate novel transformative propositions.’ -- Philippe Moreillon, University of Lausanne, Switzerland and President of SCNAT‘This pragmatic, accessible and comprehensive reflection on global applications of a transdisciplinary approach is a welcome contribution to the debate and demonstrates that transdisciplinarity has become an intellectual field of its own. The various contributors discuss the epistemological, philosophical and theories that underpin transdisciplinarity and demonstrate the way in which the diversity, coexistence and plurality in different geographical and cultural contexts use transdisciplinarity in creative and meaningful ways. This Handbook is a valuable resource for all researchers and institutions in their efforts to link knowledge with practice and bring about transformation through dynamic acts of transgression.’ -- Heide Hackmann, University of Pretoria, South AfricaTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xxix Alfonso Montuori Acknowledgements xxxix Roderick J. Lawrence Introduction 1 Roderick J. Lawrence PART I EPISTEMOLOGIES, PHILOSOPHIES, AND THEORIES 1 The promise of scaffolding: a metaphor and living practice for transdisciplinary inquiry 28 Pia Andersson and Henrietta Palmer 2 Transdisciplinarity as it emerges: a living-systems perspective 44 Danielle Davelaar 3 The public epistemic role of higher education for all 62 Su-ming Khoo 4 The pertinence of transdisciplinarity for global studies: the case of globalization 79 Amentahru Wahlrab 5 Addressing power relations in the global field of science 95 Petra Dannecker 6 Cross-pollination in art and science: plasticity of the mind and birth of transcultures 111 Marc-Williams Debono 7 New pragmatics and hermeneutics of self, knowledge, and society: transdisciplinarity, trans-civilizational dialogues, and planetary conversations 128 Ananta Kumar Giri PART II PRAXIS 8 Transdisciplinary practice: being, doing, knowing 145 David Adams and Kate Maguire 9 Emergence of transdisciplinarity in global environmental change research: moving from system understanding to systemic sustainability solutions 159 Rik Leemans and Karen Fortuin 10 Navigating knowledge systems to address resilience challenges: contributions of communities of practice 177 Corina Angheloiu, Shuchi Vora and Mike Tennant 11 The transdisciplinary potential of citizen science 197 Alexandra Albert, Muki Haklay, Fabien Moustard, Susanne Hecker, Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, Marina Chang and Ariel B. Lindner 12 Real-world Labs as transdisciplinary learning environments 214 Richard Beecroft 13 Transdisciplinary teams as discourse coalitions: building transformative narratives for transdisciplinary inquiry 230 Chris Riedy 14 Formative developmental evaluation: a transdisciplinary urban regeneration project in London, UK 247 Gemma Moore, Irene Pluchinotta, Helen Pineo, David Osrin, Nici Zimmermann, Giuseppe Salvia and Michael Davies PART III PEDAGOGY AND TRAINING 15 Collaborating for good: what would a transdisciplinary university look like? 267 Michael F. Mascolo 16 Advancing transdisciplinary research in the Global South 286 Katsia Paulavets, Sarah Moore and Mathieu Denis 17 Transdisciplinarity in higher education: the potential of digitalization 306 Theres Paulsen, Jakob Zinsstag and Lisa Crump 18 Transdisciplinary education and ATLAS activities: past, present, and future perspectives 319 Atila Ertas, Raymond T. Yeh, Bob Block and David Block PART IV A GLOBAL SAMPLE OF TRANSDISCIPLINARITY 19 Value-added transdisciplinary One Health research and problem solving 333 Jakob Zinsstag, Kristina Pelikan, Monica Berger Gonzalez, Andrea Kaiser-Grolimund, Lisa Crump, Stephanie Mauti, Kathrin Heitz-Tokpa, Bassirou Bonfoh, Seid Mohammed Ali, Rahma Abtidon and Rea Tschopp 20 Engaging in transformative spaces: a design perspective 351 Aniek Hebinck, Timo von Wirth, Giorgia Silvestri and Laura Pereira 21 Amidst the flyway: co-designing accommodation fields for the barnacle goose in south-eastern Finland 367 Juha Hiedanpää, Matti Salo, Mikko Jokinen, Jani Pellikka, Ron Store, Toni Laaksonen, Mika Pirinen, Wieland Heim, Antti Piironen, Nina Mikander, Hanne Lohilahti and Jukka T. Forsman 22 Schola’s action program: modernizing and sustaining public schools in Quebec 384 Carole Després, Claude Demers, Caroline Gagnon, Pierre Larochelle, Frédérick Lépinay, André Potvin and Sarahlou Wagner-Lapierre 23 Children as research actors: theories, methods, and experimentation 403 Frédéric Darbellay and Zoe Moody 24 Transdisciplinarity at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan 419 Tetsuzo Yasunari, Yasuhisa Kondo, Ria Lambino, Hein Mallee, Yuko Onishi, Makoto Taniguchi and Ichiro Tayasu 25 Implementing sustainability in Taipei with transdisciplinarity 436 Liling Huang, Shang-Hsien Hsieh, Yun-Tsui Chang, Kuan-Chieh Chen and Qile Dong 26 Co-producing urban and peri-urban agriculture in Andean countries 455 Jaime Hernández-García and Tannya Pico Parra 27 Reconceptualizing stakeholders and decentering collaborations: reflections from the Lagos housing sector 474 Basirat Oyalowo 28 Implementing transdisciplinarity in the Caucasus region: societal conditions, institutional transitions, and perspectives 492 Tamara Mitrofanenko, Tigran Keryan, Nina Shatberashvili, Lana Ghvinjilia and Ulli Vilsmaier PART V RESOURCES 29 Resourcing transdisciplinary programs and projects 513 Erica Key 30 Global alliance for inter- and transdisciplinarity: connecting organizations to advance collaborative research and education 525 Stephen M. Fiore, Julie Thompson Klein, Ulli Vilsmaier, Machiel Keestra and Theres Paulsen 31 Toolkits for transdisciplinary research: state of the art, challenges, and potentials for further developments 536 Sibylle Studer and Christian Pohl 32 Does transdisciplinarity need an underpinning discipline? The case for Integration and Implementation Sciences (i2S) 547 Gabriele Bammer PART VI PROSPECTS 33 Prospects for transdisciplinarity and beyond: collectively keeping the future in mind 560 Valerie A. Brown and John A. Harris 34 Digital Life Norway – should biotechnology be transdisciplinary? 575 Maria Bårdsen Hesjedal, Trygve Brautaset and Roger Strand 35 What futures for transdisciplinarity in nuclear R&D? 592 Catrinel Turcanu, Gaston Meskens, Robbe Geysmans, Joke Kenens, Marika Silvikko de Villafranca and Tanja Perko Epilogue: globalizing transdisciplinarity 609 Julie Thompson Klein Index 619

