Algebraic Models for Social Networks
ISBN: 9780521365680 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the analysis of social networks, or networks of interpersonal and social relationships among social groups, has become an increasingly important method of research in several of the social and behavioral sciences, the gathering of network data has outpaced the development of new methods for its analysis. Addressing the need for new analytical tools, Philippa Pattison presents a number of new algebraic models for the analysis of network data, explaining in the process the rationale for an algebraic approach. Models are developed for both complete networks, meaning those representing the...
As the analysis of social networks, or networks of interpersonal and social relationships among social groups, has become an increasingly important me...
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530,11 zł |
International Focus Group Research: A Handbook for the Health and Social Sciences
ISBN: 9780521607803 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A practical and authoritative guide to conducting focus group discussions in health and social science research, with particular emphasis on using focus groups in developing country settings. Monique M. Hennink describes the procedures and challenges of each stage of international focus group research. This book demonstrates how to balance scientific rigour with the challenges of the research context, and guides readers to make informed research decisions. It includes unique field perspectives and case study examples of research in practice. Topics covered include: planning international...
A practical and authoritative guide to conducting focus group discussions in health and social science research, with particular emphasis on using foc...
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168,16 zł |
Computational and Mathematical Modeling in the Social Sciences
ISBN: 9780521619134 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mathematical models in the social sciences have become increasingly sophisticated and widespread in the last decade. This period has also seen many critiques, most lamenting the sacrifices incurred in pursuit of mathematical perfection. If, as critics argue, our ability to understand the world has not improved during the mathematization of the social sciences, we might want to adopt a different paradigm. This book examines the three main fields of mathematical modeling--game theory, statistics, and computational methods--and proposes a new framework for modeling.
Mathematical models in the social sciences have become increasingly sophisticated and widespread in the last decade. This period has also seen many cr...
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152,87 zł |
The Research Imagination: An Introduction to Qualitative and Quantitative Methods
ISBN: 9780521705554 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The idea that science is a blueprint for research, and imagination gives research its life and purpose inspired this comprehensive explanation of research methodology. The authors' decades of experience have revealed that research is a craft requiring judgment and creativity, not simply memorization and application of the rules of science. This book covers a wide variety of data-collection techniques, but presents them as reinforcing, rather than competing with one another, thus striking a balance between qualitative and quantitative methods and proving an essential resource for instructors...
The idea that science is a blueprint for research, and imagination gives research its life and purpose inspired this comprehensive explanation of rese...
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285,39 zł |
Longitudinal and Panel Data: Analysis and Applications in the Social Sciences
ISBN: 9780521828284 / Angielski / Twarda / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing on an analysis of models and data that arise from repeated observations of a cross-section of individuals, households or firms, this book also covers important applications within business, economics, education, political science and other social science disciplines. The author introduces the foundations of longitudinal and panel data analysis at a level suitable for quantitatively oriented social science graduate students as well as individual researchers. He emphasizes mathematical and statistical fundamentals but also demonstrates substantive applications from across the social...
Focusing on an analysis of models and data that arise from repeated observations of a cross-section of individuals, households or firms, this book als...
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499,53 zł |
Behavioral Social Choice: Probabilistic Models, Statistical Inference, and Applications
ISBN: 9780521829687 / Angielski / Twarda / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Looking at the probabilistic foundations of collective decision-making rules, the authors challenge much of the existing theoretical wisdom about social choice processes, and seek to restore faith in the possibility of democratic decision-making. In particular, they argue that worries about the supposed prevalence of majority rule cycles, that would preclude groups from reaching a final decision about what alternative they prefer, have been greatly overstated. In practice, majority rule can be expected to work well in most real-world settings. They provide new insights into how alternative...
Looking at the probabilistic foundations of collective decision-making rules, the authors challenge much of the existing theoretical wisdom about soci...
