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Book SynopsisFrom pioneering leaders in the field, this is the first book to provide a solid foundation for three major stakeholder involvement approaches: collaborative, participatory, and empowerment evaluation. Highlighting differences among the approaches, the authors focus on the role of the evaluator, who may be in charge of the evaluation, share control, or serve as a critical friend, leaving stakeholders in control. Practitioners are guided to select and implement the most appropriate framework for the purpose and scope of a given evaluation and the needs of community members and funders. For each approach, a chapter on essential features is followed by two chapters presenting actual sample evaluations--for example, early childhood and community health initiatives, an aquarium, a project with Google, and more. The concluding chapter discusses similarities and circumstances in which the approaches can be combined.Trade Review“This valuable book both shows and tells on the hot topic of collaborative, participatory, and empowerment approaches. Each 'essentials' chapter gains impact from two chapters illustrating what the principles look like in actual evaluation practice. Beautifully explanatory, memorably demonstrated! The authors emphasize understanding in order to select the most appropriate stakeholder approaches for the situation at hand. Far from claiming the exclusive benefits of any single approach, the book is infused with the spirit of working together. The chapter on commonalities powerfully lays out the features of stakeholder involvement at macro-, mid-, and microlevels of analysis, creating a strong theory-to-practice bridge for newcomers as well as experts. I wish I could gift-wrap this book and send it express to evaluation practitioners in fields from agronomy to zoology."--Lois-ellin Datta, PhD, President, Datta Analysis, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii "An invaluable contribution. This book adds very helpful perspectives and insights to an enticing and alluring--but largely still under-defined--set of evaluation methodologies. It provides focus, helpful guidance, and more nuanced, differentiated conceptualizations of collaborative, participatory, and empowerment evaluation. The conceptual framing of the methodologies and the inclusion of both domestic and international cases make the book particularly helpful for training and preparing novice evaluators. I really appreciate the simplicity and clarity of the writing, as well as the specificity of the processes and procedures described. This will be a useful core text for my graduate courses in monitoring and evaluation for development practitioners, and I expect my students to keep it as a reference guide when they enter the professional field."--David Bell, EdD, Department of International Development, Community and Environment, Clark University "This book uses in-depth case studies by experts in the field to explore and highlight principles and practices of the three approaches. I found the organization very useful. I particularly appreciate the inclusion of concrete suggestions and timelines, the information on how the approaches might be applied in different contexts, and the attention to ethical concerns regarding working with marginalized or vulnerable populations. Specifying ways that the approaches can be used in one-time or multiyear studies expands the utility of the volume. Students often express the desire for practical information about how to conduct evaluations--this practical volume, nested within theoretical and methodological frameworks, addresses this need."--Isabel Bradburn, PhD, Department of Human Development, Virginia Tech “The authors provide a robust overview of the three models of stakeholder involvement. Offering a thoughtful and informed perspective, this book is a welcome addition to an evolving field. It will advance evaluator expertise as well as stakeholder participation, evaluation capacity, and use of findings. Side-by-side case studies demonstrate the flexibility of the three models under different evaluation scenarios while guiding evaluators on the practical aspects of incorporating stakeholder involvement in their designs."--Annette L. Gardner, PhD, MPH, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco -Table of Contents1. An Introduction to Collaborative, Participatory, and Empowerment Evaluation Approaches, David Fetterman, Liliana Rodríguez-Campos, Abraham Wandersman, Rita Goldfarb O’Sullivan, & Ann Zukoski 2. Essentials of Collaborative Evaluation, Liliana Rodríguez-Campos 3. A Collaborative Evaluation of an Aquarium (Marine Life Program), Liliana Rodríguez-Campos, Rigoberto Rincones-Gómez, & Rosalyn Roker 4. A Collaborative Evaluation of a Multisite, Multipurpose, Multiyear Early Childhood Quality Care Initiative, Rita Goldfarb O’Sullivan 5. Essentials of Participatory Evaluation, Ann Zukoski & Cate Bosserman 6. A Participatory Evaluation of a Community Health Improvement Initiative, Ann Zukoski, Cate Bosserman, & Courtney Baechler 7. A Participatory Evaluation of a Community Justice Program for Sex Offenders, Jill Anne Chouinard 8. Essentials of Empowerment Evaluation, David Fetterman & Abraham Wandersman 9. An Empowerment Evaluation of a Comprehensive Sex Education Initiative, Margret Dugan 10. A Google-Enhanced Empowerment Evaluation Approach in a Graduate School Program, David Fetterman & Jason Ravitz 11. Similarities across the Three Approaches:Principles and Practices in Common, David Fetterman, Liliana Rodríguez-Campos, Abraham Wandersman, Rita Goldfarb O’Sullivan, & Ann Zukoski 12. Conclusion: Highlighting the Present and Looking to the Future, David Fetterman, Liliana Rodríguez-Campos, Abraham Wandersman, Rita Goldfarb O’Sullivan, & Ann Zukoski

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Book SynopsisFrom pioneering leaders in the field, this is the first book to provide a solid foundation for three major stakeholder involvement approaches: collaborative, participatory, and empowerment evaluation. Highlighting differences among the approaches, the authors focus on the role of the evaluator, who may be in charge of the evaluation, share control, or serve as a critical friend, leaving stakeholders in control. Practitioners are guided to select and implement the most appropriate framework for the purpose and scope of a given evaluation and the needs of community members and funders. For each approach, a chapter on essential features is followed by two chapters presenting actual sample evaluations--for example, early childhood and community health initiatives, an aquarium, a project with Google, and more. The concluding chapter discusses similarities and circumstances in which the approaches can be combined.Trade Review“This valuable book both shows and tells on the hot topic of collaborative, participatory, and empowerment approaches. Each 'essentials' chapter gains impact from two chapters illustrating what the principles look like in actual evaluation practice. Beautifully explanatory, memorably demonstrated! The authors emphasize understanding in order to select the most appropriate stakeholder approaches for the situation at hand. Far from claiming the exclusive benefits of any single approach, the book is infused with the spirit of working together. The chapter on commonalities powerfully lays out the features of stakeholder involvement at macro-, mid-, and microlevels of analysis, creating a strong theory-to-practice bridge for newcomers as well as experts. I wish I could gift-wrap this book and send it express to evaluation practitioners in fields from agronomy to zoology."--Lois-ellin Datta, PhD, President, Datta Analysis, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii "An invaluable contribution. This book adds very helpful perspectives and insights to an enticing and alluring--but largely still under-defined--set of evaluation methodologies. It provides focus, helpful guidance, and more nuanced, differentiated conceptualizations of collaborative, participatory, and empowerment evaluation. The conceptual framing of the methodologies and the inclusion of both domestic and international cases make the book particularly helpful for training and preparing novice evaluators. I really appreciate the simplicity and clarity of the writing, as well as the specificity of the processes and procedures described. This will be a useful core text for my graduate courses in monitoring and evaluation for development practitioners, and I expect my students to keep it as a reference guide when they enter the professional field."--David Bell, EdD, Department of International Development, Community and Environment, Clark University "This book uses in-depth case studies by experts in the field to explore and highlight principles and practices of the three approaches. I found the organization very useful. I particularly appreciate the inclusion of concrete suggestions and timelines, the information on how the approaches might be applied in different contexts, and the attention to ethical concerns regarding working with marginalized or vulnerable populations. Specifying ways that the approaches can be used in one-time or multiyear studies expands the utility of the volume. Students often express the desire for practical information about how to conduct evaluations--this practical volume, nested within theoretical and methodological frameworks, addresses this need."--Isabel Bradburn, PhD, Department of Human Development, Virginia Tech “The authors provide a robust overview of the three models of stakeholder involvement. Offering a thoughtful and informed perspective, this book is a welcome addition to an evolving field. It will advance evaluator expertise as well as stakeholder participation, evaluation capacity, and use of findings. Side-by-side case studies demonstrate the flexibility of the three models under different evaluation scenarios while guiding evaluators on the practical aspects of incorporating stakeholder involvement in their designs."--Annette L. Gardner, PhD, MPH, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco -Table of Contents1. An Introduction to Collaborative, Participatory, and Empowerment Evaluation Approaches, David Fetterman, Liliana Rodríguez-Campos, Abraham Wandersman, Rita Goldfarb O’Sullivan, & Ann Zukoski 2. Essentials of Collaborative Evaluation, Liliana Rodríguez-Campos 3. A Collaborative Evaluation of an Aquarium (Marine Life Program), Liliana Rodríguez-Campos, Rigoberto Rincones-Gómez, & Rosalyn Roker 4. A Collaborative Evaluation of a Multisite, Multipurpose, Multiyear Early Childhood Quality Care Initiative, Rita Goldfarb O’Sullivan 5. Essentials of Participatory Evaluation, Ann Zukoski & Cate Bosserman 6. A Participatory Evaluation of a Community Health Improvement Initiative, Ann Zukoski, Cate Bosserman, & Courtney Baechler 7. A Participatory Evaluation of a Community Justice Program for Sex Offenders, Jill Anne Chouinard 8. Essentials of Empowerment Evaluation, David Fetterman & Abraham Wandersman 9. An Empowerment Evaluation of a Comprehensive Sex Education Initiative, Margret Dugan 10. A Google-Enhanced Empowerment Evaluation Approach in a Graduate School Program, David Fetterman & Jason Ravitz 11. Similarities across the Three Approaches:Principles and Practices in Common, David Fetterman, Liliana Rodríguez-Campos, Abraham Wandersman, Rita Goldfarb O’Sullivan, & Ann Zukoski 12. Conclusion: Highlighting the Present and Looking to the Future, David Fetterman, Liliana Rodríguez-Campos, Abraham Wandersman, Rita Goldfarb O’Sullivan, & Ann Zukoski

