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• Section 1. Teacher education and education technology research challenges.
• Chapter 1. Learning amidst mayhem: researching teacher development and technology use in second-grade classrooms ;
• Chapter 2. Handling research challenges: understanding teachers' adoption process of education technology
• Section 2. Ethnographic and qualitative research challenges.
• Chapter 3. A tale of the field: can ethnographic challenges become opportunities? ;
• Chapter 4. It all works out in the end: the experience of researching online language classes
• Section 3. Fieldwork partnerships and researching corporate challenges.
• Chapter 5. Meaning making change: interpretive phenomenological analysis and an epistemology of power ;
• Chapter 6. Data collection as a journey: a multi-step approach to navigating access to an organization
• Section 4. Gender and a cultural impact on research.
• Chapter 7. On the way to researching universities: the case of higher education in Turkey
• Section 5. Counseling and psychology education research.
• Chapter 8. When participants' trauma becomes mine: how i used "countertransference" to enhance the quality of my study ;
• Chapter 9. Reflections of challenges and resolutions in fieldwork research on quality of life of cancer patients: counseling and psychology
• Section 6. Post-disaster research.
• Chapter 10. Reflections on post-disaster university research in the aftermath of Hurricanes Irma and Maria
• Section 7. Online gaming research.
• Chapter 11. Multiplayer online game research: navigating an unreal-yet-real terrain

Conducting social science and education research studies that require involvement in fieldwork is not an easy task. Many graduate students and novice researchers face difficulties efficiently and effectively conducting the practical aspects of their research in fieldwork. One reason for this difficulty may be due to the lack of finding and/or accessing authentic and realistic descriptions of previously conducted fieldwork experiences and processes in a variety of fields. This could be the case whether the research is going to be on a virtual platform or in a real and actual context. Thus, it is critical to shed light on the successes and pitfalls of the personal experiences of fieldwork. Overcoming Fieldwork Challenges in Social Science and Higher Education Research is an essential reference book that draws on the experience of conducting fieldwork in different contexts and world regions that are relevant to social science and education studies. The diverse experiences in research processes and contexts that this book offers provide readers with an authentic and realistic description of how research data is collected, the tools needed to envision some of the challenges that they might face, and how to effectively solve them. Highlighting topics such as methodology, data collection, and fieldwork partnerships in fields that include counseling, psychology, language studies, and teacher education, this book is ideal for social science and education studies professors who have research as a mandatory part of their curriculum, administrators and policymakers, independent and novice researchers, and graduate students planning to conduct their research studies with humans in different contexts.
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• Introduction. The compulsion of composition
• Part 1. Problem spaces
• What is a problem space?
• Part 2. The epistemic infrastructure
• The parasite and the octopus
• Indexing the human (with Ana Gross)
• Platforms and the epistemic infrastructure
• Part 3. Compositional methodology
• More than circular
• Know-ability and answer-ability

"An important invitation to unlock the potential of creative methods"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction, by Eszter Hargittai
• 1. When Social Media Data Disappear, by Deen Freelon
• 2. The Needle in the Haystack: Finding Social Bots on Twitter, by Tobias R. Keller and Ulrike Klinger
• 3. Meeting Youth Where They Are: Challenges and Lessons Learned from Social Media Recruitment for Sexual and Gender Minority Youth, by Erin Fordyce, Michael J. Stern, and Melissa Heim Viox
• 4. Qualitative Sampling and Internet Research, by Lee Humphreys
• 5. Behind the Red Lights: Methods for Investigating the Digital Security and Privacy Experiences of Sex Workers, by Elissa M. Redmiles
• 6. Using Unexpected Data to Study Up: Washington Political Journalism (and the Case of the Missing Press Pass), by Nikki Usher
• 7. Social Media and Ethnographic Relationships, by Jeffrey Lane
• 8. Ethnographic Research with People Experiencing Homelessness in the Digital Age, by Will Marler
• 9. Going Rural: Personal Notes from a Mixed-Methods Project on Digital Media in Remote Communities, by Teresa Correa and Isabel Pavez
• 10. Stitching Data: A Multimodal Approach to Learning About Independent Artists' Social Media Use, by Erin Flynn Klawitter
• 11. A Measurement Burst Study of Media Use and Well-Being Among Older Adults: Logistically Challenging at Best, by Matthias Hofer
• 12. Community-Based Intervention Research Strategies: Digital Inclusion for Marginalized Populations, by Hyunjin Seo List of Contributors Index.
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The era of digital communication provides endless opportunities for the collection and analysis of social data in novel ways. It also presents new and unanticipated challenges, as researchers are often inventing elements of their methodologies on the fly or studying a phenomenon or media platform for the first time. Research Exposed offers in-depth, behind-the-scenes accounts of doing empirical social science in this new paradigm. Through firsthand descriptions of innovative research projects, it shares lessons learned from over a dozen scholars' cutting-edge work. These candid accounts describe what can go wrong when pioneering new genres of research and how such difficulties can be overcome, giving both big-picture reflection and actionable advice. The chapters discuss a variety of methods, ranging from the completely novel to the use of more traditional approaches in the digital context, and cover research questions relevant to a range of disciplines, including sociology, political science, communication, information studies, and anthropology. By focusing attention on the concrete details seldom discussed in final project write-ups or traditional research guides, Research Exposed helps equip junior and senior scholars alike with essential information that is all too often left with no outlet for sharing. It offers important insights into how empirical social science research can be both innovative and rigorous when dealing with the opportunities and challenges presented by digital media.
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• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1: Depth Interviewing as Science and Art
• Chapter 2: Getting Started: Pinning Down the Questions and Research Design
• Chapter 3: Interviews with Whom? When a Big Question Meets a Small Sample
• Chapter 4: Constructing an Interview Guide: Creating a Flexible Structure
• Chapter 5: Conducting Interviews: Seeking Discoveries That Matter
• Chapter 6: Analyzing Interviews: Making Sense of Complex Material
• Chapter 7: Pulling It All Together: Telling Your Story and Making Your Case Appendix A: Examples of Recruitment Documents and Procedures Appendix B: Examples of Consent Forms Appendix C: Interview Schedules Notes References Index.
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Qualitative interviewing is among the most widely used methods in the social sciences, but it is arguably the least understood. In The Science and Art of Interviewing, Kathleen Gerson and Sarah Damaske offer clear, theoretically informed and empirically rich strategies for conducting interview studies. They present both a rationale and guide to the science-and art-of in-depth interviewing to take readers through all the steps in the research process, from the initial stage of formulating a question to the final one of presenting the results. Gerson and Damaske show readers how to develop a research design for interviewing, decide on and find an appropriate sample, construct a questionnaire, conduct probing interviews, and analyze the data they collect. At each stage, they also provide practical tips about how to address the ever-present, but rarely discussed challenges that qualitative researchers routinely encounter, particularly emphasizing the relationship between conducting well-crafted research and building powerful social theories. With an engaging, accessible style, The Science and Art of Interviewing targets a wide range of audiences, from upper-level undergraduates and graduate methods courses to students embarking on their dissertations to seasoned researchers at all stages of their careers.
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• Introduction
• Part 1: Authentic Assessment
• 1. Authentic Assessment Q&A
• Part 2: Written Assessments
• 2. Formal Essay
• 3. Research Papers
• 4. Creative Writing
• Part 3: Creative and Artistic Assessments
• 5. Oral Communication
• 6. Art
• 7. Digital History
• Part 4: Civic Action Assessments
• 8. Civic Action Conclusion.
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This engaging book will show you how to move beyond tests and essay writing to implement authentic assessments in your middle or high school social studies classroom. Award-winning teacher David Sherrin explains the value of authentic assessments and offers practical ways to get started and dive deeper in your own practice. You'll be encouraged and inspired by the real-life stories of classroom successes and failures that illustrate the points throughout the book. The chapters cover a range of categories, including different types of written, creative, and civic action assessments. The book includes: planning charts and rubrics showing how to use, grade, and give feedback on assessments so they truly aid student learning and progress specific examples, useful tips, and ready-to-go instructions that you can use immediately with your class open-ended assessments encourage scaffolding or adaptation for individual or group work to fit your classroom needs You will learn how to personalize instruction and provide students with avenues for creativity and the types of learning experiences they need to be prepared for a complex world.
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• Foreword
• Paul Croney
• 1. Why should we Co-Produce Research?
• Claire Sullivan and Gill O' Neill
• 2. Co-Production: The Academic Perspective
• Grant J. McGeechan, Louisa J Ells, and Emma L. Giles
• 3. Co-Production: The Public Health Practitioner's Perspective
• Keith Allan, Michelle Baldwin, Kirsty Wilkinson, and Dianne Woodall
• 4. Working with Schools to Develop Complex Interventions for Public Health Improvement
• Jeremy Segrott and Joan Roberts
• 5. Pupils, Teachers and Academics Working Together on a Research Project Examining How Students and Teachers Feel About the New GCSEs
• Michael Chay Hayden, Gillian Waller, Abbey Hodgson, Scott Brown, Sean Harris, Katie Miller, Daniel Barber, Lewis Hudson, and Dorothy Newbury-Birch
• 6. Public Health Practioners and Academics working together to evaluate a Mental Health Youth Awareness Programme
• Natalie Connor, Michelle Baldwin, Gill O'Neill, Gillian Walker, and Dorothy Newbury-Birch
• 7. "It's not about telling people to eat better, stop smoking or get on the treadmill"
• Mandy Cheetham, Sarah Gorman, Emma Gibson, and Alice Wiseman
• 8. Co-Producing a Story of Recovery: A "Books Beyond Words" Book Group
• Jane Bourne
• 9. How Do We Co-Produce Research in the Prison Environment?
• Jennifer Ferguson, Aisha Holloway, Victorial Guthrie, and Dorothy Newbury-Birch
• 10. Police Officers and Academics Working Together
• Dorothy Newbury-Birch, Tony Power, Angela Tomlinson, Mark Hatcher, and Mick Urwin
• 11. Discussion: What are the Barriers and Facilitators to Co-Production Working and Tools for Working Effectively?
• Dorothy Newbury-Birch and Keith Allan.
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The importance of a strong evidence-base is widely recognised in contemporary health, social care and education practice, meaning that there is a real need for research which can be quickly and easily translated into real world situations. Research co-produced by practitioners and academics from early stages to end results can draw on each party's knowledge and experience, in order to create high quality evidence that is relevant and appropriate to practice needs. This guide introduces the basics of co-producing research, looking at the evidence for co-produced research and outlining its theoretical underpinnings, as well as discussing barriers and facilitators to consider. It includes a practitioner perspective and an academic perspective on the benefits and challenges of co-produced research. The substantive chapters are each co-written by an academic and practitioner team and give examples of work carried out - and lessons learned - in public health, education and criminal justice settings. Key learning points are included throughout and drawn together to comprise a toolkit at the end of the book. This book teaches academics and practitioners more about how they can find practical evidence-based answers to complex questions.
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• Intro; Preface; Organization; Scientific Committee; Contents; Empowering Qualitative Research Methods in Education with Artificial Intelligence; 1 Introduction; 2 Background; 2.1 Artificial Intelligence; 2.2 Qualitative Research Methods; 2.3 Qualitative Data Analysis Methods; 3 Extending Qualitative Data Analysis Research Methods with Artificial Intelligence; 4 Enhancing Education, Teaching and Learning with Artificial Intelligence for Qualitative Data Analysis; References

