A Comprehensive Method, Tools, and Techniques for Building Sound TheoryRichard Swanson and Thomas Chermack present a complete five-step approach for developing sound theory in applied disciplines, ...from conceptualizing a theory to creating relevant assessment criteria, establishing a research agenda to test the theory's validity, applying the theoretical concepts in the real world, and using that experience to further refine and improve the theory. The method is not restricted to any single discipline, nor is it limited by any research ideology. The authors provide a set of tools for each phase of the process, making this book accessible to a wide audience. And in addition to examples in each chapter, they offer two extended case examples of full theory building.
This work examines in depth the methodological relationships that probability and statistics have maintained with the social sciences from their emergence. It covers both the history of thought and ...current methods.First it examines in detail the history of the different paradigms and axioms for probability, from their emergence in the seventeenth century up to the most recent developments of the three major concepts: objective, subjective and logicist probability. It shows the statistical inference they permit, different applications to social sciences and the main problems they encounter.On the other side, from social sciencesparticularly population sciencesto probability, it shows the different uses they made of probabilistic concepts during their history, from the seventeenth century, according to their paradigms: cross-sectional, longitudinal, hierarchical, contextual and multilevel approaches. While the ties may have seemed loose at times, they have more often been very close: some advances in probability were driven by the search for answers to questions raised by the social sciences; conversely, the latter have made progress thanks to advances in probability.This dual approach sheds new light on the historical development of the social sciences and probability, and on the enduring relevance of their links. It permits also to solve a number of methodological problems encountered all along their history.
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This book analyses the challenges of secrecy in security research, and develops a set of methods to navigate, encircle and work with secrecy.How can researchers navigate secrecy in their fieldwork, ...when they encounter confidential material, closed-off quarters or bureaucratic rebuffs? This is a particular challenge for researchers in the security field, which is by nature secretive and difficult to access. This book creatively assesses and analyses the ways in which secrecies operate in security research. The collection sets out new understandings of secrecy, and shows how secrecy itself can be made productive to research analysis. It offers students, PhD researchers and senior scholars a rich toolkit of methods and best-practice examples for ethically appropriate ways of navigating secrecy. It pays attention to the balance between confidentiality, and academic freedom and integrity. The chapters draw on the rich qualitative fieldwork experiences of the contributors, who did research at a diversity of sites, for example at a former atomic weapons research facility, inside deportation units, in conflict zones, in everyday security landscapes, in virtual spaces and at borders, bureaucracies and banks.The book will be of interest to students of research methods, critical security studies and International Relations in general.
Knowledge Discovery in the Social Sciences helps readers find valid, meaningful, and useful information. It is written for researchers and data analysts as well as students who have no prior ...experience in statistics or computer science. Suitable for a variety of classes-including upper-division courses for undergraduates, introductory courses for graduate students, and courses in data management and advanced statistical methods-the book guides readers in the application of data mining techniques and illustrates the significance of newly discovered knowledge. Readers will learn to: • appreciate the role of data mining in scientific research • develop an understanding of fundamental concepts of data mining and knowledge discovery • use software to carry out data mining tasks • select and assess appropriate models to ensure findings are valid and meaningful • develop basic skills in data preparation, data mining, model selection, and validation • apply concepts with end-of-chapter exercises and review summaries
A process through which skills, knowledge, and resources are
expanded, capacity building, remains a tantalizing and pervasive
concept throughout the field of anthropology, though it has
received ...little in the way of critical analysis. By exploring the
concept's role in a variety of different settings including
government lexicons, religious organizations, environmental
campaigns, biomedical training, and fieldwork from around the
globe, Hope and Insufficiency seeks to question the
histories, assumptions, intentions, and enactments that have led to
the ubiquity of capacity building, thereby developing a much-needed
critical purchase on its persuasive power.
Understanding the relationships between humans and animals is essential to a full understanding of both our present and our shared past. Across the humanities and social sciences, researchers have ...embraced the ‘animal turn,’ a multispecies approach to scholarship, with historians at the forefront of new research in human-animal studies that blends traditional research methods with interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks that decenter humans in historical narratives. These exciting approaches come with core methodological challenges for scholars seeking to better understand the past from non-anthropocentric perspectives. Whether in a large public archive, a small private collection, or the oral histories of living memories, stories of animals are mediated by the humans who have inscribed the records and organized archival collections. In oral histories, the place of animals in the past are further refracted by the frailty of human memory and recollection. Only traces remain for researchers to read and interpret. Bringing together seventeen original essays by a leading group of international scholars, Traces of the Animal Past showcases the innovative methods historians use to unearth and explain how animals fit into our collective histories. Situating the historian within the narrative, bringing transparency to methodological processes, and reflecting on the processes and procedures of current research, this book presents new approaches and new directions for a maturing field of historical inquiry.
