Research Methods: General

Addressing one of the most important and contentious issues challenging applied research and evaluation practice today—what constitutes credible an...

′This handbook thoroughly covers all aspects of evaluation, yet isn′t too technical to understand. It offers everything an organization needs to kn...

This book turns conventional global-historical analysis on its head, demonstrating, first, that local events cannot be derived — logically or histo...

"Cathy Riessman is the leading figure in narrative research and her new book is a delight. Covering basic issues of transcription and research cred...

This volume is dedicated to exploring and exposing the challenges, the possibilities, and the processes of empirical work in embodiment. Grounded i...

′The book gives a comprehensive overview of what research and the research experience encompass....This book makes an interesting read for everyone...

Research in the humanities and social sciences thrives on critical reflections that unfold with each research project, not only in terms of knowled...

Malcolm Carey provides social work students, academics and practitioners with a practical guide to completion of a small-scale qualitative research...

Enhancing Communication & Collaboration in Interdisciplinary Research, edited by  Michael O′Rourke, Stephen Crowley, Sanford D. Eigenbrode, and...

Summoned by an anonymous Prosecutor, ten contemporary ethnographers gather in an aging barn to hold a trial of Alice Goffman’s controversial ethnog...

Research Methods for the Architectural Profession introduces research as a systematic process, describes how to formulate research questions, provi...

Navigating the Postqualitative, New Materialist and Critical Posthumanist Terrain Across Disciplines is an accessible introductory guide to theorie...

In an attempt to cope with the profusion of tools and techniques for qualitative methods, texts for students have tended to respond in the followin...

Beads, Bodies, and Trash merges cultural sociology with a commodity chain analysis by following Mardi Gras beads to their origins. Beginning with B...

In an attempt to cope with the profusion of tools and techniques for qualitative methods, texts for students have tended to respond in the followin...

The institutionalization of entrepreneurship is undeniably a good thing for the members of the research community, as it implies the legitimization...

Writing as Inquiry Towards Being and Becoming provides a guide to the different phases of growth experienced when undertaking creative forms of aca...

"It is much better," observed C. Wright Mills in an essay on intellectual craftsmanship, "to have one account by a working student of how he is goi...

This book brings much needed attention to disabled anthropologists, making clear that “disabled” and “anthropologist” belong together. The disabled...

Government statistics are widely used to inform decisions by policymakers, program administrators, businesses and other organizations as well as ho...

Personal Narrative Performance and Storytelling: A Method of Composition from Action to Text offers a practical method for composing and performing...

Policy makers, academic administrators, scholars, and members of the public are clamoring for indicators of the value and reach of research. The qu...

While substantial research has looked backward at the colonial history of language and forward to the potential of decolonizing English for linguis...

This project started with a focus on measurement, as governments, casino owners, and others are often most interested in the science of gambling. T...

The book consists of 12 chapteThe I is related to terminology in experimental design while the II devoted to completely randomized block design and...

Political Pressures on Educational and Social Research draws upon a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to consider the problems t...

This textbook elaborates on the basic understanding and application of statistical tests and data analysis using hypothetical datasets and SPSS ver...

Clean Language Interviewing is a landmark publication that defines the field for this important practice; it is essential reading for all researche...

Researching for the Media: Television, Radio and Journalism is an essential guide to researching for the media industry. It explains the role of th...

Providing readers with a unique insight into conducting research, this exciting book describes the thought and work processes of researchers as the...

This book provides practical advice on the learning and teaching perspectives of ethnography, including what undertaking research looks like and th...

A Concise Guide to Writing a Thesis or Dissertation provides clear, succinct, and intentional guidelines about organizing and writing a thesis or d...

Networks and other collaborations are central to the public sector’s ability to respond to their diverse responsibilities, from international devel...

This book offers a starting point to understanding and teaching the six threshold concepts listed in the new ACRL Framework for Information Literac...

The growth of entrepreneurship research has been accompanied by an increased convergence and institutionalization of the field. In many ways this i...