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81. Education, Epistemology and Critical Realism

    By David Scott

    Series: New Studies in Critical Realism and Education

    This book addresses fundamental questions in relation to education and its epistemology. The position taken by the author is critical realist; and thus throughout the relationship between education and critical realism is foregrounded. Themes and issues that surface at different times in...

    Published October 20th 2010 by Routledge
82. Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process

    Feminist Reflections

    Edited by Róisín Ryan-Flood, Rosalind Gill

    Series: Transformations

    Feminist research is informed by a history of breaking silences, of demanding that women’s voices be heard, recorded and included in wider intellectual genealogies and histories. This has led to an emphasis on voice and speaking out in the research endeavour. Moments of secrecy and silence are less...

    Published October 17th 2010 by Routledge
83. Social and Behavioral Research and the Internet

    Advances in Applied Methods and Research Strategies

    Edited by Marcel Das, Peter Ester, Lars Kaczmirek

    Series: European Association of Methodology Series

    Highlighting the progress made by researchers in using Web-based surveys for data collection, this timely volume summarizes the experiences of leading behavioral and social scientists from Europe and the US who collected data using the Internet. Some chapters present theory, methodology, design,...

    Published October 11th 2010 by Routledge
84. Participatory Action Research Approaches and Methods

    Connecting People, Participation and Place

    Edited by Sara Kindon, Rachel Pain, Mike Kesby

    Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

    Participatory Action Research (PAR) approaches and methods have seen an explosion of recent interest in the social and environmental sciences. PAR involves collaborative research, education and action which is oriented towards social change, representing a major epistemological challenge to...

    Published August 30th 2010 by Routledge
85. Protecting Main Street

    Measuring the Customer Experience in Financial Services for Business and Public Policy

    By Paul C. Lubin

    Unlike other books which focus solely on the business or profit aspects of measuring the customer experience, this book focuses on the benefits to the consumer as well as the company or financial institution. The book describes how business and government can undertake market research to determine...

    Published August 11th 2010 by Routledge
86. Contemporary Critical Criminology

    By Walter S. DeKeseredy

    Series: Key Ideas in Criminology

    The concept of critical criminology – that crime and the present day processes of criminalization are rooted in the core structures of society – is of more relevance today than it has been at any other time. Written by an internationally renowned scholar, Contemporary Critical Criminology...

    Published August 10th 2010 by Routledge
87. Mobile Methods

    Edited by Monika Büscher, John Urry, Katian Witchger

    In the twenty-first century, more than ever, everything and everybody seems to be on the move. Global flows of people, goods, food, money, information, services and media images are forming an intensely mobile background to everyday life. Social scientists, too, are on the move, seeking new...

    Published August 2nd 2010 by Routledge
88. Handbook of Advanced Multilevel Analysis

    Edited by Joop Hox, J. Kyle Roberts

    Series: European Association of Methodology Series

    This new handbook is the definitive resource on advanced topics related to multilevel analysis. The editors assembled the top minds in the field to address the latest applications of multilevel modeling as well as the specific difficulties and methodological problems that are becoming more common...

    Published July 18th 2010 by Routledge
89. Statistics in Plain English, Third Edition

    By Timothy C. Urdan

    This inexpensive paperback provides a brief, simple overview of statistics to help readers gain a better understanding of how statistics work and how to interpret them correctly. Each chapter describes a different statistical technique, ranging from basic concepts like central tendency and...

    Published May 24th 2010 by Routledge
90. Research Design and Statistical Analysis

    Third Edition

    By Jerome L. Myers, Arnold D. Well, Robert F. Lorch Jr

    Research Design and Statistical Analysis provides comprehensive coverage of the design principles and statistical concepts necessary to make sense of real data. The book’s goal is to provide a strong conceptual foundation to enable readers to generalize concepts to new research situations.&...

    Published May 17th 2010 by Routledge