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El tercer libro de la colección. Las discusiones sobre la filosofía de las ciencias sociales han estado tradicionalmente ligadas a las que se han suscitado en las ciencias naturales y en tiempos más recientes a su reconstrucción como disciplinas independientes. Las preguntas que se han discutido tienen que ver con su carácter científico: ¿Son ciencias o pseudociencias? ¿están éstas en un estado preparadigmático? ¿aspiran a compartir el...
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Social research practitioners and others working in the public and voluntary sectors, in academia and consultancy are increasingly under pressure to provide policy-related evidence with limited resources and rising expectations. Demystifying evaluation is an accessible introductory guide setting the foundations for tackling those challenges, explaining the options open to evaluators, their merits and uses, and how to make appropriate choices of research...
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Providing practical guidance based on real-life examples, this book shows researchers different forms and ways of keeping a research journal and how to get the most out of journaling. Appealing to postgraduate students, new and experienced researchers, the book: • provides a theoretical grounding and information about knowledge and sensory systems and reflexivity, • presents a practical exploration of what a journal looks like and when and how...
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As researchers continue to adapt, conduct and design their research in the presence of COVID-19, new opportunities to connect research creativity and ethics have opened up. Researchers around the world have responded in diverse, thoughtful and creative ways —adapting data collection methods, fostering researcher and community resilience, and exploring creative research methods. This book, part of a series of three Rapid Responses, explores dimensions...
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The word creation requires a structure, and this structure could be in different forms just like creative writing (Prosaic or Poetic), rules and regulations and different customs. There are many continuous living systems just like administration, religious conviction, communal etiquette, philosophy, literature, art and many more that engage associations with mankind. One of those systems is Mythology. Each country and each continent has its own mythology....
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Un ouvrage centré sur le processus de réalisation d'un mémoire ou d'une thèse. Qui indique quoi, comment et quand faire les choses. Que la démarche suivie soit qualitative ou quantitative, il aide à cerner sa problématique, à établir son cadre théorique, à analyser, présenter et interpréter ses résultats.
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Sans négliger la place de la méthodologie (collecte des données, outils et techniques d'analyse, etc.) dans la recherche en sciences humaines, il faut toutefois admettre que ce sont l'argumentation et la rhétorique qui prédominent à l'étape de la rédaction. _x000D_
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Toute recherche veut démontrer ou faire admettre une thèse. Pour ce faire, il ne suffit pas d'accoler bout à bout les données empiriques, comme il ne suffit pas d'étaler...
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Este libro le propone al lector un conjunto clave de consideraciones conceptuales, metodológicas y prácticas en torno al uso de métodos experimentales en ciencias sociales. Así mismo, ofrece una rica variedad de aproximaciones disciplinares, subdisciplinares, de enfoques, métodos y técnicas aplicadas mediante estudios inéditos sobre diferentes temas, problemas y casos. Por medio de doce capítulos, los autores hilan un recorrido que lleva al...
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¿Se pueden contrastar las teorías psicoanalíticas? ¿Hay manera de controlar su descripción de los mecanismos psíquicos? ¿Es posible considerar a las teorías psicoanalíticas como buenas informaciones acerca de los eventos psíquicos? ¿O ellas son concepciones filosóficas sostenidas o combatidas tan sólo por razones subjetivas, ideológicas o políticas? ¿Cuál es el papel de la reflexión ética, en medicina, psiquiatría y psicoanálisis?
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Ce livre présente les concepts essentiels à maîtriser pour porter un jugement critique sur les écrits scientifiques et pour mener une recherche tant en psychologie que dans diverses disciplines des sciences sociales (psychoéducation, travail social, éducation, etc.).
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Este libro no es un texto de metodología tradicional. Propone, en cambio, un abordaje diferente exponiendo al lector las decisiones y los caminos metodológicos emprendidos en investigaciones que originaron tesis de doctorado y de maestría en ciencias sociales. La obra condensa experiencias reflexionadas y narradas por los propios autores sobre el proceso que los llevó a culminar con éxito sus tesis. Es un libro que comparte con aire intimista,...
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This practitioner-oriented text is the first to help social researchers define research projects, manage the social research process, engage with stakeholders and influence change. It will be invaluable for all those commissioning, managing and conducting social research.
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Investigación cualitativa. Preguntas inagotables aborda preguntas denominadas así por dos razones: son reiterativas, emergen en muchos escenarios de capacitación, de reflexión y de investigación, y no se agotan en su respuesta, siempre habrá nuevas formas, nuevas dimensiones, nuevos argumentos para reflexionar e intentar responderlas. Las respuestas inacabadas que se presentan se han construido en condiciones y contextos de investigación específicos,...
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As researchers have begun to adapt to the continuing presence of COVID-19, they have also begun to reflect more deeply on fundamental research issues and assumptions. Researchers around the world have responded in diverse, thoughtful and creative ways, from adapting data collection methods to fostering researcher and community resilience, while also attending to often urgent needs for care. This book, part of a series of three Rapid Responses, connects...
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The era of digital communication provides endless opportunities for the collection and analysis of social data in novel ways. It also presents new and unanticipated challenges, as researchers are often inventing elements of their methodologies on the fly or studying a phenomenon or media platform for the first time.
Research Exposed offers in-depth, behind-the-scenes accounts of doing empirical social science in this new paradigm. Through firsthand...
76) Losing the Nobel Prize: a story of cosmology, ambition, and the perils of science's highest honor
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The inside story of a quest to unlock one of cosmology's biggest mysteries, derailed by the lure of the Nobel Prize. What would it have been like to be an eyewitness to the Big Bang? In 2014, astronomers wielding BICEP2, the most powerful cosmology telescope ever made, thought they'd glimpsed the spark that ignited the Big Bang. Millions around the world tuned in to the announcement, and Nobel whispers began to spread. But had these cosmologists truly...
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Discovering a smelly creature in her garbage can that she names after herself, Olga befriends and studies the eccentric Olgamus using the scientific method, the practices of Jane Goodall, and other scientific concepts.
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Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell was a notable 20th century British philosopher, mathematician, historian, social critic, and political activist. Considered one of the founders of analytical philosophy, Russell was an iconoclast who helped lead the revolt against British idealism, a prominent philosophy in England at the end of the 19th century. First written in 1912, Bertrand Russell's "The Problems of Philosophy" was an attempt by the author to create...
79) Rouch's Gang
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2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 70 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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In 1991, Jean Rouch started work on his new feature film Madame l'Eau, much of which was shot in Holland. The documentary Rouch's Gang follows the film crew and provides a glimpse behind the scenes as Jean Rouch and his four friends from Niger make their film. By providing an outsider's view of Madame l'Eau, the documentary provides insight into how Rouch approaches his films.
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Kanopy Streaming
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2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 15 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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Kelly Gallagher's Twenty questions is an alternative to traditional high school homework assignments that fosters greater text comprehension. The simple design - students write twenty questions as they read assigned text - belies the complexity of the discussion fostered by the student-generated questions. On this day, students use the assignment to respond to George Orwell's 1984 in small-group and whole-class discussions. About the author: Kelly...
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