Telling Multiracial Tales: An Autoethnography of Coming Out Home

What follows are experimental autoethnographic tales of ambiguous embodiment. The tales weave in and out of the text and work to articulate gender in unsuspecting spaces. Together, we reconsider gender through multiple locations at once. I offer an autoethnography of multiracial tales: a simultaneous telling of embodiment as it manifests in my multiracial body. Rather than privileging one “si…

Waheeda Remembering Her Cat Izzy: A Study in the Consciousness of a Child

This article is based on a single interview session with a 7-year-old girl, Waheeda, regarding the cat Izzy that Waheeda used to have 2 years before the interview. The interview was part of a research project that explored the relationships of multicultural children with their companion animals. The article first tries to give a larger impression of Waheeda’s way of being (including conscious…

Killing With Kindness: Confessions of an Obsessive

This is a story about how my obsessive lifestyle inhibits the development of a new intimate relationship. The story unfolds in three parts—the first, documenting obsessive disorders from two medical perspectives; the second, personalizing the disorder in terms of my past relational life; and the third, working through my current relationship through an extended conversation between that intim…

Decolonizing Research on Palestinians: Towards Critical Epistemologies and Re…

This article builds on Indigenous and decolonial theorists’ and activists’ contention that European imperialism and colonialism are inseparable from modern knowledge production, and that the power/knowledge nexus continues to be implicated in the contemporary coloniality of the world. It examines the power relations inherent in imperialism and colonialism as they unfolded in the “before,�…

Ethical Issues in the Reuse of Qualitative Data: Perspectives From Literature…

In this article, we explore ethical issues in qualitative secondary analysis through a comparison of the literature with practitioner and participant perspectives. To achieve this, we integrated critical narrative review findings with data from two discussion groups: qualitative researchers and research users/consumers. In the literature, we found that theoretical debate ran parallel to practic…

Exploring the Impact of Patient and Public Involvement in a Cancer Research S…

An enduring theme in the literature exploring patient and public involvement (PPI) in research has been the focus on evaluating impact, defined usually in terms of participants’ practical contribution to enhancing research processes. By contrast, there has been less emphasis on the perspectives and experiences of those involved in PPI. Drawing on qualitative data with people involved in the N…

No Ordinary Mainstream Illness: How HIV Doctors Perceive the Virus

Research has shown that social representations of HIV can constitute barriers to health workers’ willingness to provide HIV care. Considering a growing shortage in the HIV primary workforce in Western countries, we examine how HIV is perceived today by doctors involved in its care. In 1989 Sontag predicted that once the virus became better understood and treatable, the dehumanizing meaning…

The Problem of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use Today: Eyes Half Cl…

Commentators such as Goldacre, Dawkins, and Singh and Ernst are worried that the rise in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) represents a flight from science propagated by enemies of reason. We outline what kind of problem CAM use is for these commentators, and find that users of CAM have been constituted as duped, ignorant, irrational, or immoral in explaining CAM use. However, this …

Clients’ Initiatives and Caregivers’ Responses in the Organizational Dyna…

Our aim with this article is to develop a typology for the analysis of client–caregiver encounters in health care. We first observed client–caregiver interactions in the homes of home care clients and during the care processes of surgical patients. We then conducted a data-driven analysis to identify the clients’ initiatives and the degree of engagement in the responses they received. The…

Former Child Soldiers’ Problems and Needs: Congolese Experiences

With this article, we explore how staff working at transit centers and vocational training centers in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo experienced the problems and needs of former child soldiers. We argued that the staff’s experience of the children’s daily lives and their understanding of the sociocultural context of the conflict make their perspective a valuable source of info…

How Clinicians Develop Confidence in Their Competence in Performing Aspiratio…

In this article we explore how nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and nurse midwives in California (collectively referred to as clinicians) developed confidence while learning to provide vacuum aspiration abortion. We interviewed clinicians (n = 30) who worked in reproductive health care settings and had participated in a large abortion-training study. Although the training had moral an…

Acceptance and Decision Making in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis From a Life-C…

Researchers have explored perceptions of health care services among people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), but little is known about how and why people with ALS engage with services. We undertook a grounded theory study to identify key psychosocial processes that underpin how and why people with ALS engage with health care services. We conducted in-depth interviews with 34 participa…

