Understanding Research : Coping with the Quantitative - Qualitative Divide

ISBN-13: 9780415490795 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 320 str.

Susan Banducci;Marianne Franklin

Opis

Successfully completing a research project is a major milestone in most university degrees, and the cornerstone of an academic career. This textbook is an accessible, real-time guide to conducting academic research in international and cross-cultural settings. It provides advanced undergraduates and graduate students, practical and theoretical guidance on how to begin, execute, and then communicate the outcome of research projects undertaken at the intersection of the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

This textbook is designed to introduce advanced undergraduates and graduate students to the research process. It explains how the research process works, from the initial research question to formulating an overall research design in line with contemporary disciplinary and inter-disciplinary frameworks. The textbook explains the key methodological and theoretical debates and gives equal weight to both qualitative and quantitative methods while remaining focussed on the practical concerns of the research student.

O autorze

M. I. Franklin is Reader and Director of the Global Media & Transnational Communications program at Goldsmiths (University of London, UK). With an academic background in the Humanities (History and Music) and Social Sciences (Politics) she has held teaching and research positions in Humanities, Social Science, and Engineering faculties in New Zealand, the Netherlands, USA, and the UK. She has received research funding from Social Science Research Council (USA) and Ford Foundation and awards for teaching excellence in the UK. Previous books include Postcolonial Politics, the Internet, and Everyday Life: Pacific Traversals Online (Routledge) and Resounding International Relations: On Music, Culture and Politics (Palgrave MacMillan). Digital Dilemmas: Power, Resistance and the Internet will be out in 2013 (Oxford University Press).