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Author : J. J. Snyman
Publisher : HSRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780796914170
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (141 download)
Download or read book Conceptions of Social Inquiry written by J. J. Snyman and published by HSRC Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gary King
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691034710
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Designing Social Inquiry written by Gary King and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1994-05-22 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designing Social Inquiry focuses on improving qualitative research, where numerical measurement is either impossible or undesirable. What are the right questions to ask? How should you define and make inferences about causal effects? How can you avoid bias? How many cases do you need, and how should they be selected? What are the consequences of unavoidable problems in qualitative research, such as measurement error, incomplete information, or omitted variables? What are proper ways to estimate and report the uncertainty of your conclusions?
Author : Anol Bhattacherjee
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781475146127
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (461 download)
Download or read book Social Science Research written by Anol Bhattacherjee and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed to introduce doctoral and graduate students to the process of conducting scientific research in the social sciences, business, education, public health, and related disciplines. It is a one-stop, comprehensive, and compact source for foundational concepts in behavioral research, and can serve as a stand-alone text or as a supplement to research readings in any doctoral seminar or research methods class. This book is currently used as a research text at universities on six continents and will shortly be available in nine different languages.
Author : Bent Flyvbjerg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521775687
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (756 download)
Download or read book Making Social Science Matter written by Bent Flyvbjerg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-15 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New approach demonstrating how social science can be successful, focusing on context, values, and power.
Author : Stuart Brown
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134948263
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Conceptions of Inquiry written by Stuart Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-17 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1981. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland written by Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin Savransky
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137571462
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book The Adventure of Relevance written by Martin Savransky and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time where the relevance of the social sciences is under threat, this innovative book offers a speculative experimentation on the philosophy and methodology of the social sciences to rethink what 'relevance' is, and to cultivate a new ethos of knowledge-making for an eventful world. Engaging a diverse a range of thinkers including Alfred North Whitehead, Gilles Deleuze and Isabelle Stengers, as well as the American pragmatists John Dewey and William James, Martin Savransky challenges longstanding assumptions in the social sciences and argues that relevance is an event that is part and parcel of the immanent and situated processes by which things come to matter. He develops new conceptual tools for cultivating an empiricist ethos of inquiry that is attuned to the question of how things come to matter– an ethics that turns social inquiry into a veritable adventure. The result is an original and rigorous book that infuses knowledge-practices in the social sciences with new sensibilities, creative possibilities, and novel habits of thinking, knowing, and feeling.
Author : Craig C. Lundberg
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804741538
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (415 download)
Download or read book Foundations for Inquiry written by Craig C. Lundberg and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most books about research address the ?how to” of inquiry, rather than the ?why.” Foundations for Inquiry enlightens readers about the variety of philosophic assumptions regarding inquiry and organizational phenomena; demonstrates how these assumptions shape subsequent choices about theories; and shows how theoretical and philosophic choices consequently shape and guide the research process.
Author : John C. Oliga
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0585351309
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (853 download)
Download or read book Power, Ideology, and Control written by John C. Oliga and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-08-20 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the great challenges we face today is coming to grips with "forces of power/' in both theoretical and methodological terms, in a way that prepares us for action—action that is not totally subject to existing forces. The literature has some excellent theoretical accounts of power, but these say little about what we should do. Most often they are abstract and out of reach of all but a select few. In this book, however, we have a clear-cut account of power, ideology, and control that paves the way for practic- minded people to make a genuine attempt at tackling issues of power on both organizational and societal levels. John C. Oliga suggests a division between what he calls "objectivist," "subjectivist," and "relational" perspectives. With objectivism, he refers to theories that focus on power as capacities located in social structures. These tend to be either synergistic (e.g., Parsonian collective) or conflictual (e.g., Marxian conflictual view) theoretical orientations. With subjectivism he discusses theories that focus on power possessed by agents. With rela tional approaches he places theories that conceive power as a property of interaction among social forces.
