Routledge Advances in Research Methods
Researching Ageing: Methodological Challenges and their Empirical Background
1st Edition
Edited
By Maria Łuszczyńska
June 15, 2020
This book explores the diversity of methodological approaches to researching ageing, considering which methodological paradigm best captures the phenomenon. Interdisciplinary in scope, it brings together research from scholars from Austria, Canada, France, Hong Kong, Israel, Poland, UK and USA to ...
Doing Research In and On the Digital: Research Methods across Fields of Inquiry
1st Edition
Edited
By Cristina Costa, Jenna Condie
January 14, 2020
As a social space, the web provides researchers both with a tool and an environment to explore the intricacies of everyday life. As a site of mediated interactions and interrelationships, the ‘digital’ has evolved from being a space of information to a space of creation, thus providing new ...
Freedom of Information and Social Science Research Design
1st Edition
Edited
By Kevin Walby, Alex Luscombe
December 02, 2019
This multidisciplinary volume demonstrates how Freedom of Information (FOI) law and processes can contribute to social science research design across sociology, criminology, political science, anthropology, journalism and education. Comparing the use of FOI in research design across the United ...
Researching Social Problems
1st Edition
Edited
By Amir Marvasti, A. Javier Treviño
June 28, 2019
This book covers a wide range of contemporary methods for researching social problems and connects these approaches to the broader substance and theories of social problems. Expository and discursive in approach, chapters follow a uniform structure, with each offering research examples and a broad ...
Walking Methodologies in a More-than-human World: WalkingLab
1st Edition
By Stephanie Springgay, Sarah E. Truman
May 14, 2019
As a research methodology, walking has a diverse and extensive history in the social sciences and humanities, underscoring its value for conducting research that is situated, relational, and material. Building on the importance of place, sensory inquiry, embodiment, and rhythm within walking ...
Walking Through Social Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Charlotte Bates, Alex Rhys-Taylor
September 27, 2018
As an ethnographic method walking has a long history, but it has only recently begun to attract focused attention. By walking alongside participants, researchers have been able to observe, experience, and make sense of a broad range of everyday practices. At the same time, the idea of talking and ...
Video Methods: Social Science Research in Motion
1st Edition
Edited
By Charlotte Bates
August 23, 2018
This interdisciplinary collection provides a set of innovative and inventive approaches to the use of video as a research method. Building on the development of visual methods across the social sciences, it highlights a range of possibilities for making and working with video data. The collection ...
Qualitative Research as Stepwise-Deductive Induction
1st Edition
By Aksel Tjora
August 10, 2018
This book provides thorough guidance on various forms of data generation and analysis, presenting a model for the research process in which detailed data analysis and generalization through the development of concepts are central. Based on an inductive principle, which begins with raw data and ...
Cross-Cultural Interviewing: Feminist Experiences and Reflections
1st Edition
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By Gabriele Griffin
July 30, 2018
Interviewing is one of the most common techniques used to conduct qualitative research in the social sciences and humanities. As a result of globalization, researchers increasingly conduct interviews cross-, inter- and intra-nationally. This raises important questions about how differences and ...
Doing Public Ethnography: How to Create and Disseminate Ethnographic and Qualitative Research to Wide Audiences
1st Edition
By Phillip Vannini
July 17, 2018
Ethnography and qualitative research methodology in general have witnessed a staggering proliferation of styles and genres over the last three decades. Modes and channels of communication have similarly expanded and diversified. Now ethnographers have the opportunity to disseminate their work not ...
Phenomenology as Qualitative Research: A Critical Analysis of Meaning Attribution
1st Edition
By John Paley
January 12, 2018
Phenomenology originated as a novel way of doing philosophy early in the twentieth century. In the writings of Husserl and Heidegger, regarded as its founders, it was a non-empirical kind of philosophical enquiry. Although this tradition has continued in a variety of forms, ‘phenomenology’ is now ...
Meta-Regression Analysis in Economics and Business
1st Edition
By T.D. Stanley, Hristos Doucouliagos
December 08, 2016
The purpose of this book is to introduce novice researchers to the tools of meta-analysis and meta-regression analysis and to summarize the state of the art for existing practitioners. Meta-regression analysis addresses the rising "Tower of Babel" that current economics and business research has ...