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Exploring Clinical Methods For Social Research
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Book Synopsis Exploring Clinical Methods for Social Research by : David N. Berg
Download or read book Exploring Clinical Methods for Social Research written by David N. Berg and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1985-04 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The methods selected and used to conduct research often become an expression of the conflicting interests that are being served by the study. This book focuses on issues such as why we do research, how we create knowledge, and how the research process brings about change. The introduction to the book discusses the historical, conceptual, and personal interests being served. There are four sections: Clinical Issues, Clinical Understanding, Clinical Involvement, and Clinical Methods. 'Clinical' is regularly used to refer to an approach to the study of social systems, a method with its own characterists and its own demands. Each chapter is compiled by a different researcher, and contains many examples.
Book Synopsis The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Methods in Health Research by : Ivy Bourgeault
Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Methods in Health Research written by Ivy Bourgeault and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2010-08-19 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Methods in Health Research is a comprehensive and authoritative source on qualitative research methods. The Handbook compiles accessible yet vigorous academic contributions by respected academics from the fast-growing field of qualitative methods in health research and consists of: - A series of case studies in the ways in which qualitative methods have contributed to the development of thinking in fields relevant to policy and practice in health care. - A section examining the main theoretical sources drawn on by qualitative researchers. - A section on specific techniques for the collection of data. - A section exploring issues relevant to the strategic place of qualitative research in health care environments. The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Methods in Health Research is an invaluable source of reference for all students, researchers and practitioners with a background in the health professions or health sciences.
Book Synopsis Social Science Research by : Anol Bhattacherjee
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.
Book Synopsis Exploratory Research in the Social Sciences by : Robert A. Stebbins
Download or read book Exploratory Research in the Social Sciences written by Robert A. Stebbins and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2001-05-14 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Stebbins addresses an area of social science that receives scant attention: exploration as a methodological process. The author emphasises its importance then leads the reader through the process in a highly readable way.
Book Synopsis The Self in Social Inquiry by : David N. Berg
Download or read book The Self in Social Inquiry written by David N. Berg and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1988-06-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why we do research? How do we create knowledge? How does the research process brings about change? This book addresses these questions. Originally published in hardcover as `Exploring Clinical Methods for Social Research', this paperback edition has published under a new title to stress its focus on research methods which place the scrutiny of self in the centre stage of social enquiry. The introduction discusses the historical, conceptual and personal interests being served, and four sections focus on clinical issues, understanding, involvement and methods. Each chapter is written by a different researcher, and many examples are given. The book will serve as a valuable reference tool.
Book Synopsis The Sage Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods: A-L ; Vol. 2, M-Z Index by : Lisa M. Given
Download or read book The Sage Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods: A-L ; Vol. 2, M-Z Index written by Lisa M. Given and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2008-08-21 with total page 1073 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An encyclopedia about various methods of qualitative research.
Book Synopsis Social Research Methods by : Harvey Russell Bernard
Download or read book Social Research Methods written by Harvey Russell Bernard and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2000 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author follows two chapters on the fundamentals of social science and social research with three on preparation, two on interviewing, one on scaling, and two on relative advantages and methods of participative, direct and indirect observation.
Book Synopsis Theory and Methods in Social Research by : Bridget Somekh
Download or read book Theory and Methods in Social Research written by Bridget Somekh and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2011-01-13 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition provides a scholarly and readable introduction to all the key qualitative and quantitative research methodologies and methods, enabling postgraduate and masters-level students and new researchers to reflect on which ones suit their needs and to receive guidance on how to find out more. With chapters written by experienced research practitioners, this second edition has been extensively expanded and updated. There are seven completely new chapters, as well as: - new material on literature reviews - a new introduction to quantitative methods - an expanded glossary - Weblinks with free access to a wide range of peer-reviewed journal articles - an annotated bibliography with conversational notes from authors in each chapter. This book will act as your ′expert friend′ throughout your research project, providing advice, explaining key concepts and the implications for your research design, and illustrating these with examples of real research studies.