• What Qualitative Researchers Must Do When Ethical Assurances Disintegrate? Recognise Internal Confidentiality, Establish Process Consent, Reference Groups, Referrals for Participants and a Safety PlanAbstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Background; 3 Confidentiality; 4 Big Ethical Moments; 5 Reference Groups; 6 Researcher/Participant Safety; 7 Discussion; References; The Researcher as an Instrument; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Defining the Researcher as an Instrument; 3 Importance of Reflexivity; 4 The Researcher in Data Collection; 5 The Researcher in Data Analysis

• 6 The Researcher in Data Interpretation7 The Researcher in Reporting; 8 Conclusion; References; The Use of Selected CAQDA Software Examples in a Research Project Based on the Grounded Theory Methodology; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Preparing Data for Analysis with Audacity; 3 Data Analysis with WeftQDA; 4 Visualizing the Concept with CmapTools; 5 Conclusions; References; Parliamentary Amendment Mobile Application: A Qualitative Approach About E-Government; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Aim of This Study and Research Questions; 3 Importance of Research; 4 Theoretical Background

• 4.1 Innovation in the Providing of Public Services4.2 E-Government; 5 Data Collection and Analysis Methods; 6 Results; 7 Final Remarks and Future Agenda; References; From CAQDAS to Text Mining. The Domain Ontology as a Model of Knowledge Representation About Qualitative Research Practices; Abstract; 1 Knowledge Discovery in Textual Data; 2 CAQDAS, Text Mining and the Knowledge Discovery; 3 CAQDAS, Text Mining and the Problem of a "Curse of Abundance" in the Present Field of Qualitative Research; 3.1 Research Methodology; 3.2 What Is Domain Ontology?

• 3.3 Analytical Approach in Building Domain Ontology4 CAQDAS and Text Mining Are There Alternative or Complementary Approaches?; References; Automatic Content Analysis of Social Media Short Texts: Scoping Review of Methods and Tools; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Methodology; 3 Findings; 3.1 Methods and Tools for Short Text Retrieval and Classification; 3.2 Stages and Features of Automated Content Analysis; 4 Discussion; 5 Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; Biomechanical Analysis of Nurses Students of Midwifery in Vertical Deliveries; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Method; 3 Results

