This book is designed to introduce doctoral and graduate students to the process of scientific research in the social sciences, business, education, public health, and related disciplines.
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With entries from leading international scholars from around the world, this eight-volume encyclopedia offers the widest possible coverage of key areas both regionally and globally.
The Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion provides a comprehensive overview of the academic study of religion. Written by an international team of leading scholars, its fifty-one chapters are divided thematically into seven sections.
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Drawing on the rich resources of the ten-volume series of The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science, this one-volume distillation provides a comprehensive overview of all the main branches of contemporary political science: political theory ...
The third edition of Research Methods for Political Science retains its effective approach to helping students learn what to research, why to research and how to research.
Interpretive political science focuses on the meanings that shape actions and institutions, and the ways in which they do so. This Handbook explores the implications of interpretive theory for the study of politics.
This book show how ethics can engage more closely with the reality of psychiatric practice and how empirical methodologies from the social sciences can help foster this link.
Qualitative Data Analysis shows that learning how to analyse qualitative data by computer can be fun.
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It advocates a multi-method approach, with students drawing from a pool of techniques and approaches suitable for their own topics of investigation.The book covers the following main areas:* Drawing on experience, and studying how ...
We still lack practical answers to one of the most basic questions in empirical research: How should researchers interpret meanings?
The Index, Reader’s Guide themes, and Cross-References combine to provide robust search-and-browse in the e-version.
This lively, practical text presents a fresh and comprehensive approach to doing qualitative research. The book offers a unique balance of theory and clear-cut choices for customizing every phase of a qualitative study.
"Comprising more than 500 entries, the Encyclopedia of Research Design explains how to make decisions about research design, undertake research projects in an ethical manner, interpret and draw valid inferences from data, and evaluate ...
A concise volume aimed at researchers and academics in sociology, anthropology, psychology and interpersonal communication.
Leading scholars reflect critically on the kinds of appeal to the Bible that have been made in environmental ethics and ecotheology.