Assessment of the Impact of a Workplace Intervention to Reduce Prolonged Occu…

We aim to provide a better picture of the outcomes associated with implementing a nonpurposeful, physical activity, e-health intervention in a professional workplace. There is a need for health professionals to evaluate physical-activitybased workplace health interventions with a full range of measures. Using a social ecological model as a basis, we identify a range of subjective outcomes from …

A Method of Phenomenological Interviewing

In this article I propose a method of interviewing for descriptive phenomenological research that offers an explicit, theoretically based approach for researchers. My approach enables application of descriptive phenomenology as a total method for research, and not one just focused on data analysis. This structured phenomenological approach to interviewing applies questions based on themes of ex…

Testing the Validity of Gender Ideology Items by Implementing Probing Questio…

This article examines the use of probing techniques in web surveys to identify validity problems of items. Conventional cognitive interviewing is usually based on small sample sizes and thus precludes quantifying the findings in a meaningful way or testing small or special subpopulations characterized by their response behavior. This article investigates probing in web surveys as a supplem…

The Duality of Clusters and Statistical Interactions

We contend that clusters of cases co-constitute statistical interactions among variables. Interactions among variables imply clusters of cases within which statistical effects differ. Regression coefficients may be productively viewed as sums across clusters of cases, and in this sense regression coefficients may be said to be ‘‘composed’’ of clusters of cases. We explicate a four-…

Modeling the Structure of Partnership Between Researchers and Front-Line Serv…

Partnerships between HIV researchers and service providers are essential for reducing the gap between research and practice. Community-Based Participatory Research principles guided this cross-sectional study, combining 40 in-depth interviews with surveys of 141 providers in 24 social service agencies in New York City. We generated the Provider-Researcher Partnership Model to account for pr…

Children’s Structured Conceptualizations of Their Beliefs on the Causes of …

Elementary school children between 9 and 12 years of age were interviewed on what they believed to be the causes of learning difficulties and were invited to take part in the analysis of the data. We achieved this with Trochim’s concept mapping approach that combines qualitative and quantitative data analyses. Study results indicated that children were more knowledgeable than expected. Al…

Implementing Quality Criteria in Designing and Conducting a Sequential QUAN !…

In spite of recent methodological developments related to quality assurance in mixed methods research, practical examples of how to implement quality criteria in designing and conducting sequential QUAN! QUAL mixed methods studies to ensure the process is systematic and rigorous remain scarce. This article discusses a three-step procedure for securing the quality of the meta-inferences gene…

Unexpected but Most Welcome: Mixed Methods for the Validation and Revision of…

Although combining methods is nothing new, more contributions about why and how to mix methods for validation purposes are needed. This article presents a case of validating the inferences drawn from the Participatory Evaluation Measurement Instrument, an instrument that purports to measure stakeholder participation in evaluation. Although the process was intended to be almost exclusively q…

Images: Objects of Analysis in Sociology and Relational Psychoanalysis

This article responds to Bersani’s critique of psychoanalysis’ personalism by focusing on the role of art, images, and objects in both psychoanalysis and sociology. I take examples of my research in visual art, and images conjured in my own psychoanalytic treatment, to look at the nonhuman agencies present in these relationships. Keywords: psychoanalysis, art, objects, things

Establishing Field Relations through Shared Ideology: Insider Self-positionin…

Current literature on identity and insider–outsider positioning in field relations is dominated by discussions of overt characteristics such as shared ethnicity, gender, and class. The potential for self-positioning as an ally researcher through shared ideology opens new possibilities for research methods, but its precarious nature needs to be better understood. Multisited research provides a…

Accuracy of Withinhousehold Selection in Web and Mail Surveys of the General …

Household surveys are moving from interviewer-administered modes to selfadministeredmodes for data collection, but many households do not accurately follow within-household selection procedures inmail surveys. In this article, we examine accuracy of within-household selection using an oldest adult/youngest adult method in web, mail, and mixed-mode surveys. The frame for this study comes from a …

Connecting Participant Observation Positions: Toward a Reflexive Framework fo…

In this article, we argue for the importance of considering participant observation roles in relation to both insider/outsider and overt/covert roles. Through combining key academic debates on participant observation, which have separately considered insider/outsider and overt/covert participant observation, we develop a reflexive framework to assist researchers in (1) locating the type of par…