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Book SynopsisToday's social and behavioral researchers increasingly need to know: What do I do with all this data? This book provides the skills needed to analyze and report large, complex data sets using machine learning tools, and to understand published machine learning articles. Techniques are demonstrated using actual data (Big Five Inventory, early childhood learning, and more), with a focus on the interplay of statistical algorithm, data, and theory. The identification of heterogeneity, measurement error, regularization, and decision trees are also emphasized. The book covers basic principles as well as a range of methods for analyzing univariate and multivariate data (factor analysis, structural equation models, and mixed-effects models). Analysis of text and social network data is also addressed. End-of-chapter Computational Time and Resources sections include discussions of key R packages; the companion website provides R programming scripts and data for the book's examples.Trade Review"Current, highly informative, and useful, this is a 'go-to' book for social science graduate students, faculty, and practitioners seeking a strong introduction to machine learning. Unlike typical, more technical machine learning books, this one is unique in providing the strong psychological measurement guidance required to apply these techniques most appropriately. It walks the reader through general principles of machine learning, regression- and tree-based predictive models, text- and network-based methods of clustering, and--most innovatively--machine learning–based psychometric approaches (CFA and SEM)."--Fred Oswald, PhD, Professor and Herbert S. Autrey Chair in Social Sciences, Department of Psychological Sciences, Rice University "This book is very timely. Social scientists need to be educated about the pros and cons of machine learning methods and about how, when, and why these methods can be applied to their research topics. The book describes key techniques in enough detail to enable readers to subsequently digest more specialized journal articles or software applications, but not in so much detail as to lose momentum."--Sonya K. Sterba, PhD, Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University "Jacobucci, Grimm, and Zhang's ambitious book takes the reader on an in-depth tour of machine learning methods. Its strength is that the authors link machine learning to more traditional topics of regression, structural equation modeling, factor analysis, and network analysis methods. This book should be required reading for the new generation of psychology graduate students who are interested in more advanced quantitative methods."--James W. Pennebaker, PhD, Regents Centennial Professor of Liberal Arts and Professor of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin ​"A 'must read' for social scientists who want to familiarize themselves with machine learning but don’t know where to start. Understanding the practices and principles of machine learning is fundamental to modern data analysis. Many social scientists will be surprised by how well their traditional statistical training has prepared them to grasp the material in the book."--Alexander Christensen, PhD, Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University-Table of ContentsI. Fundamental Concepts 1. Introduction - Why the Term Machine Learning? - Why do We Need Machine Learning? - How is this Book Different? - Definitions - Software - Datasets 2. The Principles of Machine Learning Research - Overview - Principle #1: Machine Learning is Not Just Lazy Induction - Principle #2: Orienting Our Goals Relative to Prediction, Explanation, and Description - Principle #3: Labeling a Study as Exploratory or Confirmatory is too Simplistic - Principle #4: Report Everything - Summary 3. The Practices of Machine Learning - Comparing Algorithms and Models - Model Fit - Bias-Variance Tradeoff - Resampling - Classification - Conclusion II. Algorithms for Univariate Outcomes 4. Regularized Regression - Linear Regression - Logistic Regression - Regularization - Rationale for Regularization - Alternative Forms of Regularization - Bayesian Regression - Summary 5. Decision Trees - Introduction - Decision Tree Algorithms - Miscellaneous Topics 6. Ensembles - Bagging - Random Forests - Gradient Boosting - Interpretation - Empirical Example - Important Notes - Summary III. Algorithms for Multivariate Outcomes 7. Machine Learning and Measurement - Defining Measurement Error - Impact of Measurement Error - Assessing Measurement Error - Weighting - Alternative Methods - Summary 8. Machine Learning and Structural Equation Modeling - Latent Variables as Predictors - Predicting Latent Variables - Using Latent Variables as Outcomes and Predictors - Can Regularization Improve Generalizability in SEM? - Nonlinear Relationships and Latent Variables - Summary 9. Machine Learning with Mixed-Effects Models - Mixed-Effects Models - Machine Learning with Clustered Data - Regularization with Mixed-Effects Models - Illustrative Example - Additional Strategies for Mining Longitudinal Data - Summary 10. Searching for Groups - Finite Mixture Model - Structural Equation Model Trees - Summary IV. Alternative Data Types 11. Introduction to Text Mining - Key Terminology - Data - Basic Text Mining - Text Data Preprocessing - Basic Analysis of the Teaching Comment Data - Sentiment Analysis - Topic Models - Summary 12. Introduction to Social Network Analysis - Network Visualization - Network Statistics - Basic Network Analysis - Network Modeling - Summary References

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Book SynopsisSeeking to challenge the focus on 'big data' by understanding it outside of the computational power required to process it, this volume explores the role of digital methods in the future of digital humanities research.

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Book SynopsisProviding a history of experimental methods and frameworks in anthropology from the 1920s to the present, Michael M. J. Fischer draws on his real world, multi-causal, multi-scale, and multi-locale research to rebuild theory for the twenty-first century.Trade Review"Anthropology in the Meantime is a rich collection of essays in tune with the central debates in contemporary cultural anthropology. . . . It serves as a survey of the present state of the field, identifying the tensions and re-inscribing them in the long tradition of anthropological scholarship. . . . Recommended. Advanced undergraduates and above." -- A. Ponce de Leon * Choice *" [This book] maintains a productive line that brings one back to the spirit, above all, of ethnographic exploration as idea and method mining. ... I believe it arrives at a perfect moment. [Fischer] contributes to various contemporary discussions within anthropology on religion, film, politics, postcolonialism, and gender/sexuality." -- Joseph Russo * Anthropological Quarterly *“This wonderful and well-researched collection of essays on third ethnographic spaces offers a pragmatic vision for anthropology in the Kantian spirit of the formation of a world society. A must read indeed in times of rapid change.” -- Michelangelo Paganopoulos * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsPrologue: Changing Modes of Ethnographic Authority 1 Part I. Ethnography in the Meantime 1. Experimental Ethnography in Ink, Light, Sound, and Performance 39 2. Ontology and Metaphysics Are False Leads 49 3. Pure Logic and Typologizing Are False Leads 79 Part II. Ground-Truthing 4. Violence and Deep Play 99 5. Amazonian Ethnography and the Politics of Renewal 114 6. Ethnic Violence, Galactic Polities, and the Great Transformation 130 Part III. Tone and Tuning 7. Health Care in India 161 8. Hospitality 186 9. Anthropology and Philosophy 198 Part IV. Temporalities and Recursivities 10. Changing Media of Ethnographic Writing 233 11. Recalling Writing Culture 258 12. Anthropological Modes of Concern 276 Epilogue: Third Spaces and Ethnography in the Anthropocene 298 Acknowledgments 345 Notes 349 Bibliography 391 Index 429

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Book SynopsisIn Anthropology in the Meantime Michael M. J. Fischer draws on his real world, multi-causal, multi-scale, and multi-locale research to rebuild theory for the twenty-first century. Providing a history and inventory of experimental methods and frameworks in anthropology from the 1920s to the present, Fischer presents anthropology in the meantime as a methodological injunction to do ethnography that examines how the pieces of the world interact, fit together or clash, generate complex unforeseen consequences, reinforce cultural references, and cause social ruptures. Anthropology in the meantime requires patience, constant experimentation, collaboration, the sounding-out of affects and nonverbal communication, and the conducting of ethnographically situated research over longitudinal time. Perhaps above all, anthropology in the meantime is no longer anthropology of and about peoples; it is written with and for the people who are its subjects. Anthropology in the MeantTrade Review"Anthropology in the Meantime is a rich collection of essays in tune with the central debates in contemporary cultural anthropology. . . . It serves as a survey of the present state of the field, identifying the tensions and re-inscribing them in the long tradition of anthropological scholarship. . . . Recommended. Advanced undergraduates and above." -- A. Ponce de Leon * Choice *" [This book] maintains a productive line that brings one back to the spirit, above all, of ethnographic exploration as idea and method mining. ... I believe it arrives at a perfect moment. [Fischer] contributes to various contemporary discussions within anthropology on religion, film, politics, postcolonialism, and gender/sexuality." -- Joseph Russo * Anthropological Quarterly *“This wonderful and well-researched collection of essays on third ethnographic spaces offers a pragmatic vision for anthropology in the Kantian spirit of the formation of a world society. A must read indeed in times of rapid change.” -- Michelangelo Paganopoulos * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsPrologue: Changing Modes of Ethnographic Authority 1 Part I. Ethnography in the Meantime 1. Experimental Ethnography in Ink, Light, Sound, and Performance 39 2. Ontology and Metaphysics Are False Leads 49 3. Pure Logic and Typologizing Are False Leads 79 Part II. Ground-Truthing 4. Violence and Deep Play 99 5. Amazonian Ethnography and the Politics of Renewal 114 6. Ethnic Violence, Galactic Polities, and the Great Transformation 130 Part III. Tone and Tuning 7. Health Care in India 161 8. Hospitality 186 9. Anthropology and Philosophy 198 Part IV. Temporalities and Recursivities 10. Changing Media of Ethnographic Writing 233 11. Recalling Writing Culture 258 12. Anthropological Modes of Concern 276 Epilogue: Third Spaces and Ethnography in the Anthropocene 298 Acknowledgments 345 Notes 349 Bibliography 391 Index 429

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Book SynopsisIn the 1950s the colonial British government in Northern and Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zambia and Zimbabwe) began construction on a large hydroelectric dam that created Lake Kariba and dislocated nearly 60,000 indigenous residents. Three decades later, Pamela Reynolds began fieldwork with the Tonga people to study the lasting effects of the dispossession of their land on their lives. In The Uncaring, Intricate WorldReynolds shares her field diary, in which she records her efforts to study children and their labor and, by doing so, exposes the character of everyday life. More than a memoir, her diary captures the range of pleasures, difficulties, frustrations, contradictions, and grappling with ethical questions that all anthropologists experience in the field. The Uncaring, Intricate World concludes with afterwords by Jane I. Guyer and Julie Livingston, who critically reflect on its context, its meaning for today, and relevance to conducting anthropological work.Trade Review“Pamela Reynolds's ethnography-diary The Uncaring, Intricate World elegantly captures the vicissitudes of life in a setting of breathtaking sunsets, stunning moon rises, brutal gusts of night wind, and the ceaselessly annoying high pitch of the mosquito's whine. In the pages of this wonderful book she presents a complex cast of memorable characters whose life challenges underscore both the fragility and resilience of the human condition as well as the small pleasures of sipping brandy after a long day of being-in-the-world.” -- Paul Stoller, author of * Adventures in Blogging: Public Anthropology and Popular Media *“The dated entries in The Uncaring, Intricate World bring into view not what is hidden and occult but what is before our eyes. Pamela Reynolds's writings are renowned for showing us that children haunt anthropological texts even as they go unacknowledged—yet this book adds an entirely new dimension to Reynolds's work by revealing the child who hides in the anthropologist.” -- Veena Das, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University"Reynolds engages with familiar fieldwork dilemmas – ethical, practical, methodological, social – with thoughtful candour." -- Hayley Macgregor * Times Literary Supplement *"Uncaring, Intricate World is well-structured, easy to read and intellectually stimulating. . . . It presents us with a different ethnographic form from the monograph, a deeply immersive, descriptive, everyday sense of what anthropologists do and what anthropology is and can be." -- Joshua Matanzima * Journal of Southern African Studies *"As we read, we cannot help but conclude that the book’s title is very appropriate. We come to know the culture and relationships of the Tonga people as extremely intricate. . . . Reynolds helps us see these intricacies, and we finish reading caring about these people." -- David W. Restrick * African Studies Quarterly *"A wonderful book to read. . . . While this diary documents happenings from nearly forty years ago, many of the observations are still relevant today. This is a vital source of insight for current students and researchers. It is beautifully written and edited and provides glimpses into a world many of us who study and write on Zimbabwe are familiar with." -- Rory Pilossof * African Studies Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Foreword. The Unsubstantial Territory / Todd Meyers xi Introduction 1 A Field Diary 31 Afterword. Noticing Life, Matters Arising / Jane I. Guyer 173 Afterword. Sitting Quietly, Traveling in Time / Julie Livingston 175 Glossary 179 Bibliography 185 Index 189

