Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Top Series in United States

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “david pick”
Skip side bar filters

  • Photography as a Social Research Method

    by Sten Langmann, David Pick ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book focuses on photography within the social research field, building a solid foundation for photography as a social research method and describing different techniques and applications of photo research. It provides a comprehensive approach to research photography, from preparation and the ethical considerations that need to be understood prior to going into the field, to collecting data, ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • Counterfactuals and Causal Inference

    Methods and Principles for Social Research

    by Stephen L. Morgan, Christopher Winship ...
    Series series Analytical Methods for Social Research
    Did mandatory busing programs in the 1970s increase the school achievement of disadvantaged minority youth? Does obtaining a college degree increase an individual's labor market earnings? Did the use of the butterfly ballot in some Florida counties in the 2000 presidential election cost Al Gore votes? If so, was the number of miscast votes sufficiently large to have altered the election outcome? ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Population-Based Survey Experiments

    by Diana C. Mutz ...
    Population-based survey experiments have become an invaluable tool for social scientists struggling to generalize laboratory-based results, and for survey researchers besieged by uncertainties about causality. Thanks to technological advances in recent years, experiments can now be administered to random samples of the population to which a theory applies. Yet until now, there was no self ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sociology of Knowledge in a Time of Crisis

    Challenging the Phantom of Liberty

    by Onofrio Romano ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
    The speed of social dynamics has overtaken the speed of thought. Adopting a dialectical perspective towards reality, social theory has always detected faults in the dominant social pattern, foreseeing crises and outlining in advance the features of new social models. Thought has always moved faster than reality and its ruling models, ensuring a dynamic equilibrium during modernity. Despite any ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Feminist Methodologies for Critical Researchers

    Bridging Differences

    by Joey Sprague ...
    Series series Gender Lens
    This accessible text on social research methodology teaches students of sociology and related disciplines how standard methods can be adapted toward critical ends. The second edition has been updated throughout to incorporate the latest critical scholarship, enhanced discussion of qualitative methods, new material on global issues, sex/sexuality/gender, new discussion of intersectionality, how ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Social Science Methods for Psychodynamic Inquiry

    The Unconscious on the World Scene

    by William R Meyers ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explains, with case examples, a variety of social science research methods suitable for studying the unconscious components of irrational social and political actions in world affairs, which can be defined as those that are intensely destructive, self-destructive, or extremely bizarre. The book argues that they are driven in part by feelings and fantasies that are outside of conscious ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Psychological and Social Measurement

    The Career and Contributions of Benjamin D. Wright

    Edited by Mark Wilson, William P. Fisher, Jr. ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    In this tribute to Benjamin Wright, former students and colleagues recall the foundational contributions he made to the theory and practice of measurement in a career spanning over five decades. Wright is recognized as the foremost proponent of the psychometric approach of Georg Rasch, a Danish mathematician, whose ideas continue to provoke controversy. Wright’s colleagues and students, and ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Social Networks: Analysis and Case Studies

    Edited by A. Şima Etaner-Uyar, Şule Gündüz-Öğüdücü ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    The present volume provides a comprehensive resource for practitioners and researchers alike-both those new to the field as well as those who already have some experience. The work covers Social Network Analysis theory and methods with a focus on current applications and case studies applied in various domains such as mobile networks, security, machine learning and health. With the increasing ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Context of Explanation

    by M. Bunzl ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    In this book Martin Bunzl considers the prospects for a general and comprehensive account of explanation, given the variety of interests that prompt explanations in science. Bunzl argues that any successful account of explanation must deal with two very different contexts - one static and one dynamic. Traditionally, theories of explanation have been built for the former of these two contexts. That ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Diversity in Survey Questions on the Same Topic

    Techniques for Improving Comparability

    by Tineke de Jonge, Ruut Veenhoven, Wim Kalmijn ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book describes why conventional methods fall short to solve the comparability problem and introduces three successive innovations to overcome these shortcomings. Comparability of results from different surveys using different items for the same topic is greatly hampered by the differences in response scales used. This reduces our accumulation of knowledge and has challenged researchers in the ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Neural Nets: Applications in Geography

    Edited by B. Hewitson, R.G. Crane ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Neural nets offer a fascinating new strategy for spatial analysis, and their application holds enormous potential for the geographic sciences. However, the number of studies that have utilized these techniques is limited. This lack of interest can be attributed, in part, to lack of exposure, to the use of extensive and often confusing jargon, and to the misapprehension that, without an underlying ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Water Pollution and Abatement Policy in India

    A Study from an Economic Perspective

    by Kakali Mukhopadhyay, Debesh Chakraborty ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    India has been traditionally well-endowed with large freshwater reserves, but increasing population, urbanization and agricultural growth in recent decades are causing overexploitation of surface and groundwater. As consumption of water grows, wastewater increases significantly and in the absence of proper measures for treatment and management, is polluting existing freshwater reserves. As a ... Read more

    $49.99 USD