A Life Course Approach to Healthy Ageing

A Life Course Approach to Healthy Ageing

Author: Diana Kuh

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 0199656517

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This title investigates the lifetime determinants of healthy ageing and their implications for policy and practice, bringing together authorities in ageing research and knowledge transfer from across the world.


Present-Day Spiritualities

Present-Day Spiritualities

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2013-10-10

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9004260064

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Many forms of present-day Western spirituality contribute to people’s well-being, whereas others have raised criticism. The study of these different forms is, however, complicated by their continuously diverging practices and ideas. By bringing to bear a multidisciplinary approach, the ten specialists of this volume are able to analyze diverse new instances of spirituality, e.g. in religious contexts (Buddhism, Christianity), popular use, organizations and enterprises, (alternative) health service, and works of art. Most contributions also discuss methods and theories. In their editorial chapters, Elisabeth Hense, Frans Jespers and Peter Nissen show the remarkable overlaps in the approaches, definitions and evaluations of the contributions in this volume and provide a theoretical framework. Both the fresh analyses and the theoretical reflections in this volume point the way to new approaches in this field of study. Contributors include: Jerry Biberman, Mark Elliott, Miguel Farias, Johan Goud, Paul Heelas, Elisabeth Hense, Frans Jespers, Hubert Knoblauch, Peter Nissen, Paul van der Velde


Mixed Methodology

Mixed Methodology

Author: Abbas Tashakkori

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 1998-06-24

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780761900719

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Authors Abbas Tashakkori and Charles Teddlie explore the most resourceful way to combine qualitative and quantitative methodologies. Researchers wanting to learn how to think about and utilize mixed methods in their studies will find this an indispensable guide for their work.


The Mixed Methods Reader

The Mixed Methods Reader

Author: Vicki L. Plano Clark

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 1281

ISBN-13: 1412951445

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This book provides a collection of key methodological writings in mixed methods research along with a collection of exemplar studies. This cross-disciplinary volume helps define the "literature" of mixed methods research. Selections are draw from the international literature that has appeared across diverse research disciplines over the past 30 years. Key features: writings in the field of mixed methods: methodological selections address research design types and purposes, data collection, data analysis, reporting, and future directions; offers exemplar research studies: examples include published studies from diverse disciplines, including sociology, education, evaluation, health sciences, nursing, and family science; Provides visual diagrams to illustrate exemplar research studies: these diagrams help readers understand how the method's components are implemented and how they can develop diagrams for their own studies.


Mixing Methods: Qualitative and Quantitative Research

Mixing Methods: Qualitative and Quantitative Research

Author: Julia Brannen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-12

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 135191717X

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This book focuses on a key issue in the methodology of the social and behavioural sciences: the mixing of different research methods. The extent to which qualitative and quantitative research differ from one another has long been a subject of debate. Although many methodologists have concluded that the two approaches are not mutually exclusive, there are few books on either the theory or the practice of mixing methods. Mixing Methods: Qualitative and Quantitative Research presents a comprehensive discussion of the theoretical, methodological and practical issues. It also covers a number of case studies of research which have successfully combined qualitative and quantitative approaches. Contributors include sociologists who have written extensively on the methodology of the social sciences and researchers who have concerned themselves with important social policy issues in the fields of further education, community services and household finances.


Gender and Jobs

Gender and Jobs

Author: Richard Anker

Publisher: International Labour Organization

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 9789221095248

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Linking Data

Linking Data

Author: Nigel Fielding

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13:

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In the light of recent theoretical and methodological advances Linking Data describes the ways in which substantive problems and research issues can be tackled effectively through the inter-relationship of quantitative and qualitative data. They also include a discussion of multi-method research which is critical of the naive assumption that using several different methods necessarily ensures the validity of research findings.