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.

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.

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.

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.

Where is the Field?
Where is the Field?

Author: Laura Hirvi

Publisher: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura

Published: 2012-11-09

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 9522227625

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The book sheds light on the experiences of immigrants in different parts of the world and other insightful reflections on the art of carrying out fieldwork in the present day, when the task of locating the ‘field’ seems to present a particular challenge for researchers. This book is of interest to experienced ethnographers working in the discipline of migration studies and also to scholars conducting ethnographic research in other fields.

Social Networking and Community Behavior Modeling: Qualitative and Quantitative Measures
Social Networking and Community Behavior Modeling: Qualitative and Quantitative Measures

Author: Safar, Maytham

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2011-12-31

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1613504454

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Social Networking and Community Behavior Modeling: Qualitative and Quantitative Measures provides a clear and consolidated view of current social network models. This work explores new methods for modeling, characterizing, and constructing social networks. Chapters contained in this book study critical security issues confronting social networking, the emergence of new mobile social networking devices and applications, network robustness, and how social networks impact the business aspects of organizations.

Mixed Methods Social Networks Research
Mixed Methods Social Networks Research

Author: Silvia Domínguez

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-06-30

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 1107027926

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This edited volume demonstrates the potential of mixed-methods designs for the research of social networks and the utilization of social networks for other research. Mixing methods applies to the combination and integration of qualitative and quantitative methods. In social network research, mixing methods also applies to the combination of structural and actor-oriented approaches. The volume provides readers with methodological concepts to guide mixed-method network studies with precise research designs and methods to investigate social networks of various sorts. Each chapter describes the research design used and discusses the strengths of the methods for that particular field and for specific outcomes.

Social Network Analysis of Disaster Response, Recovery, and Adaptation
Social Network Analysis of Disaster Response, Recovery, and Adaptation

Author: Eric C Jones

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann

Published: 2016-09-09

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 012805283X

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Social Network Analysis of Disaster Response, Recovery, and Adaptation covers systematic social network analysis and how people and institutions function in disasters, after disasters, and the ways they adapt to hazard settings. As hazards become disasters, the opportunities and constraints for maintaining a safe and secure life and livelihood become too strained for many people. Anecdotally, and through many case studies, we know that social interactions exacerbate or mitigate those strains, necessitating a concerted, intellectual effort to understand the variation in how ties within, and outside, communities respond and are affected by hazards and disasters. - Examines the role of societal relationships in a disaster context, incorporating theory and case studies by experts in the field - Integrates research in the areas of social network analysis and inter-organizational networks - Presents a range of studies from around the world, employing different approaches to network analysis in disaster contexts

Agent-Based Models of Geographical Systems
Agent-Based Models of Geographical Systems

Author: Alison J. Heppenstall

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2011-11-24

Total Pages: 747

ISBN-13: 9048189276

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This unique book brings together a comprehensive set of papers on the background, theory, technical issues and applications of agent-based modelling (ABM) within geographical systems. This collection of papers is an invaluable reference point for the experienced agent-based modeller as well those new to the area. Specific geographical issues such as handling scale and space are dealt with as well as practical advice from leading experts about designing and creating ABMs, handling complexity, visualising and validating model outputs. With contributions from many of the world’s leading research institutions, the latest applied research (micro and macro applications) from around the globe exemplify what can be achieved in geographical context. This book is relevant to researchers, postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students, and professionals in the areas of quantitative geography, spatial analysis, spatial modelling, social simulation modelling and geographical information sciences.