Urban Research Methods Books

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1. Interpretive Approaches to Research Design: Concepts and Processes

   By Dvora Yanow, Peregrine Schwartz-Shea

   Research design is fundamentally central to all scientific endeavors, at all levels and in all institutional settings. This book is a practical, short, simple, and authoritative examination of the concepts and issues in interpretive research design, looking across this approach’s methods of...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-87808-1 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   New Approaches to Qualitative Research: Wisdom and Uncertainty

   Edited by Maggi Savin-Baden, Claire Howell Major

   Qualitative research has seen a surge of growth during the past decade. This is in large part because positivist approaches have not yielded the kinds of results that had been anticipated, and more researchers are seeking alternative perspectives to understand phenomena. The number of researchers...

   April 2010 | 978-0-415-57241-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Global Gender Research: Transnational Perspectives

   Edited by Christine Bose, Minjeong Kim

   This volume provides an in-depth comparative picture of the current state of feminist sociological gender and women's studies research in four regions of the world--Africa, Asia, Latin America/Caribbean, and Europe--as represented by many countries. The introductory essay to each region explains...

   February 2009 | 978-0-415-95270-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   GIS and Spatial Analysis for the Social Sciences: Coding, Mapping, and Modeling

   By Robert Nash Parker, Emily K. Asencio

   This is the first book to provide sociologists, criminologists, political scientists, and other social scientists with the methodological logic and techniques for doing spatial analysis in their chosen fields of inquiry. The book contains a wealth of examples as to why...

   2008 | 978-0-415-98962-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Evaluation Practice: How To Do Good Evaluation Research In Work Settings

   By Elizabeth DePoy, Stephen French Gilson

   Professional accountability has become central to both public and private sectors. Governments have emphasized and even developed empirical models, logic modeling, and evidence-based practice in the programs they support, and not-for-profit, for-profit and NGO entities increasingly rely on...

   2007 | 978-0-8058-6300-0 | Paperback (Routledge)