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Book SynopsisIn the 1950s the colonial British government in Northern and Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zambia and Zimbabwe) began construction on a large hydroelectric dam that created Lake Kariba and dislocated nearly 60,000 indigenous residents. Three decades later, Pamela Reynolds began fieldwork with the Tonga people to study the lasting effects of the dispossession of their land on their lives. In The Uncaring, Intricate WorldReynolds shares her field diary, in which she records her efforts to study children and their labor and, by doing so, exposes the character of everyday life. More than a memoir, her diary captures the range of pleasures, difficulties, frustrations, contradictions, and grappling with ethical questions that all anthropologists experience in the field. The Uncaring, Intricate World concludes with afterwords by Jane I. Guyer and Julie Livingston, who critically reflect on its context, its meaning for today, and relevance to conducting anthropological work.Trade Review“Pamela Reynolds's ethnography-diary The Uncaring, Intricate World elegantly captures the vicissitudes of life in a setting of breathtaking sunsets, stunning moon rises, brutal gusts of night wind, and the ceaselessly annoying high pitch of the mosquito's whine. In the pages of this wonderful book she presents a complex cast of memorable characters whose life challenges underscore both the fragility and resilience of the human condition as well as the small pleasures of sipping brandy after a long day of being-in-the-world.” -- Paul Stoller, author of * Adventures in Blogging: Public Anthropology and Popular Media *“The dated entries in The Uncaring, Intricate World bring into view not what is hidden and occult but what is before our eyes. Pamela Reynolds's writings are renowned for showing us that children haunt anthropological texts even as they go unacknowledged—yet this book adds an entirely new dimension to Reynolds's work by revealing the child who hides in the anthropologist.” -- Veena Das, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University"Reynolds engages with familiar fieldwork dilemmas – ethical, practical, methodological, social – with thoughtful candour." -- Hayley Macgregor * Times Literary Supplement *"Uncaring, Intricate World is well-structured, easy to read and intellectually stimulating. . . . It presents us with a different ethnographic form from the monograph, a deeply immersive, descriptive, everyday sense of what anthropologists do and what anthropology is and can be." -- Joshua Matanzima * Journal of Southern African Studies *"As we read, we cannot help but conclude that the book’s title is very appropriate. We come to know the culture and relationships of the Tonga people as extremely intricate. . . . Reynolds helps us see these intricacies, and we finish reading caring about these people." -- David W. Restrick * African Studies Quarterly *"A wonderful book to read. . . . While this diary documents happenings from nearly forty years ago, many of the observations are still relevant today. This is a vital source of insight for current students and researchers. It is beautifully written and edited and provides glimpses into a world many of us who study and write on Zimbabwe are familiar with." -- Rory Pilossof * African Studies Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Foreword. The Unsubstantial Territory / Todd Meyers xi Introduction 1 A Field Diary 31 Afterword. Noticing Life, Matters Arising / Jane I. Guyer 173 Afterword. Sitting Quietly, Traveling in Time / Julie Livingston 175 Glossary 179 Bibliography 185 Index 189

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Book Synopsis2024 Daniel E. Griffiths Research Award WinnerAn expansive volume presenting crip approaches to writing, research, and publishing. Crip Authorship: Disability as Method is an expansive volume presenting the multidisciplinary methods brought into being by disability studies and activism. Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez have convened leading scholars, artists, and activists to explore the ways disability shapes authorship, transforming cultural production, aesthetics, and media.Starting from the premise that disability is plural and authorship spans composition, affect, and publishing, this collection of thirty-five compact essays asks how knowledge about disability is produced and shared in disability studies. Disability alters, generates, and dismantles method. Crip authorship takes place within and beyond the commodity version of authorship, in books, on social media, and in creative works that will never be published. The Trade ReviewCrip Authorship moves directly into the most urgent debates in critical disability studies, focusing on questions of methodology, race, queerness, cross-disability solidarity, and what it means to make or publish crip work. An extraordinary array of authors, both emerging and well-known, contribute original pieces and provoke thrilling new conversations. This remarkable volume will be of interest to readers across many fields and methodological orientations. Crip Authorship argues for, and also demonstrates, the powerful interdisciplinarity of crip scholarship and its potential to work toward greater justice. * Margaret Price, author of Crip Spacetime *This is a fantastic, urgent, singular, and kaleidoscopic book. Crip Authorship uses disability to explode the very idea of method: this is a book about research, but also about writing, thinking, publishing, and inhabiting. Crip Authorship is essential reading for any scholar who does anything with disability in their work; it is even more essential reading for those who don’t. This is a field-changing collection. * Jonathan Sterne, author of Diminished Faculties: A Political Phenomenology of Impairment *This field-changing collection is theoretically sophisticated and politically charged! This book crucially shows how disability is not only an identity formation, but also a method to revise how we write, critique, and enact change. The collection most importantly engages disability as it relates to race, the non-West, colonialism, sexuality, gender identity, and class, offering an exciting and much needed model for our field. This text redefines how we theorize, imagine, and produce disability. * Hentyle Yapp, University of California, San Diego *This illuminating collection of essays focuses on the variety and value of crip creation, methodology, writing and research. With contributions from Mel Y Chen, Jaipreet Virdi, Emily Lim Rogers, Ellen Samuels and many more, it is urgent and original. -- Karla Strand * Ms. Magazine *

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Book SynopsisReimagines the field of queer studies by asking How do we do queer theory? Imagining Queer Methods showcases the methodological renaissance unfolding in queer scholarship. This volume brings together emerging and esteemed researchers from all corners of the academy who are defining new directions for the field. From critical race studies, history, journalism, lesbian feminist studies, literature, media studies, and performance studies to anthropology, education, psychology, sociology, and urban planning, this impressive interdisciplinary collection covers topics such as humanistic approaches to reading, theorizing, and interpreting, as well as scientific appeals to measurement, modeling, sampling, and statistics. By bringing together these diverse voices into an unprecedented single volume, Amin Ghaziani and Matt Brim inspire us with innovative ways of thinking about methods and methodologies in queer studies.Trade Review"For those working in the areas of queer theory or queer studies, we know that the question of something called ‘queer methods’ or ‘queer methodologies’ is a long-standing and vexing one. It is a mixing of two ideas that on first blush appear incompatible—that is, ‘queerness’ and ‘method.’ The latter calls to mind the possibility of unified disciples, fixed approaches, and data sets, while the former defies any such easy categorical coherence. Imagining Queer Methods is nothing less than a manifesto on the future of how these two seemingly orthogonal terms can together be productively engaged in knowledge production. Amin Ghaziani and Matt Brim, two leading voices among their generation of queer theorists, have carefully curated an impressive array of transdisciplinary voices who do precisely that in the essays contained in this volume." -- Dwight A. McBride, author of Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch: Essays On Race and Sexuality"Imagining Queer Methods jumpstarts a much-needed conversation among sociologists, historians, and literary theorists about what exactly it means to ‘do’ queer work. Original and path-breaking, Imagining Queer Methods will change the way we think about and practice our scholarship." -- Arlene Stein, author of Unbound: Transgender Men and the Transformation of Identity"The scholars and activists of Imagining Queer Methods dare to ask not only ‘why’ but ‘how.’ Through oral history, community study, social mapping, and manifesto they break through the artificial divide between academic and activist methods in order to name and support the political and procedural protocols that might—with struggle and care—give birth to dynamic practices of queer liberation." -- Robert F. Reid-Pharr, author of Archives of Flesh: Spain, African America, and Post-Humanist Critique"Smart, scrappy, and exciting, Imagining Queer Methods brings together top scholars from across disciplines for a provocative tour of how queerness can challenge and invigorate research enterprises" -- Joshua Gamson, author of Modern Families: Stories of Extraordinary Journeys to Kinship"Is 'queer methods' an oxymoron? Not according to this volume, which takes aim at the longstanding assumption that the political force of queer studies arises from its anti-disciplinary commitments. Provocative, timely, and fierce, Imagining Queer Methods is both a case study and manifesto for why methods matter." -- Robyn Wiegman,author of Object Lessons"This volume is highly recommended for graduate students and scholars who seek to understand queer methods and apply them in their own work." * CHOICE *

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Book SynopsisReimagines the field of queer studies by asking How do we do queer theory? Imagining Queer Methods showcases the methodological renaissance unfolding in queer scholarship. This volume brings together emerging and esteemed researchers from all corners of the academy who are defining new directions for the field. From critical race studies, history, journalism, lesbian feminist studies, literature, media studies, and performance studies to anthropology, education, psychology, sociology, and urban planning, this impressive interdisciplinary collection covers topics such as humanistic approaches to reading, theorizing, and interpreting, as well as scientific appeals to measurement, modeling, sampling, and statistics. By bringing together these diverse voices into an unprecedented single volume, Amin Ghaziani and Matt Brim inspire us with innovative ways of thinking about methods and methodologies in queer studies.Trade Review"For those working in the areas of queer theory or queer studies, we know that the question of something called ‘queer methods’ or ‘queer methodologies’ is a long-standing and vexing one. It is a mixing of two ideas that on first blush appear incompatible—that is, ‘queerness’ and ‘method.’ The latter calls to mind the possibility of unified disciples, fixed approaches, and data sets, while the former defies any such easy categorical coherence. Imagining Queer Methods is nothing less than a manifesto on the future of how these two seemingly orthogonal terms can together be productively engaged in knowledge production. Amin Ghaziani and Matt Brim, two leading voices among their generation of queer theorists, have carefully curated an impressive array of transdisciplinary voices who do precisely that in the essays contained in this volume." -- Dwight A. McBride, author of Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch: Essays On Race and Sexuality"Imagining Queer Methods jumpstarts a much-needed conversation among sociologists, historians, and literary theorists about what exactly it means to ‘do’ queer work. Original and path-breaking, Imagining Queer Methods will change the way we think about and practice our scholarship." -- Arlene Stein, author of Unbound: Transgender Men and the Transformation of Identity"The scholars and activists of Imagining Queer Methods dare to ask not only ‘why’ but ‘how.’ Through oral history, community study, social mapping, and manifesto they break through the artificial divide between academic and activist methods in order to name and support the political and procedural protocols that might—with struggle and care—give birth to dynamic practices of queer liberation." -- Robert F. Reid-Pharr, author of Archives of Flesh: Spain, African America, and Post-Humanist Critique"Smart, scrappy, and exciting, Imagining Queer Methods brings together top scholars from across disciplines for a provocative tour of how queerness can challenge and invigorate research enterprises" -- Joshua Gamson, author of Modern Families: Stories of Extraordinary Journeys to Kinship"Is 'queer methods' an oxymoron? Not according to this volume, which takes aim at the longstanding assumption that the political force of queer studies arises from its anti-disciplinary commitments. Provocative, timely, and fierce, Imagining Queer Methods is both a case study and manifesto for why methods matter." -- Robyn Wiegman,author of Object Lessons"This volume is highly recommended for graduate students and scholars who seek to understand queer methods and apply them in their own work." * CHOICE *

