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The SAGE Handbook of Innovation in Social Research Methods

By: Malcolm Williams,W Paul Vogt

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The SAGE Handbook of Innovation in Social Research Methods

By: Malcolm Williams,W Paul Vogt

Social research is a bourgeoning field. Of course it has many traditions and approaches, but there is a high premium upon thinking differently and thinking anew because social life is never static or wholly predictable. The Handbook, edited by internationally recognized scholars, provides a comprehensive, pitch-perfect critical assessment of the field. The main features of the Handbook are: Clear organization into 4 parts dealing with The Social Context of Research; Design and Data Collection; Integrating The Analysis of New Data Types; Sampling, Inference and Measurement Clear, cutting edge chapters on Objectivity; Causation; Organizing Social Research; Correspondence Analysis; Grounded Theory; Conversational Surveys; Mixed Methods; Meta-Analysis; Optimal Matching Analysis; GIS Analysis; Quantitative Narrative Analysis; Longitudinal Studies; SEM; MLM; Qualitative Comparative Analysis; Respondent Driven Sampling Brings together a glittering assembly of the key figures working in the field of research methods Demonstrates the continuities and productive tensions between classical traditions and real world research. The result is a superbly organized text which will be required reading for anyone interested in the routes and future of social research. It is an unparalleled teaching resource and a 'must have' for serious social researchers.

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1412946484

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The SAGE Dictionary of Statistics & Methodology

A Nontechnical Guide for the Social Sciences

By: W. Paul Vogt,R. Burke Johnson

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The SAGE Dictionary of Statistics & Methodology

A Nontechnical Guide for the Social Sciences

By: W. Paul Vogt,R. Burke Johnson

Written in a clear, readable style with a wide range of explanations and examples, this must-have dictionary reflects recent changes in the fields of statistics and methodology. Packed with new definitions, terms, and graphics, this invaluable resource is an ideal reference for researchers and professionals in the field and provides everything students need to read and understand a research report, including elementary terms, concepts, methodology, and design definitions, as well as concepts from qualitative research methods and terms from theory and philosophy.

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1483381781

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Self-Cultivation Philosophies in Ancient India, Greece, and China

By: Christopher W. Gowans

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Self-Cultivation Philosophies in Ancient India, Greece, and China

By: Christopher W. Gowans

Philosophies in several ancient traditions aimed to alleviate people's anxieties and improve their lives. In contrast to the contemporay world, in which philosophy is mostly an academic subject and personal concerns are commonly addressed by psychological therapies, philosophy in these traditions often played a central role in programs that aspired to enable people to achieve a good life. In this volume, Christopher W. Gowans argues that the idea of self-cultivation philosophy provides a valuable approach for comprehending and reflecting on several philosophies in ancient India, Greece and China. Self-cultivation philosophies put forward a program of development for ameliorating the lives of human beings. On the basis of an account of human nature and the place of human beings in the world, they claim that our lives can be substantially transformed from what is thought to be a problematic condition into what purports to be an ideal state of being. Self-cultivation philosophies are preeminently practical in their aspirations: their purpose is to change human life in fundamental ways. Yet, in pursuing these practical ends, these philosophies typically make significant theoretical as well as empirical claims about human nature and the world. The book shows how the concept of self-cultivation philosophy provides an interpretive framework for understanding, comparing, assessing and learning from several philosophical outlooks in India, the Greco-Roman world, and China. The self-cultivation philosophies in India are those expressed in: the Bhagavad Gita; the Samkhya and Yoga philosophies of Isvarakrsna and Patanjali; and the teaching of the Buddha and his followers Buddhaghosa and Santideva. The philosophies originating in Greece, with subsequent development in the Roman world, are the most prominent Hellenistic approaches: the Epicureanism of Epicurus, Lucretius, and Philodemus; the Stoicism of Chrysippus, Epictetus, and Seneca; and Pyrrho and the Pyrrhonism of Sextus Empiricus. The self-cultivation philosophies from China are the early Confucian outlooks of Confucius, Mencius, and Xunzi; the classical Daoist perspectives of the Daodejing and the Zhuangzi; and the Chan tradition of Bodhidharma, Huineng and Linji. Though these philosophies developed in very different traditions, Gowans shows the connections between them in this compelling work of comparative philosophy.