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Book SynopsisShowcasing ways in which the theory of the lifecourse has been applied in demographic research, this innovative Handbook uses key datasets to offer a deeper understanding of the causes and consequences of demographic change across the lifecourse. This Handbook features contributions from leading international demographers and social scientists, covering a range of substantive areas such as employment, health, migration, social security, family formation, housing and inequality to give substance to investigations into the individual's lifecourse. Chapters highlight major theoretical and methodological advances in lifecourse research and present research that sheds light on family dynamics, health and mobility over the lifecourse, illustrating the implications of lifecourse research for policy and reform. Comprehensive and cutting-edge, this Handbook will be crucial reading for students and researchers of demography, social policy, sociology and gerontology at all levels looking to enhance their own research agendas. Policy makers and practitioners of demographic research will also benefit from its insights into the key methodological avenues for advanced investigations. Contributors include: K. Barclay, M. Benzeval, L. Bernardi, A. Berrington, A. Börsch-Supan, P. Bridgen, P. De Jong, H. De Valk, T. Emery, M. Evandrou, A. Evans, L. Fadel, J. Falkingham, A.E. Fasang, A. Findlay, I. Garfinkel, A.H. Gauthier, A. Goodman, E. Graham, J. Holmes, J. Huinink, K. Keenan, K. Kiernan, S. Kim, D. Kneale, M. Kolk, H. Kulu, M. Lyons-Amos, K.U. Mayer, D. McCollum, S. McLanahan, A. McMunn, T. Meyer, J. Mikolai, M. Qin, A. Sabater, L. Sariscsany, R.A. Settersten, C. Van Mol, L. Vargas, A. Villadsen, A. Vlachantoni, J. Waldfogel, M. WrightTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction to the Handbook on Demographic change and the Lifecourse Maria Evandrou, Jane Falkingham and Athina Vlachantoni PART I: THEORETICAL & METHODOLOGICAL ADVANCES IN LIFECOURSE RESEARCH 2. Linking Demographic Change and the Life Course: Insights from the “Life Course Cube” Laura Bernardi, Johannes Huinink and Richard A. Settersten, Jr. 3. Life Course and Social Inequality Anette Eva Fasang and Karl Ulrich Mayer 4. Studying individuals across the life course: A review of longitudinal methods Júlia Mikolai and Mark Lyons-Amos PART II: DATA & INNOVATION IN LIFECOURSE RESEARCH 5. Current and future contributions of the Generations and Gender Programme to life course research Luisa Fadel, Tom Emery and Anne H. Gauthier 6. Life history analyses with SHARE Axel Börsch-Supan 7. The contribution of the 1958 and 1970 British Cohort Studies to lifecourse research on family transitions Aase Villadsen, Ann Berrington, Alissa Goodman and Dylan Kneale 8. Understanding families’ lives across the life course: the value of panel studies. Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Survey Michaela Benzeval PART III: FAMILY DYNAMICS AND LIVING ARRANGEMENTS OVER THE LIFECOURSE 9. Unmarried families in the UK and the US Kathleen Kiernan, Sara McLanahan, John Holmes and Melanie Wright 10. Ethnic fertility and ethnic intermarriage in Australia Ann Evans 11. Demographic Perspectives on Population Change and Housing across the Life Course Elspeth Graham and Albert Sabater PART IV: HEALTH OVER THE LIFECOURSE 12. Birth spacing and health outcomes: differences across the lifecourse and developmental contexts Kieron Barclay and Martin Kolk 13. Work, family and health over the life course: Evidence from the British birth cohort studies Anne McMunn PART V: MIGRATION & MOBILITY OVER THE LIFECOURSE 14. The case for a life course perspective on mobility and migration research David McCollum, Katy Keenan and Allan Findlay 15. Family Changes, Housing Transitions, and Residential Mobility Júlia Mikolai and Hill Kulu 16. Migration, welfare and the lifecourse in the context of the European Union: A case study of the Netherlands Petra de Jong, Christof Van Mol, Helga De Valk PART VI: POLICY 17. The American Welfare State in the Economic Lives of Children Irv Garfinkel, Laurel Sariscsany and Laura Vargas 18. Elder Care and the Role of Paid Leave Policy Soohyun Kim and Jane Waldfogel 19. The poverty risks of migrants who retire in their host country. Evidence from the first post-war wave of migration into Europe. Paul Bridgen and Traute Meyer 20. Employment history and later life satisfaction among three cohorts in the UK: Unravelling the mediating pathways of pension security, housing tenure and health Jane Falkingham, Maria Evandrou, Min Qin and Athina Vlachantoni Index

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Book SynopsisUnderstanding Comics-Based Research focuses on the contribution that comics can make to social research as part of a "Graphic social science" construct. Comics and graphic novels offer a juxtaposition of text and images bringing community-based participatory research multiple opportunities for communication. In this exploratory volume, Veronica Moretti illustrates how the graphic medium can help elicit participant’s narratives and how it supports new guiding principles in research, along with what barriers researchers may encounter using comics, and to what extent comics can be incorporated within traditional social research techniques.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. The Comics Jargon Chapter 2. Graphic social sciences Chapter 3. Drafting comics-based research Chapter 4. The Social genres of comics Conclusion

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Book SynopsisIntroducing the idea of conversational storytelling interviewing (CSI) as an 'indirect' method of interviewing, David Boje and Grace Ann Rosile explore this innovative methodological framework as a way for respondents to tell their own story, without resorting to structured or semi-structured interviews. Bringing together theory, method and praxis of storytelling in an iterative process of self-correcting induction, How to Use Conversational Storytelling Interviews for Your Dissertation offers researchers ways to move beyond the bystander role, urging them to be co-creators of their findings. Complete with exercises to train practitioners in new methods of inquiry and in-depth discussions of an array of philosophical issues, this illuminating book illustrates how rigorous self-correcting methods move inquiry from conversation to storytelling science. Pioneering in both method and framework, this book is a crucial guide for using CSI in qualitative research for PhD students and researchers in management and organizational studies. Scholars of feminist and indigenous studies and other critical studies fields will benefit from alternative interviewing methods as these disciplines undergo an ontological turn.Trade Review'Over several decades David Boje and Grace Ann Rosile have been characterized as the theorists' theorists, the methodologists' methodologists and the practitioners' practitioners. Their latest book - How to Use Conversational Storytelling Interviews for Your Dissertation - lives up to that characterization. The book introduces their latest iteration and development of storytelling as ''conversational storytelling interviewing'', which, they contend, is an alternative to semi-structured interviewing. With its readability and clear, detailed enunciation, this book is destined to be a major influence on a new generation of scholars.' --Albert J. Mills, Saint Mary's University, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: Brief History, Topics Addressed, How to Use this Book, and Glossary of Terms 2. Dialogical and Dialectical conversational interviews: Using Self-Correcting AID phases and 4 Tests with the CIW case example 3. Choosing your research question: and using the storytelling paradigm theories including narrative retrospective, antenarrative prospective, counternarrative, living story, ensemble storytelling, and Grounded Theory 4. Storytelling Paradigm Method, including types of induction, narrative retrospective, antenarrative prospective, integrative qualitative-quantitative methods, narrative inquiry, and multiplicities 5. Storytelling Paradigm Praxes 6. Why Karl Popper is rolling over in his grave 7. Writing Dialectical/Dialogical and Big/little Storytelling Science Conclusions 8. Managing the oral examination and post-submission process Index

