Research Methodology - Videos

Research Methodology - Conceptual Foundation

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6CmfbWwRTU

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Content Analysis

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Presentation by Dr. Catherine Corrigall-Brown, Jan 23, 2013 at The University of Western Ontario: "A Practical Introduction to Content Analysis." The presentation outlined what content analysis is, discussing how contents are coded, and illustrated types of analyses that can be done with the technique. Dr. Corrigall-Brown also presented a few examples of studies done with content analysis. Slides for this presentation are online at the RDC website.  http://rdc.uwo.ca/

Knol - 4798

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Thomas S. Kuhn - Bibliography

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Revolutions

Guide to Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Malcolm R. Forster: March 19, 1998
http://philosophy.wisc.edu/forster/220/kuhn.htm

http://voices.yahoo.com/overview-thomas-kuhns-structure-scientific-revolutions-5322679.html

http://voices.yahoo.com/the-structure-scientific-revolutions-707297.html?cat=7

Philosophy Economics

Book Information: On the Reliability of Economic Models: Essays in the Philosophy of Economics
Daniel Little
Springer, 01-Jan-1995 - Business & Economics - 283 pages
This volume represents a contribution to the philosophy of economics with a distinctive point of view -- the contributors have selected particular areas of economics and have probed these areas for the philosophical and methodological issues that they raise. The primary essays are written by philosophers concentrating on philosophical issues that arise at the level of the everyday theoretical practice of working economists. Commentary essays are provided by working economists responding to the philosophical arguments from the standpoint of their own disciplines. The volume thus represents something of an 'experiment' in the philosophy of science, striving as it does to explore methodological issues across two research communities. The purpose of the volume is very specific: to stimulate a discussion of the epistemology and methodology of economics that works at the level of detail of existing 'best practice' in economics today. The contributors have designed their contributions to stimulate productive conversation between philosophers and economists on topics in the methodology of economics
Google Book Link with Preview facility
http://books.google.co.in/books/about/On_the_Reability_Ofeconomics_Methods_Ess.html?id=NqcY21jzDEwC

Making Sense of Social Theory - Charles H. Powers - Book Information

Making Sense of Social Theory opens by carefully exploring what it means to follow the scientific method in a field like sociology.

The book goes on to analyze sociology as a genuine science with a body of explanatory insights. Sociological theory is applied in ways that make its relevance and power apparent so that theory no longer stands divorced from real world research or practice.

Making Sense of Social Theory clearly establishes the pertinence of sociology's great theoretical insights for all social science researchers and practitioners.


Rowman & Littlefield, 01-Jan-2010 - Social Science - 281 pages

Google Book Link with Preview Facility
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=cw8nRx08ix0C

Hermeneutics

Hermeneutics is the theory of interpretation.

Originally, hermeneutics represented an attempt to provide surer foundations for the interpretation of biblical texts. Subsequently, it developed as a philosophical underpinning for the interpretation of an increasingly wider range of texts, such as historical documents and literary works.

The sort of things which concern hermeneutic theorists are: what are the methods and purposes of interpretation itself? Is it possible to uncover the intentions of original meanings of an author? What is the relation between the context of a text's production (its genesis in the past) and the context of a text's interpretation (relevance in the present day)?


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Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis: Theory, Method and Research
Jonathan A Smith et al.
Sage, Los Angeles, 2009




http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hermeneutics/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeneutics

Hermeneutics by Michael N.  Forster
http://philosophy.uchicago.edu/faculty/files/forster/HERM.pdf


Lot of information on Hermeutics
http://people.bu.edu/wwildman/WeirdWildWeb/courses/wphil/lectures/wphil_theme19.htm



Social Scientific Models for Interpreting the Bible: Essays by the Context Group in Honor of Bruce J. Malina
Bruce John Malina, John J. Pilch
BRILL, 2001 - Religion - 438 pages
Google Book Link with Preview facility
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=zqoJj4WhJXAC

Qualitative Research in Management - Thesis - The management of people, processes and places in the virtual workplace

This study explored the manner in which virtual workers executed their activities through the use of technology, the type of business processes supporting them and the challenges experienced by them.

This study also developed the Extended Hermeneutic Circle of Learning which was used as guideline for the research conducted as part of this thesis. The deeper understanding created through the use of this research guideline assisted in providing structure to the research, thus enabling the researcher to derive the proposed framework for the management of people, processes and placed in the virtual workplace.

http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-06062011-170612/


Doctoral Thesis - ILSE Geledenhuys

Chapter 1
http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-06062011-170612/unrestricted/01chapter1.pdf

Research in Graduate Studies - Videos

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Doing Research Right
David Knauft