Book Synopsis Handbook of Clinical Nursing Research by : Ada Sue Hinshaw
Download or read book Handbook of Clinical Nursing Research written by Ada Sue Hinshaw and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1999-06-18 with total page 713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive but critical guide to the state of nursing research, particularly in areas most relevant to current practice.
Book Synopsis Qualitative Research: Analysis Types & Tools by : Renata Tesch
Download or read book Qualitative Research: Analysis Types & Tools written by Renata Tesch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1990. There was a time when most researchers believed that the only phenomena that counted in the social sciences were those that could be measured. To make that perfectly clear, they called any phenomenon they intended to study a 'variable', indicating that the phenomenon could vary in size, length, amount, or any other quantity. Unfortunately, not many phenomena in the human world comes naturally in quantities. If we cannot even give a useful answer to what qualitative analysis is and how it works, then it seems rather incongruent to try and involve a computer, the very essence of precision and orderliness. Isn't qualitative analysis a much too individualistic and flexible an activity to be supported by a computer? Won't a computer do exactly what qualitative researchers want to avoid, namely standardize the process? Won't it mechanize and rigidify qualitative analysis? The answer to these questions is NO, and this book explains why.
Book Synopsis Qualitative Research: Analysis Types and Software by : Renata Tesch
Download or read book Qualitative Research: Analysis Types and Software written by Renata Tesch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A presentation of analysis procedures for more than 20 kinds of qualitative research in the principal social science disciplines.
Book Synopsis Studying Elites Using Qualitative Methods by : Rosanna Hertz
Download or read book Studying Elites Using Qualitative Methods written by Rosanna Hertz and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1995-08-03 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few social researchers study elites because elites, by their nature, are very difficult to access. The contributors to this volume provide valuable insights on how researchers can successfully penetrate elite settings. As the authors reflect on their experiences, they provide constructive advice as well as cautionary tales about how they learned to maneuver and become accepted in a world that is often closed to them. This book′s coverage includes three broad research domains: business elites, professional elites, and community and political elites. Although the studies focus on qualitative methodology, even researchers who emphasize more quantitative methods will benefit from this volume′s thoughtful observations on how researchers gather data, construct interview strategies, write about their subjects, and experience the research process. A wide range of researchers in organizational studies, sociology, political science, and many other fields will find this volume to be an important guide to the many subtle and elusive features of conducting successful research with these groups.
Book Synopsis Televised Presidential Debates and Public Policy by : Sidney Kraus
Download or read book Televised Presidential Debates and Public Policy written by Sidney Kraus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1999-10-01 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this second edition, Kraus continues his examination of formal presidential debates, considering the experience of television in presidential elections, reviewing what has been learned about televised debates, and evaluating that knowledge in the context of the election process, specifically, and the political process, generally. He also examines the media and the role they occupy in presidential elections. Because critics often refer to the Lincoln-Douglas debates when reproaching presidential debates, comparisons of the two are discussed throughout the book. Much of the data and information for this accounting of televised presidential debates comes from the author's first-hand experience as one who was involved with these debates as a participant observer, on site at nearly all of the debates discussed. Throughout these discussions, emphasis is placed on the implications for public policy. To suggest policy that will be accepted and adopted by politicians and the public is, at best, difficult. Proposals for changes in public policy based on experience -- even when scientific data support those changes -- must be subjected to an assessment of the values and predispositions of the proponent. These values and predispositions, however, may not necessarily inhibit the proponent's objectivity. As such, this review of television use in the presidential election process provides the context for examining televised debates.
