Mapping Social Networks, Spatial Data, and Hidden Populations
Mapping Social Networks, Spatial Data, and Hidden Populations

Author: Margaret D. LeCompte, University of Colorado, Boulder

Publisher: Rowman Altamira

Published: 1999-08-19

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 0759117322

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Whether it is to understand the networks of individuals, the physical makeup of a household or community, or to develop strategies for finding difficult-to-reach populations such as the homeless or drug-addicted, applied researchers increasingly need to understand spatial methods. In this brief volume, the techniques of network analysis, mapping, and finding hidden populations are explained in simple, practical language. The authors describe when and how to use these techniques and offer numerous examples of how the methods have worked in community psychology, drug research, risk assessment, and network analysis, among other settings.

Mapping Social Networks, Spatial Data, and Hidden Populations
Mapping Social Networks, Spatial Data, and Hidden Populations

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Published: 1999

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780761990420

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Volume 4 of the series The Ethnographer's Toolkit, which takes researchers and fieldworkers through the multiple, complex steps of doing ethnographic research. Case studies, checklists, key points to remember and references are all included.

Partnerships the Nonprofit Way
Partnerships the Nonprofit Way

Author: Stuart C. Mendel

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2018-04-02

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 0253033802

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Collaboration and partnership are well-known characteristics of the nonprofit sector, as well as important tools of public policy and for creating public value. But how do nonprofits form successful partnerships? From the perspective of nonprofit practice, the conditions leading to collaboration and partnership are seldom ideal. Nonprofit executives contemplating interorganizational cooperation, collaboration, networks, partnership, and merger face a bewildering array of challenges. In Partnerships the Nonprofit Way: What Matters, What Doesn't, the authors share the success and failures of 52 nonprofit leaders. By depicting and contextualizing nonprofit organization characteristics and practices that make collaboration successful, the authors propose new theory and partnership principles that challenge conventional concepts centered on contractual fulfillment and accountability, and provide practical advice that can assist nonprofit leaders and others in creating and sustaining strategic, mutually beneficial partnerships of their own.

Modernity, Metatheory, and the Temporal-Spatial Divide
Modernity, Metatheory, and the Temporal-Spatial Divide

Author: Michael Kimaid

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-03-27

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 1317565436

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This book is about how modernity affects our perceptions of time and space. Its main argument is that geographical space is used to control temporal progress by channeling it to benefit particular political, economic and social interests, or by halting it altogether. By incorporating the ancient Greek myth of the Titanomachy as a conceptual metaphor to explore the elemental ideas of time and space, the author argues that hegemonic interests have developed spatial hierarchy into a comprehensive system of technocratic monoculture, which interrupts temporal development in order to maintain exclusive power and authority. This spatial stasis is reinforced through the control of historical narratives and geographical settings. While increasingly comprehensive, the author argues that this state of affairs can best be challenged by focusing on the development of "unmappable places" which presently exist within the socio-spatial matrix of the modern world.

Using Ethnographic Data
Using Ethnographic Data

Author: Jean J. Schensul

Publisher: Rowman Altamira

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780761989721

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Volume 7 of the series The Ethnographer's Toolkit, which takes researchers and fieldworkers through the multiple, complex steps of doing ethnographic research. Case studies, checklists, key points to remember and references are all included.

Essential Ethnographic Methods
Essential Ethnographic Methods

Author: Stephen L. Schensul

Publisher: Rowman Altamira

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780761991441

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Essential Ethnographic Methods akes a mixed methods approach to introducing the fundamental, face-to-face data collection tools that ethnographers and other qualitative researchers use.