Qualitative Research for the Social Sciences
Qualitative Research for the Social Sciences

Author: Marilyn Lichtman

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2013-09-11

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 1483320677

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Focusing on the integral role of the researcher, Qualitative Research for the Social Sciences uses a conversational writing style that draws readers into the excitement of the research process. Lichtman offers a balanced and nuanced approach, covering the full range of qualitative methodologies and viewpoints about the field, including coverage of social media as a tool to facilitate research or as a venue for study. After presenting theoretical concepts and a historical overview, Lichtman guides readers, step by step, through the research process, addressing issues of analyzing data, presenting completed research, and evaluating research. Real-world examples from across the social sciences provide both practical and theoretical information, helping readers understand abstract ideas and apply them to their own research.

Katyn
Katyn

Author: Wojciech Materski

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2008-10-01

Total Pages: 616

ISBN-13: 0300151853

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In the spring of 1940, the Soviet Union carried out the mass executions of 14,500 Polish prisoners of war - army officers, police, gendarmes, and civilians - taken by the Red Army when it invaded eastern Poland in September 1939. This work details the Soviet killings, the elaborate cover-up of the crime, and the subsequent revelations.

Modern Healthcare Marketing in the Digital Era
Modern Healthcare Marketing in the Digital Era

Author: Djakeli, Kakhaber

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2023-12-11

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13:

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Modern Healthcare Marketing in the Digital Era, edited by Kakhaber Djakeli from the International Black Sea University, Georgia, is a comprehensive guide that addresses the critical challenge of transforming healthcare marketing strategies in the dynamic landscape of the digital era. With innovative technologies like artificial intelligence, augmented reality, blockchain, and mobile applications reshaping the healthcare industry, this book offers practical insights and innovative methodologies to create a consumer-centric health culture. Healthcare professionals, policymakers, and marketers will find valuable guidance in bridging the gap between technology and marketing, enabling them to thrive in this ever-evolving landscape. Through its exploration of historical developments, the status, and the evolution of needs and demands in healthcare markets, the book equips readers with the tools they need to navigate the complexities of modern healthcare marketing. It covers essential topics such as patient segmentation, customer relationship management, and the integration of virtual and augmented reality in healthcare marketing and sales. By providing real-world examples and empirical research findings, Modern Healthcare Marketing in the Digital Era serves as a practical roadmap for transforming healthcare services, fostering patient-clinic partnerships, and enhancing health literacy through effective marketing efforts. With its valuable insights, this book is a vital resource for students, educators, healthcare professionals, policymakers, and researchers, empowering them to embrace digital innovations and cultivate a consumer-centric health culture for superior patient care and satisfaction.

Qualitative Methodologies in Organization Studies
Qualitative Methodologies in Organization Studies

Author: Malgorzata Ciesielska

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-11-30

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 3319652176

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This book brings together key theories behind qualitative research, whilst drawing attention to novel, cutting-edge approaches to data gathering, such as visual anthropology and storytelling. Offering a comprehensive guide to qualitative analysis, this book goes further than examining research methods to open a discussion on the roles of reflexivity, imagination, emotions and ethics in qualitative research, Covering topics such as reflective analysis, sociological paradigms, action research and organizational ethnography, this book is ideal reading for those who wish to address the gap between undergraduate and postgraduate research-based edited books and encompasses a wide array of methods. Those exploring organization studies will find this two-volume collection extremely valuable as it contains robust contributions from highly-skilled authors who are actively researching in this field.

Universities in Imperial Austria 1848–1918
Universities in Imperial Austria 1848–1918

Author: Jan Surman

Publisher: Purdue University Press

Published: 2018-12-15

Total Pages: 473

ISBN-13: 1612495621

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Combining history of science and a history of universities with the new imperial history, Universities in Imperial Austria 1848–1918: A Social History of a Multilingual Space by Jan Surman analyzes the practice of scholarly migration and its lasting influence on the intellectual output in the Austrian part of the Habsburg Empire. The Habsburg Empire and its successor states were home to developments that shaped Central Europe's scholarship well into the twentieth century. Universities became centers of both state- and nation-building, as well as of confessional resistance, placing scholars if not in conflict, then certainly at odds with the neutral international orientation of academe. By going beyond national narratives, Surman reveals the Empire as a state with institutions divided by language but united by legislation, practices, and other influences. Such an approach allows readers a better view to how scholars turned gradually away from state-centric discourse to form distinct language communities after 1867; these influences affected scholarship, and by examining the scholarly record, Surman tracks the turn. Drawing on archives in Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Ukraine, Surman analyzes the careers of several thousand scholars from the faculties of philosophy and medicine of a number of Habsburg universities, thus covering various moments in the history of the Empire for the widest view. Universities in Imperial Austria 1848–1918 focuses on the tension between the political and linguistic spaces scholars occupied and shows that this tension did not lead to a gradual dissolution of the monarchy’s academia, but rather to an ongoing development of new strategies to cope with the cultural and linguistic multitude.

Internal Family Systems Therapy
Internal Family Systems Therapy

Author: Richard C. Schwartz

Publisher: Guilford Publications

Published: 2013-09-18

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1462513956

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This book has been replaced by Internal Family Systems Therapy, Second Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-4146-1.

Handbook of Parenting
Handbook of Parenting

Author: Masud S Hoghughi

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2004-02-17

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 1446206920

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The Handbook of Parenting brings together in a single volume much of the theoretical and empirical knowledge and aspects of professional activity within the broadly defined field of parenting. Contributions are presented from an internationally renowned group of scholars known for their work in a range of disciplines, including child and family psychology, education and family studies, providing an accessible map of the major debates in theory, research and practice in this important and exciting field. The material is presented comprehensively. It encompasses essential policy and professional issues in all the main areas of current concern from parenting in culturally divergent settings, to parenting children with special needs in areas of physical, mental, social and educational functioning, to looking at ways in which the wider community and technological advances may be able to provide parenting support. Published in a single-volume format, this handbook will prove an invaluable and essential resource. Academics, researchers, practitioners and advanced students in a host of disciplines will gain from its breadth, wealth of information and enormous insight into the principal issues related to parenting theory and practice in the 21st century. The distinctive contribution of this handbook is to present a vast body of research and other information in a manner that is usable by practitioners in a wide range of child and parental support activities.

The Work-Family Interface
The Work-Family Interface

Author: Sampson Lee Blair

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2018-10-29

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 178769111X

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This volume focuses upon the complex nature of the work-family interface, and how families around the globe deal with the inherent dilemmas therein. Chapters examine how work affects families in both overt and discrete manners, as well as how family life, in turn, affects paid employment.