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Studying Elites Using Qualitative Methods

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 This volume provides valuable insights into how researchers can successfully gain access to elite settings. Using their actual experiences, the contributors provide constructive advice as well as cautionary tales about how they learned to manoeuvre and become accepted in worlds otherwise closed to them.
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Religion In Aging And Health - Theoretical Foundations And Methodological Frontiers

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Interpersonal Communication In Older Adulthood - Interdisciplinary Theory And Research

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A History Of Race Relations Research - First Generation Recollections

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The New Localism - Comparative Urban Politics In A Global Era

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 How have local economic conditions been affected by the emergence of a global economy? What changes, if any, have local political authorities made to counterbalance the new emphasis on world interests? Comprehensive and timely, this book answers these and other vital questions by exploring local political restructuring in the face of massive global economic change.
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Advancing Family Preservation Practice

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Families And Retirement

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 Explores the impact of retirement upon family relationships and functioning. This title includes topics that examined are: gender and ethnic differences; the roles of children and siblings; and the multiple changes retirement creates in marital interaction.
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Families And Retirement

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 Explores the impact of retirement upon family relationships and functioning. This title includes topics that examined are: gender and ethnic differences; the roles of children and siblings; and the multiple changes retirement creates in marital interaction.
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Teachers And Their Workplace - Commitment, Performance, And Productivity

by Pedro Reyes

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 A group of educational scholars address topics and issues relating to teacher commitment and institutional performance and productivity. The various essays discuss working conditions, incentives, decision making and the role of the administrator.
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Preserving Families - Evaluation Resources For Practitioners And Policymakers

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 The evaluation of social programmes for families and children that focus on keeping the family intact - rather than those that emphasize removing the child from the family - is discussed in this volume. Written primarily for evaluators and administrators involved in analyzing family services, chapters raise issues pertinent to the design of both comprehensive and special focus studies.
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Social Research On Children And Adolescents - Ethical Issues

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 Considers important issues of what theory and research on human development can teach us about adolescents' vulnerability, how to reduce that vulnerability and under what circumstances parental consent does not protect children's rights.
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Preserving Families - Evaluation Resources For Practitioners And Policymakers

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 The evaluation of social programmes for families and children that focus on keeping the family intact - rather than those that emphasize removing the child from the family - is discussed in this volume. Written primarily for evaluators and administrators involved in analyzing family services, chapters raise issues pertinent to the design of both comprehensive and special focus studies.
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Successful Focus Groups - Advancing The State Of The Art

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 Covers the basic principles of when and how to use focus groups, the applicability of focus group interviews to survey research and other methods, general issues in the use of focus groups, the specific problems of focus groups with different populations or settings and an agenda for future development of the method.
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Family Relationships In Later Life

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 Directed towards researchers and practitioners in family studies and gerontology, this book provides a collection of research-based descriptions on family relations of older people. It addresses topics such as: sibling relationships in later life; widowhood; ethnic differences; elder abuse and mistreatment; family care; and health problems.
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The Sense Of Justice - Biological Foundations Of Law

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 An introduction to the social and behavioural foundations which create a form of equilibrium sought by legal systems, known as the "sense of justice". The text draws upon new discoveries and legal insights from the biologically-based behavioural sciences.
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The Politics Of Life In Schools - Power, Conflict, And Cooperation

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 This in-depth study of grassroots politics - `micropolitics' - in schools, which includes examples from the UK and the USA, explores how teachers, administrators and their students use political power to protect their interests and to bring about change in the status quo.
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Social Research On Children And Adolescents - Ethical Issues

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 Considers important issues of what theory and research on human development can teach us about adolescents' vulnerability, how to reduce that vulnerability and under what circumstances parental consent does not protect children's rights.
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Feminist Perspectives On Wife Abuse

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 Why do men batter their wives? How do women define their experiences of violence? Is wife abuse related to child abuse? How do medical authorities react to wife abuse? This volume brings together well-known academics, activists and clinicians who approach these questions from a distinctly feminist perspective.
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Hidden Conflict In Organizations - Uncovering Behind-The-Scenes Disputes

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 Conflict is a fact of organizational life, though much of it is expressed "behind-the-scenes". This book takes examples from a number of organizational settings, arguing that far from being an occasional occurrence, conflict is an embedded phenomena.
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Studying Elites Using Qualitative Methods

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 This volume provides valuable insights into how researchers can successfully gain access to elite settings. Using their actual experiences, the contributors provide constructive advice as well as cautionary tales about how they learned to manoeuvre and become accepted in worlds otherwise closed to them.
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Experiencing Fieldwork - An Inside View Of Qualitative Research

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 How do you gain entry into a research setting? What tricks are there to learning the rules of the community without alienating the people you came to study? How are good relations maintained with informants? What happens after you leave the field? This title addresses these questions.
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Mass Communication And Public Health - Complexities And Conflicts

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 Intended to increase understanding of the influences of mass communication on health issues, this book explores shared responsibilities among media and public health professionals. The discussions are centred around conflicts within various public health, media and academic communities.
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Participatory Action Research

by William Foote Whyte

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 This volume discusses a philosophy in which the researcher is involved in the process of organizational learning and change. The contributors outline the method behind participatory action research and present a series of cases where it was used in industry and agriculture in four continents.
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The Elderly Caregiver - Caring For Adults With Developmental Disabilities

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 Bringing together the empirical work of researchers from a variety of disciplines, this title provides insight into the physical, psychological and social needs of the growing number of elderly people caring for adults with developmental disabilities.
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