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Meta-Ethnography
Synthesizing Qualitative Studies
2021 || Paperback || George W. Noblit e.a. || SAGE
This provocative volume deals with one of the chief criticisms of ethnographic studies, a criticism which centres on their particularism or their insistence on context -- the question is asked: How can these studies be generalized beyond the individual case? Noblit and Hare propose a method -- meta-ethnography -- for synthesizing from qualitative, interpretive studies. They show that ethnographies themselves are interpretive acts, and demonstrate that by translating metaphors and key concepts...
Community-Based Participatory Research
2013 || Paperback || Karen A. Hacker || SAGE
Presenting a practical approach to CBPR by describing how an individual researcher might understand and conduct CBPR research, this book includies a concise overview of CBPR theoretical underpinnings, methods considerations and ethical issues - all presented in an accessible format.
Introducing Sociology Using the Stuff of Everyday Life
2017 || Paperback || Josee Johnston e.a. || Taylor & Francis
The challenges of teaching a successful introductory sociology course today demand materials from a publisher very different from the norm. Texts that are organized the way the discipline structures itself intellectually no longer connect with the majority of student learners. This is not an issue of pandering to students or otherwise seeking the lowest common denominator.
On the contrary, it is a question of again making the practice of sociological thinking meaningful, rigorous, and relevan...
Comparative Criminal Justice / 4th edition
Fourth Edition
2019 || Paperback || Francis Pakes || Taylor & Francis
This book offers an accessible and scholarly introduction to comparative criminal justice, examining the ways different countries and jurisdictions deal with its main stages, from policing, to systems of trial, to sentencing, to punishment.
White-Collar Crime
An Opportunity Perspective
2018 || Paperback || Michael L. Benson e.a. || Taylor & Francis
White-Collar Crime: An Opportunity Perspective analyzes white-collar crime within a coherent theoretical framework. Using the opportunity perspective, which assumes that all crimes depend on offenders recognizing an opportunity to commit an offense, the authors uncover the processes and situational conditions that facilitate white-collar crimes. In addition, they offer potential solutions to this persistent and widespread social problem without being reductive in their treatment of the diffic...
Understanding Longitudinal Data
2023 || Paperback || Emily Gilbert || SAGE
As one of the few teaching textbooks in the market about longitudinal research and data, this book provides a strong foundation in the fundamentals of longitudinal research, discussing core issues such as study design, sampling, attrition and missing data.
Inequality and Social Work
2023 || Paperback || Rick Hood || SAGE
Designed to help students think critically about the skills and knowledge they need to understand and tackle inequality, and provide meaningful help to those people most in need.
Digital Media Economics
A Critical Introduction
2023 || Paperback || Brett Caraway || SAGE
Written for a wide audience, from undergraduate and graduate students to citizens and activists, this engaging text explains how economics can help us to better understand the development of digital technologies. Â
Distinction
A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
2023 || Paperback || Pierre Bourdieu || Taylor & Francis
Illuminates the social pretentions of the middle classes in the modern world, focusing on the tastes and preferences of the French bourgeoisie. This book argues that the social world functions simultaneously as a system of power relations and as a symbolic system in which minute distinctions of taste become the basis for social judgement.
Understanding Communication Research Methods / 3rd edition
A Theoretical and Practical Approach
2021 || Paperback || Stephen M. Croucher e.a. || Taylor & Francis
COMPREHENSIVE: The book offers an unbiased introduction to all three methodological paradigms: positivist, interpretive, critical/cultural (quantitative, qualitative, critical). - INNOVATIVE: The book includes new sample student papers along with critiques of these papers to that students can model their own work on that of their peers.
FOCUSED ON THE STUDENT: Specific attention is given to presenting conceptual and theoretical information regarding methods, and to providing real-life exampl...