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Book SynopsisAdeptly navigating one of the most pressing issues on the current global agenda, this topical Research Handbook provides a comprehensive and research-based exploration of the sociology of migration. As well as highlighting the field’s achievements and current challenges, it explores key concepts used in current research, methods employed, and the spheres and contexts in which migrants participate. Presenting an open and pluralistic approach to international migration, this Research Handbook offers a wealth of conceptual analysis, featuring insightful contributions from over 40 leading scholars. Split into three thematic sections, it expertly examines a wide range of theoretical terms, research methods and techniques, and provides an in-depth analysis of the significant work that has been carried out to date in relation to migration. It ultimately sheds light on important discussions surrounding the origins of the sociology of migration, considering not only past events, but also future directions of research for this ever-evolving field of study.Offering a unique and forward-thinking perspective, this authoritative Handbook will serve as a fundamental reference for students, scholars, and practitioners in the fields of sociology and social policy, development studies, and political science, as well as in the wider social sciences.Trade Review‘This Research Handbook is an essential companion for advanced researchers and a compass for aspiring scholars. It embeds the most common concepts in the history of migration studies, informs about the use of different methods in migration research and connects to the empirical realities of migration societies. The book is an important, globally focused contribution to understanding contemporary debates about migration, a principal driver and consequence of transformation in modern societies.’ -- Gianni D'Amato, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland‘Anyone wishing to understand the movement of populations in the modern world and the challenges of integration must start with a basic knowledge of the sociology of migration. The editors of this volume have brought together in a single work many of the leading scholars in the field to offer a comprehensive guide to key concepts, methods, space, and place—an invaluable resource for students and scholars alike.’ -- James F. Hollifield, Southern Methodist University, US‘Sciortino, Cvajner, Kivisto and their chapter authors make valuable contributions to the scholarship on migration. They offer succinct histories of the field and its different thematic, epistemic, and methodological currents, and insightfully parse differences. The chapters also offer concise reviews, engagements, and extensions of a wide range of both well-trodden and emerging areas of work. Despite three decades in the field, I learned a lot from reading this Research Handbook, and strongly recommend it. It will be useful both to long-time scholars and for undergraduate classes.’ -- Robert Courtney Smith, City University of New York, US‘Presenting 34 chapters written by leading international scholars in the field, the Research Handbook on the Sociology of Migration comprises a contemporary, integrated and comprehensive resource for scholars and students of sociology and other disciplines interested in migration issues. A highly accessible Research Handbook with an impressive diversity of themes all contributing to the constantly growing dynamic of this sociological subfield.’ -- Pieter Bevelander, Malmö University, Sweden‘The Research Handbook on the Sociology of Migration is a tour de force in international migration studies, moving away from a myopic view of migration by incorporating a plurality of theoretical, methodological and contextual perspectives. By developing a relational approach in which individuals, communities and societies interact with the boundary-crossing realities of our migratory world, editors Sciortino, Cvajner and Kivisto conceptualise migration in a truly global way. This is a book from which even seasoned scholars of migration will learn.’ -- Elisabeth Jane Becker-Topkara, Heidelberg University, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: Introduction. The sociology of migration: where has it been and where is it going? 1 Martina Cvajner, Peter J. Kivisto, and Giuseppe Sciortino PART I KEY CONCEPTS 1 Mobility, immobility, and migration 12 Nicholas DeMaria Harney 2 Borders and boundaries 23 Giuseppe Sciortino 3 Migration categories and the politics of labeling 34 Leila Hadj Abdou and Federica Zardo 4 Gender 46 Johanna Leinonen 5 Migration chains and migration networks: researching migration as a social process 60 Remus Gabriel Anghel 6 Sequences and transitions in migration 74 Russell King and Ronald Skeldon 7 Migration systems 86 Oliver Bakewell 8 Migration policies and politics 96 Joaquín Arango 9 Migration and border regimes 109 Bernd Kasparek 10 Contexts of reception 122 Ayumi Takenaka 11 Theorizing modes of incorporation 133 Peter J. Kivisto 12 Diversity and super-diversity 143 Ivano Bison and Daniel Joseph Belback 13 Inclusion and exclusion 156 Gabriel Echeverría and Claudia Finotelli 14 Remittances in a world of uncertainty and insecurity 167 Ibrahim Sirkeci 15 Transnationalism and the making of diasporas 181 Thomas Lacroix 16 Children of immigrants and the second generation 192 Davide Azzolini and Philipp Schnell PART II METHODS AND TECHNIQUES 17 Secondary analysis of government and official data on international migration 206 Corrado Bonifazi 18 Ethnography in migration studies: an everlasting love? 215 Martina Cvajner 19 Quantitative surveys on migration 227 Erik Vickstrom and Cris Beauchemin 20 Connecting with connected migrants: exploring the field of digital migration studies 243 Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky 21 Toward the use of emotions as a methodological technique for the empirical analysis of migration 258 Elizabeth Aranda, Girsea Martinez Rosas, and Rebecca Blackwell 22 Network analysis 272 Başak Bilecen 23 Visual methods in migration research 285 Susan Ball PART III SITES, PLACES, AND SPHERES 24 Sending communities, social spheres, and households: what can be learned about migration 300 Jeffrey H. Cohen 25 Borders, embassies, and visas: the lessons of sociological lenses 307 Federica Infantino 26 Workplaces and labor markets 319 Mattia Vitiello 27 Migration in families and households 328 Heather M. Wurtz and Heide Castañeda 28 Housing and home 340 Enrico Fravega and Paolo Boccagni 29 Sociabilities: kin, friends, and acquaintances in international migration 351 Rocco Molinari 30 Migrant associations and communities 363 Margit Fauser 31 Migration and the welfare state 375 Grete Brochmann 32 The religious migrant 387 Tuomas Martikainen 33 Sport and migration 400 Max Mauro 34 Migration, museums, (and archives) 411 Aleksandra Kubica Index 423