The World Conference on Qualitative Research (WCQR) is an annual event that aims to bring together researchers, academics and professionals, promoting the sharing and discussion of knowledge, new perspectives, experiences and innovations on the field of Qualitative Research. This book includes a selection of the articles accepted for presentation and discussion at WCQR2019, held in Porto, Portugal, October 16-18, 2019. WCQR2019 featured four main application fields (Education, Health, Social Sciences, and Engineering/Technology) and seven main subjects: Rationale and Paradigms of Qualitative Research; Systematization of Approaches with Qualitative Studies; Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research; Data Analysis Types; Innovative Processes of Qualitative Data Analysis; Qualitative Research in Web Context; Qualitative Analysis with Software Support. The book is a valuable resource for everyone interested in Qualitative Research with emphasis on Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis.
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• 1. Co-Constructing Culture, Mind and Brain Laurence Kirmayer, Carol Worthman, and Shinobu Kitayama-- Part I. Dynamics of Culture, Mind, and Brain: Models and Evidence--
• 2. Culture, Mind, and Brain in Human Evolution: An Extended Evolutionary Perspective on Paleolithic Toolmaking as Embodied Practice Dietrich Stout--
• 3. Mutual Constitution of Culture and the Mind: Insights From Cultural Neuroscience Shinobu Kitayama, Qinggang Yu--
• 4. Being There: Foundations, Theory, Method Carol M. Worthman--
• 5. Culture in Mind - An Enactivist Account: Not Cognitive Penetration but Cultural Permeation Daniel D. Hutto, Shaun Gallagher, Jesus Ilundain-Agurruza, Ines Hipolito
• 6. The Brain as Cultural Artifact: Concepts, Actions, and Experiences Within the Human Affective Niche Maria Gendron, Batja Mesquita, Lisa Feldman Barrett--
• 7. Cultural Priming Effects and the Human Brain Shihui Han, Georg Northoff--
• 8. Culture, Self, and Agency: An Ecosocial View Laurence J. Kirmayer, Ana Gomez-Carrillo, Timothe Langlois-Therien, Maxwell J. D. Ramstead and Ian Gold--
• 9. Neuroanthropological Perspectives on Culture, Mind, and Brain Daniel H. Lende, Greg Downey
• 10. The Neural Mechanisms Underlying Social Norms: Norm Detection, Punishment, and Compliance Yan Mu, Michele J. Gelfand--
• 11. Ritual and Religion as Social Technologies of Cooperation Christopher Kavanagh, Jonathan Jong, Harvey Whitehouse-- Part II. Applications--
• 12. The Cultural Brain as Historical Artifact Rob Boddice--
• 13. Experience-Dependent Plasticity in the Hippocampus Greg L. West, Veronique D. Bohbot--
• 14. Liminal Brains in Uncertain Futures: Critical Neuroscience and the Cultural Contexts of Neuroeducation Suparna Choudhury and Joshua Berson--
• 15. The Reward of Musical Emotions and Expectations Benjamin P. Gold and Robert J. Zatorre
• 16. Literary Analysis and Weak Theories Omri Moses--
• 17. Capturing Context is Not Enough: the Embodied Impact of Story and Emotion in Ethnographic Film Robert Lemelson and Anne Tucker--
• 18. Social Neuroscience in Global Mental Health: Case Study on Stigma Reduction in Nepal Brandon Kohrt--
• 19. Cities, Psychosis, and Social Defeat Firrhaana Sayanvala, Lisa Bornstein, Suparna Choudhury, Jai Shah, Daniel Weinstock, and Ian Gold--
• 20. Internet Sociality Moriah Stendel, Maxwell Ramstead, Samuel P. L. Veissiere--
• 21. Neurodiversity as a Conceptual Lens and Topic of Cross-Cultural Study M. Ariel Cascio--
• 22. Epilogue: Interdisciplinarity in the Study of Culture, Mind, and Brain Laurence Kirmayer, Carol M. Worthman and Shinobu Kitayama-- Index.
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Recent neuroscience research makes it clear that human biology is cultural biology - we develop and live our lives in socially constructed worlds that vary widely in their structure values, and institutions. This integrative volume brings together interdisciplinary perspectives from the human, social, and biological sciences to explore culture, mind, and brain interactions and their impact on personal and societal issues. Contributors provide a fresh look at emerging concepts, models, and applications of the co-constitution of culture, mind, and brain. Chapters survey the latest theoretical and methodological insights alongside the challenges in this area, and describe how these new ideas are being applied in the sciences, humanities, arts, mental health, and everyday life. Readers will gain new appreciation of the ways in which our unique biology and cultural diversity shape behavior and experience, and our ongoing adaptation to a constantly changing world.
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Collaborators for more than four decades, lawyer, author, filmmaker, and multimedia artist Alexander Kluge and social philosopher Oskar Negt are an exceptional duo in the history of Critical Theory precisely because their respective disciplines think so differently. Dark Matter argues that what makes their contributions to the Frankfurt School so remarkable is how they think together in spite of these differences. Kluge and Negt's "gravitational thinking" balances not only the abstractions of theory with the concreteness of the aesthetic, but also their allegiances to Frankfurt School mentors with their fascination for other German, French, and Anglo-American thinkers distinctly outside the Frankfurt tradition. At the core of all their adventures in gravitational thinking is a profound sense that the catastrophic conditions of modern life are not humankind's unalterable fate. In opposition to modernity's disastrous state of affairs, Kluge and Negt regard the huge mass of dark matter throughout the universe as the lodestar for thinking together with others, for dark matter is that absolute guarantee that happier alternatives to our calamitous world are possible. As illustrated throughout Langston's study, dark matter's promise-its critical orientation out of catastrophic modernity-finds its expression, above all, in Kluge's multimedia aesthetic.
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• 1. Introduction--
• 2. Section One: The Origins of the Policy Analyst Concept and its Early History--
• 3. The Whiz Kids and their Descendants--
• 4. Look to California: Aaron Wildavsky and Activity on the West Coast--
• 5. Section Two: What Helps Explain the Changes in the Definition of Policy Analysis? Five Questions--
• 6. Question One: The Differences between Analysis and Research--
• 7. Question Two: The World of Practice vs. the Culture of the Academy--
• 8. Question Three: Changes in the Environment of Policy Analysis--
• 9. Question Four: Information, Analytic Techniques and Evidence--
• 10. Question Five: Values--
• 11. Conclusion--
• 12. Section Three: The QUESTIONNAIRE. What does it mean to be a Policy Analyst?
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For much of its life, the field of policy analysis has lived with a wide range of definitions of its goals, work and significance in the society. This Element seeks to sort out these differences by describing the issues, players and developments that have played a role over the life of this field. As a result of the relationships that have developed an environment has emerged where both academics and practitioners who self identify as 'policy analysts' are not always recognized as such by others who use that same label. This Element explores the reasons why this conflictual situation has developed and whether the current status is a major departure from the past. While these developments may not be new or found only in policy analysis, they do have an impact on the status of the academics as well as the practitioners in the field.
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"Hartporzellan wurde 1708 von einer Arbeitsgruppe um Johann Friedrich Böttger in Sachsen erfunden. Die Porzellanindustrie ist ein seltenes Beispiel für den langfristigen Erfolg von Manufakturen. Arnd Kluge analysiert Herkunft und Entwicklung der deutschen Porzellanindustrie von den Anfängen bis zum Beginn des Ersten Weltkriegs 1914 und unterscheidet dabei drei Perioden: die Phase der frühen Manufakturen, die häufig eng an Fürstenhäuser gebunden waren, die Phase eines regionalen Systems aus Privatunternehmen, die 1760 in Thüringen begann, und schließlich die Phase der Industrialisierung seit der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Kluge betrachtet die Porzellanindustrie im Hinblick auf ihre natürlichen Ressourcen, die Produktion, Handel und Konsum, die Technologie, Unternehmer und Arbeiterschaft, Betriebe und ihre Umwelt. Zudem untersucht er die Standortwahl, die Bedeutung der Regionen und die wichtigsten Schritte der Industrialisierung ebenso wie die Rolle der Porzellanindustrie im Globalisierungsprozess. Schließlich fragt er, ob die Entwicklung der deutschen Porzellanindustrie typisch für die Industrialisierung kleiner und mittlerer Unternehmen ist."--back cover

• Note éditoriale
• Dialogue épistémologique
• "Absence totale de projet" ou héritage des Annales ?
• Les données de l'historien
• Le problème de l'État au coeur de la théorie des processus sociaux
• Le changement n'est pas la convergence
• Découvertes scientifiques et jugements des pairs
• Les sociétés veulent-elles savoir la vérité sur elles-mêmes ?
• Postface. Je reste un chercheur
• Annexe 1. Un devoir de démographie historique (11 mars 1971)
• Annexe 2. Journalisme culturel et recherche scientifique (1977-1983).

"Connu du grand public pour ses interventions souvent à contre-courant sur l'Europe et la vie politique française, Emmanuel Todd est d'abord et avant tout un chercheur. Ce dialogue, qui s'est tenu dans le cadre d'un séminaire d'épistémologie, est l'occasion pour l'historien des structures familiales, héritier de l'école des Annales, de revenir sur son parcours, de discuter de ses outils, de son rapport aux écoles historiques et sociologiques, mais aussi de débattre de ses "intuitions" et hypothèses sur le devenir économique et politique des sociétés contemporaines. Un processus de recherche est-il par définition fait d'aléas et d'imprévus? Quel usage l'historien doit-il faire des données quantitatives? Comment, dans la perspective d'une théorie générale des processus sociaux, penser l'articulation entre l'État et les structures familiales? Le savoir des sciences sociales est-il émancipateur ? Les sociétés humaines préfèrent-elles ignorer la vérité de ce qu'elles sont ? À ces questions fondamentales d'épistémologie des sciences sociales, Emmanuel Todd apporte des réponses aussi originales que respectueuses des faits, et, non sans humour, échange en toute liberté."--Page 4 of cover.

