Download or read book Research Methodology in the social sciences Perspectives on Sierra Leone written by Emerson Abraham Jackson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses core concepts of research methodology and its distinguishing features from research methods. It is aimed at students undertaking research methods courses in universities and practicing professional.
Download or read book Fundamentals of Social Research Methods written by Claire Bless and published by Juta and Company Ltd. This book was released on 2006 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Researchers are continually challenged to find different ways of investigating political, economic and social issues in Africa. This book describes social research methods and applications within African contexts. It features examples of social research conducted in various African countries.
Download or read book Fundamentals of Social Research Methods written by Claire Westenholz-Bless and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fundamentals of Social Research Methods written by Claire Bless and published by Juta and Company Ltd. This book was released on 2000 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Economic and Social Crises in Sierra Leone written by Fouday S Kamara and published by Author House. This book was released on 2008-08-29 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The economic and social problems in Sierra Leone, the role of the small-scale entrepreneurs in petty trading as a strategy for socio-economic survival in the country. The people of Sierra Leone, by developing a business culture of small-scale entrepreneurship and petty trading, have succeeded in surviving the growing economic chaos.
Download or read book Journalism Cultures in Sierra Leone written by Sarah Bomkapre Koroma and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-06-07 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides novel insights into the perspectives of journalists in Sierra Leone and on their work by examining their perceived journalistic values and the influences that shape them. It treats journalism as an occupational identity and as a community that works on the foundation of the sub-Saharan African philosophies that exalts communal values in every sphere of life. When journalists speak about their social function in society and values, they are sharing both their individual knowledge and experiences on their work. Therefore, journalistic values are never isolated ideologies, but exist within the contexts in which they practice. In this book, Sarah Bomkapre Koroma examines the perceptions of journalists on the societal influences that impact their work, ranging from individual, procedural, organizational, political, economic, and many more. Questions explored include: What journalism cultures exist in Sierra Leone? What effects do societal factors have on these journalistic cultures? How do journalists in Sierra Leone describe their roles? What epistemological underpinnings do they consider during practice? What ethical considerations do the journalists share?
Download or read book Social Science Perspectives on Global Public Health written by Vincent La Placa and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaching global health through a social justice lens, this text explores both established and emerging issues for contemporary health and wellbeing. Divided into two parts, the book introduces key concepts in relation to global public health, such as ethics, economics, health disparities, and globalisation. The second part comprises chapters exploring specific challenges, such as designing and implementing public health interventions, the role of social enterprise, climate change, sustainability and health, oral health, violence, palliative care, mental health, loneliness, nutrition, and embracing diverse genders. These chapters build on, and apply, the theoretical frameworks laid out in part one, linking the substantive content to broader contexts. Taking an inclusive, global approach, this is a key text for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of global health, public health, and medical sociology.
Download or read book Sierra Leone Policy Papers written by Samuel Kamara Kenday Samuel Kamara and published by . This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A very brilliant analysis...commendable scholarship! Dr. Charles Curtis-Thomas Great work! It is always good to have some insights into our endemic problems. Momodu Sesay A terrific piece of work and I wish to congratulate you for doing a marvellous job. Serrie Kamara, Ph.D. Your policy papers on Sierra Leone are very thorough and well researched. Thanks for your papers. You are a great educator. Brima Michael Turay A very insightful and realistic work. Engr. Pierre Lightfoot-Boston A well written [anthology of essays] and I am not the least in doubt of what you can do as I know somewhere there is still some bigger "mental bomb" waiting to explode in your make up. Mohamed Boye Jallo-Jamboria While there is a longing for development ideas and leadership education in Sierra Leone, there is a dearth in relevant texts on the subject. Moreover, a generation of flawed policies and poor governance has hampered understanding of the cultural, social and economic influences on management of the weakening institutions of Sierra Leone. This book thus provides an invaluable empirical plinth for advancing development knowledge and social innovation and change in Sierra Leone. Arising from an interest in pursuing research and scholarship in policy development, Sierra Leone Policy Papers is an anthology of researched essays of forecasts, trends, and ideas about government in Sierra Leone. It combines analysis, theory, and political trends to explore the influences on leadership and institutional performance in Sierra Leone and attempts to push the boundaries of development policy. In doing so, it explores how much can be learned from examining Sierra Leone's leadership and management challenges towards realizing the potential of a Sierra Leonean regeneration, and to discerning what the global community may learn from Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone Policy Papers is much-needed scholarship of the political and leadership dynamics of Sierra Leone that should be appreciated by public officials, as well as researchers and policy makers in the international development community.
Download or read book The SAGE Encyclopedia of War Social Science Perspectives written by Paul Joseph and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 2099 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional explorations of war look through the lens of history and military science, focusing on big events, big battles, and big generals. By contrast, The SAGE Encyclopedia of War: Social Science Perspective views war through the lens of the social sciences, looking at the causes, processes and effects of war and drawing from a vast group of fields such as communication and mass media, economics, political science and law, psychology and sociology. Key features include: More than 650 entries organized in an A-to-Z format, authored and signed by key academics in the field Entries conclude with cross-references and further readings, aiding the researcher further in their research journeys An alternative Reader’s Guide table of contents groups articles by disciplinary areas and by broad themes A helpful Resource Guide directing researchers to classic books, journals and electronic resources for more in-depth study This important and distinctive work will be a key reference for all researchers in the fields of political science, international relations and sociology.
