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Author : Joe Deville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780993144950
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (449 download)
Download or read book Practising Comparison written by Joe Deville and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joe Deville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780993144943
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (449 download)
Download or read book Practising Comparison written by Joe Deville and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-25 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book compares things, objects, concepts, and ideas. It is also about the practical acts of doing comparison. Comparison is not something that exists in the world, but a particular kind of activity. Agents of various kinds compare by placing things next to one another, by using software programs and other tools, and by simply looking in certain ways. Comparing like this is an everyday practice. But in the social sciences, comparing often becomes more burdensome, more complex, and more questions are asked of it. How, then, do social scientists compare? What role do funders, their tools, and databases play in social scientific comparisons? Which sorts of objects do they choose to compare and how do they decide which comparisons are meaningful? Doing comparison in the social sciences, it emerges, is a practice weighed down by a history in which comparison was seen as problematic. As it plays out in the present, this history encounters a range of other agents also involved in doing comparison who may challenge the comparisons of social scientists themselves. This book introduces these questions through a varied range of reports, auto-ethnographies, and theoretical interventions that compare and analyse these different and often intersecting comparisons. Its goal is to begin a move away from the critique of comparison and towards a better comparative practice, guided not by abstract principles, but a deeper understanding of the challenges of practising comparison.
Author : Angelika Epple
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839451663
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Practices of Comparing written by Angelika Epple and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practices of comparing shape how we perceive, organize, and change the world. Supposedly innocent, practices of comparing play a decisive role in forming categories, boundaries, and hierarchies; but they can also give an impetus to question and change such structures. Like almost no other human practice, comparing pervades all social, political, economic, and cultural spheres. This volume outlines the program of a new research agenda that places comparative practices at the center of an interdisciplinary exploration. Its contributions combine case studies with overarching systematic considerations. They show what insights can be gained and which further questions arise when one makes a seemingly trivial practice - comparing - the subject of in-depth research.
Author : Hartmut von Sass
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135018439X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book A Philosophy of Comparisons written by Hartmut von Sass and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparing is one of the most essential practices, in our everyday life as well as in science and humanities. In this in-depth philosophical analysis of the structure, practice and ethics of comparative procedures, Hartmut von Sass expands on the significance of comparison. Elucidating the ramified structure of comparing, von Sass suggests a typology of comparisons before introducing the notion of comparative injustice and the limits of comparisons. He elaborates on comparing as practice by relating comparing to three relative practices – orienting, describing, and expressing oneself – to unfold some of the most important chapters of what might be called comparativism. This approach allows von Sass to clarify the idea of the incomparable, distinguish between different versions of incomparability and shed light on important ethical aspects of comparisons today. Confronting the claim that we are living in an age of comparisons, his book is an important contribution to ideas surrounding all-encompassing measurements and scalability and their critique.
Author : Patrick Le Galès
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100090413X
Total Pages : 962 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Global Urban Studies written by Patrick Le Galès and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-29 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Global Urban Studies is a timely intervention into the field of global urban studies, coming as comparison is being more widely used as a method for global urban studies, and as a number of methodological experiments and comparative research projects are being brought to fruition. It consolidates and takes forward an emerging field within urban studies and makes a positive and constructive intervention into a lively arena of current debate in urban theory. Comparative urbanism injects a welcome sense of methodological rigor and a commitment to careful evaluation of claims across different contexts, which will enhance current debates in the field. Drawing together more than 50 international scholars and practitioners, this book offers an overview of key ideas and practices in the field and extends current thinking and practice. The book is primarily intended for scholars and graduate students for whom it will provide an invaluable and up-to-date guide to current thinking across the range of disciplines which converge in the study of urbanism, including geography, sociology, political studies, planning, and urban studies.
Author : Rick Csiernik
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487510551
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Practising Social Work Research written by Rick Csiernik and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research skills are as critical to social work practitioners as skills in individual and group counselling, policy analysis, and community development. Adopting strategies similar to those used in direct practice courses, this book integrates research with social work practice, and in so doing promotes an understanding and appreciation of the research process. This second edition of Practising Social Work Research comprises twenty-three case studies that illustrate different research approaches, including quantitative, qualitative, single-subject, and mixed methods. Six are new to this edition, and examine research with First Nations, organizing qualitative data, and statistics. Through these real-life examples, the authors demonstrate the processes of conceptualization, operationalization, sampling, data collection and processing, and implementation. Designed to help the student and practitioner become more comfortable with research procedures, Practising Social Work Research capitalizes on the strengths that social work students bring to assessment and problem solving.