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Book SynopsisThis handbook focuses on the enormous literature applying statistical methodology and modelling to environmental and ecological processes. The 21st century statistics community has become increasingly interdisciplinary, bringing a large collection of modern tools to all areas of application in environmental processes. In addition, the environmental community has substantially increased its scope of data collection including observational data, satellite-derived data, and computer model output. The resultant impact in this latter community has been substantial; no longer are simple regression and analysis of variance methods adequate. The contribution of this handbook is to assemble a state-of-the-art view of this interface. Features: An internationally regarded editorial team. A distinguished collection of contributors. A thoroughly contemporary treatment of a substantial interdisciplinary interTrade Review"This is an extremely well-composed book, offering an interdisciplinary exposure to the concepts and methods that are very valuable to perform environmental and ecological data analysis. The contributors are recognized experts in the topics of their writing...Noteworthy features in this book are introducing uncertainty, anisotropy and non-stationarity, threshold exceedance, coenospace, stochasticity, tail-down models, entropy-based design among others...I highly recommend this book to environmental, climate, statistics and computing researchers and practicing professionals."- Ramalingam Shanmugam, JSCS, Aug 2020 Table of ContentsIntroduction. Methodology for Statistical Analysis of Environmental Processes. Basics of modeling for environmental processes. Time series methodology. Dynamic models. Geostatistical modeling for environmental processes. Point patterns. Data fusion. Analysis of Extremes. Environmental sampling methods. Zero-inflation modeling and hurdle models. Ordination methods. Topics in Ecological Processes. Species distribution models – Plants. Species distribution models - Animals. Demography. Modeling traits. Ecology of infectious diseases. Wildfires and fire recovery. Modeling of streams. Topics in Environmental Exposure. Modeling environmental contaminants. Data fusion for exposure. Modeling other exposures and modeling personal exposure. Preferential sampling with regard to exposure levels. Dynamic source apportionment. Dynamics of environmental epidemiology. Connecting exposure to outcome. Experimental design for environmental epidemiology. Topics in Climatology. Trends in climatology. Climate models. Spatial analysis for climatology. Remote sensing - the statistical contribution. Data assimilation. Spatial extremes with application to climate and environmental exposure. Paleoclimate and paleoecology. Detection and attribution. Effects of climate change on health effects.

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Book SynopsisWithin anthropology, as elsewhere in the human sciences, there is a tendency to divide knowledge making into two separate poles: conceptual (theory) vs. empirical (ethnography). In Theory Can Be More than It Used to Be, Dominic Boyer, James D. Faubion, and George E. Marcus argue that we need to take a step back from the assumption that we know what theory is to investigate how theorya matter of concepts, of analytic practice, of medium of value, of professional ideologyoperates in anthropology and related fields today. They have assembled a distinguished group of scholars to diagnose the state of the theory-ethnography divide in anthropology today and to explore alternative modes of analytical and pedagogical practice.Continuing the methodological insights provided in Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be, the contributors to this volume find that now is an optimal time to reflect on the status of theory in relation to ethnographic research in anthropology Trade Review"Theory Can Be More than It Used to Be illuminates and jeopardizes notions long central to anthropology. Fieldwork and ethnography have both come under much more thorough scrutiny than theory. This book explores the complexities, resonances, and possibilities of theory in relation to contemporary and near-future anthropology. It opens up complex and challenging terrain and provides us with the analytical wherewithal for thinking through—and with—questions of what theory can be and how it can shape and be shaped by the field. Lucid, fascinating, exceptionally engaging, and highly sophisticated, this book is a major contribution to key debates within and beyond anthropology." -- Don Brenneis, University of California, Santa Cruz, coeditor of Annual Review of Anthropology"The essays in Theory Can Be More than It Used to Be are well crafted; they draw on vibrant ethnographic material and a creative rendering of social and cultural theory in relation to the abiding imperatives of anthropology. This book sets out a rich variety of approaches that will constitute points of departure for scholarly discussions, research, and pedagogy going forward. It is by no means an exaggeration to say the fate of the discipline of anthropology rests on the questions posed here. There are three no better and more respected anthropologists than Dominic Boyer, James D. Faubion, and George E. Marcus to speak authoritatively to these profound concerns and challenges." -- Douglas R. Holmes, Binghamton University, author of Integral Europe: Fast-Capitalism, Multiculturalism, NeofascismTable of ContentsIntroduction: New Methodologies for a Transformed Discipline by Dominic Boyer and George E. MarcusPart I. Ethnography, Fieldwork, Theorization1. Portable Analytics and Lateral Theory by Dominic Boyer and Cymene Howe2. On Programmatics by James D. Faubion3. The Ambitions of Theory Work in the Production of Contemporary Anthropological Research by George E. Marcus4. Theorizing the Present Ethnographically by Andreas Glaeser5. Trans-formations of Biology and of Theory by Kaushik Sunder Rajan6. Figuring Out Theory: Ethnographic Sketches by Kim FortunPart II. Pedagogy, Training, Analytical Method7. ResponsesTheory as Parallax and Provocation by Andrea BallesteroUndisciplined Engagements: Anthropology, Ethnography, Theory by Lisa BregliaTheory Making: From the Raw to the Cooked by Jessica Marie FalconePeople in Glass Cages (Shouldn't Throw Theoretical Stones) by Jamer HuntEthnography and Social Theory: A Dialectic to Hang Our Hats On by Townsend MiddletonTheory as Method by Deepa S. Reddy8. DialogueEncountering and Engaging Theory (or Not) Theory in the Positive Sense of the Term Teaching Theory and Analytical MethodAfterword: On the Need to Reinvent Anthropological Teaching and Training in Theory by Dominic BoyerNotes Bibliography Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe nonprofit sector has changed in fundamental ways in recent decades. As the sector has grown in scope and size, both domestically and internationally, the boundaries between for-profit, governmental, and charitable organizations have become intertwined. Nonprofits are increasingly challenged on their roles in mitigating or exacerbating inequality. And debates flare over the role of voluntary organizations in democratic and autocratic societies alike. The Nonprofit Sector takes up these concerns and offers a cutting-edge empirical and theoretical assessment of the state of the field. This book, now in its third edition, brings together leading researchers—economists, historians, philosophers, political scientists, and sociologists along with scholars from communication, education, law, management, and policy schools—to investigate the impact of associational life. Chapters consider the history of the nonprofit sector and of philanthropy; the politics of the public sphere; governance, mission, and engagement; access and inclusion; and global perspectives on nonprofit organizations. Across this comprehensive range of topics, The Nonprofit Sector makes an essential contribution to the study of civil society.Trade Review"The nonprofit form has spread around the world as a unique alternative to markets and governments. This third edition of The Nonprofit Sector provides great insight into this phenomenon, and is as exciting and informative as the previous two. With fresh faces and insights, it is a real joy to read."—Joseph Galaskiewicz, University of Arizona"Now in its third edition, The Nonprofit Sector continues to build the field of nonprofit studies by exploring the full range of organizations, associations, actions, and interactions that constitute the voluntary sector in the US and globally. Featuring a broad and multidisciplinary range of scholars, this work provokes us to reexamine the history and envision the future of nonprofit scholarship and practice. The Nonprofit Sector generates a rich research agenda that will stimulate novel and innovative scholarship for years to come."—Mary Kay Gugerty, University of Washington"Walter Powell, Patricia Bromley, and Stanford University Press are to be congratulated for assembling this timely, unique, and definitive volume which not only chronicles the history of the nonprofit sector but also provides a broad but critical analysis of its current state. This third edition of The Nonprofit Sector presents a wide range of carefully chosen scholarship which will ensure that this book remains an invaluable resource to the growing number of scholars and practitioners in the sector around the world. It is an essential handbook for the leadership of nonprofit and philanthropic institutions, their governing boards, as well as public officials and journalists."—Vartan Gregorian, President, Carnegie Corporation of New YorkTable of Contents1. What Is the Nonprofit Sector? —Walter W. Powell 2. A History of Associational Life and the Nonprofit Sector in the United States —Benjamin Soskis 3. Seeing Like a Philanthropist: From the Business of Benevolence to the Benevolence of Business —Aaron Horvath and Walter W. Powell 4. The Organizational Transformation of Civil Society —Patricia Bromley 5. Tangled Up in Tax: The Nonprofit Sector and the Federal Tax System —Daniel J. Hemel 6. Political Theory and the Nonprofit Sector —Ted Lechterman and Rob Reich 7. Nonprofits as Boundary Markers: The Politics of Choice, Mobilization, and Arbitrage —Elisabeth S. Clemens 8. Politics, Philanthropy, and Inequality —Sarah Reckhow 9. Toward a Governance Framework for Government–Nonprofit Relations —Nicole P. Marwell and Maoz Brown 10. Social Service Nonprofits: Navigating Conflicting Demands —Jennifer E. Mosley 11. Nonprofits as Urban Infrastructure —Christof Brandtner and Claire Dunning 12. Immigrant Organizations: Civic (In)equality and Civic (In)visibility —Irene Bloemraad, Shannon Gleeson, and Els de Graauw 13. Economic Theories of the Social Sector: From Nonprofits to Social Enterprise —Maitreesh Ghatak 14. Social Entrepreneurship: Research as Disciplined Exploration —Johanna Mair 15. Nonprofits and the Environment: Using Market Forces for Social Good —Magali A. Delmas, Thomas P. Lyon, and Sean Jackson 16. The Outcomes Movement in Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector —Paul Brest 17. Charitable Nonprofits and the Business of Health Care —Jill R. Horwitz 18. Education and the Nonprofit Sector: Schools and Organizational Intermediaries —Richard Arum and Jacob L. Kepins 19. Nonprofit Arts Organizations: Sustainability and Rationales for Support —Francie Ostrower 20. Advocacy, Civic Engagement, and Social Change —David Suárez 21. The Changing Face of Nonprofit Advocacy: Democratizing Potentials and Risks in an Unequal Context —Edward T. Walker and Yotala Oszkay Febres-Cordero 22. Advocating for What? The Nonprofit Press and Models of the Public —Mike Ananny 23. What Influences Charitable Giving? —Pamela Paxton 24. The Altruism Budget: Measuring and Encouraging Charitable Giving —Laura K. Gee and Jonathan Meer 25. What Do Volunteers Do? —Nina Eliasoph 26. Religious Organizations: Crosscutting the Nonprofit Sector —Brad R. Fulton 27. The Global Rise of Nongovernmental Organizations —Evan Schofer and Wesley Longhofer 28. Global Backlash Against Foreign Funding to Domestic Nongovernmental Organizations —Kendra Dupuy and Aseem Prakash 29. Social Movements in a Global Context: History, Content, and Form —Breno Bringel and Elizabeth McKenna 30. Comparative Nonprofit Sector Research: A Critical Assessment —Helmut K. Anheier, Markus Lang, and Stefan Toepler

