"Rocking Qualitative Social Science is a guidebook designed to help people, especially junior scholars or people new to qualitative methods, conduct good qualitative research, talk about their qualitative research (with both non-qualitative scholars and other qualitative scholar…
In Decolonial Feminist Research: Haunting, Rememory and Mothers, Jeong-eun Rhee embarks on a deeply personal inquiry that is demanded by her dead mother's haunting rememory and pursues what has become her work/life question: What methodologies are available to notice and study a…
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This completely rewritten and updated edition builds on the earlier version's drive to justify novel techniques of survey and archival research. The authors combine methods so that research results can withstand the threats to validity.
"As political science has come to depend more and more on quantitative methods, with a significant focus on causal identification (put simply, "what causes what"), there has been a growing concern that the questions scholars address are getting smaller, shrinking to include only…
"Our present era of digital communication presents endless opportunities for the collection and analysis of social data in new and novel ways. It also presents new and unanticipated ways to fail, as researchers are often inventing elements of their methodologies on the fly or st…
Divided into three sections - knowledge, power and desire - this book provides a systematic account of the intellectual context and an exhaustive analysis of the key themes informing Deleuze and Guattari's work.
"This volume highlights work being done in qualitative inquiry through a variety of critical lenses such as new materialism, queer theory, and narrative inquiry. Contributors ranging from seasoned academics to emerging scholars attend to questions of ontology and epistemology, p…
"This volume highlights work being done in qualitative inquiry through a variety of critical lenses such as new materialism, queer theory, and narrative inquiry. Contributors ranging from seasoned academics to emerging scholars attend to questions of ontology and epistemology, p…
"Explores theoretical foundations of Participatory Action Research tools, addressing the difficulties researchers from all disciplines face, focusing on connections between the theory, tools and skills required for practice"--
"Explores theoretical foundations of Participatory Action Research tools, addressing the difficulties researchers from all disciplines face, focusing on connections between the theory, tools and skills required for practice"--
This indispensable textbook/reference provides a comprehensive and reader-friendly introduction to the emerging field of computational social science (CSS). Presenting a unified treatment, the text examines in detail the four key methodological approaches of automated social inf…
As debate rages over the widening and destructive gap between the rich and the rest of Americans, Claude Fischer and his colleagues present a comprehensive new treatment of inequality in America. They challenge arguments that expanding inequality is the natural, perhaps necessar…
Over the past decade there has been a remarkable flowering of interest in food and nutrition, both within the popular media and in academia. Scholars are increasingly using foodways, food systems and eating habits as a new unit of analysis within their own disciplines, and stude…