ID2050 - Worcester, MA Project Center - Professor Foo: Research Methodology

A complete guide to applied research, featuring original data and detailed case studies. It takes an integrative approach to applied research, emphasizing design, data collection, and analysis.

This book explains in clear and straightforward terms how students can evaluate research, with particular emphasis on research involving some aspect of measurement. It covers the fundamental concepts of research design, data collection and data analysis.

This book identifies measurement approaches that can lead to improved understanding of civic engagement, social cohesion, and social capital - and their potential role in explaining the functioning of society.

Examine how your university can help solve the complex problems of your community. This unique book addresses past, present, and future models of university-community partnerships, wide-ranging social work partnerships that involve teaching, research, and social change, and innovative methods in the processes of civic engagement.

This book examines several normative traditions of civic engagement in American higher education with the presentation and interpretation of a dozen oral history profiles of contemporary practitioners.

This book provides a comprehensive account of the productive and critical interaction between sociology and organization studies over many decades.

This book is a comprehensive guide to redesigning organizational systems to better manage the risks and complexities of the modern world. Based on the notion of "Create, Facilitate, and Support," the book provides a roadmap to ensuring optimum performance in even the most challenging circumstances.