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Book SynopsisUnlike other athletes, the rock climber tends to disregard established norms of style and technique, doing whatever she needs to do to get to the next foothold. This figure provides an apt analogy for the scholar at the center of this unique book. In Rocking Qualitative Social Science, Ashley Rubin provides an entertaining treatise, corrective vision, and rigorously informative guidebook for qualitative research methods that have long been dismissed in deference to traditional scientific methods. Recognizing the steep challenges facing many, especially junior, social science scholars who struggle to adapt their research models to narrowly defined notions of "right," Rubin argues that properly nourished qualitative research can generate important, creative, and even paradigm-shifting insights. This book is designed to help people conduct good qualitative research, talk about their research, and evaluate other scholars' work. Drawing on her own experiences in research and life, Rubin provides tools for qualitative scholars, synthesizes the best advice, and addresses the ubiquitous problem of anxiety in academia. Ultimately, this book argues that rigorous research can be anything but rigid.Trade Review"In this utterly refreshing account, Rubin makes the research process fun again. By deconstructing the limits we place upon ourselves as qualitative researchers, this book opens up new pathways for rigorous, empirical research that is grounded in thoughtful and reflective processes. Those new to the field and those seeking to build confidence or rethink their strategies will benefit from this readable and inspiring guide." -- Sarah Lageson * author of Give Methods a Chance *"Rocking Qualitative Social Science is Ashley Rubin's love letter to her fellow dirtbaggers—we DIY-minded scholars who ask unconventional questions, find and forge new ways to untangle complex social problems, and obsessively track down leads and explore unusual spaces. Packed with useful advice for every stage of the research process, Rubin's methodological mixtape celebrates the robust community of gritty, dedicated investigators and storytellers pushing social science forward." -- Joshua Page, Associate Professor of Sociology and Law * University of Minnesota *Table of ContentsContents and Abstracts1Introduction to Dirtbagging chapter abstractThis chapter introduces the Dirtbagging approach to qualitative social science research. The chapter lays out the main themes and arguments of the book, contrasting the Dirtbagging approach to the traditional approaches, and argues that there is no One Right Way of doing research. It also introduces rock climbing as the major motif for the book and what we can learn from rock climbers. 2Topo: What Exactly Are Qualitative Methods? chapter abstractThis chapter tries to define qualitative methods, while discussing some of the difficulties with the most common ways to define them. We begin with a rundown of the typical methods of qualitative data collection but note that qualitative data can also be quantitatively analyzed. We then review a lot of the traditional ideas or even stereotypes about qualitative methods, pointing out that they have been repeatedly challenged lately. Consequently, the easy markers of qualitative methods recited in various texts no longer hold up very well. Finally, we discuss when qualitative methods are appropriate and what type of research they let you do. 3Picking Your Proj: Identifying Your Research Question chapter abstractThis chapter seeks to do four things. First, it describes the role of research questions in the larger research process. Second, and building on that first discussion, this chapter dispels some misconceptions about research questions, especially what counts as a research question and why people disagree about this. Third, the chapter discusses strategies for coming up with a research question. Finally, it identifies some of the secrets about research questions relating to challenges and opportunities that can arise, particularly when you are Dirtbagging about in the field. 4On Belay: Connecting Your Work to an Anchor chapter abstractThis chapter discusses how to anchor your work to the academic literature. Importantly, even though there is a lot of advice out there on how to do this, much of it is unhelpful. So this chapter discusses some of the key ways in which people tend to evaluate research—not so much in its nitty gritty details of research design and analysis, but in terms of whether your entire project is worthwhile. I maintain that you can pretty much make any project valuable, but you have to be able to do certain things to convince people of your project's worth. If you can't do those things, then maybe it's not actually a good project. 5Mapping out the Route: How and When Research Design Matters chapter abstractThis chapter is the first of three chapters on research design. Research design is how you explain or justify your decisions about how to collect and analyze your data. Your explanation may not actually be what guided your decisions (the conventional idea of research design is that it takes place before you collect and analyze your data). But your ability to defend your choices is key to how we evaluate research. This chapter addresses general things about planning and executing your research, such as whether you want to map everything out carefully ahead of time or play it by ear. Keeping these things in mind—not necessarily acting on them immediately but letting them inform your decisions—will lead to a better project. 6Starting on the Right Foot: Making and Justifying Your Case Selection chapter abstractThis chapter reviews the various considerations that go into case selection, which everyone has to do (whether you think you do or not). We start with some strategies for figuring out how to select a case if you are in the design phase and don't know which case(s) to choose. Then we turn the various types of cases we use in social science; each type of case comes with its own justifications for why you might choose this case and not that case. Thinking about these justifications can also remind you about the limits of the type of case you have selected and thus what you can (and can't) claim with your study. The type of case you choose will substantially impact what you can do with your project and what type of relationship your study will have with existing theories. 7Flaking out the Rope: How to Check Your Sample chapter abstractThis chapter examines the issues you need to think about carefully when it comes to your data collection. For starters, we discuss how you decide what data to actually collect. Next, we return to one of the banes of a qualitative scholar's existence: the question of how much data are enough; but rather than worrying about what other people think is the answer to this question, we will answer it on our own terms. Finally, we talk about what you can do to really think through the limitations of your data and how to make your project stronger. Skipping these steps can (justifiably) open you up to criticism. Doing them carefully will protect you against some bad falls. 8Bivvy Time: The Fieldwork Model of Data Collection chapter abstractThis chapter discusses the process of collecting data in "the field," which I define broadly to include any place you collect your data. I have adopted this ethnographic language because it provides a broadly useful model, even for those of us doing online or archival research. In this chapter, I review the specific strategies fieldworkers use that I have found useful in my work. Some readers, who have never conducted ethnographies, will recognize these strategies, because the strategies are not unique to ethnographers. Most of the non-ethnographic methods texts I have come across have not said much about the mundane realities of data collection, while this is something at which ethnographers excel. 9The Crux: Content Analysis, Analytic Memos, and Other Tricks chapter abstractThis chapter discusses the central tools you will need as a qualitative social scientist to analyze your data. While there are certainly more advanced analysis tools, content analysis (open and focused coding) and analytic memos (notes to yourself with varying degrees of analysis) will get you through most projects. Designed and perfected by ethnographers, these tools are once again broadly applicable, whether you are conducting formal interviews, using archival data, or reviewing websites and online documents. They allow you to systematically review your data and keep track of the many insights your mind will be swimming with as you do so. 10Placing Pro: Making Causal Claims with Qualitative Data chapter abstractThis chapter discusses the tricks and tools you can use to establish causal claims and, ultimately, to give yourself—and your audience—confidence that you aren't just making shit up. The more of these tricks you use, the more confidence you will have. I think of it like climbers laying down pro—the more nuts and cams you embed on the wall, the less likely it is that you will plummet to the ground if you miss a handhold and fall. One piece of pro might pop out if it's poorly placed or there's some loose rock, but if you have several pieces placed, you're still safe. Likewise, the more of these extra steps you take, the more confidence you can have—and if you are wrong, the more you can be forgiven for believing you had it right. 11Living on the Sharp End: Dealing with Skeptics of Qualitative Research chapter abstractQualitative scholars frequently face skepticism about their ability to produce high-quality research—and in sufficient amounts. There are many implicit critiques of qualitative methods vis-á-vis quantitative methods when it comes to things like defining qualitative methods (Chapter 2) or making causal inference (Chapter 10). Underlying these critiques are basic misconceptions—on the part of not only critics but also over-eager qualitative researchers—about qualitative methods' inherent limitations. (Bad qualitative research is, sadly, one contributor to these misconceptions.) So part of learning about qualitative methods requires understanding common critiques of qualitative methods, both so you can be prepared to defend your choice of methods and so you can defend against rote critiques. 12The Sweeper chapter abstractThis chapter summarizes the Dirtbagging approach to qualitative social science and revisits why having a flexible, inclusive approach to qualitative research is beneficial for everyone.

