Häftad, Engelska, 2012

Doing Social Research: A Global Context

Av Claire Wagner, Barbara Kawulich, Mark Garner

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Beskrivning

With its focus on critical thinking and applied learning, Doing Social Research provides a unique approach to conducting social research. The book is organised according to the broad chronology of developing and conducting a typical student research project and provides coverage of key theories alongside exercises, case studies and scenarios.

Written specifically for students in South Africa and the developing world and drawing on examples from a range of fields in the social sciences, the book brings research methods to life.

Contributors: Anja Botha, Bagele Chilisa, Rebecca K. Frels, Mark Garner, Laurel Holland, Barbara B. Kawulich, Sumaya Laher, Melody Mentz, Craig A. Mertler, Jan Nieuwenhuis, Tamra Ogletree, Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie, Charles Potter, Anne Ryen, Adilia S.F. Silva, Brigitte Smit and Claire Wagner

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum: 2012-08-16
Mått: 195 x 261 x 16 mm
Vikt: 676 g
Format: Häftad
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 352
Förlag: McGraw-Hill Education
ISBN: 9780077126407

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Sociologi

Mer information

Claire Wagner holds a PhD in psychology and works in the Department of Psychology at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. Her Masters training was in research psychology after which she specialized in issues of methodology and its pedagogy. Her PhD research encompassed a survey of research methods courses at South African universities as well as interviews with teachers of methods courses. She continues to write on developments in the field of social research pedagogy. Currently she teaches a generic under-graduate methods course in the Faculty of Humanities and is responsible for the Masters qualitative methodology course in the Department of Psychology. Barbara Kawulich received her PhD in Human Resource Development and teaches in the College of Education at the University of West Georgia in the United States. Her doctoral dissertation was an ethnographic study of Muscogee (Creek) women’s perceptions of work. She has taught ethnography, qualitative research, and action research to students in business and education. Her publications address qualitative research methods and issues of importance to Muscogee (Creek) women. Mark Garner teaches applied linguistics at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. He is also engaged on a national communication project for British police. His first teaching positions were in foreign languages and teacher training. He later designed and taught Master’s programmes in applied linguistics at universities in Australia, Indonesia, and England, as well as in his present position at Aberdeen. It was through developing these courses that he acquired his interest in teaching research methods. In 1995 he won an Australian government teaching grant to develop a teaching video that was distributed to research methods courses throughout the country.

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