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For the past two decades, 'complexity' has informed a range of work across the social sciences. There are diverse schools of complexity thinking, and authors have used these ideas in a multiplicity of ways, from health inequalities to the organization of large scale firms. Some …
Introduces students to the central ideas which surround the chaos/complexity theories. It discusses key concepts before using them as a way of investigating the nature of social research.
After method: mess in social science research
by Law, John
fromInternational library of sociology
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This book is a startling, controversial and original manifesto for a complete review of research methods and methodology in the social sciences and a must read for anyone involved in this area.
The Research Companion recognises the need for instruction in the practice of research and offers clear, honest advice. It will prove invaluable for students in the social sciences, making research more accurate, ethical and productive.
"This innovative book combines what most books separate: research as practical activity and research as intellectual engagement. It highlights and clarifies the methodological issues that underlie the journey from initial research idea to the finished report and beyond." "The bo…
There has been an explosion of interest in visual culture - coming largely from work in sociology, anthropology and cultural studies and while there are a number of practical and technical manuals available for film, photographic and other visual media, there is a dearth of writ…
This work draws from social psychological and communications research to reflect the newest statistical techniques associated with designs and data collection methods. It focuses on understanding the principles that govern the use of a particular method.
Why the prejudice against adopting a scientific attitude in the social sciences is creating a new "Dark Ages" and preventing us from solving the perennial problems of crime, war, and poverty.
Techniques covered in this book include multilevel modeling, ANOVA and ANCOVA, path analysis, mediation and moderation, logistic regression, generalised additive models, and robust methods. These are all tested out using a range of real research examples conducted by the authors…
How can social scientists draw broad, applicable principles of political order from specific historical examples? In this volume, five senior scholars offer a methodological response to this question. The result is both a methodological manifesto and an applied handbook.
This volume focuses on key conceptual issues in the social sciences, such as Winch's idea of a social science, structuralism, Malinowski and Evans-Pritchard, and the concept of kinship.
This accessible, how-to guide can be used as a workbook to the author's An Introduction to Social Research, or as an independent guide. It is a guide to preparing a well-constructed research proposal, then presenting it effectively.
Offering pragmatic guidance for planning and conducting a meta-analytic review, this book is written in an engaging, nontechnical style that makes it ideal for graduate course use or self-study. The author shows how to identify questions that can be answered using meta-analysis,…
Realism and Social Science
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Realism and Social Science offers the reader an authoritative and compelling guide to critical realism and its implications for social theory and for the practice of social science. It offers an alternative both to approaches which are overly confident about the possibility of a…
Realism and Social Science offers an authoritative guide to critical realism and an assessment of its virtues in comparison with other leading traditions in social science. It is illustrated throughout with relevant and accessible examples.