Tag: Researching

Free Download Rachel Thomson, "Researching Everyday Childhoods: Time, Technology and Documentation in a Digital Age"
English | ISBN: 1350011746 | 2018 | 240 pages | PDF | 22 MB
How can we know about children’s everyday lives in a digitally saturated world? What is it like to grow up in and through new media? What happens between the ages of 7 and 15 and does it make sense to think of maturation as mediated? These questions are explored in this innovative book, which synthesizes empirical documentation of children’s everyday lives with discussions of key theoretical and methodological concepts to provide a unique guide to researching childhood and youth.

Free Download Emma Watkins, "Criminal Children: Researching Juvenile Offenders 1820-1920"
English | ISBN: 1526738082 | 2018 | 168 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
How were criminal children dealt with in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Over this hundred-year period, ideas about the way children should behave – and how they should be corrected when they misbehaved – changed dramatically, and Emma Watkins and Barry Godfrey, in this accessible and expert guide, provide a fascinating introduction to this neglected subject.

Free Download Jean Conteh, "Researching Education for Social Justice in Multilingual Settings: Ethnographic Principles in Qualitative Research"
English | ISBN: 1350002631 | 2017 | 280 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Researching Education for Social Justice in Multilingual Settings provides innovative guidance on carrying out qualitative research in education by offering a wide range of examples of research projects with a focus on the methodologies and data collection strategies used. Rather than decontextualised ‘how-to’ advice, the book offers insights into the complexities of actually carrying out research in multilingual settings.

Free Download Reserching Language and Health: A Student Guide
by Zsófia Demjén
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0367896680 | 237 pages | True PDF | 27.16 MB

Free Download Amir Marvasti, "Researching Social Problems "
English | ISBN: 113809174X | 2019 | 214 pages | EPUB | 1295 KB
This book covers a wide range of contemporary methods for researching social problems and connects these approaches to the broader substance and theories of social problems. Expository and discursive in approach, chapters follow a uniform structure, with each offering research examples and a broad description of the related method and its theoretical context, together with a "how-to" guide for applying that method using substantive examples from the field of social problems. For every method explored, there is a research example that fully reviews and illustrates the application of the particular method, before giving a full assessment of the method’s strengths and weaknesses and latest developments. With chapters exploring survey interviews, in-depth interviews, narrative inquiry, institutional ethnography, participatory action research, auto-ethnography, Actor-Network Theory, experimental research, visual research methods, and research ethics,

Free Download Matthew Jones, "Researching Organizations: The Practice of Organizational Fieldwork"
English | ISBN: 1446257223 | 2014 | 240 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Although there are plenty of books that discuss the principles, the philosophy and the techniques of research in organisations, it is much harder to find information on what doing research in organisations actually involves in practice. Yet this is often one of the most challenging, but also most interesting, aspects of a study. Drawing on examples and debates from a broad range of disciplines (such as criminology, education and social anthropology as well management) Researching Organisations explores the issues that researchers may encounter when carrying out fieldwork in organisations. From getting in to an organisation at the start of the research to getting out and maybe back again at the end, the book offers systematic guidance to help researchers navigate the messy reality of fieldwork.

Free Download Constantinos N. Phellas, "Researching Non-Heterosexual Sexualities"
English | ISBN: 1138253189 | 2016 | 264 pages | EPUB | 1170 KB
After widespread neglect over many years, the study of human sexuality has recently come to the forefront of many of the most important debates in contemporary society and culture. This book addresses seriously the issue of how to improve the methodological basis of research into non-heterosexual sexualities, exploring the key question of what different methodological and theoretical uses of intersectionality contribute to our understandings of non-heterosexual sexualities. Bringing together research from the UK, USA, Europe and Australasia, this innovative collection rethinks traditional methodologies, creating new epistemologies and applying new approaches, whilst critically examining key issues, including communities, identities, relationships, sexualities, homosexual parenthood, fostering, civil marriage, and politics. As such, it will be of interest to researchers, scholars and students across the social sciences and health professionals.

Free Download Kalwant Bhopal, "Researching Marginalized Groups "
English | ISBN: 1138824038 | 2015 | 306 pages | EPUB | 921 KB
This edited collection explores issues that arise when researching "hard-to-reach" groups and those who remain socially excluded and marginalized in society, such as access, the use of gatekeepers, ethical dilemmas, "voice," and how such research contributes to issues of inclusion and social justice. The book uses a wide range of empirical and theoretical approaches to examine the difficulties, dilemmas and complexities surrounding research methodologies with particular groups. It emphasizes the importance of national and international perspectives in such discussions, and suggests innovative methodological procedures.

Free Download Ann Phoenix, "Researching Family Narratives"
English | ISBN: 1526439093 | 2020 | 248 pages | EPUB | 1116 KB
This edited book guides students and researchers through the processes of researching everyday stories about families. Showcasing the wide range methods and data sources currently used in narrative research, it features:

Free Download Ian Wellard, "Researching Embodied Sport: Exploring movement cultures "
English | ISBN: 1138041300 | 2017 | 212 pages | EPUB | 860 KB
Despite a growing interest in the sociology of the body, there has to date been a lack of scholarly work addressing the embodied aspects which form a central part of our understanding and experience of sport and movement cultures. Researching Embodied Sport explores the political, social and cultural significance of embodied approaches to the study of sport, physical activities and dance. It explains how embodied approaches fit with existing theory in studies of sport and movement cultures and makes a compelling case for incorporating an embodied approach into the study of sporting practices and experience.