The Philosophy of Social Science: An Introduction (Cambridge by Martin Hollis

Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method

Ethnography and digital Worlds is the single e-book of its kind--a concise, accomplished, and sensible advisor for college students, academics, designers, and students drawn to utilizing ethnographic ways to examine on-line digital worlds, together with either video game and nongame environments. Written via top ethnographers of digital worlds, and concentrating on the main approach to player commentary, the ebook offers important recommendation, advice, instructions, and ideas to help researchers via each degree of a undertaking, from settling on 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 various initiatives and workouts that form our day-by-day life can look mundane, even invisible—and but they play an exceptionally robust function 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 handbook for first-time explorers.

Understanding Communication Theory: A Beginner's Guide

This e-book bargains scholars a entire, theoretical, and useful consultant to verbal exchange idea. Croucher defines a number of the views on conversation theory—the social clinical, interpretive, and demanding approaches—and then takes at the theories themselves, with themes together with interpersonal verbal exchange, organizational verbal exchange, intercultural conversation, persuasion, severe and rhetorical idea and different key options.