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Book SynopsisA collective project arising from a dynamic configuration of research concerned with systematic, critical and reflexive inquiry into the normative frames, institutional workings and lived realities of research, this dexterously-crafted Handbook acts as a working guide to the rapidly-evolving interdisciplinary field of meta-research.Bringing together cutting-edge multidisciplinary scholarship, the Handbook expertly outlines key domains including the public value, policy and governance of research, knowledge dynamics, and research cultures and careers. Engaging with diverse philosophical, theoretical and methodological approaches, it examines global dynamics in research and explores equality, diversity and inclusion across sectors, career stages and geographical regions. Taking on board multi-layered perspectives from beyond traditional and exclusionary epistemic boundaries, the Handbook offers unique insight into this broad landscape of knowledge.The Handbook of Meta-Research will appeal to researchers and students in a broad range of fields from the social sciences, arts and humanities and STEM who are concerned with the environments, institutions, policies, practices and evaluations that impact their work, and will be a useful starting point for researchers wanting to initiate meta-research studies to examine their own environments, actions and behaviours. Regulators, users and beneficiaries of research will similarly benefit from this authoritative reference work.Trade Review‘This is a book populated by many of my favorite colleagues in the field of research on research. Here, they position key facets of our joint scholarly and real-world project of examining, and being part of, contemporary academia. The book is exemplary for doing multidisciplinary meta-research across the globe with professionalism and care. It provokes self-reflexivity because its authors are deeply engaged, rather than disinterested. The Handbook of Meta-Research is a book to cherish!’ -- Sarah de Rijcke, Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University, the Netherlands‘This Handbook’s thoughtful focus on the “why and how we [focus on the practice of research], who is involved and on what terms” throws (gently!) a gauntlet to advance the study of the research enterprise. Through this comprehensive volume, we are both informed and challenged to consider the breadth, importance and impacts of how our interdisciplinary study of the practice of research matters. This extraordinary set of chapters charges and inspires us to advance the field, and the data on which we base our work. This is absolutely an essential book for newer and more advanced scholars alike.’ -- Julia Melkers, Arizona State University in Phoenix, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Meta-research as discipline, field, or spectrum 1 Gemma E. Derrick, Nuzha Nuseibeh, Alis Oancea and Xin Xu 2 Map of the Handbook of Meta-Research 12 Gemma E. Derrick, Nuzha Nuseibeh, Alis Oancea and Xin Xu PART I THE PUBLIC VALUE OF RESEARCH 3 Academic values and meta-research 18 J. Britt Holbrook 4 Responsible research and innovation 32 Richard Woolley, Paula Otero-Hermida, Irene Monsonís-Payá and Magdalena Wicher 5 Value and the public humanities 46 Zoe Hope Bulaitis 6 Hard-to-assess research-impact nexuses in the humanities, arts, and social sciences 55 Alis Oancea 7 STEMM academics’ understandings of ‘societal value’ in the context of the UK impact agenda 62 Eliel Cohen 8 Sociology in the impact agenda: is there room for public sociology? 73 Silje Maria Tellmann and Reetta Muhonen PART II POLICY AND GOVERNANCE OF RESEARCH 9 Changing research policy and practice with evidence: the relationships between meta-research and its stakeholders 90 Steven Hill 10 Global and national science systems: synergies and tensions 104 Simon Marginson 11 The role of funders in shaping the UK research landscape 116 Frédérique Bone and Beverley Sherbon 12 Mapping the field of evidence production and use 133 Kathryn Oliver, Euan Adie and Annette Boaz 13 Methods development in evidence synthesis: a dialogue between science and society 146 James Thomas 14 Meta-research and researcher evaluation 159 Andrew Plume 15 Research evaluation in China: policy, practice and prospects 172 Xin Xu PART III KNOWLEDGE DYNAMICS IN META-RESEARCH 16 Changing research publication practices and the rise of research metrics 191 Thed van Leeuwen 17 Diversification of knowledge production actors (including university-industry partnerships) 204 Paul Benneworth and Julia Olmos-Peñuela 18 Could ORCID play a key role in meta-research? Discussing new analytical possibilities to study the dynamics of science and scientists 215 Rodrigo Costas, Carmen Corona-Sobrino and Nicolás Robinson-García 19 De-legitimising the social sciences and humanities through peer review 235 Gemma E. Derrick and Tony Ross-Hellauer 20 Research integrity in publishing: decolonial perspectives 251 David Mills and Kelsey Inouye 21 A bibliometric study of bibliometric studies at South African universities 263 Nelius Boshoff and Similo Ngwenya 22 Diabetes prevention or treatment: what is researched and what is mentioned online? 279 Fereshteh Didegah PART IV RESEARCH CULTURES AND CAREERS 23 The state-of-the-art of research on science research careers 293 Carolina Cañibano, Richard Woolley, Eric J. Iversen and Carmen Corona-Sobrino 24 Meaning and purpose in academic research: researchers of the 1990s vs 2010s 309 Gerlese S. Åkerlind 25 Post-PhD careers: mobility and ‘research’ in the non-academic arena 322 Lynn McAlpine 26 Hiding in plain sight: research management as a practice and profession in the scholarly ecosystem 332 Julie Bayley and Kieran Fenby-Hulse 27 Stratification and cumulative advantages in academia: gender and national differences 341 Jens Peter Andersen 28 The gendered minoritisation of public engagement with research 355 Richard Watermeyer Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume demonstrates the ways in which a gender perspective has been incorporated into existing themes and methods of migration research and has also led to the development of new areas of interest. It draws together the most important published articles on gender and migration in North America, Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia in order to highlight major theoretical developments relating to employment, gender relations, household organisation, identity, citizenship, transnationalism and migration policy. In the introduction the editors provide an overview of these key developments in gender and migration research, as well as suggesting topics for future research.Gender and Migration will be a valuable resource for demographers, geographers and gender studies researchers.Trade Review'. . . introduces the reader to a range of informative, interesting, persuasive and well-argued papers on gender and migration. As such, it represents an important and overdue acknowledgement of the centrality of gender to explanations and accounts of international migration.' -- Allen White, Progress in Human Geography'This collection belongs on migration researchers' shelves, and should be adopted as the primary text in seminars on gender and migration. But it should also be read more widely than its title implies, because the work collected suggests future directions for a range of various subfields within the discipline. The editors have done the discipline a service by bringing together such a powerful collection of writings, and by organizing this research under the rubric of gender and migration studies.' -- Rachel Silvey, Annals of the Association of American GeographersTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements • Introduction Part I: Gender and Migration Theory 1. Caroline Wright (1995), ‘Gender Awareness in Migration Theory: Synthesizing Actor and Structure in Southern Africa’ Part II: Households and Reproduction 2. Hania Zlotnik (1995), ‘Migration and the Family: The Female Perspective’ 3. Sylvia Chant (1991), ‘Gender, Migration and Urban Development in Costa Rica: The Case of Guanacaste’ Part III: Gender and International Labour Migration 4. Thanh-Dam Truong (1996), ‘Gender, International Migration and Social Reproduction: Implications for Theory, Policy, Research and Networking’ 5. Mirjana Morokvasic (1993), ‘“In and Out” of the Labour Market: Immigrant Women in Europe’ Part IV: Circular Migration 6. Mark Ellis, Dennis Conway and Adrian J. Bailey (1996), ‘The Circular Migration of Puerto Rican Women: Towards a Gendered Explanation’ Part V: Migration as Gendered Work 7. Janet W. Salaff (1997), ‘The Gendered Social Organization of Migration as Work’ Part VI: Migration and Gender Relations 8. Nazli Kibria (1990), ‘Power, Patriarchy, and Gender Conflict in the Vietnamese Immigrant Community’ 9. Patricia R. Pessar (1994), ‘Sweatshop Workers and Domestic Ideologies: Dominican Women in New York’s Apparel Industry’ Part VII: Social Constructions of Female Migrants 10. Lesley Gill (1993), ‘“Proper Women” and City Pleasures: Gender, Class, and Contested Meanings in La Paz’ 11. Richa Nagar (1998), ‘Communal Discourses, Marriage, and the Politics of Gendered Social Boundaries among South Asian Immigrants in Tanzania’ 12. Brenda S.A. Yeoh and Shirlena Huang (1998), ‘Negotiating Public Space: Strategies and Styles of Migrant Female Domestic Workers in Singapore’ Part VIII: Gender, Migration and Constructions of National Identity 13. Julia Bush (1994), ‘“The Right Sort of Woman”: Female Emigrators and Emigration to the British Empire, 1890–1910’ Part IX: Gender and Transnationalism 14. Marixsa Alicea (1997), ‘“A Chambered Nautilus”: The Contradictory Nature of Puerto Rican Women’s Role in the Social Construction of a Transnational Community’ 15. Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Ernestine Avila (1997), ‘“I’m Here, But I’m There”: The Meanings of Latina Transnational Motherhood’ Part X: Gendered Participation in Immigrant Politics 16. Michael Jones-Correa (1998), ‘Different Paths: Gender, Immigration and Political Participation’ Part XI: Gender, Migration and Citizenship 17. Daiva Stasiulis and Abigail B. Bakan (1997), ‘Negotiating Citizenship: The Case of Foreign Domestic Workers in Canada’ Part XII: Accompanying Spouses 18. Brenda S.A. Yeoh and Louise-May Khoo (1998), ‘Home, Work and Community: Skilled International Migration and Expatriate Women in Singapore’ 19. Arpita Chattopadhyay (1997), ‘Family Migration and the Economic Status of Women in Malaysia’ Part XIII: Women ‘Left Behind’ 20. Bridget O'Laughlin (1998), ‘Missing Men? The Debate Over Rural Poverty and Women-headed Households in Southern Africa’ Part XIV: Gender and Refugees 21. Eve Hall (1990), ‘Vocational Training for Women Refugees in Africa’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisChoice Modelling is a technique that has recently emerged as a means of estimating the demand for environmental goods and the benefits and costs associated with them. The aims of the book are fourfold: to introduce the technique in the environmental context to demonstrate its use in a range of case studies to provide insights into some methodological issues to explore the prospects for the technique. The authors contributing to the book show that choice modelling offers considerable potential for the evaluation of environmental goods and services. Its flexibility to cope with a wide range of applications is well demonstrated. The technique also presents numerous challenges to practitioners. A number of these are addressed in the book.Informed and innovative, this book will prove indispensable to all scholars, researchers and practitioners in the areas of environmental studies and environmental economics.Trade Review'As someone who has used CM in environmental valuation on several occasions, I found this book both useful and interesting. . . I certainly recommend this book to my graduate students, and suggest that you read it too if you are interested in using CM.' -- Nick Hanley, The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics'. . . a very useful single source for those interested in environmental evaluation using choice models.' -- David A. Hensher, Australian Journal of Environmental Management'. . . this book can serve as a firm basis to start understanding what CM is about. . .' -- Jesús Barreiro Hurle, European Review of Agricultural EconomicsTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: The Technique Part II: Case Studies Part III: Exploring Some Methodological Issues Part IV: Conclusion References

