"Using evaluations of actual social programs as examples, Learning More from Social Experiments makes the case that many of the limitations of random-assignment studies can be overcome by combining data from these studies with statistical methods from other research designs." "B…
Comparison is an essential research method in political science. This book helps students to understand comparison as a scientific instrument, to grasp its necessity and its effective purpose for research. For that reason, it replies to three 'simple' questions: why compare, wha…
"The Case Study method of teaching and learning, adopted by business schools and management centres globally, provides an important function in management education, but employing it effectively can often be a challenge. This book provides practical insights, tools and approache…
This classic and invaluable reference handbook, written for sex researchers and their students, has now been completely revised in a new, fourth edition. It remains the only easy and efficient way for researchers to learn about, evaluate, and compare instruments that have previo…
This classic and invaluable reference handbook, written for sex researchers and their students, has now been completely revised in a new, fourth edition. It remains the only easy and efficient way for researchers to learn about, evaluate, and compare instruments that have previo…
Pioneered by Max Gluckman to demonstrate the way in which social practice and structure together constitute and are themselves constituted by the situational flow of social life, the extended case method became diagnostic of the Manchester School of Social Anthropology. Anticipa…
Offering students an understanding of social research practice through appreciation of its foundations and methods, this text stretches from the philosophy of science to detailed descriptions of both qualitative and quantitative techniques.
Offering students an understanding of social research practice through appreciation of its foundations and methods, this text stretches from the philosophy of science to detailed descriptions of both qualitative and quantitative techniques.
Refusant les barrières disciplinaires, les auteurs démontrent que l'acquisition de la connaissance n'est pas affaire de chapelle ni de technologie, mais d'abord de doute et d'ouverture : le doute et la remise en question du "savoir acquis" ; l'ouverture et la tolérance à la diff…
"Ecological Inference: New Methodological Strategies brings together a diverse group of scholars to survey the latest strategies for solving ecological inference problems in various fields. The last half decade has witnessed an explosion of research in ecological inference - the…
This is a timely, distinctive and sparkling introductory account of social theory and the central role of enlightenment within it. Osborne argues that social theory should be based on an idea of enlightenment rather than modernity.
Thoroughly Revised, this Engaging Text has Given Thousands of Students and New evaluators the practical information and expert advice needed to conduct or use evaluations. In 26 concise sections, the book describes how to articulate answerable evaluation questions, collect and a…
Written by an eminent and original thinker in the philosophy of science, this book takes a fresh, unorthodox look at the key philosophical concepts and assumptions of the social sciences. Mario Bunge contends that social scientists (anthropologists, sociologists, political scien…
Winch addresses the possibility and practice of a comprehensive 'science of society', drawing from the works of such thinkers as Ludwig Wittgenstein, J.S. Mill and Max Weber to make his case.