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Book SynopsisPerpetrators of mass violence are commonly regarded as evil. Their violent nature is believed to make them commit heinous crimes as members of state agencies, insurgencies, terrorist organizations, or racist and supremacist groups. Upon close examination, however, perpetrators are contradictory human beings who often lead unsettlingly ordinary and uneventful lives. Drawing on decades of on-the-ground research with perpetrators of genocide, mass violence, and enforced disappearances in Cambodia and Argentina, Antonius Robben and Alex Hinton explore how researchers go about not just interviewing and writing about perpetrators, but also processing their own emotions and considering how the personal and interpersonal impact of this sort of research informs the texts that emerge from them. Through interlinked ethnographic essays, methodological and theoretical reflections, and dialogues between the two authors, this thought-provoking book conveys practical wisdom for the benefit of other researchers who face ruthless perpetrators and experience turbulent emotions when listening to perpetrators and their victims. Perpetrators rarely regard themselves as such, and fieldwork with perpetrators makes for situations freighted with emotion. Research with perpetrators is a difficult but important part of understanding the causes of and creating solutions to mass violence, and Robben and Hinton use their expertise to provide insightful lessons on the epistemological, ethical, and emotional challenges of ethnographic fieldwork in the wake of atrocity.Trade Review"In Robben and Hinton's 'encounter with humanity's dark side' the perpetrator researcher and the evildoer become inextricably intertwined. Researchers' intimate fieldwork contact with perpetrators of mass atrocity sullies them, they feel dirty. And, yet, it reveals complex and contradictory human beings that unsettle facile assumptions about their monstrosity. How do researchers incorporate cognitive and affective empathy to understand the 'priming' that make atrocities possible, while condemning those acts? Perpetrators establishes the craft for doing so."—Leigh Payne, Oxford University"Written as a sustained conversation between two foundational figures in the field of perpetrator studies, this book offers a rich exploration of the individuals who operate the machinery of mass murder. The authors combine profound insights into universal phenomena, while demonstrating the importance of understanding local specificities and moral economies. This unsettling book charts a future research agenda for those who seek to understand the disturbing, unholy mixture of humanity among those who engage in lethal violence."—Kimberly Theidon, Tufts University"Perpetrators[:] Encountering Humanity's Dark Side provides a therapeutic and rewarding read for anthropologists and social scientists who have come into contact with agents of violence through their research, as well as for those who expect to do so."—Sergen Bahceci, Anthropology Book Forum"The book offers a curative reading: healing and, at the same time, crafting together pieces to be displayed in search of meaning. A necessary and exceptional book not only for anthropologists researching genocide and mass violence but also for a broader audience interested on how to approach and write about violence."—Corina Tulbure, Conflict and Society"Robben and Hinton set out to at once impart insights they acquired through decades of ethnographical research into genocide and mass violence, which they call phronesis following the ancient Greeks, and to do so in experimental and thought-provoking ways. Perpetrators is more of a guide than a 'how-to' manual, and yet it manages to provide the reader with practical and suggestive ideas for conducting ethnographic research and writing in a way that avoids the rigidity imposed by academia."—Stevan Bozanich, H-Genocide"In writing this book, Robben and Hinton provide a comprehensive and original contribution to the scholarly research on perpetrators of mass violence.... This is a must-read book. Highly recommended."—A. Kolin, CHOICETable of ContentsIntroduction: Approaching Perpetrator Research 1. Spectacular Perpetrators 2. Seductive Perpetrators Interlude: The Perpetrator and the Witness Interlude: "They Were No More. None of Them. They Had Become Disappeared." 3. The Night Stalkers 4. Ruin Interlude: For the Sake of the Fatherland Interlude: Interrogation: Comrade Duch's Abecedarian 5. Nearing the Paradox 6. Curation Conclusion: Six Guideposts for Perpetrator Research

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Book SynopsisPerpetrators of mass violence are commonly regarded as evil. Their violent nature is believed to make them commit heinous crimes as members of state agencies, insurgencies, terrorist organizations, or racist and supremacist groups. Upon close examination, however, perpetrators are contradictory human beings who often lead unsettlingly ordinary and uneventful lives. Drawing on decades of on-the-ground research with perpetrators of genocide, mass violence, and enforced disappearances in Cambodia and Argentina, Antonius Robben and Alex Hinton explore how researchers go about not just interviewing and writing about perpetrators, but also processing their own emotions and considering how the personal and interpersonal impact of this sort of research informs the texts that emerge from them. Through interlinked ethnographic essays, methodological and theoretical reflections, and dialogues between the two authors, this thought-provoking book conveys practical wisdom for the benefit of other researchers who face ruthless perpetrators and experience turbulent emotions when listening to perpetrators and their victims. Perpetrators rarely regard themselves as such, and fieldwork with perpetrators makes for situations freighted with emotion. Research with perpetrators is a difficult but important part of understanding the causes of and creating solutions to mass violence, and Robben and Hinton use their expertise to provide insightful lessons on the epistemological, ethical, and emotional challenges of ethnographic fieldwork in the wake of atrocity.Trade Review"In Robben and Hinton's 'encounter with humanity's dark side' the perpetrator researcher and the evildoer become inextricably intertwined. Researchers' intimate fieldwork contact with perpetrators of mass atrocity sullies them, they feel dirty. And, yet, it reveals complex and contradictory human beings that unsettle facile assumptions about their monstrosity. How do researchers incorporate cognitive and affective empathy to understand the 'priming' that make atrocities possible, while condemning those acts? Perpetrators establishes the craft for doing so."—Leigh Payne, Oxford University"Written as a sustained conversation between two foundational figures in the field of perpetrator studies, this book offers a rich exploration of the individuals who operate the machinery of mass murder. The authors combine profound insights into universal phenomena, while demonstrating the importance of understanding local specificities and moral economies. This unsettling book charts a future research agenda for those who seek to understand the disturbing, unholy mixture of humanity among those who engage in lethal violence."—Kimberly Theidon, Tufts University"Perpetrators[:] Encountering Humanity's Dark Side provides a therapeutic and rewarding read for anthropologists and social scientists who have come into contact with agents of violence through their research, as well as for those who expect to do so."—Sergen Bahceci, Anthropology Book Forum"The book offers a curative reading: healing and, at the same time, crafting together pieces to be displayed in search of meaning. A necessary and exceptional book not only for anthropologists researching genocide and mass violence but also for a broader audience interested on how to approach and write about violence."—Corina Tulbure, Conflict and Society"Robben and Hinton set out to at once impart insights they acquired through decades of ethnographical research into genocide and mass violence, which they call phronesis following the ancient Greeks, and to do so in experimental and thought-provoking ways. Perpetrators is more of a guide than a 'how-to' manual, and yet it manages to provide the reader with practical and suggestive ideas for conducting ethnographic research and writing in a way that avoids the rigidity imposed by academia."—Stevan Bozanich, H-Genocide"In writing this book, Robben and Hinton provide a comprehensive and original contribution to the scholarly research on perpetrators of mass violence.... This is a must-read book. Highly recommended."—A. Kolin, CHOICETable of ContentsIntroduction: Approaching Perpetrator Research 1. Spectacular Perpetrators 2. Seductive Perpetrators Interlude: The Perpetrator and the Witness Interlude: "They Were No More. None of Them. They Had Become Disappeared." 3. The Night Stalkers 4. Ruin Interlude: For the Sake of the Fatherland Interlude: Interrogation: Comrade Duch's Abecedarian 5. Nearing the Paradox 6. Curation Conclusion: Six Guideposts for Perpetrator Research

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Book SynopsisDesigning Social Research is a uniquely comprehensive and student-friendly guide to the core knowledge and types of skills required for planning social research. The authors organize the book around four major steps in social research – focusing, framing, selecting and distilling – placing particular emphasis on the formulation of research questions and the choice of appropriate 'logics of inquiry' to answer them. The requirements for research designs and proposals are laid out at the beginning of the book, followed by a discussion of key design issues and research ethics. Four sample research designs on environmental issues illustrate the role of research questions and the application of the four logics of inquiry, and this third edition includes new material dedicated to social research in a digital, networked age. Fully revised and updated, Designing Social Research continues to be an invaluable resource to demystify the research process for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Together with the authors' Social Research: Paradigms in Action and Blaikie's Approaches to Social Enquiry, it offers social scientists an informative guide to designing social research.Trade Review‘A masterclass in the logic of anticipation when designing social research. Blaikie and Priest explain the choices to be made – and, oh so important, why those decisions need thoughtful planning in advance. I can’t recommend it enough.’Rosalind Edwards, University of Southampton, Co-director of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods ‘This book reviews the key principles of research design and strategy in ways that blend theoretical sophistication with practical strategic advice: a winning formula. If you produce your research design using this book, and if you really engage with the key issues that Blaikie and Priest write so authoritatively about, you can’t go wrong.’Jennifer Mason, University of ManchesterTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 About the book 2 Preparing Research Designs 3 Four Research Design Tasks 4 Research Ethics Part 1: Focussing 5 Research Questions and Purposes Part 2: Framing 6 Logics for Answering Research Questions Part 3: Selecting 7 Concepts, Theories, Hypotheses and Models 8 Types, Forms, Sources and Selection of Data Part 4: Distilling 9 Methods for Answering Research Questions: Data Gathering, Generation, Reduction and Analysis Researching Networked Worlds 10 Design Considerations 11 Ethics Considerations Illustrations 12 Sample Research Designs Postscript

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Book SynopsisDesigning Social Research is a uniquely comprehensive and student-friendly guide to the core knowledge and types of skills required for planning social research. The authors organize the book around four major steps in social research – focusing, framing, selecting and distilling – placing particular emphasis on the formulation of research questions and the choice of appropriate 'logics of inquiry' to answer them. The requirements for research designs and proposals are laid out at the beginning of the book, followed by a discussion of key design issues and research ethics. Four sample research designs on environmental issues illustrate the role of research questions and the application of the four logics of inquiry, and this third edition includes new material dedicated to social research in a digital, networked age. Fully revised and updated, Designing Social Research continues to be an invaluable resource to demystify the research process for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Together with the authors' Social Research: Paradigms in Action and Blaikie's Approaches to Social Enquiry, it offers social scientists an informative guide to designing social research.Trade Review‘A masterclass in the logic of anticipation when designing social research. Blaikie and Priest explain the choices to be made – and, oh so important, why those decisions need thoughtful planning in advance. I can’t recommend it enough.’Rosalind Edwards, University of Southampton, Co-director of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods ‘This book reviews the key principles of research design and strategy in ways that blend theoretical sophistication with practical strategic advice: a winning formula. If you produce your research design using this book, and if you really engage with the key issues that Blaikie and Priest write so authoritatively about, you can’t go wrong.’Jennifer Mason, University of ManchesterTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 About the book 2 Preparing Research Designs 3 Four Research Design Tasks 4 Research Ethics Part 1: Focussing 5 Research Questions and Purposes Part 2: Framing 6 Logics for Answering Research Questions Part 3: Selecting 7 Concepts, Theories, Hypotheses and Models 8 Types, Forms, Sources and Selection of Data Part 4: Distilling 9 Methods for Answering Research Questions: Data Gathering, Generation, Reduction and Analysis Researching Networked Worlds 10 Design Considerations 11 Ethics Considerations Illustrations 12 Sample Research Designs Postscript