Surname Sampling: Reevaluating Kim Sampling in Korea and the United States

In 1984, Shin and Yu proposed that sampling Koreans by simply identifying those with the common surname Kim would yield a representative sample, as determined by geographic distribution.Weextend the evidence that individuals with specificcommonsurnames inKorea are representative of the whole population. Wefound that individuals with any of the fivemost common Korean surnames, not just Kim, were…

Improving the Utility of the DSF Address-based Frame through Ancillary Inform…

Survey researchers have recently begun using the U.S. Postal Service Delivery Sequence File (DSF) as a sampling frame. In addition to address, the DSF contains ancillary data regarding the status and structure of the address. These ancillary data may prove useful in further enhancing frame construction and sampling methodologies. We review three variables on the DSF: the vacancy flag, the colle…

Falling into the depths of his mind: Action research as a way of maintaining …

Maintaining a meaningful relationship with a loved one who is diagnosed with dementia and hospitalized is significant, both for the person with dementia and for his/her relatives and friends. Nevertheless, the process of dementia poses great challenges and obstacles for communication. This article’s aim is to discuss the potential contributions of action research (AR) as an effective way …

Italian Sociologists’ Approach to Qualitative Interviews

It is common to come across interviews, both transcribed and recorded, that were conducted according to remarkably different strategies that seem to contrast with the recommendations and indications of a large part of the literature on this subject. To understand the reasons behind these different strategies, I will present the outcomes of a study carried out among Italian sociologists who base…

Matrix Assisted Structural Hypothesis Construction: Further Explorations

In January 2011 (BMS issue 109), this journal published our article on a new process for developing a structural hypothesis, using a matrix approach and multi-dimensional data analysis techniques (Cohen and Tresser, 2011). The present article continues to develop the matrix assisted hypothesis construction method (matrix method for short) and offers directions for research utilizing this approa…

Action research: Changing history for people living with dementia in New Zealand

Action research methods were underpinned by critical hermeneutic philosophy to uncover and interpret the support needs of people living with dementia in New Zealand. This involved 11 people with mild to moderate dementia and their primary caregiver in a collaborative process with the researcher. Data collection and analysis were reciprocally integrated, and the participants engaged in the prod…

Teacher action research and student voice: Making sense of learning in second…

The Making Sense of Learning project began with the premise that for teachers to understand the ways in which their practice influences student learning, they need to invite and listen to students’ accounts of their learning experiences. Initiated by classroom teachers, supported by a university researcher, and informed by student voice, this teacher action research involved the empirical-ref…

Politics and action research: An examination of one school’s mandated actio…

Action research has been shown to empower educators, create lasting changes in schools, and have an impact on student learning outcomes. Given these positive results, many school leaders are beginning to mandate the use of action research within their schools. While some in the field have warned against mandating action research, there is little research examining the effects of doing so. This …

Researching prisoner experiences with prison officers: An action research-ins…

This article reports on research that incorporated action research-inspired dimensions on a project conducted in three maximum-security prisons in England. The project was aimed at collecting ethnographically informed data on prisoner experiences, at developing a method by which such data could be systematically and routinely collected by prison staff and at facilitating opportunities for priso…

Systemic action research: Changing system dynamics to support sustainable change

This article explores the characteristics of systemic action research. It looks at the conceptual underpinnings of systemic action research and explores some of the ways in which it differs from (builds on) other forms of action research. It then explores some of the issues and dilemmas faced by systemic action researchers. Keywords: Action research, complexity, participatory, Systemic actio…

Growth charts of human development

This article reviews and compares two types of growth charts for tracking human development over age. Both charts assume the existence of a continuous latent variable, but relate to the observed data in different ways. The D-score diagram summarizes developmental indicators into a single aggregate score measuring global development. The relations between the indicators should be consistent w…

Local Dependence in Latent Class Analysis of Rare and Sensitive Events

For survey methodologists, latent class analysis (LCA) is a powerful tool for assessing the measurement error in survey questions, evaluating survey methods, and estimating the bias in estimates of population prevalence. LCA can be used when gold standard measurements are not available and applied to essentially any set of indicators that meet certain criteria for identifiability. LCA offers qu…

A Forerunner of Qualitative Health Research: Risueño’s Report Against the …

In this article we discuss and examine the report presented to the Académie Royale de Médicine of Paris by the Spanish doctor Benigno Risueño de Amador in 1836, in which he argued against the calculation of probabilities in the health sciences. In his report, Risueño opposed the proposals put forward by Pierre Louis, precursor of the application of statistics in the health sciences. The re…