• List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors
• 1 Introduction Janet C. Richards and Wolff-Michael Roth
• PART 1: Teaching for Empowerment Introduction to
• Part 1 Janet C. Richards and Wolff-Michael Roth
• 2 Empowering Students of Qualitative Research to Take Charge of Their Academic Writing Janet C. Richards
• 3 A Mindfulness-based Approach to Teaching Qualitative Research Methods Margrit Schreier
• 4 Empowerment through Understanding the Interaction between Philosophical Stance (Positionality) and Qualitative Research Suzanne Franco and Erin B. Lunday
• 5 An Inaugural Interviewing Course: Promoting Continuous Reflexivity, Balancing Theory and Skills, Building a Community of Learners Anna Gonzalez-Pliss and Alisha M. B. Braun
• PART 2: Experiencing Empowerment Introduction to
• Part 2 Janet C. Richards and Wolff-Michael Roth
• 6 From Opportunities to Realities: On Being Empowered through Active Learning in Educational Research Yew-Jin Lee
• 7 A Framework for Niching Scholarship and Expanding Competency in Arts-based Research Steve Haberlin
• 8 Transmediation of Qualitative Text Information: Encouraging Students to Employ Special Aptitudes and Talents Kia Sarnoff
• 9 Simulations as a Teaching Method Christy Bebeau
• 10 How Andragogy Principles of Teaching Empowered Me: The Perspective of a High-Achieving Nontraditional Black Male Student William D. Thomas
• PART 3: Empowerment beyond Schooling Introduction to
• Part 3 Janet C. Richards and Wolff-Michael Roth
• 11 Empowerment through Apprenticeship in the Teaching of Research Methods Wolff-Michael Roth
• 12 Living the Praxis of Method, or How I Learned Letting Worldly Practices Organize My Professional Gaze as Scholar Alfredo Jornet
• 13 Adoption and Long-Term Personal Effects of Reflexive Grounded Theory Franz Breuer
• Index.
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Qualitative research instructors seek information to help students actively engage in qualitative inquiry. They desire to learn about innovative, constructivist approaches that connect and empower students as a community of learners. Empowering Students as Self-Directed Learners of Qualitative Research Methods meets these needs with practices and approaches instructors may use to position students as active, empowered, self-directed learners who learn to do qualitative research by doing qualitative research. Students will find this book useful because it includes authentic student work, student reflections, factual classroom scenarios depicting professors guiding students as they devise research questions and determine the qualitative genre to best answer those questions as well as a chapter that includes a checklist to help students plan, revise, and edit the academic writing critical for communicating qualitative research. The book blends the thoughts of international scholars with the voices of students of qualitative research methods who participated in the transformative practices described in the book. The collective ideas meet the instructional, cultural, and psychological needs of diverse learners, including students from various disciplines, exceptionally able students, those with creative and artistic aptitudes, those from marginalized populations, English language learners, and those who struggle to master qualitative research methods. Contributors are: Christy Bebeau, Alisha Braun, Franz Breuer, Suzanne Franco, Anna Gonzalez-Pliss, Steven Haberlin, Alfredo Jornet, Yew Jin Lee, Erin Lunday, Janet Richards, Wolff-Michael Roth, Kia Sarnoff, Margrit Schreier, and William Thomas.
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• Foreword: Thinking About Access
• Ben Worthy
• Introduction: Freedom of Information and Research Design in International Perspective
• Kevin Walby and Alex Luscombe
• Part 1: Freedom of Information and Research Design: The Foundations
• 1. Designing Research Using FOI Requests in the USA
• Emily J.M. Knox, Shannon M. Oltmann, and Chris Peterson
• 2. Accessing Information in South Africa
• Toerien van Wyk
• 3. UK Experience of Freedom of Information as a Method of Enquiry
• Keith Spiller and Andrew Whiting
• 4. Using FOI to Explore Governance and Decision-Making in the UK
• Mike Sheaff
• Part 2: Freedom of Information and Research Design: Disciplinary Applications
• 5. Freedom of Information and Australian Criminology
• Ian Warren
• 6. Accessing Information in a Technology Industry: Tracing Canadian Drone Stakeholders and Negotiating Access
• Ciara Bracken-Roche
• 7. Using Continuous FOI Requests to Uncover the Live Archive: Tracking Protest Policing in the USA
• Pierce Greenberg
• Part 3: Freedom of Information: Triangulation, Data Analysis and Exposition
• 8. Piecing it Together, Studying Public-Private Partnerships: Freedom of Information as Oligoptic Technologies
• Debra Mackinnon
• 9. Researching the Complexities of Knowledge Contestations and Occupational Disease Recognition: FOI Requests in Multi-Method Qualitative Research Design
• Christine Pich
• 10. Repertoires of Empirical Social Science and Freedom of Information Requests: Four Techniques for Analyzing Disclosures
• Kevin Walby and Alex Luscombe
• Part 4: Freedom of Information and Research Design: Challenges and Dilemmas
• 11. Analysing Public Policy in the UK: Seeing through the Secrecy, Obfuscation and Obstruction of the FOIA by the Home Office
• John R Campbell
• 12. A Double-Edged Sword? Freedom of Information as a Method in Social Research
• Hannah Bows
• 13. The Falling Currency of Democracy: Information as an Instrument of Control and Certainty in the Postwar and Post-Truth Eras
• Sean Holman
• Postscript: Access in the Absence of FOI: Open Source Investigations and Strategies of Verification
• Giancarlo Fiorella.
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This multidisciplinary volume demonstrates how Freedom of Information (FOI) law and processes can contribute to social science research design across sociology, criminology, political science, anthropology, journalism and education. Comparing the use of FOI in research design across the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Canada and South Africa, it provides readers with resources to carry out FOI requests and considers the influence such requests can have on debates within multiple disciplines. In addition to exploring how scholars can use FOI disclosures in conjunction with interview data, archival data and other datasets, this collection explains how researchers can systematically analyse FOI disclosures. Considering the challenges and dilemmas in using FOI processes in research, it examines the reasons why many scholars continue to rely on more easily accessible data, when much of the real work of governance, the more clandestine but consequential decisions and policy moves made by government officials, can only be accessed using FOI requests.
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• Foreword: Thinking about access / Ben Worthy
• Introduction: Freedom of information and research design in international perspective / Kevin Walby and Alex Luscombe
• Designing research using FOI requests in the USA / Emily J.M. Knox, Shannon M. Oltmann and Chris Peterson
• Accessing information in South Africa / Torien van Wyk
• UK experience of freedom of information as a method of inquiry / Keith Spiller and Andrew Whiting
• Using FOI to explore governance and decision-making in the UK / Mike Sheaff
• Freedom of information and Australian criminology / Ian Warren
• Accessing information in a nascent technology industry : tracing Canadian drone stakeholders and negotiating access / Clara Bracken-Roche
• Using continual FOI requests to uncover the live archive : tracking protest policing in the USA / Pierce Greenberg
• Piecing it together, studying public-private partnerships : freedom of information as oligoptic technologies / Debra Mackinnon
• Researching the complexities of knowledge contestations and occupational disease recognition : FOI requests in multi-method qualitative research design / Christine Pich
• Repertoires of empirical social science and freedom of information requests : four techniques for analysing disclosures / Kevin Walby and Alex Luscombe
• Analysing public policy in the UK : seeing through the secrecy, obfuscation and obstruction of the FOIA by the Home Office / John R. Campbell
• A double-edged sword : freedom of information as a method in social research / Hannah Bows
• The falling currency of democracy : information as an instrument of control and certainty in the postwar and post-truth eras / Sean Holman
• Postscript: Access in the absence of FOI : open-source investigations and strategies of verification / Giancarlo Fiorella

This multidisciplinary volume demonstrates how Freedom of Information (FOI) law and processes can contribute to social science research design across sociology, criminology, political science, anthropology, journalism and education. Comparing the use of FOI in research design across the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Canada and South Africa, it provides readers with resources to carry out FOI requests and considers the influence such requests can have on debates within multiple disciplines. In addition to exploring how scholars can use FOI disclosures in conjunction with interview data, archival data and other datasets, this collection explains how researchers can systematically analyse FOI disclosures. Considering the challenges and dilemmas in using FOI processes in research, it examines the reasons why many scholars continue to rely on more easily accessible data, when much of the real work of governance, the more clandestine but consequential decisions and policy moves made by government officials, can only be accessed using FOI requests.
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• Introduction
• National, regional, and global think tanks : catalyst for ideas and action
• Emergence of think tanks in the policy world : the United States and beyond
• New institutional structures : global think tanks and policy networks
• Impact of emerging technologies on global think tanks and global governance
• Transnational think tanks and policy networks in action
• Challenges and opportunities for global think tanks and policy networks
• Conclusion

