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The purpose of this book is to demonstrate that it is possible to do meaningful, significant, and sophisticated analysis in social science when the variables under consideration are, given present knowledge, incapable of measurement.
A handbook designed to provide a framework for researching family planning provision in different cultural settings. The book shows NGOs and other health research bodies how to design such a project and provides indicators for quality assessment.
A comprehensive resource manual for both students and instructors to help students carry out library research in the social sciences, develop writing strategies for formal papers, and orally present and defend their work.
Homecomings explores the forces and motives that drive immigrants, war refugees, political exiles, and their descendants back to places of origin. By including a range of homecoming experiences, Markowitz and Stefansson destabilize key oppositions and terminologies that have vexed migration studies for decades.
This collection of essays focuses on women's issues. Areas covered include sexual harrassment, domestic violence, abusive mothers, welfare reform and children, sexual equality in custody and child support, public policy, education and challenging state-sponsored barriers to interracial adoptions.
This practical, hands-on guide is designed especially for the social sciences and those interested in identifying and explaining behavior patterns. It trains the beginner to use SPSS Windows to apply the basic statistical procedures used in social sciences.
Presents the practices and experiences of doing contemporary research in the social sciences and in related professions. This book explains different ways of doing research, what drives research inquiries and is for people beginning to do research or wanting to change the ways they research and write.
Presents a forum for the presentation of conceptual and methodological issues in the field of personnel and human resources management.
Covers such topics as psychological ownership in organizations, employee perceptions of fairness when human resource systems change, a culture-based perspective of organization development implementation, and mapping the progress of change through organizational levels.