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Oxford University Press

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Selecting the Right Analyses for Your Data

Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methods

By: W. Paul Vogt,Elaine R. Vogt,Dianne C. Gardner,Lynne M. Haeffele

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Selecting the Right Analyses for Your Data

Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methods

By: W. Paul Vogt,Elaine R. Vogt,Dianne C. Gardner,Lynne M. Haeffele

What are the most effective methods to code and analyze data for a particular study? This thoughtful and engaging book reviews the selection criteria for coding and analyzing any set of data--whether qualitative, quantitative, mixed, or visual. The authors systematically explain when to use verbal, numerical, graphic, or combined codes, and when to use qualitative, quantitative, graphic, or mixed-methods modes of analysis. Chapters on each topic are organized so that researchers can read them sequentially or can easily "flip and find" answers to specific questions. Nontechnical discussions of cutting-edge approaches--illustrated with real-world examples--emphasize how to choose (rather than how to implement) the various analyses. The book shows how using the right analysis methods leads to more justifiable conclusions and more persuasive presentations of research results. User-Friendly Features *Chapter-opening preview boxes that highlight useful topics addressed. *End-of-chapter summary tables recapping the 'dos and don'ts' and advantages and disadvantages of each analytic technique. *Annotated suggestions for further reading and technical resources on each topic. See also Vogt et al.'s When to Use What Research Design, which addresses the design and sampling decisions that occur prior to data collection.

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Guilford Publications

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1462516041

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When to Use What Research Design

By: W. Paul Vogt,Dianne C. Gardner,Lynne M. Haeffele

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When to Use What Research Design

By: W. Paul Vogt,Dianne C. Gardner,Lynne M. Haeffele

Systematic, practical, and accessible, this is the first book to focus on finding the most defensible design for a particular research question. Thoughtful guidelines are provided for weighing the advantages and disadvantages of various methods, including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods designs. The book can be read sequentially or readers can dip into chapters on specific stages of research (basic design choices, selecting and sampling participants, addressing ethical issues) or data collection methods (surveys, interviews, experiments, observations, archival studies, and combined methods). Many chapter headings and subheadings are written as questions, helping readers quickly find the answers they need to make informed choices that will affect the later analysis and interpretation of their data. ? Useful features include: *Easy-to-navigate part and chapter structure. *Engaging research examples from a variety of fields. *End-of-chapter tables that summarize the main points covered. *Detailed suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter. ?*Integration of data collection, sampling, and research ethics in one volume. *Comprehensive glossary. ?

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1462503535

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Dictionary of Statistics & Methodology

A Nontechnical Guide for the Social Sciences

By: W. Paul Vogt

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Dictionary of Statistics & Methodology

A Nontechnical Guide for the Social Sciences

By: W. Paul Vogt

A complete sourcebook of simple definitions & explanations of statistical & statistics-related concepts, this book is aimed at providing students with access to the methodological skills of social science research.

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Class Rules

Exposing Inequality in American High Schools

By: Peter W. Cookson,Jr

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Class Rules

Exposing Inequality in American High Schools

By: Peter W. Cookson,Jr

Class Rules challenges the popular myth that high schools are the “Great Equalizers.” In his groundbreaking study, Cookson demonstrates that adolescents undergo different class rites of passage depending on the social-class composition of the high school they attend. Drawing on stories of schools and individual students, the author shows that where a student goes to high school is a major influence on his or her social class trajectory. Class Rules is a penetrating, original examination of the role education plays in blocking upward mobility for many children. It offers a compelling vision of an equitable system of schools based on the full democratic rights of students. Book Features: Provides a fresh, dynamic way of understanding educational inequality and social reproduction.Offers a breakthrough social/psychological theory of how adolescents acquire class consciousness.Compares the cultures and curricula of five American high schools focusing on the class composition of their students. “This highly readable and original book illuminates why we don’t have open class warfare in our society, despite huge inequalities. Peter Cookson shows how schools reproduce classes through institutional practices that forge class-based consciousness. He also suggests how education might be changed.” —Caroline Hodges Persell, professor emerita of sociology, New York University “Cookson does a superb job of analyzing the powerful forces in our schools that reinforce the racial, ethnic, and social-class structures our nation hopes to overcome. Breaking out of one’s social class was always hard but may now be harder than in previous decades. Cookson reminds us of what high schools can be, the great equalizers, institutions for promoting America’s finest values.” —David Berliner, Regents’ professor emeritus, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University