This completely revised edition of Global Think Tanks: Policy Networks and Governance provides a clear description of, and context for, the global proliferation of think tanks. It explores the origins, development, and diversity of think tanks and policy networks, discusses past and current issues facing transnational think tanks, and considers the possible future challenges and developments. The updated content reflects recent trends such as globalization, digitalization, diversity, populism, and disinformation; and it also includes a new chapter on the impact of emerging technologies on global think tanks and governance. The book: identifies, maps, and analyzes these phenomena of proliferation, expansion, and networking; provides a primer and a roadmap for global public policy practitioners, participants, and the interested public; illustrates the global growth of think tanks that the world has experienced over the past eight years; analyzes the impact and emerging potential of new technologies and increasing diversity; and considers how global think tanks and policy networks can continue to improve their impact and overall reach. This volume will be of great interest to all students of international relations and international organizations, alongside policy professionals working at think tanks around the world.
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• PART I. KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY AND DATA MINING IN SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH
• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. New Contributions and Challenges
• PART II. DATA PREPROCESSING
• Chapter 3. Data Issues
• Chapter 4. Data Visualization PART III. MODEL ASSESSMENT
• Chapter 5. Assessment of Models PART IV. DATA MINING: UNSUPERVISED LEARNING
• Chapter 6. Cluster Analysis
• Chapter 7. Associations PART V. DATA MINING: SUPERVISED LEARNING
• Chapter 8. Generalized Regression
• Chapter 9. Classification and Decision Trees
• Chapter 10. Artificial Neural Networks PART VI. DATA MINING: TEXT DATA AND NETWORK DATA
• Chapter 11. Web Mining and Text Mining
• Chapter 12. Network or Link Analysis Index.
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Knowledge Discovery in the Social Sciences helps readers find valid, meaningful, and useful information. It is written for researchers and data analysts as well as students who have no prior experience in statistics or computer science. Suitable for a variety of classes-including upper-division courses for undergraduates, introductory courses for graduate students, and courses in data management and advanced statistical methods-the book guides readers in the application of data mining techniques and illustrates the significance of newly discovered knowledge. Readers will learn to: * appreciate the role of data mining in scientific research * develop an understanding of fundamental concepts of data mining and knowledge discovery * use software to carry out data mining tasks * select and assess appropriate models to ensure findings are valid and meaningful * develop basic skills in data preparation, data mining, model selection, and validation * apply concepts with end-of-chapter exercises and review summaries .
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• PART I. KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY AND DATA MINING IN SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH
• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. New Contributions and Challenges
• PART II. DATA PREPROCESSING
• Chapter 3. Data Issues
• Chapter 4. Data Visualization PART III. MODEL ASSESSMENT
• Chapter 5. Assessment of Models PART IV. DATA MINING: UNSUPERVISED LEARNING
• Chapter 6. Cluster Analysis
• Chapter 7. Associations PART V. DATA MINING: SUPERVISED LEARNING
• Chapter 8. Generalized Regression
• Chapter 9. Classification and Decision Trees
• Chapter 10. Artificial Neural Networks PART VI. DATA MINING: TEXT DATA AND NETWORK DATA
• Chapter 11. Web Mining and Text Mining
• Chapter 12. Network or Link Analysis Index.
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Knowledge Discovery in the Social Sciences helps readers find valid, meaningful, and useful information. It is written for researchers and data analysts as well as students who have no prior experience in statistics or computer science. Suitable for a variety of classes-including upper-division courses for undergraduates, introductory courses for graduate students, and courses in data management and advanced statistical methods-the book guides readers in the application of data mining techniques and illustrates the significance of newly discovered knowledge. Readers will learn to: * appreciate the role of data mining in scientific research * develop an understanding of fundamental concepts of data mining and knowledge discovery * use software to carry out data mining tasks * select and assess appropriate models to ensure findings are valid and meaningful * develop basic skills in data preparation, data mining, model selection, and validation * apply concepts with end-of-chapter exercises and review summaries .
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• 1. Public policy for global problems--
• 2. Creating global policy: public and private constructions--
• 3. Transnational networks: policy in partnership--
• 4. Global policy persuasion: from evidence based policy to science diplomacy--
• 5. Navigating global policy processes.
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Global policy making is taking shape in a wide range of public sector activities managed by transnational policy communities. Public policy scholars have long recognised the impact of globalisation on the industrialised knowledge economies of OECD states, as well as on social and economic policy challenges faced by developing and transition states. But the focus has been on domestic politics and policy. Today, policy studies literature is building new concepts of 'transnational public-private partnership', 'trans-governmentalism' and 'science diplomacy' to account for rapid growth of global policy networks and informal international organisations delivering public goods and services. This Element goes beyond traditional texts which focus on public policy as an activity of states to outline how global policy making has driven many global and regional transformations over the past quarter-century. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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• Public policy for global problems
• Creating global policy : public and private constructions
• Transnational networks : policy in partnership
• Global policy persuasion : from evidence-based policy to science diplomacy
• Navigating global policy processes

Global policy making is taking shape in a wide range of public sector activities managed by transnational policy communities. Public policy scholars have long recognised the impact of globalisation on the industrialised knowledge economies of OECD states, as well as on social and economic policy challenges faced by developing and transition states. But the focus has been on domestic politics and policy. Today, policy studies literature is building new concepts of 'transnational public-private partnership', 'trans-governmentalism' and 'science diplomacy' to account for rapid growth of global policy networks and informal international organisations delivering public goods and services. This Element goes beyond traditional texts which focus on public policy as an activity of states to outline how global policy making has driven many global and regional transformations over the past quarter-century. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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• Foreword : Lifting the veil : on decentering whiteness in social studies curriculum, teaching, and research / Amanda E. Vickery and Kristen E. Duncan
• Introduction : Taking responsibility, doing the work : an introduction to Marking the "invisible" / Andrea M. Hawkman ad Sarah B. Shear
• AsianCrit as a theoretical lens to trouble and transform white supremacy / Sohyun An
• Extensions of intersectionality theory from critical race analyses : a framework of coalitions for interrogating race and racism in social studies education / Christian D. Chan, Jehan A. Hill, and Sarah N. Baquet
• "But I just never knew!" : theorizing and challenging the ideologies of whiteness in social studies / Danielle M. Walker and Peter M. Newlove
• The silences we speak : deliberative pedagogies and the whiteness of civic education / Melissa Leigh Gibson
• Hope in the dismal science : a race-centered redirection of economics curriculum / Neil Shanks and Delandrea Hall
• Interrogating whiteness : a critical content analysis of notable picture books recommended by the National Council for the Social Studies / Jacob P. Gates, Paul H. Ricks, and René M. Rodríguez-Astacio
• Where is race? A critical whiteness studies analysis of NCSS position statements / Sara B. Demoiny
• "The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house" : recognizing and disrupting hegemonic practices in the edTPA / Ritu Radhakrishnan
• "This isn't a sentence in a history book" : students' of color resistance to official knowledges of whiteness / Ryan Oto
• The white conundrum : white social studies teachers, fear, and the racial contract / Michael L. Boucher, Jr.
• Surpassing the single story : widening the representation of diverse women in an online history museum / Lauren Colley and John P. Broome
• Unveiling race/ism and white(ness) supremacy through historioartgraphy / Bretton A. Varga and Vonzell Agosto
• White(ness) narratives on miscegenation : Loving v. Virginia as a medium for examining racism in the South / Lisa Brown Buchanan and Cara F. Ward
• Framework for decentering whiteness in social studies field trips : evaluating museums and public sites and challenging the whiteness curriculum / Karen L.B. Burgard
• Pictures speak louder : portraying early prominent Middle Eastern religious women as "white" and "passive" in textbook imagery / Erica Southworth
• Navigating difficult knowledge but still evading race : the overwhelming effects of whiteness in doubly constrained civil rights teaching / Jennifer Gallagher
• "Isn't that enough?" : troubling white student performances of allyship / Ryan Oto
• "It is hard to admit your own group did wrong" : centering whiteness in the Canadian social studies classroom / Samantha Cutrara
• Teaching Latinx-identifying students in a post-truth America : reflections from white-identifying teachers on bringing non-white identities and experiences into the classroom through localized civics curriculum / William Toledo
• White supremacy in the gaps of practice : a retroactive self-study of my antiracist lesson / Brian C. Chervitz
• Whitewashing the history of education : laying bare the pervasive power and presence of white supremacy in a teacher education course / Amy Mungur
• "How is that white privilege though?" : preservice teachers dialogue about white privilege and whiteness in an intergroup dialogue course / Natasha C. Murray-Everett
• Beyond white narrations of the past : toward racial historical consciousness in history teacher education / Travis L. Seay
• Grammar matters : verbal(izing) whiteness in social studies teacher education / Erin Adams
• Tenets of social studies as tools of whiteness : dismantling the myths / Elizabeth A. Kenyon
• Working to unsettle settler colonialism : (while) tripping over my whiteness / Tana A. Mitchell
• Learning to teach against white social studies : toward a true criticality / Brian Gibbs
• Epilogue : Committing forward : in lieu of an epilogue / Sarah B. Shear & Andrea M. Hawkman