Reliability of Self-reports of Financial Data in Surveys: Results From the He…

This article reports an investigation of errors of measurement in self-reports of financial data in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), one of the major social science data resources available to those who study the demography and economics of aging. Results indicate significantly lower levels of reporting reliability of the composite variables in the HRS relative to those found for ‘‘su…

Scientific-Based Research and Randomized Controlled Trials, the “Gold” St…

This article addresses three controversial issues related to mixed methods research and policy. First, “Scientific-Based Research” promoted by “No Child Left Behind” (NCLB) reinforces diametrically opposed paradigmatic views and research methodologies. As policy, NCLB prioritizes specific methodologies prescribing what counts as scientific evidence. Second, from a critical stance, feder…

Analysis of Nonequivalent Assessments Across Different Linguistic Groups Usin…

Differential item functioning (DIF) can undermine the validity of cross-lingual comparisons. While a lot of efficient statistics for detecting DIF are available, few general findings have been found to explain DIF results. The objective of the article was to study DIF sources by using a mixed method design. The design involves a quantitative phase in which DIF was analyzed followed by a qualita…

The analysis of multivariate longitudinal data: A review

Longitudinal experiments often involve multiple outcomes measured repeatedly within a set of study participants. While many questions can be answered by modeling the various outcomes separately, some questions can only be answered in a joint analysis of all of them. In this article, we will present a review of the many approaches proposed in the statistical literature. Four main model famili…

How Do Respondents Attend to Verbal Labels in Rating Scales?

Two formats of labeling in rating scales are commonly used in questionnaires: verbal labels for end categories only (END form) and verbal labels for each of the categories (ALL form). We examine attention processes and respondents’ burden in using verbal labels in rating scales. Attention was tracked in a laboratory setting employing eye-tracking technology. The results of the two experiments…

On random sample size, ignorability, ancillarity, completeness, separability,…

The vast majority of settings for which frequentist statistical properties are derived assume a fixed, a priori known sample size. Familiar properties then follow, such as, for example, the consistency, asymptotic normality, and efficiency of the sample average for the mean parameter, under a wide range of conditions. We are concerned here with the alternative situation in which the sample si…

Finite element methods for engineers

The advent of high-speed electronic digital computers has given tremendous impetus to all numerical methods for solving engineering problems. Finite element methods form one of the most versatile classes of such methods, and were originally developed in the field of structural analysis. They are, however, equally applicable to continuum mechanics problems in general, including those of fluid me…

Surveying: problems solving with theory and objective type questions

The book adopts a classical pedagogical approach by providing a vivid insigth into the theory of surveying and its application through solving typical problems in the field of surveying. It aims helping the students understand surveying more comprehensively through solving field related problems.

Essentials of Social Research

Essentials of Social Research is a short basic primer on social research methodology that will provide straightforward, clear answers to the key questions in research methods, such as: What are the components of scientific analysis? What is grounded theory? What constitutes a causal explanation? How believable are particular research findings? As an introductory primer, the book covers types of…

Analysis of Messy Data: Designed Experiments

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2nd. ed.

ISBN/ISSN

978-1-58488-334-0

Deskripsi Fisik

QA279.M48; 519.5’38--dc22

Judul Seri

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Research Methods in Toxicology and Insecticide Resistance Monitoring of Rice …

Rice planthoppers are developing resistance to insecticides very rapidly. Publications by several authors have reported that the brown planthopper (BPH) has acquired as much as 1,000-fold resistance to imidacloprid in some areas in China. High resistance to fipronil, fenobucarb, and buprofezin has also been reported. However, the methods used by different authors differ signifi cantly, ther…

New Challenges to Social Measurement

Abstract. Surveys are the principal source of data not only for social science, but for consumer research, political polling, and federal statistics. In response to social and technological trends, rates of survey nonresponse have risen markedly in recent years, prompting observers to worry about the continued validity of surveys as a tool for data gathering. This introductory article sets the…

Facing the Nonresponse Challenge

Abstract. This article provides a brief overview of key trends in the survey research to address the nonresponse challenge. Noteworthy are efforts to develop new quality measures and to combine several data sources to enhance either the data collection process or the quality of resulting survey estimates. Mixtures of survey data collection modes and less burdensome survey designs are additiona…