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Author : J. Samuel Barkin,Laura Sjoberg
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472053391
Revolutionary volume demonstrates how crossing the positivist and post-positivist divide improves political science research
Author : Dvora Yanow
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0761908277
This is a guide to interpretative techniques and methods for policy research. The author describes what interpretative approaches are and what they can mean to policy analysis, and then shifts the frame of reference from thinking about values as costs and benefits to thinking about them more as a set of meanings.
Author : James Drisko,Tina Maschi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190215507
Content Analysis offers a comprehensive overview of the variation within content analysis, along with detailed descriptions of three approaches found in the contemporary literature: basic content analysis, interpretive content analysis and qualitative content analysis. This book provides an inclusive, and carefully differentiated, examination of contemporary content analysis research purposes and methods. Such a book is not currently available. Chapter One examines the conceptual base and history of content analysis, then the next three chapters examine each approach to content analysis in depth, using brief illustrative exemplar studies. Each of the methodology chapters employs a consistent outline to help readers compare and contrast the three different approaches. Chapter 5 examines rigor in content analysis and highlights steps to ensure the internal coherence of studies. This book concludes with exploration of two full-length studies: Chapter 6 examines the use of content analysis for advocacy and building public awareness to promote human rights and social justice. Chapter 7 reviews a full-length study of older adults in prison to detail how content analysis is completed and how different approaches may be usefully combined.
Author : Tibor Kiss,Artemis Alexiadou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 815 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110394238
This Handbook represents the development of research and the current level of knowledge in the fields of syntactic theory and syntax analysis. Syntax can look back to a long tradition. Especially in the last 50 years, however, the interaction between syntactic theory and syntactic analysis has led to a rapid increase in analyses and theoretical suggestions. This second edition of the Handbook on Syntax adopts a unifying perspective and therefore does not place the division of syntactic theory into several schools to the fore, but the increase in knowledge resulting from the fruitful argumentations between syntactic analysis and syntactic theory. It uses selected phenomena of individual languages and their cross-linguistic realizations to explain what syntactic analyses can do and at the same time to show in what respects syntactic theories differ from each other. It investigates how syntax is related to neighbouring disciplines and investigate the role of the interfaces especially the relationship between syntax and phonology, morphology, compositional semantics, pragmatics, and the lexicon. The phenomena chosen bring together renowned experts in syntax, and represent the consensus reached as to what has to be considered as an important as well as illustrative syntactic phenomenon. The phenomena discuss do not only serve to show syntactic analyses, but also to compare theoretical approaches with each other.
Author : Patrick A Mello,Falk Ostermann
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000816716
The disintegration and questioning of global governance structures and a re-orientation toward national politics combined with the spread of technological innovations such as big data, social media, and phenomena like fake news, populism, or questions of global health policies make it necessary for the introduction of new methods of inquiry and the adaptation of established methods in Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA). This accessible handbook offers concise chapters from expert international contributors covering a diverse range of new and established FPA methods. Embracing methodological pluralism and a belief in the value of an open discussion about methods’ assumptions and diverging positions, it provides new, state-of-the-art research approaches, as well as introductions to a range of established methods. Each chapter follows the same approach, introducing the method and its development, discussing strengths, requirements, limitations, and potential pitfalls while illustrating the method’s application using examples from empirical research. Embracing methodological pluralism and problem-oriented research that engages with real-world questions, the authors examine quantitative and qualitative traditions, rationalist and interpretivist perspectives, as well as different substantive backgrounds. The book will be of interest to a wide range of scholars and students in global politics, foreign policy, and methods-related classes across the social sciences.
Author : Jeannie Sowers,Stacy D. VanDeveer,Erika Weinthal
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 873 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197515037
'The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Politics' explores some of the most important environmental issues through the lens of comparative politics, including energy, climate change, food, health, urbanization, waste, and sustainability. The chapters delve into more traditional forms of comparative environmental politics (CEP) - the political economy of natural resources and the role of corporations and supply chains - while also showcasing new trends in CEP scholarship, particularly the comparative study of environmental injustice and intersectional inequities.
Author : Adele E. Clarke,Carrie Friese,Rachel S. Washburn
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781483322926
The Second Edition offers an innovative extension of grounded theory useful in qualitative research projects that draws on interviews, observations, and visual, narrative, and historical discourse materials. To engage the dense complexities of real world situations, Situational Analysis (SA) braids together Strauss's ecological social worlds/arenas theory, Foucault’s discourse analysis, and Deleuze and Guattari’s rhizomes and assemblages. The book will serve as an invaluable resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate-level students, as well as professional researchers and consultants from diverse backgrounds pursuing qualitative projects.
