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This innovative introduction to research in the social sciences guides students and new researchers through the maze of research traditions, cultures of inquiry and epistemological frameworks. It introduces the underlying logic of ten cultures of inquiry: ethnography; quantitative behavioral science; phenomenology; action research; hermeneutics; evaluation research; feminist research; critical social science; historical-comparative research; and theoretical research. It clarifies conceptual and intellectual traditions in research, and puts researchers firmly in the investigative saddle - able to choose, justify, and explain the intellectual framework and personal rationale of their research.
The Scholarly Practitioner: Facing the Loss of Identity Through the Onslaught of the Information Age
The Scholarly Practitioner: Facing the Loss of Identity Through the Onslaught of the Information Age
Managers in corporations, as well as professionals in law, health care, and education, find themselves faced with change and stress unique to postmodernism. Managers may no longer rely on outdated ways of knowing and management strategies from the past. There is turbulence at the workplace resulting from the pressures of the world marketplace, the movement around the globe of persons with different cultures and languages, and the pressure of population explosion. As world resources are diminishing (such as rain forests and uncontaminated water), population continues to increase. All of this turbulence causes suffering manifested in the ...
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