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290,55 zł |
International Focus Group Research: A Handbook for the Health and Social Sciences
ISBN: 9780521845618 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A practical and authoritative guide to conducting focus group discussions in health and social science research, with particular emphasis on using focus groups in developing country settings. Monique M. Hennink describes the procedures and challenges of each stage of international focus group research. This book demonstrates how to balance scientific rigour with the challenges of the research context, and guides readers to make informed research decisions. It includes unique field perspectives and case study examples of research in practice. Topics covered include: planning international...
A practical and authoritative guide to conducting focus group discussions in health and social science research, with particular emphasis on using foc...
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244,67 zł |
Computational and Mathematical Modeling in the Social Sciences
ISBN: 9780521853620 / Angielski / Twarda / 197 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mathematical models in the social sciences have become increasingly sophisticated and widespread in the last decade. This period has also seen many critiques, most lamenting the sacrifices incurred in pursuit of mathematical perfection. If, as critics argue, our ability to understand the world has not improved during the mathematization of the social sciences, we might want to adopt a different paradigm. This book examines the three main fields of mathematical modeling--game theory, statistics, and computational methods--and proposes a new framework for modeling.
Mathematical models in the social sciences have become increasingly sophisticated and widespread in the last decade. This period has also seen many cr...
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275,25 zł |
A Realist Philosophy of Social Science: Explanation and Understanding
ISBN: 9780521861403 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This introduction to the philosophy of social science provides an original conception of the task and nature of social inquiry. Peter Manicas discusses the role of causality seen in the physical sciences and offers a reassessment of the problem of explanation from a realist perspective. He argues that the fundamental goal of theory in both the natural and social sciences is not, contrary to widespread opinion, prediction and control, or the explanation of events (including behaviour). Instead, theory aims to provide an understanding of the processes which, together, produce the contingent...
This introduction to the philosophy of social science provides an original conception of the task and nature of social inquiry. Peter Manicas discusse...
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300,74 zł |
A Quantitative Tour of the Social Sciences
ISBN: 9780521861984 / Angielski / Twarda / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To foster a deeper understanding of the interconnection of the social sciences, economists should know where historical data come from, sociologists should know how to think like economists, political scientists would benefit from understanding how models are tested in psychology, historians should learn how political processes are studied, psychologists should understand sociological theories, and so forth. This overview by prominent social scientists gives an accessible, non-technical sense of how quantitative research is done in the social sciences. Upon finishing this book, the reader...
To foster a deeper understanding of the interconnection of the social sciences, economists should know where historical data come from, sociologists s...
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331,26 zł |
The Research Imagination: An Introduction to Qualitative and Quantitative Methods
ISBN: 9780521879729 / Angielski / Twarda / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The idea that science is a blueprint for research, and imagination gives research its life and purpose inspired this comprehensive explanation of research methodology. The authors' decades of experience have revealed that research is a craft requiring judgment and creativity, not simply memorization and application of the rules of science. This book covers a wide variety of data-collection techniques, but presents them as reinforcing, rather than competing with one another, thus striking a balance between qualitative and quantitative methods and proving an essential resource for instructors...
The idea that science is a blueprint for research, and imagination gives research its life and purpose inspired this comprehensive explanation of rese...
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570,89 zł |
All Points in Between: Shifting on the Scale of Sex and Gender
ISBN: 9780595399277 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ."Sex and gender Identities area so important to the actualization of "self." Taylor's work has helped me to better deliver patient care in individuals struggling with self constructs. This work is impelling and emotional. His work will have an impact on the Psychiatric communities which will help shape social perceptions and treatment trends." -Dr. Victor R Barnes MD "Holder first uses his own experience to gain unprecedented access to a broader community of people whom, using normative understanding of sex, gender and sexual orientation, many of us might identify as 'transsexual, '... ."Sex and gender Identities area so important to the actualization of "self." Taylor's work has helped me to better deliver patient care in individ... |
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Living is Risky: Staying Alive in Spite of Ourselves
ISBN: 9780595402748 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It has been suggested that the best hope for achieving a longer and healthier life lies in voluntary efforts derived from personal choices. This means that individual change must be directed toward the modification of lifestyles and the choices associated with them. Every lifestyle is a complex of related attitudes, habits, and other behaviors that, in essence, constitute a death style. Each death style in turn carries with it various degrees of risk-taking.