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Book SynopsisEntrepreneurial Competition and Industrial Location explores the notion of entrepreneurial competition from its theoretical foundations in early Austrian and contemporary evolutionary economics. Focusing on the structural development of the intangible factors of production such as labour skills, advertising and research and development, the book's empirical implications are tested in a comparative study of competitive performance in the EU, Japan and the USA. Typical mechanisms of external spillovers, shaping industrial location by means of Marshallian cluster formation, highlight the dimension of industrial location. Peneder finally employs the three evolutionary principles of variation, cumulation and selection to establish entrepreneurship, learning and fair markets as the main pillars of modern competitiveness policy. This volume paves the way for a better understanding of the market process, demonstrating the importance of intangible factors as sources of competitive advantage both by conclusive theoretical argument and careful empirical investigation.Trade Review'This book is an ambitious attempt to combine detailed empirical analysis with a broadened theoretical context within which to understand industrial innovation and entrepreneurship. The main part of the book is a large-scale research study of industry by sector. . . a thought-provoking book with many new empirical insights. . . The book has considerable relevance to researchers concerned with competition policy and economic development initiatives. . . this book will be found to be a stimulating research study.' -- Robert J. Bennett, Progress in Human Geography'This is a book that can be recommended for the researchers in the field.' -- P. Banerjee, Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research'Peneder's book is an interesting contribution to our understanding of the competitive process in a globalised economy. He comes up with empirical measures and industry rankings which take into account intangible investment and the influence of human resources. This helps to explain specialisation and the location of industries. Since the importance of competition policy as one of the few remaining instruments of national economic policy increases steadily the results of the book are of great importance. Clearly written and highly self contained - explaining instruments and theoretical background of the study - the book is an indispensable reading for researchers and politicians alike.' -- Hanns Abele, University of Economics and Business Administration Vienna, AustriaTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Entrepreneurial Competition 2. The Organisation of Knowledge 3. Intangible Investment and Human Resources 4. The Competitive Performance of European Industries 5. Sectoral Specialisation and Industrial Location 6. Competitiveness Policy Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAs the world entered the twenty-first century, global skill shortages in many occupations were evident throughout the world. While these were mitigated by a global recession, there is no generally agreed upon method for measuring these shortages. This book discusses various theories for measurement. Using data collected from 19 developed countries in North and Latin America, Europe, and the Pacific region, the authors explore various aspects of skilled labor shortages, develop a methodology of measuring shortages by occupation, and provide estimates of the likelihood of the occurrence of such shortages. They develop labor market indicators which measure the degree of shortage or surplus in different occupations. The study covers as many as 49 occupational groups, although the number varies by country. The indicators are compared to anecdotal reports about shortages in the countries studied as well as correlated with various economic, political and institutional indicators. Some occupations such as CEO's, health professionals and computer scientists were common across many countries studied and part of a global shortage. Scholars, government officials, students and corporate and union representatives concerned with employment, labor and training policies and issues will find the data and analysis in this book a valuable addition to their knowledge.Trade Review'Just before sitting down to write these few words, I happened upon this lead-in to a USA Today article (May 14, 2002), 'Nurse anaesthetists in short supply - Hospitals crank up salaries to attract pivotal employees.' And, as many are aware, this particular shortage has been the case for a period of time measured in decades. Why is it that, for some job classes, supply persists in falling short of demand at the going wage for long periods of time, whether or not the aggregate labor market is tight or slack? What characteristics of labor markets explain this phenomenon? What are the observable indicators that identify a particular job class as being seriously in shortage or as heading into such a condition? Do the same indicators manage to identify most shortage categories? Is the shortage phenomenon local, national, or global? How do economic agents, both on the supply and the demand side, cope with such shortages? These are some of the major issues dealt with by Cohen and Zaidi in their concise and highly readable Global Skill Shortages. Economists, business managers, HR professionals, career counsellors, and educators will all enjoy and get the message in this well-written book. Economists in particular, however, will appreciate the way the authors push the analytics of the problem into suggesting the route to empirical indicators.' -- Saul H. Hymans, University of Michigan, US'Skill shortages can be a major bottleneck for economic activity and growth. Constructing accurate measures of skill shortages that could be used by policymakers to target programs to reduce these bottlenecks has proven to be challenging. But in this new volume, Malcolm Cohen and Mahmood Zaidi take on this challenge and present a new indicator of skill shortages by detailed occupations across 19 countries. Their global perspective makes this an especially interesting and useful work for economists and policymakers interested in assessing the global capacity to meet occupational shortages across countries.' -- Lisa M. Lynch, Tufts University, US'As a legacy of the Great Depression, measurement of unemployment - labor surplus - advanced throughout the developed world. Macroeconomists focused on driving down unemployment. The reverse condition, labor shortage, was generally neglected and often unmeasured. In this volume, Cohen and Zaidi ably redress the balance, focusing on the labor shortage phenomenon and its statistical appraisal. Their work will surely stimulate further research into labor shortages, the response of employers and workers to them, and critical issues of labor shortage measurement.' -- Daniel J.B. Mitchell, University of California, Los Angeles, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Theoretical Aspects of Skill Shortages 3. Globalization and Skill Shortages 4. Skill Shortage Studies in Selected Countries 5. Shortage Indicators by Occupation and Country 6. Factors Correlated with Shortages 7. Coping with Skill Shortages 8. Concluding Remarks Appendix Index

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Book SynopsisThis significant new book presents a comparative study of the role of policy research institutes within policy transfer, and the subsequent impact policy transfer has upon the processes of Europeanisation and globalisation.In an era of globalisation, it is generally assumed that processes of policy transfer have increased. At the same time, however, there has been a recognition that understanding governance purely through state centred institutional approaches is no longer tenable. In this book, Stella Ladi argues that in order to fully understand domestic governance we must examine the impact of non-governmental organisations such as policy research institutes. Using a sophisticated, multi-level framework of analysis, the author concentrates on three particular case studies with which to evaluate the transfer of ideas, the transfer of policy programmes and the transfer of institutions, within the European Union. She concludes that the analysis of policy transfer is crucial in identifying international policy entrepreneurs, as well as important policy developments in domestic and world politics.The multi-disciplinary approach of this book will appeal to students and scholars of the social sciences, particularly those specialising in public policy and administration, international relations and comparative politics. It will also be of interest to policymakers and practitioners within international organisations.Trade Review'The impact of non-governmental players has been given scant attention in the policy transfer literature. This book addresses that gap and provides a detailed exploration of their role and influence in this process within a European context. . . This well-written, easily accessible and clearly-structured book is a welcome addition to the policy transfer literature and can be recommended to anybody interested in this field. Not only does it make an important empirical contribution to our understanding of the policy transfer arena but it also provides a useful analytical framework that warrants further exploration and development.' -- Tobias Jung, Political Studies Review'Stella Ladi has taken on a daunting set of challenges: a comparative study of policy transfer; a study of the role of think tanks in the transfer process; and the relevance of Europeanisation to shaping the transfer process. As such, this is an innovative book tackling increasingly important issues that cut across the fields of public policy and international relations. It deserves to be widely read as the first systematic study of its kind - and others will surely follow.' -- Kevin Featherstone, European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK'Policy transfer is on the increase, fuelled by the dual processes of globalisation and Europeanisation. Stella Ladi provides an incisive and detailed account of how policy transfer is shaping policy developments in Europe within a rich theoretical context.' -- Diane Stone, Central European University, HungaryTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. Towards a Multi-level Framework of Analysis 2. The Macro- and Meso-Levels of Analysis: Globalisation, Europeanisation and Policy Transfer 3. The Micro-Level of Analysis: The Third Sector and Policy Research Institutes 4. The Transfer of Policy Ideas: The International Dialogues Foundation and Youth Employment Policy 5. The Transfer of Policy Programmes: Understandingbus and Environmental Policy 6. The Transfer of Policy Institutions: Paremvassi and the Transfer of the Ombudsman Institution 7. Comparing the Role of Policy Research Institutes in Processes of Policy Transfer 8. Conclusions Appendix 1: A List of Interviews Undertaken in the Course of the Study Appendix 2: Sample Questionnaires Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisComing of Age in Madrid is a longitudinal study of twenty-seven Moroccan youth who migrated to Madrid as unaccompanied minors, passed their adolescence in the Spanish child-care system, and embarked on their lives as young adults; interviews were conducted over a period of six years in Spain and Morocco. The stories begin with narrators lives in Morocco, contextualizing their migratory experience, then follows them children traveling alone as they across the Strait of Gibraltar and make their way to Madrid; the study also engages with those who were deported, crossing the Strait once again as they were returned to Morocco. Using qualitative interviews to capture narrators accounts in their own words, this oral history examines their identity trans/formation, integration, and acculturation in Spain. Their individual voices and their collective wisdom contribute to an understanding of their experiences and by extension, that of unaccompanied child migrants everywhere, revealing larger lessons to be learned. Documenting their transition into adulthood, the book poses the crucial question, What becomes of unaccompanied migrant minors when they come of age? Unaccompanied minor migration is on the rise throughout the world, it is the new normal. As Spain and other nations grapple with increasing numbers of unaccompanied children on their borders, the importance of this study has immediate relevance for government policies and migration research. The history of unaccompanied Moroccan minors coming of age in Madrid contributes to the broader geographical discussion by responding to calls for contextualized, micro-scale, local research and the foregrounding and centralizing of the young migrants themselves.