Author : John G. Gunnell
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231538340
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Social Inquiry After Wittgenstein and Kuhn written by John G. Gunnell and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A distinctive feature of Ludwig Wittgenstein's work after 1930 was his turn to a conception of philosophy as a form of social inquiry, John G. Gunnell argues, and Thomas Kuhn's approach to the philosophy of science exemplified this conception. In this book, Gunnell shows how these philosophers address foundational issues in the social and human sciences, particularly the vision of social inquiry as an interpretive endeavor and the distinctive cognitive and practical relationship between social inquiry and its subject matter. Gunnell speaks directly to philosophers and practitioners of the social and human sciences. He tackles the demarcation between natural and social science; the nature of social phenomena; the concept and method of interpretation; the relationship between language and thought; the problem of knowledge of other minds; and the character of descriptive and normative judgments about practices that are the object of inquiry. Though Wittgenstein and Kuhn are often criticized as initiating a modern descent into relativism, this book shows that the true effect of their work was to undermine the basic assumptions of contemporary social and human science practice. It also problematized the authority of philosophy and other forms of social inquiry to specify the criteria for judging such matters as truth and justice. When Wittgenstein stated that "philosophy leaves everything as it is," he did not mean that philosophy would be left as it was or that philosophy would have no impact on what it studied, but rather that the activity of inquiry did not, simply by virtue of its performance, transform the object of inquiry.
Author : Pengfei Zhao
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 1506378692
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Making Sense of Social Research Methodology written by Pengfei Zhao and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 2021-01-04 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Sense of Social Research Methodology: A Student and Practitioner Centered Approach introduces students to research methods by illuminating the underlying assumptions of social science inquiry. Authors Pengfei Zhao, Karen Ross, Peiwei Li, and Barbara Dennis show how research concepts are often an integral part of everyday life through illustrative common scenarios, like looking for a recipe or going on a job interview. The authors extrapolate from these personal but ubiquitous experiences to further explain concepts, like gathering data or social context, so students develop a deeper understanding of research and its applications outside of the classroom. Students from across the social sciences can take this new understanding into their own research, their professional lives, and their personal lives with a new sense of relevancy and urgency. This text is organized into clusters that center on major topics in social science research. The first cluster introduces concepts that are fundamental to all aspects and steps of the research process. These concepts include relationality, identity, ethics, epistemology, validity, and the sociopolitical context within which research occurs. The second and third clusters focus on data and inference. These clusters engage concretely with steps of the research process, including decisions about designing research, generating data, making inferences. Throughout the chapters, Pause and Reflect open-ended questions provide readers with the space for further inquiry into research concepts and how they apply to life. Research Scenario features in each chapter offer new perspectives on major research topics from leading and emerging voices in methods. Moving from this dialogic perspective to more actionable advice, You and Research features offer students concrete steps for engaging with research. Take your research into the world with Making Sense of Social Research Methodology: A Student and Practitioner Centered Approach.
Author : Susan Adler
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1607528401
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Critical Issues in Social Studies Teacher Education written by Susan Adler and published by IAP. This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taken together, these authors explore the many and varied challenges faced by teacher educators generally, and social studies teacher educators specifically. Their analyses and recommendations provide a starting point for ongoing deliberations about the nature and challenges of the field. There are no easy answers; but continuing the discussion is crucial.
Author : Dimitra Hartas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474243827
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Educational Research and Inquiry written by Dimitra Hartas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-06 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive textbook encourages the reader to contextualise their understanding of quantitative and qualitative research methods by drawing links between the research question and its theoretical framework with the choice of the quantitative/qualitative methodology and analyses. It encourages a theoretical appreciation of the field of inquiry and to balance the emphasis on methods with reviewing the literature and understanding the wider context of research. Each chapter contains user-friendly features, such as: key terms, summaries, case studies, examples and suggested further reading. Exercises are suggested throughout the text, encouraging the reader to look at easily accessible data sets and use prompts to formulate research questions and produce a mini study. A companion website supports the text, providing easy access to supporting material, including revision questions and an annotated list of useful websites. This text will be invaluable reading for students on Research Methods in Education MA programmes, as well as those embarking upon their PhD, EdD or MPhil in education. Research fellows and other educational researchers will also find this book a useful resource.