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0807772577

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Carnal Spirit

The Revolutions of Charles Péguy

By: Matthew W. Maguire

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Carnal Spirit

The Revolutions of Charles Péguy

By: Matthew W. Maguire

It is rare for a thinker of Charles Péguy's considerable stature and influence to be so neglected in Anglophone scholarship. The neglect may be in part because so much about Péguy is contestable and paradoxical. He strongly opposed the modern historicist drive to reduce writers to their times, yet he was very much a product of philosophical currents swirling through French intellectual life at the turn of the twentieth century. He was a passionate Dreyfusard who converted to Catholicism but was a consistent anticlerical. He was a socialist and an anti-Marxist, and at once a poet, journalist, and philosopher. Péguy (1873-1914) rose from a modest childhood in provincial France to a position of remarkable prominence in European intellectual life. Before his death in battle in World War I, he founded his own journal in order to publish what he thought most honestly, and urgently, needed to be said about politics, history, philosophy, literature, art, and religion. His writing and life were animated by such questions as: Is it possible to affirm universal human rights and individual freedom and find meaning in a national identity? How should different philosophies and religions relate to one another? What does it mean to be modern? A voice like Péguy's, according to Matthew Maguire, reveals the power of the individual to work creatively with the diverse possibilities of a given historical moment. Carnal Spirit expertly delineates the historical origins of Péguy's thinking, its unique trajectory, and its unusual position in his own time, and shows the ways in which Péguy anticipated the divisions that continue to trouble us.

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0812296109

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Anthropology, Colonial Policy and the Decline of French Empire in Africa

By: Douglas W. Leonard

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Anthropology, Colonial Policy and the Decline of French Empire in Africa

By: Douglas W. Leonard

Conceived as both a vehicle to national prestige and as a civilizing mission, the second French colonial empire (1830-1962) challenged soldiers, scholars, and administrators to understand societies radically different from their own. The resultant networks of anthropological inquiry, however, did not have this effect. Rather, they opened pathways to political and intellectual independence framed in the language of social science, and in the process upended the colonial political system and reshaped the nature of human inquiry in France. While still unequal, French colonial rule in Africa revealed the durability and strength of non-European modes of thought. In this influential new study, historian Douglas W. Leonard examines the political and intellectual repercussions of French efforts to understand and to dominate colonial Africa through the use of anthropology. From General Louis Faidherbe in the 1840s to politician Jacques Soustelle and sociologist Pierre Bourdieu in the 1950s, these French thinkers sowed the seeds of colonial destruction.

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1786726130

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Barcelona, Berlin, New York

1928-1931: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 10

By: Dietrich Bonhoeffer,Clifford J. Green,Douglas W. Stott

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1928-1931: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 10

By: Dietrich Bonhoeffer,Clifford J. Green,Douglas W. Stott

* 900 pages of never-before-translated Bonhoeffer works * Illuminating essays, letters, and lectures clarify Bonhoeffer's biographical and theological path

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1451406649

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Origins of European Printmaking

Fifteenth-century Woodcuts and Their Public

By: Peter W. Parshall,Rainer Schoch,David S. Areford,National Gallery of Art (U.S.),Richard S. Field,Peter Schmidt,Germanisches Nationalmuseum

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Origins of European Printmaking

Fifteenth-century Woodcuts and Their Public

By: Peter W. Parshall,Rainer Schoch,David S. Areford,National Gallery of Art (U.S.),Richard S. Field,Peter Schmidt,Germanisches Nationalmuseum

The first comprehensive history of late medieval printmaking, which transformed image production and led to profound changes in Western culture

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Yale University Press

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0300113390

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Dictionary of Statistics & Methodology

A Nontechnical Guide for the Social Sciences

By: W. Paul Vogt

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A Nontechnical Guide for the Social Sciences

