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The book tackles a number of challenging questions: How can we conceptualize architectural objects and practices without falling into the divides architecture/society, nature/culture, materiality/me……続きを見る

Offering the first empirically driven assessment of the development, marketisation, regulation and use of online gambling organisations and their products, this book explores the relationship betwee……続きを見る

Presenting original research studies by leading scholars in the field, Orders of Ordinary Action considers how ethnomethodology provides for an 'alternate' sociology by respecifying sociological phe……続きを見る

"America's best idea" ~ our National Park units! As of 2016, the United States National Park Service oversees 410 park units. They are found in all 50 states, including Washington, D.C., and in the ……続きを見る

InFirst Person Action Research Judi Marshall invites her reader to join her in the rich world of first person inquiry: a reflexive approach to life and to one’s own participation in research and lea……続きを見る

This ambitious book looks 'behind the model' to reveal how economists use formal models to generate insights into the economy. Drawing on recent work in the philosophy of science and economic method……続きを見る

Este libro está especialmente dirigido a educadores y trabajadores sociales que deseen valerse de la etnografía como instrumento de análisis con el que interpretar y comprender las realidades en las……続きを見る

Advancing the rising field of engaged or participatory anthropology that is emerging at the same time as increased opposition from Indigenous peoples to research, this book offers critical reflectio……続きを見る

This book introduces the methodology of critical discourse analysis (CDA) to the study of participatory planning. CDA uses linguistic analysis to elucidate social issues and processes and is particu……続きを見る

Karin Olson’s brief, accessible guide to the principles and practices of qualitative interviewing is a welcome addition for students and novice practitioners in a wide array of fields. Interview is ……続きを見る

With an increasing proportion of migration and mobility field studies being conducted by migrants and members of ethnic minorities in 'home' contexts, the implications of 'insider research' are incr……続きを見る

Disability studies has engaged with discourse analysis in key works both from the UK and the USA. While the perspectives and analyses of discourse analysis have proved well suited for exploring disa……続きを見る

The new edition of The SAGE Handbook of E-Learning Research retains the original effort of the first edition by focusing on research while capturing the leading edge of e-learning development and pr……続きを見る

Departing from a concern with certain ’hard’ problems in social theory and focusing instead on the theoretical strategies employed in their solution, especially on how these strategies depend on wha……続きを見る

This book begins the large task of sorting out the vast number of German literary works which the war has piled up before us. The author has culled over four hundred novels and critical works and by……続きを見る

An annotated bibliography of Old Norse-Icelandic studies for the years 1981-83, offering a quick guide to recent work. 続きを見る

There is no doubt that local and regional history, considered by many as a kind of minor historical study, has a pressing need for a systematic inventory of its resources. This collection shows the ……続きを見る

Beasley's Guide to Library Research offers straightforward help in navigating the complex labyrinth of library research. Suitable for novice and experienced researcher alike, this revised classic is……続きを見る

This is a selected, annotated list of some 2,000 books on Asia in English and French currently in print, chosen with the aim of providing a long-term historical perspective for the general reader. T……続きを見る

Motivated by the death of his partner, Adams seeks to redefine the closet as a relational construct between all people and all sexualities. The closet is explored at each stageーentering it, inhabit……続きを見る

Ronald J Pelias explores leaning as a metaphor for analyzing interpersonal interaction. Bodies leaning toward one another are engaged, developing the potential for long-lasting, meaningful relations……続きを見る

In this literary, co-constructed narrative, two Brazilian scholars explore the spaces “in-between”ーbetween their own biographies, one raised privileged, the other poor; between the experience of be……続きを見る

The leading figure in qualitative health research (QHR), Janice M. Morse, asserts that QHR is its own separate disciplineーdistinct from both traditional health research and other kinds of qualitati……続きを見る

The Constructivist Credo is a set of foundational principles for those wishing to conduct social science research within the constructivist paradigm. They were distilled by Yvonna Lincoln and Egon G……続きを見る

Winner of The University of Alabama 2017 President’s Faculty Research Award What does it mean to be a responsible methodologist? Certainly it is more than being a research middle-manager who ensures……続きを見る

Data analysis is often the most difficult task facing students and novice qualitative researchers, including Shane the Lone Ethnographerーa grad student with fond visions of the Wild Westーand her h……続きを見る

Having trouble finding a book that shows you not only how to analyze data but also how to collect the data appropriately and fully interpret the analysis, too? Here′s a new book that does all this i……続きを見る

Despite a voluminous literature detailing the procedures of research ethics boards and institutional ethical review processes, there are few texts that explore the realpolitik of conducting criminal……続きを見る

This bestselling text provides a practical guide to structural equation modeling (SEM) using the Amos Graphical approach. Using clear, everyday language, the text is ideal for those with little to n……続きを見る

The growth of entrepreneurship research has been accompanied by an increased convergence and institutionalization of the field. In many ways this is of course positive, but it also represents how th……続きを見る