Author : Christopher Dorn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000349519
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Performance Comparison and Organizational Service Provision written by Christopher Dorn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-01-31 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the mechanisms underlying performance comparisons, Performance Comparison and Organizational Service Provision investigates how such assessments shape hospitals’ service provision and medical professionals’ work. With a focus on U.S. health care, this study outlines how medical quality was defined and compared in the hospital sector from the late 19th century to the present. Developing a novel theoretical framework to investigate performance comparisons, several different forms of internal and external performance assessments are contrasted throughout this period. The transformative effects of these comparisons on hospitals’ relationships to patients, insurers, regulators, and staff are analyzed and their ramifications for current hospital care are explored. Drawing on this analysis, the book examines the controversial nature of these measures and the struggles among hospital managers, patients, physicians, and policy makers to determine hospital quality. Affording a deeper understanding of how performance comparisons influence organizational service provision, the book will be of interest to researchers in a broad range of fields including organization studies, accountability and evaluation, health care, and policy research as well as practitioners in hospital care and management.
Author : Lucy Sheridan
Publisher : Orion Spring
ISBN 13 : 1409191230
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Comparison Cure written by Lucy Sheridan and published by Orion Spring. This book was released on 2019-12-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'We know it's silly and harmful to compare ourselves to others, but that doesn't mean we know how to stop doing it. Luckily, with her brilliant book The Comparison Cure, Lucy Sheridan gives us a road map to reclaiming ourselves.' Sarah Knight, New York Times bestselling author of The Life Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k The 'Queen of self-worth' Adwoa Aboah ___________ Lucy Sheridan, the world's first and only comparison coach, has helped thousands of people go from compare and despair to #comparisonfree, and now she has condensed all of that liberating knowledge into The Comparison Cure. With a three-step tried and tested methodology to help you improve your self-worth and self-confidence (#1 recognise the symptoms; #2 start practising the remedies; and #3 keep your good new habits going), you will soon be able to let go of procrastination and start living a comparison-free life. Packed full of tips, examples and exercises to help you take back control of who you are and what you want, this positive and empowering book is the timely and necessary antidote we all need to the toxic comparison culture we're living in.
Author : Jennifer Robinson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119697557
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (196 download)
Download or read book Comparative Urbanism written by Jennifer Robinson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: COMPARATIVE URBANISM ‘Comparative Urbanism fully transforms the scope and purpose of urban studies today, distilling innovative conceptual and methodological tools. The theoretical and empirical scope is astounding, enlightening, emboldening. Robinson peels away conceptual labels that have anointed some cities as paradigmatic and left others as mere copies. She recalibrates overly used theoretical perspectives, resurrects forgotten ones long in need of a dusting off, and brings to the fore those often marginalised. Robinson’s approach radically re-distributes who speaks for the urban, and which urban conditions shape our theoretical understandings. With Comparative Urbanism in our hands, we can start the practice of urban studies anywhere and be relevant to any number of elsewheres.’ Jane M. Jacobs, Professor of Urban Studies, Yale-NUS College, Singapore ‘How to think the multiplicity of urban realities at the same time, across different times and rhythmic arrangements; how to move with the emergences and stand-stills, with conceptualisations that do justice to all things gathered under the name of the urban. How to imagine comparatively amongst differences that remain different, individualised outcomes, but yet exist in-common. No book has so carefully conducted a specifically urban philosophy on these matters, capable of beginning and ending anywhere.’ AbdouMaliq Simone, Senior Research Fellow, Urban Institute, University of Sheffield The rapid pace and changing nature of twenty-first century urbanisation as well as the diversity of global urban experiences calls for new theories and new methodologies in urban studies. In Comparative Urbanism: Tactics for Global Urban Studies, Jennifer Robinson proposes grounds for reformatting comparative urban practice and offers a wide range of tactics for researching global urban experiences. The focus is on inventing new concepts as well as revising existing approaches. Inspired by postcolonial and decolonial critiques of urban studies she advocates for an experimental comparative urbanism, open to learning from different urban experiences and to expanding conversations amongst urban scholars across the globe. The book features a wealth of examples of comparative urban research, concerned with many dimensions of urban life. A range of theoretical and philosophical approaches ground an understanding of the radical revisability and emergent nature of concepts of the urban. Advanced students, urbanists and scholars will be prompted to compose comparisons which trace the interconnected and relational character of the urban, and to think with the variety of urban experiences and urbanisation processes across the globe, to produce the new insights the twenty-first century urban world demands.
