Explaining Society: An Introduction to Critical Realism in by Berth Danermark,Mats Ekstrom,Liselotte Jakobsen,Jan ch.

Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method

Ethnography and digital Worlds is the one booklet of its kind--a concise, finished, and functional consultant for college kids, academics, designers, and students attracted to utilizing ethnographic the right way to research on-line digital worlds, together with either online game and nongame environments. Written by means of prime ethnographers of digital worlds, and concentrating on the major approach to player statement, the booklet presents necessary recommendation, information, directions, and rules to assist researchers via each degree of a undertaking, from picking out a web fieldsite to writing and publishing the implications.

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 varied projects 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 lifestyle casts gentle on those so-called minutiae, serving as either a advisor to the invisible global of the typical and an handbook for first-time explorers.

Understanding Communication Theory: A Beginner's Guide

This booklet bargains scholars a accomplished, theoretical, and sensible consultant to verbal exchange idea. Croucher defines many of the views on verbal exchange theory—the social medical, interpretive, and demanding approaches—and then takes at the theories themselves, with subject matters together with interpersonal communique, organizational communique, intercultural communique, persuasion, serious and rhetorical conception and different key strategies.