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Book SynopsisComing of Age in Madrid is a longitudinal study of twenty-seven Moroccan youth who migrated to Madrid as unaccompanied minors, passed their adolescence in the Spanish child-care system, and embarked on their lives as young adults; interviews were conducted over a period of six years in Spain and Morocco. The stories begin with narrators lives in Morocco, contextualizing their migratory experience, then follows them children traveling alone as they across the Strait of Gibraltar and make their way to Madrid; the study also engages with those who were deported, crossing the Strait once again as they were returned to Morocco. Using qualitative interviews to capture narrators accounts in their own words, this oral history examines their identity trans/formation, integration, and acculturation in Spain. Their individual voices and their collective wisdom contribute to an understanding of their experiences and by extension, that of unaccompanied child migrants everywhere, revealing larger lessons to be learned. Documenting their transition into adulthood, the book poses the crucial question, What becomes of unaccompanied migrant minors when they come of age? Unaccompanied minor migration is on the rise throughout the world, it is the new normal. As Spain and other nations grapple with increasing numbers of unaccompanied children on their borders, the importance of this study has immediate relevance for government policies and migration research. The history of unaccompanied Moroccan minors coming of age in Madrid contributes to the broader geographical discussion by responding to calls for contextualized, micro-scale, local research and the foregrounding and centralizing of the young migrants themselves.

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Book SynopsisSocial movement strategies and coalition dynamics in movements are two of the hottest arenas for cutting-edge research. Many case studies offer useful analytical windows through which we can understand the strategic choices made by individual movement organizations. Equally if not more important questions remain about how the positions a movement organization occupies in the broader social movement field impacts strategic decision-making. Coalition politics and conflicts matter to social movements.Thus Section One of this volume of "Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change" presents a series of papers focused on the complex dynamics of coalitions and the interorganizational relations within social movements. Another section follows immediately that compliments in an integrated way the first, this one focused on strategic decision making in social movements, including with regard to strategic alliances. The Volume closes with a third section on political opportunities and political inequalities. This volume of the "Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change" does what the series has always done best: showcase sound empirical work and creative theory-building that addresses those questions currently at the forefront of the field.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTIONPatrick G. CoyPART I: COALITION DYNAMICS IN SOCIAL MOVEMENTSLINKING STRATEGIC CHOICE WITH MACRO-ORGANIZATIONAL DYNAMICS: STRATEGY AND SOCIAL MOVEMENT ARTICULATION Dennis J. Downey and Deana A. RohlingerCOALITION DISSOLUTION, MOBILIZATION, AND NETWORK DYNAMICS IN THE U.S. ANTIWAR MOVEMENTMichael T. Heaney and Fabio RojasSOCIAL MOVEMENT ORGANIZATIONS AND COALITIONS: COMPARISONS FROM THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT IN BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINAElizabeth BorlandMESOMOBILIZATION AND FRAGILE COALITIONS: ABORIGINAL POLITICS AND TREATY-MAKING IN BRITISH COLUMBIAR.S. Ratner and Andrew WoolfordTHE LIVING WAGE MOVEMENT AND THE ECONOMICS OF MORALITY:FRAMES, IDEOLOGY AND THE DISCURSIVE FIELDShehzad NadeemPART II: STRATEGIC ALLIANCES AND STRATEGIC DECISION MAKING IN SOCIAL MOVEMENTSPROFESSIONAL AND POLITICAL ALLIANCES, LEGITIMATING AUTHORITY AND THE LONGEVITY OF HEALTH MOVEMENT ORGANIZATIONSMatthew E. Archibald and Kendralin J. FreemanOPPOSING MOVEMENT STRATEGIES IN U.S. ABORTION POLITICSDavid S. Meyer and Suzanne StaggenborgWHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT DECLINE:COMPETING NARRATIVES IN THE AMSTERDAM SQUATTERS' MOVEMENTLynn OwensPART III: POLITICAL OPPORTUNITIES AND POLITICAL INEQUALITIESRESTRICTING PUBLIC LIFE, CREATING DEADLY STRIFE:HOW POLITICAL DISCRIMINATION IMPACTS INTERETHNIC CONFLICTClayton D. Peoples and Tina Hsu SchweizerSTARVING FOR CHANGE: THE HUNGER STRIKE AND NONVIOLENT ACTION, 1906 - 2004 Stephen J. Scanlan, Laurie Cooper Stoll and Kimberly Lumm