Author : Anders Blok
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351619721
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Actor-Network Theory written by Anders Blok and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This companion explores ANT as an intellectual practice, tracking its movements and engagements with a wide range of other academic and activist projects. Showcasing the work of a diverse set of ‘second generation’ ANT scholars from around the world, it highlights the exciting depth and breadth of contemporary ANT and its future possibilities. The companion has 38 chapters, each answering a key question about ANT and its capacities. Early chapters explore ANT as an intellectual practice and highlight ANT’s dialogues with other fields and key theorists. Others open critical, provocative discussions of its limitations. Later sections explore how ANT has been developed in a range of social scientific fields and how it has been used to explore a wide range of scales and sites. Chapters in the final section discuss ANT’s involvement in ‘real world’ endeavours such as disability and environmental activism, and even running a Chilean hospital. Each chapter contains an overview of relevant work and introduces original examples and ideas from the authors’ recent research. The chapters orient readers in rich, complex fields and can be read in any order or combination. Throughout the volume, authors mobilise ANT to explore and account for a range of exciting case studies: from wheelchair activism to parliamentary decision-making; from racial profiling to energy consumption monitoring; from queer sex to Korean cities. A comprehensive introduction by the editors explores the significance of ANT more broadly and provides an overview of the volume. The Routledge Companion to Actor-Network Theory will be an inspiring and lively companion to academics and advanced undergraduates and postgraduates from across many disciplines across the social sciences, including Sociology, Geography, Politics and Urban Studies, Environmental Studies and STS, and anyone wishing to engage with ANT, to understand what it has already been used to do and to imagine what it might do in the future.
Author : Aram A. Yengoyan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Modes of Comparison written by Aram A. Yengoyan and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrates how the idea of comparison has been deployed through the social sciences and humanities
Author : Tracey Loughran
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472530098
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book A Practical Guide to Studying History written by Tracey Loughran and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *** PROSE Award Winner (2018) in the Textbook/Humanities Category *** A Practical Guide to Studying History is the perfect guide for students embarking on degree-level study. The book: - introduces students to the concepts of historical objectivity, frameworks and debate - explains the differences in aims, methods and audiences for different types of history - explores the relationship between the skills developed during a history undergraduate degree and the practice of professional history - helps students develop the practical skills required to read historical writing critically, write good essays, and participate in historical debates - includes study questions, further reading lists, text boxes, maps and illustrations The book incorporates case studies taken from a range of regions and periods, reflecting the varied nature of historical study at university, and helps students to understand history, and to practice it successfully: it is an indispensable guide to studying history.
Author : Leopold Ringel
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 180117105X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Worlds of Rankings written by Leopold Ringel and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains an Open Access Chapter. This volume explores the distinct allure of rankings in diverse empirical settings such as healthcare, the IT sector, the arts, professional sports, anti-slavery advocacy, the pharma industry, and educational governance.
Author : Dr Sudhakar Prasad Thakur
Publisher : Blue Rose Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book English Writing A Practical Guide written by Dr Sudhakar Prasad Thakur and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2023-04-05 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English Writing – A Practical Guide draws on the author`s rich experience as a teacher, teacher trainer, principal, and consultant. The book seeks to engage students to write different types of compositions and improve their general language proficiency through writing. The book addresses the sequence of developing writing skills, and what `Process-oriented writing instruction` and `process-cum-genre based writing` is. It includes parallel writing (controlled writing), guided writing, picture and personal descriptions, journal writing, different types of paragraph writing, essay writing, and situational writing, writing answers to questions, correcting and responding to student writing, and grammar for writing for different types of compositions. The book will motivate teachers to guide students in English writing in a systematic manner and build confidence in them to write on different topics independently.
Author : Ming Xie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0826445187
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Conditions of Comparison written by Ming Xie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-08-04 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we know the other culture? How do such inquiries impact on our knowledge of our own culture? These questions lie at the heart of comparative intercultural studies. As a theoretical inquiry into how conceptual resources of cultures (such as explicit and implicit categories of thought) may pre-figure our perspectives, this book re-conceives and reorients comparative intercultural inquiry by arguing for the importance of an epistemological approach and for its potential to transform current critical paradigms, in contrast to approaches that emphasize primarily the political and the ethical. By critically engaging with and developing the insights of scholars and thinkers from both Anglo-American and Continental traditions, the book makes a significant meta-critical contribution to a rethinking of comparative intercultural studies and literary theory. It will be of interest to students and scholars in comparative literature, English, world literature, and global and translation studies.
Author : Alexander Tweedie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A System of Practical Medicine written by Alexander Tweedie and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John H. Farrar
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811392463
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Scholarship, Practice and Education in Comparative Law written by John H. Farrar and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how law functions in a multitude of facets and dimensions. The contributions shed light on the study of comparative law in legal scholarship, the relevance of comparative law in legal practice, and the importance of comparative law in legal education. The book will particularly appeal to those engaged in the teaching and scholarship of comparative law, and those seeking to uncover the various significant dimensions of the workings of law. The book is organised in three parts. Part I addresses scholarship, with contributors examining comparative legal issues as critique and from a theoretical framework. Part II outlines practice, with contributors discussing the function of comparative law in such comparatively diverse areas as international arbitration, environment, and the rule of law. Part III appraises comparative law in education.
