Social Research Methods: Qualitative and Quantitative by H. Russell Bernard

Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method

Ethnography and digital Worlds is the one ebook of its kind--a concise, entire, and functional consultant for college students, lecturers, designers, and students attracted to utilizing ethnographic tips on how to research on-line digital worlds, together with either online game and nongame environments. Written by way of best ethnographers of digital worlds, and concentrating on the most important approach to player remark, the e-book presents beneficial recommendation, tips, instructions, and rules to assist researchers via each degree of a undertaking, from picking 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 various initiatives and workouts 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 daily life casts mild 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 booklet bargains scholars a accomplished, theoretical, and useful consultant to conversation conception. Croucher defines a few 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 conversation, intercultural conversation, persuasion, serious and rhetorical idea and different key suggestions.