Lay Theories: Everyday Understanding of Problems in the by Adrian Furnham,Michael Argyle

Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method

Ethnography and digital Worlds is the single publication of its kind--a concise, complete, and sensible advisor for college kids, lecturers, designers, and students drawn to utilizing ethnographic ways to research on-line digital worlds, together with either video game and nongame environments. Written by way of major ethnographers of digital worlds, and targeting the foremost approach to player statement, the booklet offers important recommendation, assistance, instructions, and ideas to help researchers via each degree of a venture, from selecting 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 varied projects and exercises that form our day-by-day life can appear mundane, even invisible—and but they play a very strong position in structuring and reproducing society. Exploring lifestyle casts gentle on those so-called minutiae, serving as either a consultant to the invisible global of the typical and an handbook for first-time explorers.

Understanding Communication Theory: A Beginner's Guide

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