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Understanding Methods: Coping with the Quantitative - Qualitative Divide
By Susan Banducci, Marianne Franklin
This textbook is designed to introduce advanced undergraduates and graduate students to the research process. It explains how the research process works, from the initial research question to formulating an overall research design in line with contemporary disciplinary and...
July 2011 | 978-0-415-49080-1 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Conducting Terrorism Field Research: A Guide
Edited by Adam Dolnik
This book offers a detailed and practically oriented guide to the challenges of conducting terrorist fieldwork. The past decade has seen an explosion of research into terrorism. However, field research on terrorism has traditionally been surrounded by many myths, and has been called anything from...
July 2011 | 978-0-415-60931-9 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Research Methods for Youth Work: An introduction
Edited by Simon Bradford, Fin Cullen
Rigorous research is crucial to effective work with young people and increasingly youth practitioners need to be able to develop, review and evidence their work using a variety of research and assessment tools. This text equips students and practitioners with a thorough understanding of research...
July 2011 | 978-0-415-57103-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Visual Sociology: An Introduction
By Douglas Harper
Why has the visual largely gone missing in sociology done so poorly when done at all? Visual sociology has been part of the sociological vocabulary since Howard S. Becker's 1974 article, 'Photography and Sociology' but until now there has not been a comprehensive text that introduces this area....
June 2011 | 978-0-415-77896-1 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Practice-based Research: A Textbook for Social Workers
By Sarah-Jane Dodd, Irwin Epstein
This unique textbook explores practice-based research (PBR), which actively engages students and practitioners to embrace research as a meaningful support for their practice. Whilst evidence-based practice gives practitioners access to information about best practices, it does not enable them to...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-56524-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Multi-Sited Ethnography: Problems and Possibilities in the Translocation of Research Methods
Edited by Simon Coleman, Pauline von Hellermann
It is now nearly fifteen years since Marcus (1995) published a cornerstone text arguing for the adoption of ‘multi-sited’ approaches in ethnography. Over that time, a growing number of researchers across the social sciences have been attracted to such strategies since they offer powerful ways to...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-96524-8 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Inventive Methods: The Happening of the Social
Edited by Lury Celia, Nina Wakeford
Methods texts in social and cultural research have not kept pace with the increasing importance of interdisciplinary work, changing conceptions of the empirical, and the need to communicate with diverse users and audiences. This volume proposes a set of new approaches for the empirical...
May 2011 | 978-0-415-57481-5 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Qualitative Research in Midwifery and Childbirth: Phenomenological Approaches
Edited by Gill Thomson, Fiona Dykes, Soo Downe
Qualitative research, particularly phenomenology, is increasingly popular as a method for midwifery and health-related research. These approaches enable rich and detailed explanations to be uncovered and bring experience to life. Important recommendations and practice- based implications may then...
March 2011 | 978-0-415-57502-7 | Paperback (Routledge)