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Working Method
Working Method focuses on the theory, method, and politics of contemporary social research. As ethnographic and qualitative research become more popular, noted scholars Weis and Fine provide a roadmap for understanding the complexities involved in doing this research.
Lois Weis is Professor of Sociology of Education at the University at Buffalo, State
University of New York.
Michelle Fine is Professor of Social-Personality Psychology at the City University of New York, Graduate Center.
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Action Research
The first three chapters of Action Research: Models, Methods, and Examples covers the history, foundations, and basics of conducting action research projects. In those chapters you will learn about the origins of action research as well as about the different methods and models of action research - from the original approaches used by Kurt Lewin and his students in the 1940s and 1950s to the diversity of current approaches to AR that are used to develop both solutions to real world problems and to construct a better understanding of important issues and concern in communities, schools, businesses, and organizations.The nine chapters in the second part of the book illustrate the many ways action research is practiced today. Those chapters illustrate the use of action research methods to accomplish everything from individual personal professional development to changing policies and practices in large organizations and systems.The chapters detail many specific methods of doing AR such as participatory action research, emancipatory action research, designbased action research, collaborative inquiry, and many others.
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A Guide to Conducting Prevention Research in the Community
This provocative and useful volume is a step-by-step guide to assist professionals in implementing valid and useful community research and creating preventive interventions that have positive and lasting effects on the development of the community. The authors--including James G. Kelly, one of the fathers of prevention--offer valuable suggestions for developing community processes to assist the prevention researcher and the community in designing research that is embedded in the community. Experts focus on the topics that can help establish and sustain effective long-term working relationships with community members. Numerous examples illustrate how the collaborative working relationship can create the variety of resources that are needed to eventually implement policy changes stimulated by the research and help to sustain the impact of the research findings after the research has been completed.
This exciting book illustrates how community research related to the prevention of mental illness and the promotion of mental health can be scientific and objective, as well as a positive collaboration between the research staff and community members.
Focus upon community needs
Emphasize educational activities to support the prevention research
Identify points of policy impact before the research begins
Enhance the development of social networks and social support systems for the development of competencies
Provide criteria for the selection of systemic variables for the research
Include reference to the multiple levels of a community which may affect the research topic
Specify ways in which participants can identify and own the research topic
Outline criteria for assessing the side effects of the prevention research
In order to better understand the needs, values, commitments, and resources of the community in which he or she is working, the researcher is encouraged to select research topics derived from underlying community nee
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The social labs revolution
This is the first book on social laboratories, a new methodology for addressing complex societal challenges. The book includes case examples of how this new methodology has proven successful over the past decade in bringing people together in many nations to make breakthroughs in solving such problems as poverty, ethnic conflict, and environmental issues.
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Rapid Ethnographic Assessments
This book provides a practical guide to understanding and conducting rapid ethnographic assessments (REAs) with an emphasis on their use in public health contexts. This team-based, multi-method, relatively low-cost approach results in rich understandings of social, economic, and policy factors that contribute to the root causes of an emerging situation and provides rapid, practical feedback to policy makers and programs.
Using real-world examples and case studies of completed REAs, Sangaramoorthy and Kroeger provide readers with a logical, easy-to-follow introduction into key concepts, principles, and methods of REAs, including interview and observation techniques, triangulation, field notes and debriefing, theoretical saturation, and qualitative analysis. They also provide a practical guide for planning and implementing REAs and suggestions for transforming findings into written reports and actionable recommendations. Materials and detailed tools regarding the conduct of REAs are designed to help readers apply this method to their own research regardless of topic or discipline. REA is an applied approach that can facilitate collaborative work with communities and become a catalyst for action.
Rapid Ethnographic Assessments will appeal to professionals and researchers interested in using REAs for research efficiency and productivity as well as action-oriented and translational research in a variety of fields and contexts.
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The Social Labs Revolution
Current responses to our most pressing societal challenges-from poverty to ethnic conflict to climate change-are not working. These problems are incredibly dynamic and complex, involving an ever-shifting array of factors, actors, and circumstances. They demand a highly fluid and adaptive approach, yet we address them by devising fixed, long-term plans. Social labs, says Zaid Hassan, are a dramatically more effective response.
Social labs bring together a diverse a group of stakeholders-not to create yet another five-year plan but to develop a portfolio of prototype solutions, test those solutions in the real world, use the data to further refine them, and test them again. Hassan builds on a decade of experience-as well as drawing from cutting-edge research in complexity science, networking theory, and sociology-to explain the core principles and daily functioning of social labs, using examples of pioneering labs from around the world. He offers a new generation of problem solvers an effective, practical, and exciting new vision and guide.
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Working Method
Working Method focuses on the theory, method, and politics of contemporary social research. As ethnographic and qualitative research become more popular, noted scholars Weis and Fine provide a roadmap for understanding the complexities involved in doing this research.
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Milieu Models and Milieu Instruments in Market Research
In the case of social milieu research, the practical, non-scientific context of market research can create problems for practical social research. Some of these problems are examined in this paper. Social milieu research can be seen as a new approach to social structure. It can also be seen as a paradigm for the combination of quantitative and qualitative research techniques and research strategies. Two important and influential milieu models are presented here: the milieu model of Gerhard SCHULZE and the milieu model of Sinus Sociovision. In this paper two important concepts are differentiated: the milieu model and the milieu instrument. The milieu model (the \"milieu map\") represents the social structure of a society as an organized set of social milieus. The milieu instrument consists of quantitative and qualitative techniques for measuring and interpreting the social milieus of the milieu model. In the context of market research, the milieu instrument enables the milieu-researcher to relate the customer's product to the social milieus in an interpretative and also quantifying way. However, there are two main problems: 1. Social milieu research in the context of market research is theoretically and methodologically highly sophisticated. Therefore the acceptance of milieu-thinking and milieu-theorizing must be created and distributed in the field of market research, namely to the customer of commercial milieu research. The distribution of milieu-theory has to be realized through the whole process of consulting and the customer has to be integrated in the process of qualitative interpretation. 2. In using the concept of social field of Pierre BOURDIEU, a problematic strategy of market research companies is analyzed. On one hand, market research companies are interested in distributing the knowledge and in maximizing the acceptance of their milieu-model in the field of market research, so that it becomes a prevailing standard, a \"currency\" in the field. On the other hand, market research companies try to monopolize the milieu-instrument (i.e. to monopolize the technical knowledge for measuring and interpreting the milieus) for the exclusive control of the commercialization of the milieu-model. This strategy is problematic for social science research because the loss of insight in the stages of milieu-research questions validity as a criterion for research quality. This can impede the scientific reception of advanced commercial milieu models and the results of advanced commercial milieu research. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0402289
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