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Book SynopsisAn essential exploration of and guide to research ethics in the field. Researchers working in Africa are engaged in ethical, methodological, logistical, emotional and professional compromises. Juggling the demands of being a researcher and being human, scholars must balance the recording of data withthe emotional demands of listening, of analyzing and reporting personal, and often contradictory, narratives. This book recognizes these challenges and lays bare the underlying and important process by which the researcher grapples with emotions, and how 'feelings' inform and shape data collection, interpretation, write-up and dissemination. Based on widely researched on-the-ground work, the contributors reveal the ambiguities and inconsistences that emerge at all stages of fieldwork and how to tackle them. They examine the ethical quagmires that arise when doing research on sensitive topics in a researcher's own living environment, and suggest how to manage the complex interaction between the researcher's own identity and social relationships in the field, and navigate the role of researcher when activism risks access to the field.Trade ReviewIn the foreword of Field Research in Africa, the editors share that the goal of research is to render the world intelligible. All the contributors stick to this theme very effectively as they try to make intelligible the discomforting and the personally challenging. Field Research in Africa is written with clear narration, articulation of deep concepts, and practical considerations for readers. -- African Studies QuarterlyTable of ContentsForeword: It is about Us - Elísio Macamo Map of Africa showing Fields of Research Introduction: Fields of Vision, Emotion as Reflexivity - Susan Thomson, An Ansoms, and Aymar Nyenyezi Bisoka 1. Skin Connections: Negotiating Institutional Ethics alongside Insider Identities - Gino Vlavonou 2. Conducting Sensitive Research 'At Home': A Matter of Responsibility - Emery Mushagalusa Mudinga 3. A Gendered Research Journey: Ethical Dilemmas of an Algerian Immigrant Recovering the Memory of 'Home' - Ghaliya N. Djelloul 4. Establishing Kinship in Diaspora: Conducting Research among Fellow Congolese Immigrants of Cape Town - Rosette Sifa Vuninga 5. 'If they find out, we're dead': Intermediaries, Self-censorship, and Anxiety in Research as an Outsider-insider - Aymar Nyenyezi Bisoka 6. Looking Behind the Screen: Ethical Quagmires when Accessing Hidden Discourses - An Ansoms 7. Scholar-Activist? On Relational Accountability and an Ethic of Dissemination - Susan Thomson Conclusion: Theorizing Self as Ethical Research Practice - Susan Thomson, An Ansoms and Aymar Nyenyezi Bisoka Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe Principles of Knowledge Creation is an essential guide to the various methods of collating, explaining and understanding research data. It provides an overview of the possibilities and opportunities that exist in the research world, and demonstrates the pluralism of scientific approaches and methods. The book explores research tools and techniques in the context of objectifying and interpreting science, and the application of critical science methods. An exhaustive range of research methods is examined by subject specialists from varied social science backgrounds, including management, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, psychology and pedagogy. They illustrate that no single knowledge creation approach can be applied to all enquiries or studies, and that different interpretations and approaches can lead to the founding of new knowledge and explanations. This fascinating, hands-on approach promises to inspire students and researchers to experiment with new and different methods of solving their research problems. As such, it will strongly appeal to all those with an interest in research and research data within the social sciences.Trade Review'The uniqueness of this book lies in the fact that its contents are not forceful and prescriptive, but instead sensitize researchers to opt for whichever method is most suitable. . . It leaves the reader with useful tips on how to succeed in exploring knowledge. Interestingly, it will equally enthuse researchers from the management and the social sciences.' -- Rajeshwari Narendran, Global Business Review'. . . a vast array of material that would be useful in a variety of courses and projects. Recommended.' -- R.K. Murray, ChoiceTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Bengt Gustavsson PART I: OBJECTIFYING METHODS 1. Quantitative Investigations: Design, Sampling, and Analysis Magnus Sverke 2. Quantitative Methods: The Art of Measuring What You Want Measured Magnus Sverke 3. Grounded Theory Bengt Gustavsson 4. Case Study Research Evert Gummesson PART II: INTERPRETING METHODS 5. Hermeneutics in Research Practice Per-Johan Ödman 6. Aesthetic Perspective: Hermeneutics of Action Pierre Guillet de Monthoux 7. Ethnography Christina Garsten 8. Introspection Maria Frostling-Henningsson PART III: CRITICAL METHODS 9. Narrative Analysis Hervé Corvellec 10. Thought Experiments Sören Häggqvist PART IV: TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES 11. Face-to-Face Research: Interviews, Conversations and Dialogues Björn Bjerke 12. The Internet Revolution and the Social Scientist Conny Svenning 13. The Art of Referencing Bengt Gustavsson Index

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Book SynopsisThis book bridges a major gap in knowledge by considering, through a range of reflexive chapters from different disciplinary backgrounds, both theoretical and practical issues relating to community research methodologies. The international contributors consider a number of key epistemological, ontological and methodological questions. They explore what community peer research means in a range of settings, for a range of people, for the quality of data and subsequent findings, and for the production of rigorous social research. The collection will also stimulate thinking about how methodological advancement can be made in the field. It is the first book of its kind to combine practical and methodological reflections with clearly presented recommendations about how the approach can be used. Presenting the latest thinking in the field and providing summaries, case studies and review questions, 'Community research for participation' will be invaluable to students, researchers, academics and practitioners who aim to place community members at the centre of their research.Trade Review"Goodson and Phillimore have collated a comprehensive and timely volume into the nature of community research that highlights the benefits of working with and in communities." LSE Review of Books"A usefull and far reaching discussion drawing on a wide range of practice/research illustrations" Carol Packham, MMU"This text cleverly negotiates through community research dealing with theoretical, ethical and practical issues in an engageing manner" Stuart Agnew, University Campus Suffolk"It is invaluable when practitioners produce reflections on experiences of undertaking their craft, and this volume is no exception. With a series of illuminating chapters covering a range of topics, this will be of value to those engaged in the field of community research." Tim May, co-director, Centre for Sustainable Urban and Regional Futures, University of Salford, UKTable of ContentsPart One: Theoretical and methodological issues ~ Community research: opportunities and challenges ~ Lisa Goodson and Jenny Phillimore; A critical communicative perspective on community research: Reflections on experiences working with Roma in Spain ~ Aitor Gómez and Terese Sordé Marti; Authenticity and validity in community research: Looking at age discrimination and urban social interactions in the UK ~ Andrew Clark, Caroline Holland and Richard Ward; Community research with Gypsies and Travellers in the UK: Highlighting and negotiating compromises to reliability and validity ~ Philip Brown, Lisa Scullion and Pat Niner;Involving community researchers in refugee research in the UK~ Gaby Atfield, Kavita Brahmbhatt, Hameed Hakimi and Therese O'Toole; Universities as agents in the empowerment of local communities in Germany, Finland and Russia ~ Patricia Bell, Melinda Madew, Tony Addy and Sakari Kainulainen; Data analysis and community research: Capturing reality on housing estates in Bradford, UK ~ Heather Blakey, EJ Milne and Louise Kilburn; Participation in community research: Experiences of community researchers in HIV/AIDS research in South Africa ~ Maretha Visser; Part Two: Ethics, power and emotion ~ Power and participation in community research: Community profilinh in Italy ~ Terri Mannarini; The pedagogy of community research: Moving out of the ivory tower and into community organisations in Canada ~ Karen Schwartz, Adje van de Sande and Ann Marie O'Brien; Engaging community researchers in evaluation: Looking at the experiences of community partners in school based projects in the US ~ Jenifer Cartland, Holly Ruch-Ross and Maryann Mason; Are we recovery orientated? An Australian encounter of learning from people with lived experience ~ Lisa Brophy, Melissa Petrakis, Liam Buckley, Matthew Scott, Jayne Lewis, Nadine Cocks, Michael Stylianou and Kieran Halloran; Ethics in community research: Reflections from ethnographic research with First Nations people in the US ~ Barbara Kawulich and Tamra Ogletree; Avoiding best being the enemy of good: using peer interviewer methods for community research in place-based settings in Australia ~ Deborah Warr, Rosey Mann and Richard Williams; Part Three: Managing the research process ~ Mental health service users and carers as researchers: reflections on a qualitative study of citizens' experiences of compulsory mental health laws in Northern Ireland ~ Damien Kavanagh, Gavin Davidson, Jim Campbell, Martin Daly and Moira Harper; Community organisation and community research: Women's struggle for food security in India ~ Janki Andharia; Community researchers in an adolescent risk reduction intervention in Botswana: Challenges and opportunities ~ Bagele Chilisa and Rapelang Chilisa; Recruitment and capacity building challenges in participatory research involving young people in Northern Ireland ~ Claire McCartan, Dirk Schubotz and Stephanie Burns; Translating lives: Cross language community research with Polish migrants in the UK ~ Bogusia Temple and Katarzyna Koterba; Mentoring refugee community researchers in the UK: An empowerment tool? ~ Patricia A. Jones and Ricky Joseph.