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Book SynopsisIn the past, happiness studies has been dominated by the work of philosophers, economists and psychologists, but more recently there has been a growing interest from social scientist into the natures of happiness and wellbeing. This original collection draws on the latest empirical research to explore the practical challenges facing happiness researchers today, such as how to conduct happiness research in different cultural contexts, how to theorise wellbeing or how to operationalise definitions of happiness in qualitative and biographical research. By uniquely combining the critical approach of sociology with techniques from other disciplines, the contributors illuminate new approaches to the study of happiness and well-being.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: Developing Qualitative Research into Happiness and Wellbeing - Mark Cieslik, Northumbria University Qualitative Research into Happiness/Wellbeing: Theories, Debates and Issues Chapter 2. Living Well Together: On Happiness, Social Goods and Genuinely Progressive Sociology - Neil Thin Chapter 3. Happiness as an Affective Practice: Self, Suffering and Biography - Nicholas Hill Chapter 4. Personal Happiness, Social Unhappiness: Understanding the Tomplexity of Individual Happiness Accounts - David Tross Qualitative Research into Happiness/Wellbeing: Communities, Biographies and Identities Chapter 5. Developing a Biographical Approach to Happiness and Wellbeing - Mark Cieslik Chapter 6. Considering the Body in Happiness Research - Richard Gibbons Chapter 7. How can Cultural Heritage Contribute to Community Development and Wellbeing - Claire Wallace and David Beel Chapter 8. On Post-Traumatic Growth and ‘Choosing’ to be Happy: Stories of Positive Change from African Refugees and Asylum Seekers -Brianne Wenning Chapter 9. Using Social Wellbeing to Inform Regeneration Strategies in a Former Colliery Town in Northern England - Kelly Johnson and Sarah Coulthard Qualitative Research into Happiness/Wellbeing: Methodological Innovations Chapter 10. A Board Game Approach to Studying the Multi-dimensionality of Life Satisfaction - Barbara Holthus and Wolfram Manzenreiter Chapter 11. Show Me What Makes you Happy at Work’? Visualising Happiness in the Workplace - Ilona Suojanen

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Book SynopsisIn the past, happiness studies has been dominated by the work of philosophers, economists and psychologists, but more recently there has been a growing interest from social scientist into the natures of happiness and wellbeing. This original collection draws on the latest empirical research to explore the practical challenges facing happiness researchers today, such as how to conduct happiness research in different cultural contexts, how to theorise wellbeing or how to operationalise definitions of happiness in qualitative and biographical research. By uniquely combining the critical approach of sociology with techniques from other disciplines, the contributors illuminate new approaches to the study of happiness and well-being.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: Developing Qualitative Research into Happiness and Wellbeing - Mark Cieslik, Northumbria University Qualitative Research into Happiness/Wellbeing: Theories, Debates and Issues Chapter 2. Living Well Together: On Happiness, Social Goods and Genuinely Progressive Sociology - Neil Thin Chapter 3. Happiness as an Affective Practice: Self, Suffering and Biography - Nicholas Hill Chapter 4. Personal Happiness, Social Unhappiness: Understanding the Tomplexity of Individual Happiness Accounts - David Tross Qualitative Research into Happiness/Wellbeing: Communities, Biographies and Identities Chapter 5. Developing a Biographical Approach to Happiness and Wellbeing - Mark Cieslik Chapter 6. Considering the Body in Happiness Research - Richard Gibbons Chapter 7. How can Cultural Heritage Contribute to Community Development and Wellbeing - Claire Wallace and David Beel Chapter 8. On Post-Traumatic Growth and ‘Choosing’ to be Happy: Stories of Positive Change from African Refugees and Asylum Seekers -Brianne Wenning Chapter 9. Using Social Wellbeing to Inform Regeneration Strategies in a Former Colliery Town in Northern England - Kelly Johnson and Sarah Coulthard Qualitative Research into Happiness/Wellbeing: Methodological Innovations Chapter 10. A Board Game Approach to Studying the Multi-dimensionality of Life Satisfaction - Barbara Holthus and Wolfram Manzenreiter Chapter 11. Show Me What Makes you Happy at Work’? Visualising Happiness in the Workplace - Ilona Suojanen

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Book SynopsisUsing rich insights from those with first-hand experience of conducting research in areas of international intervention, this much-needed book provides essential practical guidance and key reflections for researchers and students embarking on fieldwork in violent, repressive and closed contexts. Contributors provide explicit discussion of their mistakes and hard-learned lessons, raising important questions that intervention researchers need to consider before, during and after their research.Table of ContentsPART 1: CONTROL AND CONFUSION; The interview as a cultural performance and the value of surrendering control ~ Markus Göransson; Interpretivist methods and military intervention research: using interview research to de-centre the ‘intervener’ ~ Casey McNeill; Shifting identities, policy networks, and the ethical and practical challenges of gaining access to the field in interventions ~ Roland Kosti?; Being watched and being handled ~ Jesse Driscoll; Unequal research relationships in highly insecure places: of fear, funds and friendship ~ Morten Bøås; PART 2: SECURITY AND RISK; The politics of safe research in violent and illiberal contexts ~ Francesco Strazzari and Alessandra Russo; Challenges of research in an active conflict environment ~ Boukary Sangaré and Jamie Bleck; The politics and ethics of fieldwork in post-conflict environments: the dilemmas of a vocational approach ~ John Heathershaw and Parviz Mullojonov; On assessing risk assessments and situating security advice: the unsettling quest for ‘security expertise’ ~ Judith Verweijen; PART 3: DISTANCE AND CLOSENESS; Positioning in an insecure field: reflections on negotiating identity ~ Maria-Louise Clausen; A different form of intervention? Revisiting the role of researchers in post-war contexts ~ Daniela Lai; The road to Darfur: Ethical and practical challenges of embedded research in areas of open conflict ~ Mateja Peter; Interpretation by proxy? Interpretive fieldwork with local associates in areas of restricted research access ~ Katarina Kuši?; PART 4: SEX AND SENSITIVITY; Sex workers and sugar babies: empathetic engagement with vulnerable sources ~ Kathleen Jennings; Lifting the burden? The ethical implications of studying exemplary, not pathological, wartime sexual conduct ~ Angela Muvumba Sellström; Unexpected grey areas, innuendo and webs of complicity: experiences of researching sexual exploitation in UN peacekeeping missions ~ Henri Myrtinnen; Sexual exploitation, rape and abuse as a narrative and a strategy ~ Ingunn Bjørkhaug; CONCLUSIONS; Lessons for intervention fieldwork in violent and closed contacts ~ Berit Bliesemann de Guevara and Morten Bøås.

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Book SynopsisFrom the vantage point of forty years in social research and the study of families, Julia Brannen offers an invaluable account of how research is conducted and ‘matters’ at particular times. This fascinating work covers key developments in the field that remain of vital concern to society and demonstrates how social research is an art as well as a science – a process that involves craft and creativity.Trade Review''Well-known for the path-breaking methods and analytical sophistication of her work, Julia Brannen offers insightful reflections on a remarkable career in sociological research on families that are instructive and engaging.'' Graham Crow, University of Edinburgh"Brannen combines personal experience with a finely-tuned sensitivity to institutional dynamics to explain how social research is stimulated – and, just as often, constrained – by the broader political economy. A masterful reflection on the politics of knowledge creation." Rosanna Hertz, Wellesley College''This clearly written book charts, through the biographical account of a respected scholar of family life, the changing social, historical and political context of social science research in postwar UK.'' Julie Seymour, Hull York Medical SchoolTable of ContentsBeginnings and biography The research environment Mothers and the labour market Inside the household A generational lens on families and fathers Children and young people in families Families through the lens of food Life stories: Biographical and narrative analysis In conclusion

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Book SynopsisIntroduction chapter is available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This groundbreaking reader is designed to lower the barriers to interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity in research. Edited by experienced researchers from a range of different fields, it paves the way for future scholarship and effective research collaborations across disciplines. Chapters offer extracts from key academic texts on topics such as the design, funding, evaluation and communication of research, providing those new to the field with a thorough grounding. They highlight examples of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary triumphs – and challenges. Concluding each chapter is a commentary provided by practitioners from diverse backgrounds, many of whom are themselves developing new approaches to inter- and transdisciplinarity. The book is: • the first ever comprehensive reader for interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity; • essential reading for those seeking to become effective collaborative researchers; • complete with concise introductions, extracts, commentary and further reading in each chapter. This is a much-needed primer that improves our understanding of the characteristics of interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity, unlocking their exciting potential in research and teaching within and beyond academia.Table of ContentsForeword: Why Should We Care about Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity? - Jane Ohlmeyer Introductory Essay: Shaping Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research - Bianca Vienni-Baptista, Isabel Fletcher and Catherine Lyall 1. Understanding Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research 2. Developing Collaborative Conditions 3. Co-Creating a Research Project 4. Funding Collaborative Research 5. Evaluating Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research 6. Communicating Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research Findings 7. Improving Research Skills 8. Supporting Collaborative Researchers 9. Developing a Career in Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research Epilogue - Bianca Vienni-Baptista, Catherine Lyall and Isabel Fletcher

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Book SynopsisAt a time of contested realities and a renewed focus on the power of personal stories, narrative research is as relevant as ever. But while it has been praised for ‘giving voice’ to individuals and highlighting how they make sense of the social world, critics are starting to question which voices are being heard, or allowed to speak, and which experiences are made to count. Supported by the editors’ popular podcast Narrative Now, this interdisciplinary volume addresses timely concerns about representation, power, voice, and the ethics of storytelling. Contributors explore the capacities and limitations of narrative research, and map out new directions for the field while honouring its legacy.Table of ContentsForeword – Rachel Thomson 1. Narrative Now: Trends and Tensions - Ashley Barnwell and Signe Ravn Part 1: Institutional Authority and Counter-Stories 2. Telling Stories with Ribbons: Visual Acknowledgment in the Wake of Child Sexual Abuse - Dave McDonald 3. Policy Narratives and Policy Change: The Case of Pill Testing - Martin Bortz 4. The Criminalised Other as Storyteller: The Promise and Peril of Bringing ‘Lived Experience’ into the Classroom - Diana Johns Part 2: Tellable and Untellable Stories 5. Ethical Weaving: Creative Narrations of Family Trauma and Resilience - Wajeehah Aayeshah 6. ‘I can’t believe how much I've done’: Joan and The Evolution of Her Life Story - Nikki Henningham Part 3: The Ethics of Representation 7. Songs as Narratives: Ethical Tensions in Midnight Oil’s Dead Heart (1986) and Gadigal Land (2020) - Liz Dean 8. Reading Back as a Way to Give Back? A Narrative Practice-informed Method for Interview-based Research - Sarah Strauven 9. Narrating Women's Life Histories: Voice, Audience, Ethics - Rachael Diprose 10. Narrative Next: Ways Forward for Narrative Research - Ashley Barnwell and Signe Ravn

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Book SynopsisThis book seeks to reflect the growing level of concern worldwide regarding the importance of ethical issues within the conduct of behavioral sciences research. Each chapter includes worldwide case studies of ethically controversial investigations which encourage students to more in-depth study.Trade Review"Kimmel provides a helpful overview of the historical and social contexts in which attention to human service ethics has long preceded attention to research ethics ... Appropriate for undergraduate and graduate students as well as faculty and professionals in social science programs." Choice "It is scholarly, fascinating, and very much up-to-date. I will certainly be using it in my teaching and in my research." Professor Robert Rosenthal, Harvard University "Faced with a daunting array of human subjects regulations and the expanding role of review boards, new investigators will find Kimmel's book an invaluable guide. Interspersed with a broad range of case studies, this book is both instructive and highly informative - a thoroughly captivating introduction to the ethics of research with human subjects in the 1990s and beyond." Professor Ralph L. Rosnow, Temple UniversityTable of ContentsList of Boxes. List of Tables. Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. Introduction: Why Research Ethics?. 2. Ethical Principles in Behavioral Research: Professional and Governmental Guidelines. 3. Ethical Issues in the Conduct of Human Subject Research I: Laboratory Research. 4. Methodological Issues in the Use of Deception. 5. Ethical Issues in the Conduct of Human Subject Research II: Field Research. 6. Ethical Issues in the Conduct of Human Subject Research III: Applied Research. 7. Ethical Issues in the Recruitment and Selection of Research Subjects. 8. Ethical Issues in Research With Animals. 9. Ethical Review and the Communication of Results. Appendices. References. Indices.