Substantial research has been put forth calling for the field of social studies education to engage in work dealing with the influence of race and racism within education and society (Branch, 2003; Chandler, 2015; Chandler & Hawley, 2017; Husband, 2010; King & Chandler, 2016; Ladson-Billings, 2003; Ooka Pang, Rivera & Gillette, 1998). Previous contributions have examined the presence and influence of race/ism within the field of social studies teaching and research (e.g. Chandler, 2015, Chandler & Hawley, 2017; Ladson- Billings, 2003; Woyshner & Bohan, 2012). In order to challenge the presence of racism within social studies, research must attend to the control that whiteness and white supremacy maintain within the field. This edited volume builds from these previous works to take on whiteness and white supremacy directly in social studies education. In Marking the "Invisible", editors assemble original contributions from scholars working to expose whiteness and disrupt white supremacy in the field of social studies education. We argue for an articulation of whiteness within the field of social studies education in pursuit of directly challenging its influences on teaching, learning, and research. Across 27 chapters, authors call out the strategies deployed by white supremacy and acknowledge the depths by which it is used to control, manipulate, confine, and define identities, communities, citizenships, and historical narratives. This edited volume promotes the reshaping of social studies education to: support the histories, experiences, and lives of Students and Teachers of Color, challenge settler colonialism and color-evasiveness, develop racial literacy, and promote justice-oriented teaching and learning.
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• Acknowledgments Preface Introduction
• 1. No Place to Hide
• 2. Talking Narratives
• 3. How the Change Model Emerged
• 4. Applying the Model
• 5. The Narrative Stranglehold
• 6. Enacting New Narratives
• 7. Narrative Selection Versus Narrative Construction
• 8. Narratives as a Way to Organize
• 9. A Narrative for You
• 10. Big Ideas and Narrative Modes Conclusion Notes References Index.
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Texas prosecutors are powerful: in cases where they seek capital punishment, the defendant is sentenced to death over ninety percent of the time. When management professor Hans Hansen joined Texas's newly formed death penalty defense team to rethink their approach, they faced almost insurmountable odds. Yet while Hansen was working with the office, they won seventy of seventy-one cases by changing the narrative for death penalty defense. To date, they have succeeded in preventing well over one hundred executions-demonstrating the importance of changing the narrative to change our world. In this book, Hansen offers readers a powerful model for creating significant organizational, social, and institutional change. He unpacks the lessons of the fight to change capital punishment in Texas-juxtaposing life-and-death decisions with the efforts to achieve a cultural shift at Uber. Hansen reveals how narratives shape our everyday lives and how we can construct new narratives to enact positive change. This narrative change model can be used to transform corporate cultures, improve public services, encourage innovation, craft a brand, or even develop your own leadership. Narrative Change provides an unparalleled window into an innovative model of change while telling powerful stories of a fight against injustice. It reminds us that what matters most for any organization, community, or person is the story we tell about ourselves-and the most effective way to shake things up is by changing the story.
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New Directions for Theorizing in Qualitative Inquiry consists of thematic edited volumes that help us understand how to put qualitative inquiry into practice. The chapters in each volume, from established and emerging scholars, represent new directions for incorporating theory into justice-oriented qualitative research. The series is designed to reach a wide audience of scholars and students in the humanities and social sciences. The series aims to bring about experimental ways of reading lives so as to implement radical social change. The present volume takes theory as resistance as its focus, emphasizing how theory and pedagogy can work toward justice.
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• Preface
• Introduction to The Oxford handbook of qualitative research, second edition / Patricia Leavy
• Historical overview of qualitative research in the social sciences / Svend Brinkmann, Michael Hviid Jacobsen, and Søren Kristiansen
• The historical-comparative methods in sociology / Charles Demetriou and Victor Roudometof
• The centrality of ethics in qualitative research / Anna Trainou
• Philosophical approaches to qualitative research / Renée Spencer, Julia N. Pryce, and Jill Walsh
• Applied interpretive approaches / Sally E. Thorne
• The grounded theory method / Antony Bryant
• Feminist qualitative research : working toward transforming science and social justice / Maureen C. McHugh
• Critical approaches to qualitative research / Kum-Kum Bhavnani, Peter Chua, and Dana Collins
• Decolonizing research practice : indigenous methodologies, aboriginal methods, and knowledge/knowing / Mike Evans, Adrian Miller, Peter Hutchinson, and Carlene Dingwall
• Practicing narrative inquiry II : making meanings move / Arthur P. Bochner and Andrew F. Herrmann
• Ethnography / Anthony Kwame Harrison
• Practicing autoethnography and living the autoethnographic life / Carolyn Ellis and Tony E. Adams
• Duoethnography : a polytheoretical approach to (re)storing, (re)storying the meanings that one gives / Joe Norris and Rick Sawyer
• Unstructured and semistructured interviewing / Svend Brinkmann
• Oral history interviewing with purpose and critical awareness / Valerie J. Janesick
• Focus group research : retrospect and prospect / George Kamberelis and Greg Dimitriadis
• Museum studies / Erica L. Tucker
• Content analysis / Lindsay Prior
• Photography as a research method / Gunhila Holm
• Arts-based research : merging social research and the creative arts / Gioia Chilton and Patricia Leavy
• Qualitative approaches in Internet-mediated research : opportunities, issues, possibilities / Claire Hewson
• Case study research : in-depth understanding in context / Helen Simons
• Program evaluation / Paul R. Brandon and Anna L. Ah Sam
• Community-based research : a grass-roots and social justice orientation to inquiry / Margaret Boyd
• Complex teams and qualitative research / Judith Davidson
• Qualitative disaster research / Deedee M. Bennett, Mark R. Landahl, and Brenda D. Phillips
• Conducting mixed methods research : using dialectical pluralism and social psychological strategies / Susan A. Tucker, R. Burke Johnson, Tony Onwueguzie, and Marjorie L. Icenogle
• Qualitative data analysis strategies / Johnny Saldaña
• Computer-assisted analysis of qualitative research / Christina Silver and Ann F. Lewins
• Interpretation in qualitative research : what, why, how / Allen Trent and Jeasik Cho
• Writing up qualitative research / Jane F. Gilgun
• Transforming field notes to text / Jessica Smartt Gullion
• Creative approaches to writing qualitative research / Sandra L. Faulkner and Sheila Squillante
• Scripting the ethnodrama / Joe Salvatore
• Write-reach-repeat : the role and rise of public intellectualism in qualitative research / Robin M. Boylorn
• Evaluating qualitative research 2.0 / Jeasik Cho and Allen Trent
• The politics of research / Michel D. Giardina and Joshua I. Newman
• Superhumans and superpowers : contemplative, creative, and de/colonial approaches to testing qualitative research / Kakali Bhattacharya
• A changing terrain : qualitative research in the age of transdisciplinarity and public scholarship / Patricia Leavy

The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research, Second Edition presents a comprehensive, interdisciplinary overview of the field of qualitative research. Divided into eight parts, the forty chapters address key topics in the field such as approaches to qualitative research (philosophical perspectives), narrative inquiry, field research, and interview methods, text, arts-based, and internet methods, analysis and interpretation of findings, and representation and evaluation. The handbook is intended for students of all levels, faculty, and researchers across the disciplines, and the contributors represent some of the most influential and innovative researchers as well as emerging scholars. This handbook provides a broad introduction to the field of qualitative research to those with little to no background in the subject, while providing substantive contributions to the field that will be of interest to even the most experienced researchers. It serves as a user-friendly teaching tool suitable for a range of undergraduate or graduate courses, as well as individuals working on their thesis or other research projects. With a focus on methodological instruction, the incorporation of real-world examples and practical applications, and ample coverage of writing and representation, this volume offers everything readers need to undertake their own qualitative studies.
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• 1. Policy entrepreneurs as change agents--
• 2. What policy entrepreneurs do--
• 3. Policy entrepreneurs in the policymaking process--
• 4. Interpreting contexts and assessing impacts--
• 5. Directions for future research--
• 6. Driving public policy in an uncertain world.
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Policy entrepreneurs are energetic actors who engage in collaborative efforts in and around government to promote policy innovations. Interest in policy entrepreneurs has grown over recent years. Increasingly, they are recognized as a unique class of political actors, who display common attributes, deploy common strategies, and can propel dynamic shifts in societal practices. This Element assesses the current state of knowledge on policy entrepreneurs, their actions, and their impacts. It explains how various global forces are creating new demand for policy entrepreneurship, and suggests directions for future research on policy entrepreneurs and their efforts to drive dynamic change.
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• Pour une sociologie politique de l'indépendance
• L'entrée en politique de l'indépendance
• Frontières de l'indépendance, ou des indépendants si dépendants
• L'indépendance dans les discours sur la justice en France : énigme et double jeu
• Devenir "les sages de la rue Cambon"
• Politique de l'indépendance en conjoncture politique fluide : le cas de la Tunisie post-Ben Ali
• Le gouvernement expert comme alternative à la démocratie représentative
• Donner sens aux think tanks
• Quelle autorité européenne pour les droits sociaux ?
• L'indépendance préfabriquée
• Le travail politique indépendant
• Agir en "indépendants" : contraintes et usages d'une forme d'autorité singulière
• La production d'un regard "indépendant" sur la réclusion par les membres du Contrôleur général des lieux de privation de liberté
• Les acteurs des réseaux européens de régulateurs indépendants : une exploration de leurs rôles et identités
• Dépolitisation et (re)politisation des enjeux monétaires en Europe
• Impartialité et indépendance du juge une question de genre ?
• L'Agence internationale de l'Énergie atomique, un gendarme nucléaire ?

"Banquier central européen conduisant la politique monétaire, juge constitutionnel tranchant les cas difficiles de la démocratie, agence de régulation organisant la protection des données numériques ou la prévention des risques sanitaires, ou encore déontologue veillant à la probité publique des dirigeants politiques : depuis les années 1990, nos démocraties sont de plus en plus habitées par des acteurs qui tirent leur légitimité de leur extériorité revendiquée, voire de leur critique des carences de la politique représentative des élus et des gouvernants. Cet ouvrage interroge l'étonnante ubiquité sociale de ce registre de "l'indépendance" qui s'est imposé comme une technologie politique tout terrain. En s'appuyant sur des contributions tirées de la sociologie, du droit, et de la science politique, il propose tout à la fois un inventaire et un cadre d'analyse historique et comparé de cette politique de indépendance qui redéfinit aujourd'hui les acteurs, les types de compétence, mais aussi les conditions d'exercice du pouvoir dans nos démocraties."--Page 4 of cover.

