Reinventing Evidence in Social Inquiry: Decoding Facts and by R. Biernacki

Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method

Ethnography and digital Worlds is the one publication of its kind--a concise, finished, and functional advisor for college kids, lecturers, designers, and students attracted to utilizing ethnographic how you can examine on-line digital worlds, together with either online game and nongame environments. Written via major ethnographers of digital worlds, and targeting the most important approach to player statement, the ebook offers necessary recommendation, information, directions, and rules to assist researchers via each level of a venture, from identifying an internet 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 lifestyles can look mundane, even invisible—and but they play a very robust function in structuring and reproducing society. Exploring way of life casts gentle on those so-called trivia, serving as either a advisor to the invisible international of the typical and an guide for first-time explorers.

Understanding Communication Theory: A Beginner's Guide

This booklet deals scholars a entire, theoretical, and useful consultant to conversation concept. Croucher defines many of the views on verbal exchange theory—the social medical, interpretive, and important approaches—and then takes at the theories themselves, with issues together with interpersonal conversation, organizational verbal exchange, intercultural verbal exchange, persuasion, serious and rhetorical concept and different key options.