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Book SynopsisIn this book Daniel Monti reconciles liberal and conservative viewpoints to claim that Americans are indeed a community of believers and that a viable and vital civic culture exists in the United States despite notions of difference and apathy.Trade Review"The American City explores big questions about how we live now with a tantalizing mix of historical and sociological analysis. Although Monti addresses weighty matters that have inspired deep reflections from major social theorists, he does so in a simple, modest, and personal style that is exceptionally engaging." Stephan Thernstrom, Harvard University "This is a very valuable addition to the literature on urbanism: a blend of sociology, political science, and history; a blend of hope and realism; of capitalism and community; of liberal and conservative perspectives. It amounts to a new ethical philosophy of urbanism by one of the few Americans qualified to write one." Roger Lotchin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Monti's wonderful book illustrates an important theme: if American cities are not Utopia, neither are they the social disaster zones portrayed by their more apocalyptic critics. Extensively researched, The American City is an extended personal reflection on America's urban experience. This appealing and highly readable book will unquestionably stimulate debate and discussion." Paul Boyer, University of WisconsinTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments. 1. What Makes the Good Society?. 2. We Are a Bourgeois People Who Made an Urban World. 3. On Small Towns and Their 'Citified' Ways. 4. The Civic Culture of American Cities. 5. Belonging and Sharing. 6. Piety and Tolerance. 7. Private Lives and Public Worlds. 8. Doing Well by Doing Good. 9. Some Sort of Americans. 10. Articles of Faith: Personal Adornment as a Communal Accomplishment. 11. Private Entitlements as a Public Good. 12. Some Concluding Observations About the "Good Old Days". Further Reading. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe chapters in this volume illustrate the ways in which U.S. sociologists of education continue to plumb the depths of fundamental questions about how schools are organized and consequences of school organization for students and teachers. These studies present new ideas and/or findings in an engaging way, and they attempt to enlarge the audience for sociological research on education. Perhaps even more importantly, however, they generate a host of questions that warrant sustained inquiry by our community. If these authors lead us to think in new ways or to ask new questions, their efforts will have been well-rewarded.Table of ContentsWhen the state innovates - interests and institutions create the preschool sector, Bruce Fuller and Susan D. Holloway; the university and political authority - historical trends and contemporary possibilities, Phyllis Riddle; world polity and gender parity - women's share of higher education, 1965-1985, Karen Bradley and Francisco O. Ramirez; carving a niche in the high school social structure - formal and informal constraints on participation in the extra curriculum, Pamela Anne Quiroz et al; race, gender and inequity in track assignments, Warren N. Kubitschek and Maureen T. Hallinan; evaluation processes and student disengagement from high school, Gary Natriello; academic press and sense of community - conflict and congruence in American high schools, Roger C. Shouse; the evolution of research on educational attainment and social status in Japan, Gerald LeTendre; exploring the persistence of academic achievement gaps - social differentials in family resource returns in Israel, Yechezkel Dar and Nura Resh; racial and ethnic variations in academic performance, Grace Kao et al; adolescent expectations and adult outcomes - insights from the study of migration, Margaret Mooney Marini.

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Book SynopsisThis annual publication is devoted to the advancement of ethics research and education in the profession and practice of accounting. It aims to advance innovative and applied ethics research in all accounting-related disciplines on a global basis and to improve ethics education in the field.Table of ContentsThe concept of trust and institutional development in auditing, Steven E. Kaplan and Robert G. Ruland; the relation between audit structure and public responsibility - audit firms propensity to qualify bankruptcy-related opinions, Joseph V. Carcello et al; commentary on auditors public responsibility, Jack C. Robertson; the relation between audit structure and public responsibility - audit firms propensity to quality bankruptcy-related opinions - a comment, J. Edward Ketz; toward an understanding of the philosophical foundations for ethical development of audit expert systems, Steve G. Sutton et al; comments on "Toward an understanding of the philosophical foundations for ethical development of audit expert systems", Jagdish S. Gangolly; further "Toward an understanding of the philosophical foundations for ethical development of audit expert systems", Jesse F. Dillard; on ethical behaviour in social, political, and legal environments, Steve G. Sutton et al; an international comparison of moral constructs underlying auditors ethical judgments, Jeffrey Cohen et al; an analysis of "An international comparison of moral constructs underlying auditors ethical judgments", Joseph J. Schultz, Jr.; comments on "An international comparison of moral constructs underlying auditors ethical judgments", W. Maorley Lemon; do expected audit procedures prompt more ethical behaviour? evidence on tax compliance rates, Wanda A. Wallace and Christopher Wolfe; discussion comments on "Do expected audit procedures prompt more ethical behaviour? evidence on tax compliance rates", Mary S. Doucet; commentary on the ethics of compliance with tax law and regulations, Andrew Baily; application of virtue ethics theory - management-employee whistle blowing, Don W. Finn; an exploratory study of accounting students professional attitudes - implications for accounting education, Patricia Casey et al; perceptions of senior auditors - ethical issues and factors affecting actions, Elizabeth M. Dreike and Cindy Moeckel. (Part contents)

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Book SynopsisVolume 1 of Research in Community Sociology focuses on "Community of the Streets".

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Book SynopsisThis is the first volume of an interdisciplinary publication, drawing on contemporary scholarship in such fields as speech communication, education, anthropology, sociology, history and English. Manuscripts focus on the intersection of interpretive critical theory, qualitative inquiry, culture, media, history, biography and social structure.Table of ContentsForeword - opening up cultural studies, Norman K. Denzin. Part 1 Sociology and cultural studies: relativizing sociology - the challenge of cultural studies, Steven Seidman; postmodernism, cultural studies and contemporary social inquiry, David R. Dickens; postponing the postmodern, Ben Agger. Part 2 Feminist discourse: anorexia nervosa - rereading the stories that became me, Paula Saukko; my story of anorexia nervosa - new discourses for change and recovery, Mary Walstrom; it's just a female thing, Lisa M. Sammiguel; what's wrong with this picture? comparing lived experience and textual representations of endometriosis, Lisa M. Sammiguel. Part 3 Race, popular culture and the media: race, suburban resentment and the representation of the inner city in contemporary film and television, Cameron McCarthy et al; look - it's the NBAs showtime - visions of race and popular imagery, Cheryl L. Cole and David L. Andrews; where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? discourses of nation, family and masculinity in Dyersville, IA, Charles Fruehling Springwood; Oliver Stone's Vietnam trilogy - pseudo-realist narratives and male hegemony, Andrea Fontana and Claudia Collins; the new childhood - home alone as a way of life, Joe Kincheloe; the emergence of contemporary sport forms - paintball, Robert Rinehart. Part 4 Critical pedagogy and interventionist texts: mobilizing meaning, demobilizing critique? dilemmas in the deconstruction of educational discourse, Maggie Maclure and Ian Stronach; from a privileged position - teachers, research and popular culture, Chris Richards; death (an assemblage), Steven Wiley.

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Book SynopsisDemonstrates that the origins of capitalism & modernity can be found in the Middle AgesTrade Review"This small book, on a very big topic, makes a substantial contribution to the debates on which elements of European society were crucial to its later economic and military might.... One of the major assets of this book is that despite its brief length, it fully engages in comparisons of European history with developments in North Africa, China and south Asia.... Mielants has given us a deeply informed and important new twist on old arguments about the role of merchants and cities in the origins of capitalism. It is an argument that deserves attention and should provoke fruitful debates." —The British Journal of SociologyTable of Contents1: Perspectives on the Origins of Merchant Capitalism in Europe; 2: The Political Economies of China and Europe Compared; 3: The Political Economies of South Asia and Europe Compared (c. 1200-1500 AD); 4: The Political Economies of Western Europe and Northern Africa Compared; 5: Conclusion Was the Western-European City-State in the Middle Ages a European Miracle?

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Book SynopsisExamining the political economy of high-stakes educational testingTrade Review"The novelty of Objectifying Measures is the clarity with which an analysis of statistical discourse is mapped out to show its complex relationship to inequality. Johnson offers a reader-friendly ethnography that demands attention... Her analysis of assumptions and biases which frame and inform standardized testing as a method of defining and measuring failure/progress is timely and important. Highly recommended!"—Katya Gibel Mevorach, Associate Professor, Anthropology Department & American Studies Concentration at Grinnell CollegeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Contextualizing Education within the Racial Politics of Texas 3. Statistical Objectification, Governmentality, and Race in High- Stakes Testing 4. Commodification, Privatization, and Political Economy of Statistical Discourse 5. Statistical Objectification, Truth, and Hegemony 6. Between Women and the State of Texas: Representation and the Politics of Experience 7. Conclusion Chronology: Timeline of Testing in Texas, 1970– 2003 Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisEarly in her extraordinary career, Deborah Stone wrote Policy Paradox, a landmark work on politics. Now, in Counting, she revolutionises how we approach numbers and shows how counting shapes the way we see the world. Most of us think of counting as a skill so basic that we see numbers as objective, indisputable facts. Not so, says Stone. In this playful-yet-probing work, Stone reveals the inescapable link between quantifying and classifying, and explains how counting determines almost every facet of our lives—from how we are evaluated at work to how our political opinions are polled to whether we get into higher education or even out of prison. But numbers, Stone insists, need not rule our lives. Especially in this age of big data, Stone’s work is a pressing and spirited call to reclaim our authority over numbers, and to take responsibility for how we use them.

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