Challenging the Qualitative-Quantitative Divide: by Martyn Hammersley,Barry Cooper,Roger Gomm

Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method

Ethnography and digital Worlds is the one publication of its kind--a concise, accomplished, and sensible consultant for college students, lecturers, designers, and students attracted to utilizing ethnographic the right way to examine on-line digital worlds, together with either online game and nongame environments. Written by means of best ethnographers of digital worlds, and targeting the major approach to player commentary, the booklet offers worthy suggestion, suggestions, instructions, and rules to assist researchers via each level of a venture, from picking out a web fieldsite to writing and publishing the consequences.

Religionsgemeinschaften in der direkten Demokratie: Handlungsräume religiöser Minderheiten in der Schweiz (Politik und Religion) (German Edition)

Melanie Zurlinden untersucht die Rolle religiöser Minderheiten in der Schweiz. Anhand von Gruppendiskussionen und publizierten Texten analysiert sie, wie sich freikirchliche, jüdische und muslimische Gemeinschaften in der direkten Demokratie an Kampagnen zu Volksabstimmungen beteiligen. Die Studie fokussiert auf die Diskussionen über Bioethik, Ausländer- und Asylfragen sowie das Religion-Staat-Verhältnis.

Exploring Everyday Life: Strategies for Ethnography and Cultural Analysis

The various initiatives and exercises that form our day-by-day life can look mundane, even invisible—and but they play a really robust function in structuring and reproducing society. Exploring daily life casts gentle on those so-called trivia, serving as either a consultant to the invisible international of the typical and an guide for first-time explorers.

Understanding Communication Theory: A Beginner's Guide

This ebook bargains scholars a finished, theoretical, and sensible advisor to conversation idea. Croucher defines a few of the views on conversation theory—the social medical, interpretive, and significant approaches—and then takes at the theories themselves, with themes together with interpersonal verbal exchange, organizational communique, intercultural communique, persuasion, serious and rhetorical thought and different key suggestions.