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Book SynopsisThis book bridges a major gap in knowledge by considering, through a range of reflexive chapters from different disciplinary backgrounds, both theoretical and practical issues relating to community research methodologies. The international contributors consider a number of key epistemological, ontological and methodological questions. They explore what community peer research means in a range of settings, for a range of people, for the quality of data and subsequent findings, and for the production of rigorous social research. The collection will also stimulate thinking about how methodological advancement can be made in the field. It is the first book of its kind to combine practical and methodological reflections with clearly presented recommendations about how the approach can be used. Presenting the latest thinking in the field and providing summaries, case studies and review questions, 'Community research for participation' will be invaluable to students, researchers, academics and practitioners who aim to place community members at the centre of their research.Trade Review"Goodson and Phillimore have collated a comprehensive and timely volume into the nature of community research that highlights the benefits of working with and in communities." LSE Review of Books"A usefull and far reaching discussion drawing on a wide range of practice/research illustrations" Carol Packham, MMU"This text cleverly negotiates through community research dealing with theoretical, ethical and practical issues in an engageing manner" Stuart Agnew, University Campus Suffolk"It is invaluable when practitioners produce reflections on experiences of undertaking their craft, and this volume is no exception. With a series of illuminating chapters covering a range of topics, this will be of value to those engaged in the field of community research." Tim May, co-director, Centre for Sustainable Urban and Regional Futures, University of Salford, UKTable of ContentsPart One: Theoretical and methodological issues ~ Community research: opportunities and challenges ~ Lisa Goodson and Jenny Phillimore; A critical communicative perspective on community research: Reflections on experiences working with Roma in Spain ~ Aitor Gómez and Terese Sordé Marti; Authenticity and validity in community research: Looking at age discrimination and urban social interactions in the UK ~ Andrew Clark, Caroline Holland and Richard Ward; Community research with Gypsies and Travellers in the UK: Highlighting and negotiating compromises to reliability and validity ~ Philip Brown, Lisa Scullion and Pat Niner;Involving community researchers in refugee research in the UK~ Gaby Atfield, Kavita Brahmbhatt, Hameed Hakimi and Therese O'Toole; Universities as agents in the empowerment of local communities in Germany, Finland and Russia ~ Patricia Bell, Melinda Madew, Tony Addy and Sakari Kainulainen; Data analysis and community research: Capturing reality on housing estates in Bradford, UK ~ Heather Blakey, EJ Milne and Louise Kilburn; Participation in community research: Experiences of community researchers in HIV/AIDS research in South Africa ~ Maretha Visser; Part Two: Ethics, power and emotion ~ Power and participation in community research: Community profilinh in Italy ~ Terri Mannarini; The pedagogy of community research: Moving out of the ivory tower and into community organisations in Canada ~ Karen Schwartz, Adje van de Sande and Ann Marie O'Brien; Engaging community researchers in evaluation: Looking at the experiences of community partners in school based projects in the US ~ Jenifer Cartland, Holly Ruch-Ross and Maryann Mason; Are we recovery orientated? An Australian encounter of learning from people with lived experience ~ Lisa Brophy, Melissa Petrakis, Liam Buckley, Matthew Scott, Jayne Lewis, Nadine Cocks, Michael Stylianou and Kieran Halloran; Ethics in community research: Reflections from ethnographic research with First Nations people in the US ~ Barbara Kawulich and Tamra Ogletree; Avoiding best being the enemy of good: using peer interviewer methods for community research in place-based settings in Australia ~ Deborah Warr, Rosey Mann and Richard Williams; Part Three: Managing the research process ~ Mental health service users and carers as researchers: reflections on a qualitative study of citizens' experiences of compulsory mental health laws in Northern Ireland ~ Damien Kavanagh, Gavin Davidson, Jim Campbell, Martin Daly and Moira Harper; Community organisation and community research: Women's struggle for food security in India ~ Janki Andharia; Community researchers in an adolescent risk reduction intervention in Botswana: Challenges and opportunities ~ Bagele Chilisa and Rapelang Chilisa; Recruitment and capacity building challenges in participatory research involving young people in Northern Ireland ~ Claire McCartan, Dirk Schubotz and Stephanie Burns; Translating lives: Cross language community research with Polish migrants in the UK ~ Bogusia Temple and Katarzyna Koterba; Mentoring refugee community researchers in the UK: An empowerment tool? ~ Patricia A. Jones and Ricky Joseph.

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Book SynopsisIn complex contemporary societies social science has become increasingly interwoven into the whole fabric of governance. At the same time there is an increasing recognition that attempts to understand the social world which seek to mimic the linear approaches of the conventional 'hard sciences' are mostly useless given the complex systems character of society in all its aspects. This book draws on a synthesis of critical realism and complexity theory to examine how social science is applied now and how it might be applied in the future in relation to social transformation in a time of crisis. A central argument is that there is no such thing as a 'pure' science of the social and that a recognition of the inevitability of application imposes obligations on social scientists wherever they work which challenge the passivity of most in the face of inequality and injustice.Trade Review"Byrne has advocated over the last decade an integration of critical realism and complexity theory and here is a good starting point for readers fresh to his argument. His book is worth reading." Journal of Social Policy"Very useful for its focus on 'application'. Will no doubt help those in applied profesion. Very relevant for wsocial work students for constructing evidence. Very useful.""This is a very apprehensible and practically oriented book" Olga Savinskaya, Higher School of Economics"Provocative and passionate, David Byrne's 'Applying social science' is a shot across the bows of those who think of applied social science as an academic backwater. More than a treatise on the practice and politics of social research, this book analyzes the contradictory roles social scientists and social research in 'post-democratic' society." Charles Ragin, Department of Sociology, University of Arizona"Applying social science is the book from David Byrne that many have been waiting for. This book will have a broad appeal to all those who care about the relevance and rigour of social research in the making of the policy and political agenda." Malcolm Williams, Director, Cardiff University School of Social SciencesTable of ContentsContents: The methodological foundations of applied social science; Constructing evidence: the development of knowledge which is to be applied; Surveying the social world: assembling knowledge as a basis for action; Evaluating: the role of social science in the establishment of effectiveness and outcomes; Legitimating: the selective use of social science in justifying policy and practice; Consulting: the role of social science in 'participatory' post-democratic politics; Modeling: the use of social science in predicting the future consequences of present actions; Acting: the role of social science in action-research; The Applied Social Sciences and the Academy; Conclusion: Where now?

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Book SynopsisIn complex contemporary societies social science has become increasingly interwoven into the whole fabric of governance. At the same time there is an increasing recognition that attempts to understand the social world which seek to mimic the linear approaches of the conventional 'hard sciences' are mostly useless given the complex systems character of society in all its aspects. This book draws on a synthesis of critical realism and complexity theory to examine how social science is applied now and how it might be applied in the future in relation to social transformation in a time of crisis. A central argument is that there is no such thing as a 'pure' science of the social and that a recognition of the inevitability of application imposes obligations on social scientists wherever they work which challenge the passivity of most in the face of inequality and injustice.Trade Review"Byrne has advocated over the last decade an integration of critical realism and complexity theory and here is a good starting point for readers fresh to his argument. His book is worth reading." Journal of Social Policy"Very useful for its focus on 'application'. Will no doubt help those in applied profesion. Very relevant for wsocial work students for constructing evidence. Very useful.""This is a very apprehensible and practically oriented book" Olga Savinskaya, Higher School of Economics"Applying social science is the book from David Byrne that many have been waiting for. This book will have a broad appeal to all those who care about the relevance and rigour of social research in the making of the policy and political agenda." Malcolm Williams, Director, Cardiff University School of Social Sciences"Provocative and passionate, David Byrne's 'Applying social science' is a shot across the bows of those who think of applied social science as an academic backwater. More than a treatise on the practice and politics of social research, this book analyzes the contradictory roles social scientists and social research in 'post-democratic' society." Charles Ragin, Department of Sociology, University of ArizonaTable of ContentsContents: The methodological foundations of applied social science; Constructing evidence: the development of knowledge which is to be applied; Surveying the social world: assembling knowledge as a basis for action; Evaluating: the role of social science in the establishment of effectiveness and outcomes; Legitimating: the selective use of social science in justifying policy and practice; Consulting: the role of social science in 'participatory' post-democratic politics; Modeling: the use of social science in predicting the future consequences of present actions; Acting: the role of social science in action-research; The Applied Social Sciences and the Academy; Conclusion: Where now?

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