Social Construction and Social Work Practice: by Stanley Witkin

Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method

Ethnography and digital Worlds is the one e-book of its kind--a concise, accomplished, and functional advisor for college students, academics, designers, and students attracted to utilizing ethnographic easy methods to research on-line digital worlds, together with either video game and nongame environments. Written through prime ethnographers of digital worlds, and targeting the foremost approach to player remark, the publication offers necessary suggestion, information, directions, and rules to assist researchers via each degree of a venture, from identifying 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 lifestyles can appear mundane, even invisible—and but they play a very robust position in structuring and reproducing society. Exploring daily life casts mild 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 booklet deals scholars a entire, theoretical, and sensible consultant to communique conception. Croucher defines some of the views on communique theory—the social medical, interpretive, and significant approaches—and then takes at the theories themselves, with subject matters together with interpersonal communique, organizational communique, intercultural communique, persuasion, severe and rhetorical conception and different key thoughts.