Author : Michael Campbell
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303040742X
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Ethics, Society and Politics: Themes from the Philosophy of Peter Winch written by Michael Campbell and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-17 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a reappraisal of the work of Peter Guy Winch (1926 -1997), one of the most important philosophers of the 20th Century. Winch faded into relative obscurity compared to his contemporaries due to a mistaken belief that there are no systematic connections between the different aspects of his work. This volume corrects that presupposition and reintroduces Winch's work to a new generation of scholars. By showing how ethical, political and social issues are interrelated in Winch's work, and by making clear the connections between these issues and themes in metaphysics and the philosophy of mind, the volume demonstrates both the breadth and the unity of Winch's approach. It discusses topics such as ethics, political philosophy, social science, the philosophy of action, the philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language. Despite this apparent variety of topics, the contributors to the volume share Winch's conviction that the different areas of philosophy are interdependent. As a result, the volume as a whole shows unity in diversity and provides an example of a manner of philosophising in which different approaches and sub-disciplines are placed in dialogue with each other. Peter Guy Winch is most famous for his early work on the philosophy of the social sciences. His On the Idea of a Social Science and its Relation to Philosophy (ISS) generated controversy within both philosophical and social scientific circles. In that work and subsequent publications Winch argued against the presupposition that social relations could be understood using the conceptual tools of the natural sciences. Winch would later describe ISS as a 'young man's book' and would come to regret the reputation it garnered him - a mixture of roughly equal degrees fame and infamy. Alongside his work on the philosophy of social sciences, Winch was an interpreter and exegete of Wittgenstein. He also published a ground-breaking study of the philosophy of Simone Weil, entitled Simone Weil: The Just Balance. Winch also published numerous essays on issues in ethics, political philosophy and the philosophy of religion, and at his death was working on a book manuscript on the problem of political authority.
Author : Clive Grace
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Sociological Inquiry and Legal Phenomena written by Clive Grace and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1978 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicholas Maxwell
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 1783260483
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Is Science Neurotic? written by Nicholas Maxwell and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2004-12-14 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Science Neurotic? sets out to show that science suffers from a damaging but rarely noticed methodological disease — “rationalistic neurosis.” Assumptions concerning metaphysics, human value and politics, implicit in the aims of science, are repressed, and the malaise has spread to affect the whole academic enterprise, with the potential for extraordinarily damaging long-term consequences.The book begins with a discussion of the aims and methods of natural science, and moves on to discuss social science, philosophy, education, psychoanalytic theory and academic inquiry as a whole. It makes an original and compelling contribution to the current debate between those for and those against science, arguing that science would be of greater human value if it were more rigorous — we suffer not from too much scientific rationality, but too little. The author discusses the need for a revolution in the aims of science and academic inquiry in general and, in a lively and accessible style, spells out a thesis with profound importance for the long-term future of humanity.
Author : Michael I. Räber
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030532585
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Knowing Democracy – A Pragmatist Account of the Epistemic Dimension in Democratic Politics written by Michael I. Räber and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we justify democracy’s trust in the political judgments of ordinary people? In Knowing Democracy, Michael Räber situates this question between two dominant alternative paradigms of thinking about the reflective qualities of democratic life: on the one hand, recent epistemic theories of democracy, which are based on the assumption that political participation promotes truth, and, on the other hand, theories of political judgment that are indebted to Hannah Arendt’s aesthetic conception of political judgment. By foregrounding the concept of political judgment in democracies, the book shows that a democratic theory of political judgments based on John Dewey’s pragmatism can navigate the shortcomings of both these paradigms. While epistemic theories are overly and narrowly rationalistic and Arendtian theories are overly aesthetic, the neo-Deweyan conception of political judgment proposed in this book suggests a third path that combines the rationalist and the aesthetic elements of political conduct in a way that goes beyond a merely epistemic or a merely aesthetic conception of political judgment in democracy. The justification for democracy’s trust in ordinary people’s political judgments, Räber argues, resides in an egalitarian conception of democratic inquiry that blends the epistemic and the aesthetic aspects of the making of political judgments. By offering a rigorous scholarly analysis of the epistemic and aesthetic foundations of democracy from a pragmatist perspective, Knowing Democracy contributes to the current debates in political epistemology and aesthetics and politics, both of which ask about the appropriate reflective and experiential circumstances of democratic politics. The book brings together for the first time debates on epistemic democracy, aesthetic judgment and those on pragmatist social epistemology, and establishes an original pragmatist conception of epistemic democracy.
