GIELE: METHODS OF LIFE (P) COURSE RESEARCH: QUALITATIVE ANDQUANTITATIVE APPROACHES: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0761914374 ISBN 13: 9780761914372

Casa editrice: Sage Publications, Incorporated, 1998

Riassunto

What are the most effective methods for doing life course research? The field′s founders and leaders answer this question, giving readers tips on: the art and method of the appropriate research design; the collection of life-history data; and the search for meaningful patterns to be found in the results.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Janet Zollinger Giele (AB, Earlham College; PhD, Harvard University) is Professor Emerita of Sociology, Social Policy, and Women′s Studies at Brandeis University.  She was the founding director of the Family and Children′s Policy Center in the Heller School for Social Policy and Management (1990-1996) and Acting Dean of the Heller School in 1993-94. In the 1960s, she taught at Wellesley College and in the 1970s was a Bunting Fellow at Radcliffe and Principal Consultant to the Ford Foundation Task Force on Women. She has received grants and fellowships from the National Science Foundation, National Institute on Aging, Lilly Endowment, Rockefeller and Ford Foundations.  In 2000, she was honored by Radcliffe with the Graduate Society Medal.  The author or editor of ten books, her special areas of interest are  women′s changing roles, methods of life course research, and sociology of the family and family policy. Since 1976 when she joined the faculty of the Heller School, she has directed over thirty doctoral dissertations and is currently writing a guidebook on doctoral research and the earmarks of a good dissertation.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Sage Publications, Incorporated
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0761914374
• ISBN 13: 9780761914372
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 360
• Redattore: Giele Janet Zollinger, Elder Glen H.
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Friedensallee 273; Hamburg; 22763; Germania