Download or read book Ethnography written by Paul Atkinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-06-26 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its third edition, this leading introduction to ethnography has been thoroughly updated and substantially rewritten. It offers a systematic introduction to ethnographic principles and practice. New material covers the use of visual and virtual research methods, hypermedia software and the issue of ethical regulation. There is also a new prologue and epilogue. The authors argue that ethnography is best understood as a reflexive process. What this means is that we must recognize that social research is part of the world that it studies. From an outline of the principle of reflexivity the authors go on to discuss and exemplify main features of ethnographic work, including: the selection and sampling of cases the problems of access observation and interviewing recording and filing data the process of data analysis and writing research reports. Throughout, the discussion draws on a wide range of illustrative material from classic and more recent studies within a global context. The new edition of this popular textbook will be an indispensable resource for students and researchers utilizing social research methods in the social sciences and cultural studies.
Book Synopsis Women Ethnographers and Native Women Storytellers by : Susan Berry Brill de Ramírez
Download or read book Women Ethnographers and Native Women Storytellers written by Susan Berry Brill de Ramírez and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the collaborative work between Native women storytellers and their female ethnographers and/or editors, but the book is also about what it is that is constitutive of scientific rigor, factual accuracy, cultural authenticity, and storytelling signification and meaning. Regardless of discipline, academic ethnographers who conducted their field work research during the twentieth century were trained in the accepted scientific methods and theories of the time that prescribed observation, objectivity, and evaluative distance. In contradistinction to such prescribed methods, regarding the ethnographic work conducted among Native Americans, it turns out that the intersubjectively relational work of women (both ethnographers and the Indigenous storytellers with whom they worked) has produced far more reliably factual, historically accurate, and tribally specific Indigenous autobiographies than the more “scientifically objective” approaches of most of the male ethnographers. This volume provides a close lens to the work of a number of women ethnographers and Native American women storytellers to elucidate the effectiveness of their relational methods. Through a combined rhetorical and literary analysis of these ethnographies, we are able to differentiate the products of the women’s working relationships. By shifting our focus away from the surface level textual reading that largely approaches the texts as factually informative documents, literary analysis provides access into the deeper levels of the storytelling that lies beneath the surface of the edited texts. Non-Native scholars and editors such as Franc Johnson Newcomb, Ruth Underhill, Nancy Lurie, Julie Cruikshank, and Noël Bennett and Native storytellers and writers such as Grandma Klah, María Chona, Mountain Wolf Woman, Mrs. Angela Sidney, Mrs. Kitty Smith, Mrs. Annie Ned, and Tiana Bighorse help us to understand that there are ways by which voices and worlds are more and less disclosed for posterity. The results vary based upon the range of factors surrounding their production, but consistent across each case is the fact that informational accuracy is contingent upon the the degree of mutual respect and collaboration in the women’s working relationships. And it is in their pioneering intersubjective methodologies that the work of these women deserves far greater attention and approbation.
Book Synopsis Social Research Methods by : H. Russell Bernard
Download or read book Social Research Methods written by H. Russell Bernard and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2012-03-02 with total page 825 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides a comprehensive guide to doing research in the social and behavioral sciences—from research design and sampling to collecting and analyzing data. Rich in examples, the book has been revised and updated to provide today′s students with a conceptual understanding of each qualitative and quantitative technique, as well as showing them how to use it. "The main strength of this text is coverage of both quantitative and qualitative methodology from a broad range of fields. The examples are often my students′ favorite thing to discuss in class." -Erica B. Gibson, University of South Carolina "Bernard does an excellent job of not only showing how to practice research but also provides a detailed discussion of broader historical and philosophical contexts that are important for understanding research." -Julian Kilker, University of Nevada, Las Vegas "The depth of detailed descriptions (foundations of social research; interviewing, participant observation, field notes, and data analysis) go beyond other texts...the organization is superb." -Benedict J. Colombi, University of Arizona
Book Synopsis Native American Life-history Narratives by : Susan Berry Brill de Ramírez
Download or read book Native American Life-history Narratives written by Susan Berry Brill de Ramírez and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author provides methods for the study of American Indian ethnographic texts and disputes some previous assumptions about the sources of the stories in Son of Old Man Hat.
