Dit boek wil studenten en onderzoekers een overzicht geven van wat kwalitatieve onderzoeksbenaderingen te bieden hebben en hoe onderzoek vanuit een kwalitatieve benadering opgezet en uitgevoerd kan worden. De invalshoek van het boek is praktijkgeoriënteerd met een speciale aandacht voor startende onderzoekers en studenten. De theoretische benadering van de onderwerpen wordt afgewisseld met voorbeelden uit gepubliceerd werk en materiaal uit de dagelijkse onderzoekspraktijk. De voorbeelden zij...

Waarom is professionalisering van belang voor sociaal werk? Wat is professioneel kapitaal en welke benaderingen van professionalisering zijn er? Het beroep van sociaal werkers ontwikkelt zich continue. Zo wordt verwacht dat zij meer interdisciplinair samenwerken met andere professionals en aandacht hebben voor de digitalisering van de samenleving. Ook krijgen ze te maken met vrijwilligers en burgerinitiatieven. Deze ontwikkelingen zetten de vragen over professionalisering van het sociaal werk...

The third edition of Investigating Culture: An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology, the highly praised innovative approach to introducing aspects of cultural anthropology to students, features a series of revisions, updates, and new material. * Offers a refreshing alternative to introductory anthropology texts by challenging students to think in new ways and apply cultural learnings to their own lives * Chapters explore key anthropological concepts of human culture including: language, ...

The fully updated third edition of this bestselling book offers a radical approach to community development. Building on the theories of Gramsci and Freire, new ideas are introduced which offer an inspiring approach to practice for all those committed to social and environmental justice. Neoliberalism has created a dangerous escalation of economic inequalities with inevitable environmental consequences.

Practice needs to be informed by analyses of power, and links are made using international...

Accessible graduate text and scholarly resource, revised and updated: 30% new material includes new genres (slam poetry, comics/graphic novels, installation art, and others), new exemplars, guidance on research design, and tips for getting started. *Well-known author uses nontechnical language for an interdisciplinary audience; competing titles are discipline-specific or more advanced.

The only book on ABR to cover all eight arts genres (narrative inquiry, fiction-based research, poetry, mus...

The fifth edition of this approachable text draws on both academic and applied perspectives to offer a lively critique of contemporary advertising's effects on American character and culture. Berger explains how advertising works by employing a psycho-cultural approach, encouraging readers to think about advertisements and commercials in more analytical and profound ways. Among the topics he addresses are the role of brands, the problem of self-alienation, and how both relate to consumption.

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Presented in a unique and easy-to-use dictionary format, this practical guide will help students and practitioners understand and apply the principles of effective communication.

Known as the gold standard for research methods, Babbie's THE PRACTICE OF SOCIAL RESEARCH gives you a definitive guide to research as practiced by social scientists. Combining a straightforward approach with the author's renowned sense of humor, this student-friendly text equips you with the tools and knowledge to apply research concepts as both researcher and consumer. The author emphasizes the process by showing you how to design and construct projects, introducing today's various observati...

A very practical guide teaching students everything they need to know to successfully apply theory, methods and approaches in real-life practice.

Theories of Counseling and Psychotherapy: An Integrative Approach by Elsie Jones-Smith is for the theories of counseling and psychotherapy course at both the undergraduate and graduate level. This Third Edition, offers an extensive array of theories that includes all the mainstream theories as well as such contemporary approaches as narrative, feminist, LGBT, and post-modern . It offers students an integrative framework with which to assess the various theories with respect to possible clinic...