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The industry standard guide, updated with new ideas and SPSS analysis techniques Designing and Conducting Survey Research: A Comprehensive Guide Fourth Edition is the industry standard resource that covers all major components of the survey process, updated to include...
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Jossey-Bass
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2014-08-11
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What forms of knowledge can social science claim to produce? Does it employ causal analysis, and if so what does this entail?What role should values play in the work of social scientists?
These are the questions addressed in this book. They are closely interrelated,...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2014-06-16
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Do you feel under increasing pressure to produce high quality publications, or struggle to translate your great ideas into inspirational – and engaging – writing? Gillie Bolton introduces her three ‘key phases’ method (Write for Myself, Redraft for my Reader, Edit for...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2014-06-13
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For many researchers, the need to present relevant and engaging material in the most effective way in an unfamiliar setting presents a potential barrier to their success as professionals. This handy guide tackles the obstacles to effective and successful presentations,...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2014-03-20
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An outstanding introduction to discourse analysis of written language in an age that is more and more characterized by multilingual, digital, and generically hybrid texts. In an accessible style, Working with Written Discourse illustrates how these texts can be analyzed...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2014-03-10
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Although there are plenty of books that discuss the principles, the philosophy and the techniques of research in organisations, it is much harder to find information on what doing research in organisations actually involves in practice. Yet this is often one of the...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2014-02-17
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'The editors of the new SAGE Handbook of Regression Analysis and Causal Inference have assembled a wide-ranging, high-quality, and timely collection of articles on topics of central importance to quantitative social research, many written by leaders in the field....
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2013-12-20
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'Written in an authoritative and accessible style, this is a must-read for anyone planning, researching and writing a doctoral thesis or dissertation. I will certainly be recommending this book to my research students.' - Professor Goeffrey Elliott, University of...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2013-08-12
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'From finding a research topic through to the final write up, this clear guide takes the mystery out of graduate-level research. This book will help your project succeed' - James V. Spickard, Professor of Sociology, University of Redlands, US Just starting your...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
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2013-03-25
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In this fully updated and expanded second edition, Carol Grbich provides a guide through current issues in the analysis of qualitative data. Packed with detailed examples, a glossary, further reading lists and a section on writing up, this book is exactly what you need...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2012-11-19
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In contemporary Western societies, the visual domain has come to assume a hitherto unprecedented cultural centrality. Daily life is replete with a potentially endless stream of images and other visual messages: from the electronic and paper-based billboards of the...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2012-07-23
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Biographical research may take a range of forms and may vary in its application and approach but has the unified and coherent aim to give 'voice' to individuals. The central concern of this collection is to assemble articles (from sociology, social psychology,...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2012-06-25
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Internet Research Skills is a clear, concise guide to effective online research for social science and humanities students. The first half of the book deals with publications online, devoting separate chapters to academic articles, books, official publications and news...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2012-05-17
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Original, fresh and relevant this is a theoretically-informed practical guide to researching social relations. The text provides a mixed methods approach that challenges historical divisions between quantitative and qualitative research. It adopts a...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
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2011-11-14
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This innovative book provides students and researchers alike with an indispensible introduction to the key theoretical issues and practical methods needed for data collection. It uses clear definitions, relevant interdisciplinary examples from around the world and...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2011-11-04
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Doing Visual Research offers an innovative introduction to the use of photography, collaborative video, drawing, objects, multi-media production and installation in research. Claudia Mitchell explains how visual methods can be used as modes of inquiry as well as modes...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2011-05-16
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"The definitive guide to a technology that succeeds or fails depending upon our ability to accommodate societal context and structures. This handbook is lucid, integrative, comprehensive and, above all, prescient in its interpretation of GIS implementation as a societal...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2011-04-13
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Social research is a bourgeoning field. Of course it has many traditions and approaches, but there is a high premium upon thinking differently and thinking anew because social life is never static or wholly predictable.
The Handbook, edited by internationally...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2011-03-11
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- what is the relationship between the social sciences and the natural sciences?
- where do today's dominant approaches to doing social science come from?
- what are the main fissures and debates in contemporary social scientific thought?
- how are we to make sense of...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2011-02-17
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What are the critical gaps in thinking about reflexivity and social research? How is reflexive practice shaped by the contexts and cultures in which researchers work? How might research practice respond to twin demands of excellence and relevance in the...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
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2010-11-22
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