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Interactionist Currents eBook Series

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  • The Drama of Social Life

    A Dramaturgical Handbook

    Edited by Charles Edgley ...
    Series series Interactionist Currents
    Whatever else they may be doing, human beings are also and always expressing themselves whenever they are in the awareness of others. As such, the metaphor of life as theater - of people playing roles to audiences who review them and then coordinate further action - is an ancient idea that has been resurrected by social scientists as an organizing simile for the analysis and understanding of ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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  • Researching Society and Culture

    Edited by Clive Seale ...
    Written by internationally renowned experts, each chapter provides a full introduction to a key aspect of research methodology. From starting out to generating, analysing, and presenting data, this new edition covers foundational concepts in social research while also keeping students on the pulse of topics like digital social research, social surveys, and big data. Packed with international ... Read more

    $84.59 USD

  • Heuristic Research

    Design, Methodology, and Applications

    by Clark Moustakas ...
    "A gem . . . . It is most definitely a work of major significance both historically and methodologically . . . . You′ve got a classic on your hands. As for me and some of my colleagues . . . you will have our personal and classroom orders the moment the book comes out."--Mike Arons, West Georgia College"The book is well-organized and the content is comprehensive. The writing is clear and well ... Read more

    $52.19 USD

  • Social Research

    An Introduction

    by Matthew David, Carole Sutton ...
    The perfect book for any student taking a research methods course for the first time!The new edition of David and Sutton′s text provides those new to social research with a comprehensive introduction to the theory, logic and practical methods of qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods research. Covering all aspects of research design, data collection, data analysis and writing up, Social ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

  • Doing Surveys Online

    by Vera Toepoel ...
    Vera Toepoel’s practical, how-to guide to doing surveys online takes you through the entire process of using surveys, from systematically recruiting respondents, to designing the internet survey, to processing the survey data and writing it up.This book helps students and researchers in identifying possible strategies to make the best use of online surveys, providing pro’s and con’s, and do’s and ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Reliability and Validity in Qualitative Research

    by Jerome Kirk, Marc L. Miller ...
    Series series Qualitative Research Methods
    Authors Jerome Kirk and Marc L. Miller define what is—and what is not—qualitative research. They suggest that the use of numbers in the process of recording and analyzing observations is less important than that the research should involve sustained interaction with the people being studied, in their own language and on their own turf. Following a chapter on objectivity, the authors discuss the ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • How to Critique Journal Articles in the Social Sciences

    by Scott R. (Robert) Harris ...
    This brief, introductory book provides readers with a step-by-step guide to reading and understanding a social science research article. The author demonstrates the many strengths of social research, including its advantages over ordinary ways of knowing things, and, at the same time, points out that research is inevitably flawed. Rather than naively assuming that good research simply produces ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • The Contemporary Goffman

    Edited by Michael Hviid Jacobsen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
    The sociology of Erving Goffman has inspired generations of sociologists throughout the world. Students and scholars alike have in Goffman’s unsurpassable and generous ability to capture the world of everyday life discovered an emporium of useful, incisive and quite often humorous analyses, concepts and ideas. The Contemporary Goffman highlights the continued relevance of Goffman to sociology and ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Interpretive Autoethnography

    by Norman K. Denzin ...
    Series series Qualitative Research Methods
    Like all writing, biographies are interpretive. In Interpretive Autoethnography, Norman Denzin combines one of the oldest techniques in the social sciences with one of the newest. Bringing in elements of postmodernism and interpretive social science, he reexamines the biographical and autobiographical genres as methods for qualitative researchers. Grounded in theory and rigorous analysis, this ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Cognitive Interviewing Practice

    by Debbie Collins ...
    The use of the cognitive interviewing method for survey question testing has proliferated and evolved over the past 30 years. In more recent years the method has been applied to the evaluation of information letters and leaflets and to research consent forms. This book provides a practical handbook for implementing cognitive interviewing methods in the context of applied social policy research, ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Understanding Political Science Statistics

    Observations and Expectations in Political Analysis

    by Peter Galderisi ...
    In politics, you begin by asking theoretically interesting questions. Sometimes statistics can help answer those questions. When it comes to applied statistics, students shouldn’t just learn a vast array of formula—they need to learn the basic concepts of statistics as solutions to particular problems. Peter Galderisi demonstrates that statistics are a summary of how to answer the problem: learn ... Read more

    $126.99 USD

  • Deconstructing Ethnography

    Towards a Social Methodology for Ubiquitous Computing and Interactive Systems Design

    by Graham Button, Andy Crabtree, Mark Rouncefield, Peter Tolmie ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This book aims to deconstruct ethnography to alert systems designers, and other stakeholders, to the issues presented by new approaches that move beyond the studies of ‘work’ and ‘work practice’ within the social sciences (in particular anthropology and sociology). The theoretical and methodological apparatus of the social sciences distort the social and cultural world as lived in and understood ... Read more

    $49.49 USD