Our survival potential both in terms of quality and longevity is significantly enhanced or diminished by certain attitudes and habits... It has been suggested that the best hope for achieving a longer and healthier life lies in voluntary efforts derived from personal choices. This means...
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85,47 zł |
Essentials of Research Methods: A Guide to Social Science Research
ISBN: 9780631230489 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Essentials of Research Methods is a concise and accessible introduction to research methods in the social sciences. Written by an expert of research methods teaching, this book takes extraordinary care to focus the reader on experiences in his or her everyday life as a way of understanding and performing research methods.
Essentials of Research Methods is a concise and accessible introduction to research methods in the social sciences. Written by an expert of res...
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568,47 zł |
Essentials of Research Methods: A Guide to Social Science Research
ISBN: 9780631230496 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Essentials of Research Methods is a concise and accessible introduction to research methods in the social sciences. Written by an expert of research methods teaching, this book takes extraordinary care to focus the reader on experiences in his or her everyday life as a way of understanding and performing research methods.
Essentials of Research Methods is a concise and accessible introduction to research methods in the social sciences. Written by an expert of res...
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166,06 zł |
Reflexivity: A Practical Guide for Researchers in Health and Social Sciences
ISBN: 9780632064144 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reflexivity is a popular tool used to analyse personal, intersubjective and social processes which shape research projects. It enables researchers, particularly within the qualitative tradition, to acknowledge their role and the situated nature of their research. In the current climate, which sees the popularity of qualitative methods coupled with increased public and professional scrutiny of research, reflexivity provides a means of bolstering greater transparency and quality in research.
This book recognises the considerable value of reflexivity to researchers, and... Reflexivity is a popular tool used to analyse personal, intersubjective and social processes which shape research projects. It enables researchers, pa...
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369,95 zł |
Group-Based Modeling of Development
ISBN: 9780674016866 / Angielski / Twarda / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a systematic exposition of a group-based statistical method for analyzing longitudinal data in the social and behavioral sciences and in medicine. The methods can be applied to a wide range of data, such as that describing the progression of delinquency and criminality over the life course, changes in income over time, the course of a disease or physiological condition, or the evolution of the socioeconomic status of communities. Using real-world research data from longitudinal studies, the book explains and applies this method for identifying distinctive time-based... This book provides a systematic exposition of a group-based statistical method for analyzing longitudinal data in the social and behavioral science... |
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534,09 zł |
Summing Up: The Science of Reviewing Research
ISBN: 9780674854314 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How can a scientist or policy analyst summarize and evaluate what is already known about a particular topic? This book offers practical guidance.
How can a scientist or policy analyst summarize and evaluate what is already known about a particular topic? This book offers practical guidance.
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182,32 zł |
Learning from Strangers: The Art and Method of Qualitative Interview Studies
ISBN: 9780684823126 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Learning From Strangers is the definitive work on qualitative research interviewing. It draws on Robert Weiss's thirty years of experience in interviewing and teaching others how to do it. The most effective interviews, says Weiss, rely on creating cooperation -- an open and trusting alliance between interviewer and respondent, dedicated to specific and honest accounts of both internal and external events. Against the eclectic background of his work in national sample surveys, studies based on semi-structured interviewing, and participant observation, Weiss walks the reader through the...
Learning From Strangers is the definitive work on qualitative research interviewing. It draws on Robert Weiss's thirty years of experience in i...
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80,97 zł |
Domestic Violence in Asian-American Communities: A Cultural Overview
ISBN: 9780739108581 / Angielski / Twarda / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Domestic violence in Asian American communities remains a rarely discussed, yet pervasive problem. With eight chapters, each dedicated to a different Asian American community, the essays in this volume explore the factors involved in domestic violence in specific communities. This unique project will provide an indispensable tool for scholars and researchers in social work and family studies who want to better understand the complexities of serving this growing and diverse population.
Domestic violence in Asian American communities remains a rarely discussed, yet pervasive problem. With eight chapters, each dedicated to a different ...
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418,51 zł |