Download or read book Handbook on Teaching Social Issues written by Ronald W. Evans and published by IAP. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s no book like this one for educators interested in issues-centered teaching. More than 40 experts have contributed articles offering comprehensive coverageof the field of social issues education. In addition to a full examination of objectives and methods, contributors show how social issues can be taught as part of history, geography, the social sciences, and global and environmental studies. The challenges of assessment, curriculum, and effective teacher education are fully explored. With its teaching ideas and useful resource section, this book is an indispensable addition to your library! Contributors include: Shirley Engle, Anna Ochoa-Becker, Jack Nelson, Carole Hahn, Byron Massialas, Jeff Passe, Jesus Garcia, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Merry Merryfield, Patricia Avery, Sam Totten, Bill Wraga, Walter Parker, and James Shaver.
Download or read book New Perspectives on the Sierra Leone Krio written by Mac Dixon-Fyle and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ex-slave, Krio population of Freetown, Sierra Leone - an amalgam of ethnicities drawn from several parts of the African continent - is a fascinating study in hybridity, creolization, European cultural penetration, the retention of African cultural values, and the interface between New World returnees and autochthonous populations of West Africa. Although its Nigerian connections are often acknowledged, insufficient attention has been paid to the indigenous Sierra Leonean roots of this community. This anthology addresses this problem, while celebrating the complexities of Krio identity and Krio interaction with other ethnic groups and nationalities in the British colonial experience.
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Civil Wars written by Edward Newman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive new Handbook explores the significance and nature of armed intrastate conflict and civil war in the modern world. Civil wars and intrastate conflict represent the principal form of organised violence since the end of World War II, and certainly in the contemporary era. These conflicts have a huge impact and drive major political change within the societies in which they occur, as well as on an international scale. The global importance of recent intrastate and regional conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Somalia, Nepal, Cote d'Ivoire, Syria and Libya – amongst others – has served to refocus academic and policy interest upon civil war. Drawing together contributions from key thinkers in the field who discuss the sources, causes, duration, nature and recurrence of civil wars, as well as their political meaning and international impact, the Handbook is organised into five key parts: Part I: Understanding and Explaining Civil Wars: Theoretical and Methodological Debates Part II: The Causes of Civil Wars Part III: The Nature and Impact of Civil Wars Part IV: International Dimensions Part V: Termination and Resolution of Civil Wars Covering a wide range of topics including micro-level issues as well as broader debates, Routledge Handbook of Civil Wars will set a benchmark for future research in the field. This volume will be of much interest to students of civil wars and intrastate conflict, ethnic conflict, political violence, peace and conflict studies, security studies and IR in general.
Download or read book Transforming Research Methods in the Social Sciences written by Angelo Flynn and published by Wits University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the research methods in development across the global South Social science researchers in the global South, and in South Africa particularly, utilise research methods in innovative ways in order to respond to contexts characterised by diversity, racial and political tensions, socioeconomic disparities and gender inequalities. These methods often remain undocumented – a gap that this book starts to address. Written by experts from various methodological fields, Transforming Research Methods in the Social Sciences is a comprehensive collation of original essays and cutting-edge research that demonstrates the variety of novel techniques and research methods available to researchers responding to these context-bound issues. It is particularly relevant for study and research in the fields of applied psychology, sociology, ethnography, biography and anthropology. In addition to their unique combination of conceptual and application issues, the chapters also include discussions on ethical considerations relevant to the method in similar global South contexts. Transforming Research Methods in the Social Sciences has much to offer to researchers, professionals and others involved in social science research both locally and internationally.
Download or read book Human Security Studies Theories Methods And Themes written by Sorpong Peou and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human Security Studies: Theories, Methods and Themes examines the concept of human security from different theoretical and methodological perspectives and shows how they help shed light on the different themes of global intervention. Liberal perspectives, represented by global legalism and developmentalism, share the optimism that human security can be ensured and enhanced through strengthening global governance. Realists remain skeptical about this liberal vision. While also critical of the liberal promise, critical theorists and feminists offer radical perspectives on human security. All these perspectives help explain the challenges of military intervention for human protection, micro-disarmament, international criminal justice, smart sanctions, human rights and democracy promotion, and human development.
Download or read book Behavioral Problems in Geography Revisited written by Kevin R Cox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers, originally published in 1981, reviews and evaluates past and possible future advances in a field of central importance to human geography: behavioral geography. The book includes critical studies which show how the approach has contributed substantially to work within four areas of amjor application in behavioral geography: urban travel behavior, environmental cognition, residential mobility and spatial diffusion. The final section of the book focuses on the shortcomings of the behavioral approach and considers the alternative modes of analysis available.
Download or read book Social Science Research Methodology and Conceptual Perspectives written by Newman Chintuwa Enyioko and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-17 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is primarily intended to serve as a textbook for national diploma, higher national diploma, undergraduate and graduate students of research methodology in all disciplines of various higher institutions and universities. It is hoped that the book shall provide guidelines to all interested in research studies of one sort or the other. The book is, in fact, an outgrowth of our experiences in the subject both as students and as lecturers/management consultants / researchers. We are highly indebted to our students and learned colleagues for providing the necessary stimuli for writing this book. We are grateful to all those persons whose writings and works have helped us in the preparation of this book. We are equally grateful to the reviewers of the manuscript of this book who made extreme valuable suggestions and have thus contributed in enhancing the standard of the book. We thankfully acknowledge the assistance provided by other reviewers of the manuscript of this book. We shall feel amply rewarded if the book proves helpful in the development of genuine research studies. We look forward to suggestions from all readers, especially from experienced researchers and scholars for further improving the subject content as well as the presentation of this book
Download or read book Anthropologica written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
