Research Methods: Research Methods for Social and Behavioral Sciences

By Cheryl Tatano Beck

Despite a long history in quantitative research, it is only recently that enthusiasm for secondary analysis of qualitative data has gained momentum across health and social science disciplines. Given that researchers have long known the inordinate amount of time and energy invested in conducting…

Paperback – 2018-12-27
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Edited by Áine Humble, Elise Radina

How is qualitative data actually collected, analyzed, and accomplished? Real stories of How Qualitative Data Analysis Occurs: Moving Beyond "Themes Emerged" offers an in-depth look into how qualitative social science researchers studying family issues and dynamics approach their data analyses. It…

Paperback – 2018-12-17
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Edited by Paul Hackett

Quantitative consumer research has long been the backbone of consumer psychology producing insights with peerless validity and reliability. This new book addresses a broad range of approaches to consumer psychology research along with developments in quantitative consumer research. Experts in their…

Paperback – 2018-12-10
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By Linda Eberst Dorsten, Lawrence Hotchkiss

Research Methods and Society, Third Edition is designed to help undergraduate students acquire basic skills in methods of social science research. These skills provide a foundation for understanding research findings in the social sciences and for conducting social research. Just as important, such…

Paperback – 2018-12-10
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By H.L. Goodall Jr

Now issued as a Routledge Education Classic Edition, Bud Goodall’s Writing Qualitative Inquiry responds to the rapid growth of personal narrative as a method of inquiry among qualitative scholars by offering a concise volume of practical advice for scholars and students seeking to work in this…

Paperback – 2018-12-04
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Routledge Education Classic Edition

Edited by Ann Buchanan, Anna Rotkirch

Across the world, the role of grandparents is changing. This book highlights the changing roles, and the consequences of these changes, for both grandchildren and grandparents, by drawing together leading international authorities on grandparenting and intergenerational relations. The book…

Hardback – 2018-11-27
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Contemporary Issues in Social Science

By Janice M Morse

The use of mixed methods designs for conducting research has become a major trend in social science research. Renowned methodological experts Janice Morse and Linda Niehaus present a guide to intermediate and experienced researchers on the possibilities inherent in mixed method research. They offer…

Paperback – 2018-11-26
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Developing Qualitative Inquiry

Edited by Kalina Stamenova, R. D. Hinshelwood

The psychoanalytic unconscious is a slippery set of phenomena to pin down. There is not an accepted standard form of research, outside of the clinical practice of psychoanalysis. In this book a number of non-clinical methods for collecting data and analysing it are described. It represents the…

Paperback – 2018-11-22
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By Rodanthi Tzanelli

It is said that movies have encroached upon social realities creating tourism enclaves based on distortions of history and heritage, or simulations that disregard both. What localities and nation-states value are discarded, suppressed, or modified beyond recognition in neoliberal markets; thus…

Hardback – 2018-11-07
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Routledge Advances in Sociology

By Aaron M. Kuntz

What are the problems to which materialist methodologies are posed as a solution? In this book, Aaron M. Kuntz maps the impact of materialism on contemporary practices of inquiry in education and the social sciences. Through this work, the author challenges readers to consider inquiry as a mode of…

Paperback – 2018-10-29
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By Fred Pyrczak, Maria Tcherni-Buzzeo

Evaluating Research in Academic Journals is a guide for students who are learning how to evaluate reports of empirical research published in academic journals. It breaks down the process of evaluating a journal article into easy-to-understand steps, and emphasizes the practical aspects of…

Paperback – 2018-10-29
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Edited by François Cooren, Fabienne Malbois

In our daily experiences, we feel, perceive, designate, invoke or comment on a plurality of beings: people, artifacts, technologies, institutions, projects, animals, divinities, emotions, cultures, ideologies or opinions that are part of our world. While these beings are all part of our world, they…

Hardback – 2018-10-22
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Routledge Studies in Communication, Organization, and Organizing