Jesse Driscoll offers a how-to guide for social scientists who are considering extended mixed-methods international fieldwork. Doing Global Fieldwork is an up-to-date handbook for graduate students ...and social science researchers of all stripes who need blunt, no-nonsense advice about how to make the best of their time in the field.
Musikvermittlung wurde in den letzten zweieinhalb Jahrzehnten zu einem wesentlichen Bestandteil des Berufsbildes von klassisch ausgebildeten Musiker_innen. Aus- und Weiterbildungsangebote zur ...Mitwirkung an Schulworkshops und Community-Projekten oder zur Planung neuer Konzertformate existieren bis dato jedoch nicht in entsprechendem Ausmaß. Axel Petri-Preis analysiert die individuellen Lernwege von Musiker_innen und zeigt, wie sie sich in überwiegend informellen Kontexten Wissen im Bereich der Musikvermittlung aneignen. Davon ausgehend formuliert er Empfehlungen, wie Hochschulen und Musikinstitutionen Musiker_innen auf diese Tätigkeit vorbereiten können.
Critical Autoethnography Boylorn, Robin M; Orbe, Mark P; Ellis, Carolyn
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This volume uses autoethnography—cultural analysis through personal narrative—to explore the tangled relationships between culture and communication. Using an intersectional approach to the many ...aspects of identity at play in everyday life, a diverse group of authors reveals the complex nature of lived experiences. They situate interpersonal experiences of gender, race, ethnicity, ability, and orientation within larger systems of power, oppression, and social privilege. An excellent resource for undergraduates, graduate students, educators, and scholars in the fields of intercultural and interpersonal communication, and qualitative methodology.
Foreword: Merging Culture and Personal Experience in Critical Autoethnography, Carolyn Ellis and Arthur BochnerIntroduction: Cultural Autoethnography as Method of Choice, Robin M. Boylorn & Mark P. OrbeSection I: Complicating Mundane Everyday Life EncountersIntroductionChapter 1: The Transitory Radical: Making Place with Cancer, Jeanine M. Minge and John Burton Sterner Chapter 2: Negating the Inevitable: Empowerment Through Autoethnography and Retrospective Sensemaking, Tabatha L. RobertsChapter 3: Post-Coming Out Complications, Tony E. AdamsSection II: Embracing Ambiguous and Non-Binary IdentitiesIntroductionChapter 4: Negotiating More, (Mis)labeling the Body: A Tale of Intersectionality, Amber L. JohnsonChapter 5: Performing Fortune Cookie: An Autoethnographic Performance on Diasporic Hybridity, Richie Neil HaoChapter 6: Critical Autoethnography as Intersectional Praxis: A Performative Pedagogical Interplay onBleeding Borders of Identity, Bryant Keith AlexanderSection III: Negotiating Socially Stigmatized IdentitiesIntroductionChapter 7: A Story & A Stereotype: A Race(d), Class(ed) & Gender(ed) Auto/ethnography, Robin M. BoylornChapter 8: Caught in Code: Arab American Identity, Image, and Lived Reality, Desiree YomtoobChapter 9: Lather, Rinse, Reclaim: Cultural (Re)Conditioning of the Gay (Bear) Body, Patrick SantoroChapter 10: The (Dis)ability Double Life: Exploring the Terrible Dichotomy of (Il)Legitimacy in HigherEducation, Dana Morella-PozziSection IV: Creating Pathways to Authentic SelvesIntroductionChapter 11: Socio-economic Im(Mobility): Resisting Classifications Within a 'Post-Projects' Identity, Mark P. OrbeChapter 12: Mindful Heresy, Holo-expression, and Poesis: An Autoethnographic Response to the Orthodoxies of Interpersonal & Cultural Life, Sarah Amira de la GarzaChapter 13: Favor: An Autoethnography of Survival, Rex L. CrawleyConclusion: Critical Autoethnography: Implications & Future Directions, Mark P. Orbe & Robin M. BoylornAbout the Editors and ContributorsIndex
"In this groundbreaking volume, Robin and Mark bring together autoethnographic and critical standpoints to examine everyday interpersonal and cultural experiences of identity from the inside out. The authors gently, lovingly, vulnerably, and incisively extend the work of autoethnography and invite us--all of us--to appreciate the ways in which an intersectional approach reveals the relationships among culture, communication, identity, emotions, and everyday lived experience." --From the Foreword by Carolyn Ellis and Arthur Bochner
