Mapping Social Networks, Spatial Data & Hidden Populations

Mapping Social Networks, Spatial Data & Hidden Populations
Author: Jean J. Schensul
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Total Pages: 230
Release: 1999
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN:

Whether it is to understand the networks of individuals, the physical makeup of a household or community, or to develop strategies for finding difficult-to-reach populations such as the homeless or drug-addicted, applied researchers increasingly need to understand spatial methods. In this brief volume, the techniques of network analysis, mapping, and finding hidden populations are explained in simple, practical language. The authors describe when and how to use these techniques and offer numerous examples of how the methods have worked in community psychology, drug research, risk assessment, and network analysis, among other settings.

Mapping Social Networks, Spatial Data, and Hidden Populations

Mapping Social Networks, Spatial Data, and Hidden Populations
Author: Margaret D. LeCompte, University of Colorado, Boulder
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Total Pages: 227
Release: 1999-08-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0759117322

Whether it is to understand the networks of individuals, the physical makeup of a household or community, or to develop strategies for finding difficult-to-reach populations such as the homeless or drug-addicted, applied researchers increasingly need to understand spatial methods. In this brief volume, the techniques of network analysis, mapping, and finding hidden populations are explained in simple, practical language. The authors describe when and how to use these techniques and offer numerous examples of how the methods have worked in community psychology, drug research, risk assessment, and network analysis, among other settings.

Mapping Social Networks, Spatial Data, and Hidden Populations

Mapping Social Networks, Spatial Data, and Hidden Populations
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1999
Genre: Ethnology
ISBN: 9780761990420

Volume 4 of the series The Ethnographer's Toolkit, which takes researchers and fieldworkers through the multiple, complex steps of doing ethnographic research. Case studies, checklists, key points to remember and references are all included.

Partnerships the Nonprofit Way

Partnerships the Nonprofit Way
Author: Stuart C. Mendel
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2018-04-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0253033802

Collaboration and partnership are well-known characteristics of the nonprofit sector, as well as important tools of public policy and for creating public value. But how do nonprofits form successful partnerships? From the perspective of nonprofit practice, the conditions leading to collaboration and partnership are seldom ideal. Nonprofit executives contemplating interorganizational cooperation, collaboration, networks, partnership, and merger face a bewildering array of challenges. In Partnerships the Nonprofit Way: What Matters, What Doesn't, the authors share the success and failures of 52 nonprofit leaders. By depicting and contextualizing nonprofit organization characteristics and practices that make collaboration successful, the authors propose new theory and partnership principles that challenge conventional concepts centered on contractual fulfillment and accountability, and provide practical advice that can assist nonprofit leaders and others in creating and sustaining strategic, mutually beneficial partnerships of their own.

Modernity, Metatheory, and the Temporal-Spatial Divide

Modernity, Metatheory, and the Temporal-Spatial Divide
Author: Michael Kimaid
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2015-03-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317565436

This book is about how modernity affects our perceptions of time and space. Its main argument is that geographical space is used to control temporal progress by channeling it to benefit particular political, economic and social interests, or by halting it altogether. By incorporating the ancient Greek myth of the Titanomachy as a conceptual metaphor to explore the elemental ideas of time and space, the author argues that hegemonic interests have developed spatial hierarchy into a comprehensive system of technocratic monoculture, which interrupts temporal development in order to maintain exclusive power and authority. This spatial stasis is reinforced through the control of historical narratives and geographical settings. While increasingly comprehensive, the author argues that this state of affairs can best be challenged by focusing on the development of "unmappable places" which presently exist within the socio-spatial matrix of the modern world.

Using Ethnographic Data

Using Ethnographic Data
Author: Jean J. Schensul
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1999
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780761989721

Volume 7 of the series The Ethnographer's Toolkit, which takes researchers and fieldworkers through the multiple, complex steps of doing ethnographic research. Case studies, checklists, key points to remember and references are all included.

Essential Ethnographic Methods

Essential Ethnographic Methods
Author: Stephen L. Schensul
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1999
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780761991441

Essential Ethnographic Methods akes a mixed methods approach to introducing the fundamental, face-to-face data collection tools that ethnographers and other qualitative researchers use.

Where is the Field?

Where is the Field?
Author: Laura Hirvi
Publisher: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2012-11-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9522227625

The book sheds light on the experiences of immigrants in different parts of the world and other insightful reflections on the art of carrying out fieldwork in the present day, when the task of locating the ‘field’ seems to present a particular challenge for researchers. This book is of interest to experienced ethnographers working in the discipline of migration studies and also to scholars conducting ethnographic research in other fields.

Social Networking and Community Behavior Modeling: Qualitative and Quantitative Measures

Social Networking and Community Behavior Modeling: Qualitative and Quantitative Measures
Author: Safar, Maytham
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2011-12-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1613504454

Social Networking and Community Behavior Modeling: Qualitative and Quantitative Measures provides a clear and consolidated view of current social network models. This work explores new methods for modeling, characterizing, and constructing social networks. Chapters contained in this book study critical security issues confronting social networking, the emergence of new mobile social networking devices and applications, network robustness, and how social networks impact the business aspects of organizations.

Mixed Methods Social Networks Research

Mixed Methods Social Networks Research
Author: Silvia Domínguez
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2014-06-30
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1107027926

This edited volume demonstrates the potential of mixed-methods designs for the research of social networks and the utilization of social networks for other research. Mixing methods applies to the combination and integration of qualitative and quantitative methods. In social network research, mixing methods also applies to the combination of structural and actor-oriented approaches. The volume provides readers with methodological concepts to guide mixed-method network studies with precise research designs and methods to investigate social networks of various sorts. Each chapter describes the research design used and discusses the strengths of the methods for that particular field and for specific outcomes.