Author : Mirca Madianou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136611056
What does it mean to watch two-hour long news programmes every evening? Why are some people 'addicted' to the news while others prefer to switch off? Television is an indispensable part of the fabric of modern life and this book investigates a facet of this process: its impact on the ways that we experience the political entity of the nation and our national and transnational identities. Drawing on anthropological, social and media theory and grounded on a two-year original ethnography of television news viewing in Athens, the book offers a fresh, interdisciplinary perspective in understanding the media/identity relationship. Starting from a perspective that examines identities as lived and as performed, the book follows the circulation of discourses about the nation and belonging and contrasts the articulation of identities at a local level with the discourses about the nation in the national television channels. The book asks: whether, and in what ways does television influence identity discourses and practices? When do people contest the official discourses about the nation and when do they rely on them? Do the media play a role in relation to inclusion and exclusion from public life, particularly in the case of minorities? The book presents a compelling account of the contradictory and ambivalent nature of national and transnational identities while developing a nuanced approach to media power. It is argued that although the media do not shape identities in a causal way, they do contribute in creating common communicative spaces which often catalyse feelings of belonging or exclusion. The book claims a place in the emerging sub-field of media anthropology and represents the new generation of audience research that places media consumption in the wider social, economic and political context.
Author : James Mahoney,Dietrich Rueschemeyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003-02-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521016452
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Author : Robert Elliot, (ps,Robert Elliot,Ladislav Timulak
Publisher : Essentials of Qualitative Meth
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1433833719
This easy-to-follow guide explains the most important principles that underlie a wide range of descriptive-interpretive approaches to qualitative research. Having read this book, readers will be able to tackle each phase of the research study, from initial design, through data collection and analysis, to writing up the final manuscript
Author : Jose M. Cortina,Ronald S. Landis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135068455
The goal of the chapters in this SIOP Organizational Frontiers Series volume is to challenge researchers to break away from the rote application of traditional methodologies and to capitalize upon the wealth of data collection and analytic strategies available to them. In that spirit, many of the chapters in this book deal with methodologies that encourage organizational scientists to re-conceptualize phenomena of interest (e.g., experience sampling, catastrophe modeling), employ novel data collection strategies (e.g., data mining, Petri nets), and/or apply sophisticated analytic techniques (e.g., latent class analysis). The editors believe that these chapters provide compelling solutions for the complex problems faced by organizational researchers.
Author : Dick Brogden
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498293303
Abiding Mission presents the discipline of abiding as the first priority of the Christian and the base methodology of mission. Based on an exegesis of John 15, Abiding Mission illustrates the definition of abiding by examining the abiding mission lives of seven key pioneers in mission to Muslims in North Africa, including Daniel Comboni (Catholic), Samuel Zwemer (Presbyterian), Oswald Chambers (YMCA/Pentecostal League), Lillian Trasher (Assemblies of God), Lilias Trotter (Algerian Missions Band), Douglas Thornton (Anglican-CMS), and Temple Gairdner (Anglican-CMS). The work continues by looking at the operationalization of abiding as developed from interviews from current missionaries to Muslims in North Africa.
Author : Barbara Wasson,Szilvia Zörgő
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030938598
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography, ICQE 2021, held in November 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online. The 26 full papers were selected from the 60 submissions. The contributions in this volume come from diverse fields and perspectives, and present the studies on advantages of using quantitative ethnography methods and techniques in a number of different domains and contexts, including ethnography and statistics, human interpretation and machine processing, etc.
Author : Frank Fischer,Gerald J. Miller
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-12-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781420017007
The study of public policy and the methods of policy analysis are among the most rapidly developing areas in the social sciences. Policy analysis has emerged to provide a better understanding of the policymaking process and to supply decision makers with reliable policy-relevant knowledge about pressing economic and social problems. Presenting a broad, comprehensive perspective, the Handbook of Public Policy Analysis: Theory, Politics, and Methods covers the historical development of policy analysis, its role in the policy process, and empirical methods. The handbook considers the theory generated by these methods and the normative and ethical issues surrounding their practice. Written by leading experts in the field, this book- Deals with the basic origins and evolution of public policy Examines the stages of the policy-making process Identifies political advocacy and expertise in the policy process Focuses on rationality in policy decision-making and the role of policy networks and learning Details argumentation, rhetoric, and narratives Explores the comparative, cultural, and ethical aspects of public policy Explains primary quantitative-oriented analytical methods employed in policy research Addresses the qualitative sides of policy analysis Discusses tools used to refine policy choices Traces the development of policy analysis in selected national contexts The Handbook of Public Policy Analysis: Theory, Politics, and Methods describes the theoretical debates that have recently defined the field, including the work of postpositivist, interpretivist, and social constructionist scholars. This book also explores the interplay between empirical and normative analysis, a crucial issue running through contemporary debates.
Author : Hendrik Wagenaar
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780765629210
This accessible book gives academics, graduate students, and researchers a comprehensive survey of the vast, varied, and often confusing landscape of interpretive policy analysis. The book is both theoretically informed and clear and jargon-free in its wide-ranging coverage of the different interpretive approaches in policy analysis. For each approach, the author provides a strong practical example from the policy literature. He distinguishes between three distinct types of meaning--hermeneutic, discursive, and dialogical--each of which is rooted in different philosophical assumptions, underlies different approaches to interpretive analysis, and focuses on different topics in public policy. The book dispassionately discusses the specific strengths and limitations of different interpretive approaches, and combines thorough theoretical discussions with a practical orientation towards doing policy analysis. It includes an extremely comprehensive bibliography.