Routledge Advances in Research Methods
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 ...
Action Research for Democracy: New Ideas and Perspectives from Scandinavia
1st Edition
Edited
By Ewa Gunnarsson, Hans Peter Hansen, Birger Steen Nielsen, Nadarajah Sriskandarajah
July 31, 2018
Contemporary society encounters profound economical, socio-ecological and political crises challenging the democratic foundation of our societies. This book addresses the potentials and challenges for Action Research supporting democratic alternatives. It offers a broad spectrum of examples from ...
Commons, Sustainability, Democratization: Action Research and the Basic Renewal of Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Hans Peter Hansen, Birger Steen Nielsen, Nadarajah Sriskandarajah, Ewa Gunnarsson
July 30, 2018
This book presents theoretical discussions and practical examples of Action Research from Scandinavia, Latin America and Africa, primarily dealing with how to combine nature conservation and management with local democratic community development, seeing the renewal of Commons as a way to transcend ...
Cross-Cultural Interviewing: Feminist Experiences and Reflections
1st Edition
Edited
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 ...
Place in Research: Theory, Methodology, and Methods
1st Edition
By Eve Tuck, Marcia McKenzie
December 07, 2015
Bridging environmental and Indigenous studies and drawing on critical geography, spatial theory, new materialist theory, and decolonizing theory, this dynamic volume examines the sometimes overlooked significance of place in social science research. There are often important divergences and even ...
The Emotional Politics of Research Collaboration
1st Edition
Edited
By Gabriele Griffin, Annelie Bränström-Öhman, Hildur Kalman
September 08, 2015
Research collaboration in the form of networks, projects and centers has become one of the dominant modes of engaging in research, especially funded research, across all academic domains. However, there has been little research on the processes of such collaborations, particularly their affective ...
The Social Politics of Research Collaboration
1st Edition
Edited
By Gabriele Griffin, Katarina Hamberg, Britta Lundgren
September 08, 2015
The past two decades have seen an increasing emphasis on large and interdisciplinary research configurations such as research networks, and centers of excellence including those in Social Sciences and Humanities research. Little research has been undertaken, however, to understand how these new ...