• 1. Introduction John Gerring, James Mahoney and Colin Elman-- Part I. Discovery:
• 2. Exploratory Research Richard Swedberg--
• 3. Research Cycles Evan Lieberman-- Part II. Publishing:
• 4. Peer Review Tim Liao--
• 5. Length Limits John Gerring and Lee Cojocaru-- Part III. Transparency and Reproducibility:
• 6. Transparency and Reproducibility: Conceptualizing the Problem Garret Christensen and Edward Miguel--
• 7. Transparency and Reproducibility: Potential Solutions Garret Christensen and Edward Miguel--
• 8. Making Research Data Accessible Diana Kapiszewski, Sebastian Karcher--
• 9. Pre-registration and Results-Free Review in Observational and Qualitative Research Alan M. Jacobs-- Part IV. Appraisal:
• 10. Replication for Quantitative Research Jeremy Freese and David Peterson--
• 11. Measurement Replication in Qualitative and Quantitative Studies Dan Reiter--
• 12. Reliability of Inference: Analogs of Replication in Qualitative Research Tasha Fairfield and Andrew Charman--
• 13. Coordinating Reappraisals John Gerring--
• 14. Comprehensive Appraisal John Gerring--
• 15. Impact Metrics John Gerring, Sebastian Karcher and Brendan Apfeld-- Part V. Diversity:
• 16. Gender Diversity Dawn Teele--
• 17. Ideological Diversity Neil Gross and Christopher Robertson-- VI. Conclusion:
• 18. Proposals John Gerring, James Mahoney and Colin Elman.
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Whilst a great deal of progress has been made in recent decades, concerns persist about the course of the social sciences. Progress in these disciplines is hard to assess and core scientific goals such as discovery, transparency, reproducibility, and cumulation remain frustratingly out of reach. Despite having technical acumen and an array tools at their disposal, today's social scientists may be only slightly better equipped to vanquish error and construct an edifice of truth than their forbears - who conducted analyses with slide rules and wrote up results with typewriters. This volume considers the challenges facing the social sciences, as well as possible solutions. In doing so, we adopt a systemic view of the subject matter. What are the rules and norms governing behavior in the social sciences? What kinds of research, and which sorts of researcher, succeed and fail under the current system? In what ways does this incentive structure serve, or subvert, the goal of scientific progress?
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• Chapter 1: Analysing qualitative data in the social science - Margaretha Jarvinen and Nanna Mik-Meyer
• Chapter 2: Symbolic interactionism as analytical tradition - Margaretha Jarvinen
• Chapter 3: Symbolic interactionism, stigma, and othering - Nanna Mik-Meyer
• Chapter 4: Phenomenology as qualitative methodology - Michael Gill
• Chapter 5: Phenomenological analysis and the relationship between researcher and field - Anne Roelsgaard Obling
• Chapter 6: Hermeneutics - theory and methods - Nils Gilje
• Chapter 7: Interpretation, prejudice and the hermeneutic circle - Soren Kristiansen
• Chapter 8: Critical realism as qualitative method - Lee Martin
• Chapter 9: Critical realism: Philosophical and methodological considerations - Amber Fletcher
• Chapter 10: Grounded Theory - main characteristics - Kathy Charmaz
• Chapter 11: Sampling and conceptualization in Grounded Theory - Catherine Colon
• Chapter 12: Narrative Analysis: An integrative approach - Michael Bamberg
• Chapter 13: Narrative analysis - thematic, structural, performative - Tea Torbenfeldt Bengtsson & Ditte Andersen
• Chapter 14: Michel Foucault's discourse analysis - Kaspar Villadsen
• Chapter 15: Critical discourse analysis - Teun A. van Dijk
• Chapter 16: Actor-network theory as analytical approach - Lise Justesen
• Chapter 17: Actor-network theory and qualitative interviews - Jakob Demant and Signe Ravn.
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Introducing eight analytical approaches that are key to successful social science research, this book helps you get to grips with theory and apply it to qualitative analysis. With two 'matched chapters' dedicated to each approach, it provides a balance between theory and analytical method. The first chapter grounds the approach in theory and the second uses real-world examples to show how to conduct your own analysis using the approach. Drawing on the contributing authors' wealth of experience, the book: * Highlights how analysis relates to the entire research process and helps you position your analysis within the larger context of your research * Provides a strong, theoretical foundation for building good qualitative analysis * Guides you through translating theory into real-world practice in your own research Detailed, clear and accessible, this book is perfect for students who want to understand the theory behind qualitative analysis before conducting their own research, or develop their understanding of specific approaches. .
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• Preface to the Second Edition Preface
• 1 Introductory
• 2 'Subjective' and 'Objective'
• 3 Understanding an Alien Society
• 4 Understanding and Explanation
• 5 Foundation and Superstructure
• 6 Science and Society
• References Index.
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How is scientific knowledge of social life possible? If there are social sciences, must they employ methods different from those of the natural sciences? In Social Knowledge, Paul Mattick argues that the well-known difficulties of the social sciences - in particular the predictive and explanatory failures of economics - are due not to an inherent resistance of social life to scientific explanation, but to the failure of social scientists to include their own categories of social explanation among the objects of scientific study. Looking at Marx as an anthropological theorist, Mattick compares his critique of political economy with Evans-Pritchard's analysis of Azande witchcraft. Just as the British anthropologist attempted to explain Azande ideas and rituals in terms of their place in native life, Marx wished to explain the continued faith in economics - despite its striking weakness as a science - in terms of the central role played by this system of ideas in the daily lives of natives of capitalist society. This comparison leads to the questions about the nature of scientific thinking and its relation to our everyday knowledge of social reality that are the subject of this book. Second edition, with a new Preface by the author. The first edition was published in 1986 by Hutchinson, ISBN 9780091654603.
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• Part I: Researching Society
• Chapter 1: How and why we study society
• Chapter 2: Methods and methodologies in social science
• Chapter 3: The ethics and politics of research Part II: Designing Social Research
• Chapter 4: Creating research questions
• Chapter 5: Doing a literature review
• Chapter 6: Choosing a research design
• Chapter 7: Finding sources and data
• Chapter 8: Sampling Part III: Data Collection and Data Quality
• Chapter 9: Ethnography and participant observation
• Chapter 10: Unstructured interviews and focus groups
• Chapter 11: Documentary sources and qualitative content analysis
• Chapter 12: Structured observation
• Chapter 13: Questionnaires and surveys
• Chapter 14: Quantitative content analysis
• Chapter 15: Data quality, reliability and validity Part IV: Data Analysis
• Chapter 16: Analysis of qualitative data
• Chapter 17: Indexes and distributions
• Chapter 18: Relationships between variables
• Chapter 19: Statistical generalization
• Chapter 20: Mixed methods and combining data Part V: Asking and Answering Questions in Social Science
• Chapter 21: Description, explanation and understanding
• Chapter 22: Time, space and level
• Chapter 23: Relations, networks and structures
• Chapter 24: Big data and computational social science Part VI: Writing and Presenting Research
• Chapter 25: Working with data visualization
• Chapter 26: Writing about research.
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Structured around one of the concepts students struggle with the most-the research question-this book begins with how to understand the role of good questions before demonstrating how questions underpin good research designs and how social research can be framed as asking and answering questions. Perfect for undergraduate students new to methods, it teaches students how qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research can be used to answer these questions. "An incredibly resourceful book that contains a forensic insight into social research methods, offering the full range of contemporary approaches. Students will find particular value in the accessibility and detail of the text. Each chapter provides a set of learning outcomes, study questions and further reading." - Dr Ruth McAreavey, Newcastle University Supported by a website that maps online resources to key stages of the learning process, it helps students: - Understand the scientific method - Learn the vocabulary of social science research - Plan and design research - Practice with and interpret data - Explore social science literature and improve assignments with good citations - Improve critical thinking. - Extensive visualizations, overviews, examples, exercises, and other learning features, make this the perfect introductory text to build confidence and best practice around research methods.
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"Philosophers, lawyers, political, and social theorists debate normative concepts such as democracy, justice, human rights. Concepts are fundamental to description. Hence for anthropology, ethnography, grounded theory and similar methodologies developing concepts is a core theoretical and empirical activity. Concepts are thus core in causal theories, normative philosophy and empirical description. This book provides a unified framework for working with, constructing, and evaluating concepts that applies in these different domains"-- Provided by publisher.

