Research Methods - Soc. Policy

This book is concerned with the most fundamental aspects of academic study; the abilities to reason with ideas and evidence, to formulate arguments effectively and to appreciate the interplay between ideas and evidence in debate...

This book presents theoretical discussions and practical examples of Action Research from Scandinavia, Latin America and Africa, primarily dealing with how to combine nature conservation and management with local democratic community development, seeing the renewal of Commons as a way to transcend t..

This book presents theoretical discussions and practical examples of Action Research from Scandinavia, Latin America and Africa, primarily dealing with how to combine nature conservation and management with local democratic community development, seeing the renewal of Commons as a way to transcend t..

This book provides an introduction to the emerging and interdisciplinary field of cultural mapping, making a case for and demonstrating the spatial turn emerging in many related areas of critical, social and artistic research. Contributors explore innovative ways to encourage artistic intervention a..

The cultural and narrative turn has had a considerable impact upon research in the social sciences as well as in the arts and humanities, with Ken Plummer's Documents of Life constituting a central text in the turn towards to narrative, biographical and qualitative methodologies, challenging and cha..

The cultural and narrative turn has had a considerable impact upon research in the social sciences as well as in the arts and humanities, with Ken Plummer's Documents of Life constituting a central text in the turn towards to narrative, biographical and qualitative methodologies, challenging and cha..

This title was first published in 2002. A critical exploration of the ethical dilemmas and issues that confront qualitative researchers, including respect for privacy, establishing honesty and openness in relationships formed and guarding against misrepresentation...

_x000D_ This best-selling book, designed for researchers embarking on their first ethnographic project, has been substantially revised and updated, with lots of exercises and advice to guide the embodied and creative ‘practice’ of ethnography. New additions include cyber-ethnography, sensual, visual..

Written by one of the most eminent scholars in the field, Ethnographies of Reason offers a fundamentally different, ethnographic approach to the study of skill and reasoning. At the same time, it addresses a much neglected topic in the literature, illustrating practical techniques of ethnomethodolog..

Written by one of the most eminent scholars in the field, Ethnographies of Reason offers a fundamentally different, ethnographic approach to the study of skill and reasoning. At the same time, it addresses a much neglected topic in the literature, illustrating practical techniques of ethnomethodolog..

Demonstrating the breadth of ethnomethodological analysis and showing how no topic is beyond ethnomethodology's fundamental respecification, Ethnomethodology at Play sets out for the serious reader and researcher the precise contribution of ethnomethodology to sociological studies of sport and leisu..

Demonstrating the breadth of ethnomethodological analysis and showing how no topic is beyond ethnomethodology's fundamental respecification, Ethnomethodology at Play sets out for the serious reader and researcher the precise contribution of ethnomethodology to sociological studies of sport and leisu..