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Dictionary of Statistics and Methodology

A Non-Technical Guide for the Social Sciences

By: W. Paul Vogt

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Dictionary of Statistics and Methodology

A Non-Technical Guide for the Social Sciences

By: W. Paul Vogt

This dictionary will be an essential reference for every social scientist, presenting nontechnical definitions of statistical and methodological terms used in the social and behavioral sciences. The author pays special attention to terms that most often prevent educated general readers from understanding journal articles and books by emphasizing concepts over calculations and by providing detailed examples after each definition. The level of explanation varies with the simplicity or complexity of the term defined so that more detail is offered for basic terms, while less is used to explain more advanced concepts for readers who have more background.

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0803952767

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Political Handbook of theWorld 2005-2006

By: William C Banks,T. Muller,W. Overstreet

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Political Handbook of theWorld 2005-2006

By: William C Banks,T. Muller,W. Overstreet

For almost eighty years, researchers seeking governmental and political information on countries around the globe have turned to Political Handbook of the World for the most authoritative and complete presentation of facts and analysis. CQ Press welcomes this renowned publication to its list of acclaimed reference sources, bringing its many current devotees - and future users - a new edition for 2005 - 2006, with a commitment to continuing the editorial integrity that has become the hallmark of this resource since its initial publication in 1928. Political Handbook of the World provides thorough and accurate information on the major aspects of each country's governmental and political composition. As a convenient, one-volume source for global political information, each edition features country profiles that include the following: Key facts: Political status, area, population, major urban centers, official language, monetary unit, heads of government, heads of state, ambassadors, and US and UN representation, Government and political history: Historical trends, regime changes, constitutional history, and regional and global policy issues of concern, Current issues: Headline-making events, trends, controversies, and challenges, Political parties and organizations: Leading and minor parties, quasi-partisan and extra-systemic organizations, alliances, party histories, ideology, and leadership, Legislatures and cabinets: Recent national election results, legislative leaders, cabinet ministers, Communications: Names, circulation, and political affiliation of major national media; news agencies; television coverage and Internet usage. In addition, Political Handbook of the World profiles 120 intergovernmental organizations, such as OPEC, NATO, the WTO, world and regional development banks, and the agencies and specialized bodies of the United Nations. Book jacket.

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Dictionary of Statistics and Methodology

A Non-Technical Guide for the Social Sciences

By: W. Paul Vogt

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Adventures in Criminal Justice Research

Data Analysis Using SPSS for Windows

By: George W. Dowdall,Earl R. Babbie,Fred Halley

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Adventures in Criminal Justice Research

Data Analysis Using SPSS for Windows

By: George W. Dowdall,Earl R. Babbie,Fred Halley

Shows students how to: analyse issues in criminal justice using current GSS General Social Survey data - analyse issues in drug and alcohol use on campus using the Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study and use SPSS, the most widely used professional software in criminal justice.

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The SAGE Handbook of Innovation in Social Research Methods

The SAGE Handbook of Innovation in Social Research Methods

The SAGE Dictionary of Statistics & Methodology

The SAGE Dictionary of Statistics & Methodology

Self-Cultivation Philosophies in Ancient India, Greece, and China

Self-Cultivation Philosophies in Ancient India, Greece, and China

Selecting the Right Analyses for Your Data

Selecting the Right Analyses for Your Data

When to Use What Research Design

When to Use What Research Design

Dictionary of Statistics & Methodology

Dictionary of Statistics & Methodology

Class Rules

Class Rules

Carnal Spirit

Carnal Spirit

Anthropology, Colonial Policy and the Decline of French Empire in Africa

Anthropology, Colonial Policy and the Decline of French Empire in Africa

Barcelona, Berlin, New York

Barcelona, Berlin, New York

Origins of European Printmaking

Origins of European Printmaking

Dictionary of Statistics & Methodology

Dictionary of Statistics & Methodology

Dictionary of Statistics and Methodology

Dictionary of Statistics and Methodology

Political Handbook of theWorld 2005-2006

Political Handbook of theWorld 2005-2006

Dictionary of Statistics and Methodology

Dictionary of Statistics and Methodology

Adventures in Criminal Justice Research

Adventures in Criminal Justice Research

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