How the NSF became an important yet controversial patron for the social sciences, influencing debates over their scientific status and social relevance. In the early Cold War years, the U.S. government established the National Science Foundation (NSF), a civilian agency that soon became widely known for its dedication to supporting first-rate science. The agency's 1950 enabling legislation made no mention of the social sciences, although it included a vague reference to "other sciences." Nevertheless, as Mark Solovey shows in this book, the NSF also soon became a major--albeit controversial--source of public funding for them

Social studies teachers will find classroom-tested lessons and strategies that can be easily implemented in the classroom The Teacher's Toolbox series is an innovative, research-based resource providing teachers with instructional strategies for students of all levels and abilities. Each book in the collection focuses on a specific content area. Clear, concise guidance enables teachers to quickly integrate low-prep, high-value lessons and strategies in their middle school and high school classrooms. Every strategy follows a practical, how-to format established by the series editors. The Social Studies Teacher's Toolbox contains hundreds of student-friendly classroom lessons and teaching strategies. Clear and concise chapters, fully aligned to Common Core Social Studies standards and National Council for the Social Studies standards, cover the underlying research, technology based options, practical classroom use, and modification of each high-value lesson and strategy. This book employs a hands-on approach to help educators quickly learn and apply proven methods and techniques in their social studies courses. Topics range from reading and writing in social studies and tools for analysis, to conducting formative and summative assessments, differentiating instruction, motivating students, incorporating social and emotional learning and culturally responsive teaching. Easy-to-read content shows how and why social studies should be taught and how to make connections across history, geography, political science, and beyond. Designed to reduce instructor preparation time and increase relevance, student engagement, and comprehension, this book: Explains the usefulness, application, and potential drawbacks of each instructional strategy Provides fresh activities applicable to all classrooms Helps social studies teachers work with ELLs, advanced students, and students with learning differences Offers real-world guidance for addressing current events while covering standards and working with textbooks The Social Studies Teacher's Toolbox is an invaluable source of real-world lessons, strategies, and techniques for general education teachers and social studies specialists, as well as resource specialists/special education teachers, elementary and secondary educators, and teacher educators.
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Konnten wir noch vor etwa zehn Jahren die Zurückhaltung der Soziologie in Bezug auf Digitalisierung als gesunde Vorsicht vor dem Hype des "Virtuellen" und des "Cyberspace" rechtfertigen, stellt sich die Lage heute anders dar: Jenseits der gepflegten Rhetorik der Medienrevolution sind um digitale Technologien herum in nahezu allen Bereichen neue Praxis-, Organisations- und Ordnungsformen entstanden, die soziologische Theoriebildung, Methodenentwicklung und empirische Sozialforschung vor handfeste Herausforderungen stellen. Eignen sich unsere an Handeln, Kommunikation oder Praxis orientierten Theorien, um das Mitwirken von Algorithmen zu beschreiben? Sind unsere an Sprache, Bild und gedrucktem Text geschulten Methoden geeignet, um die automatische Modifikation von Text, Bild und Bewegtbild durch Filtertechnologien zu analysieren? Wie gehen wir mit der zunehmenden Konkurrenz in Bezug auf Auswertungs- und Analyseverfahren um? -- Provided by publisher

• Dedication Preface Acknowledgements PART I Designing a Global History Curriculum
• 1. What is a social studies approach to global history?
• 2. Debating curriculum: What is important to know and why?
• 3. How should global history teachers address controversial or sensitive issues?
• 4. Why is global history usually European chronology with tangents?
• 5. What does a theme-based global history curriculum look like?
• Part 1 - BC: Before Columbus
• 6. What does a theme-based global history curriculum look like?
• Part 2 - AD: After the Deluge PART II Debating Global History
• 7. Why does the grand narrative of Western Civilization play such a central role in most global history curricula?
• 8. If Chinese historians wrote the global history curriculum
• 9. Who and what gets included in history?
• 10. Religion in human history
• 11. Revolutionary movements in the 20th century
• 12. Teaching about the European Holocaust and genocide
• 13. Teaching about the Great Irish Famine PART III Waves of Global Integration
• 14. Three Waves of Global Integration
• 15. Columbian Exchange and the Age of Colonialism (1420-1763)
• 16. Imperialism: The Eagle's Talons
• 17. Globalization: The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse
• 18. Climate Change and the Anthropocene
• 19. Is Democracy at Risk in the 21st Century?
• 20. Global History Standards References Index.
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This updated edition of Teaching Global History challenges prospective and beginning social studies teachers to formulate their own views about what is important to know in global history and why. This essential text explains how to organize curriculum around broad social studies concepts and themes, as well as student questions about humanity, history, and the contemporary world. All chapters feature lesson ideas, a sample lesson plan with activity sheets, primary source documents, and helpful charts, graphs, photographs, and maps. This new edition includes connections to the C3 framework, updates throughout to account for the many shifts in global politics, and a new chapter connecting past to present through current events and historical studies in ways that engage students and propel civic activism. Offering an alternative to pre-packaged textbook outlines and materials, this text is a powerful resource for promoting thoughtful reflection and debate on what the global history curriculum should be and how to teach it.
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• Preface
• 1: Introduction
• 2: Online Revolution
• 3: Methods of Researching Online Communities
• 4: Research Ethics Final Remarks.
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The social sciences are becoming datafied. The questions once considered the domain of sociologists are now answered by data scientists operating on large datasets and breaking with methodological tradition, for better or worse. The traditional social sciences, such as sociology or anthropology, are under the double threat of becoming marginalized or even irrelevant, both from new methods of research which require more computational skills and from increasing competition from the corporate world which gains an additional advantage based on data access. However, unlike data scientists, sociologists and anthropologists have a long history of doing qualitative research. The more quantified datasets we have, the more difficult it is to interpret them without adding layers of qualitative interpretation. Big Data therefore needs Thick Data. This book presents the available arsenal of new methods and tools for studying society both quantitatively and qualitatively, opening ground for the social sciences to take the lead in analysing digital behaviour. It shows that Big Data can and should be supplemented and interpreted through thick data as well as cultural analysis. Thick Big Data is critically important for students and researchers in the social sciences to understand the possibilities of digital analysis, both in the quantitative and qualitative area, and to successfully build mixed-methods approaches.
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• Preface
• 1: Introduction
• 2: Online Revolution
• 3: Methods of Researching Online Communities
• 4: Research Ethics Final Remarks.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

The social sciences are becoming datafied. The questions once considered the domain of sociologists are now answered by data scientists operating on large datasets and breaking with methodological tradition, for better or worse. The traditional social sciences, such as sociology or anthropology, are under the double threat of becoming marginalized or even irrelevant, both from new methods of research which require more computational skills and from increasing competition from the corporate world which gains an additional advantage based on data access. However, unlike data scientists, sociologists and anthropologists have a long history of doing qualitative research. The more quantified datasets we have, the more difficult it is to interpret them without adding layers of qualitative interpretation. Big Data therefore needs Thick Data. This book presents the available arsenal of new methods and tools for studying society both quantitatively and qualitatively, opening ground for the social sciences to take the lead in analysing digital behaviour. It shows that Big Data can and should be supplemented and interpreted through thick data as well as cultural analysis. Thick Big Data is critically important for students and researchers in the social sciences to understand the possibilities of digital analysis, both in the quantitative and qualitative area, and to successfully build mixed-methods approaches.
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• Critical discomfort : Poetry and writing / Laura Watts
• Machines for enquiring / Julien McHardy & Kat Jungnickel
• Making and wearing / Kat Jungnickel

Researchers rethink tactics for inventing and disseminating research, examining the use of such unconventional forms as poetry, performance, catalogs, interactive machines, costume, and digital platforms. Transmission is the research moment when invention meets dissemination-the tactical combination of making (how theory, methods, and data shape research) and communicating (how research is shown and shared). In this book, researchers from a range of disciplines examine tactics for the transmission of research, exploring such unconventional forms as poetry, performance, catalogs, interactive machines, costume, and digital platforms. Focusing on transmissions draws attention to a critical part of the research process commonly overlooked and undervalued. Too often, the results of radically experimental research methodologies are pressed into conventional formats. The contributors to Transmissions rethink tactics for making and communicating research as integral to the kind of projects they do, pushing against disciplinary edges with unexpected and creative combinations and collaborations. Each chapter focuses on a different tactic of transmission. One contributor merges literary styles of the empirical and poetic; another uses an angle grinder to construct machines of enquiry. One project invites readers to participate in an exchange about value; another provides a series of catalog cards to materialize ordering systems of knowledge. All the contributors share a commitment to uniting the what with the how, firmly situating their transmissions in their research and in each unique chapter of this book. Contributors Nerea Calvillo, Rebecca Coleman, Larissa Hjorth, Janis Jefferies, Kat Jungnickel, Sarah Kember, Max Liboiron, Kristina Lindstroem, Alexandra Lippman, Bonnie Mak, Julien McHardy, Julia Pollack, Ingrid Richardson, Asa Stahl, Laura Watts.
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