Evaluating and valuing in social research /:

"This book offers conceptual and practical guidance to social researchers and evaluators who intend to navigate the tangled and complicated terrain of values, valuing, and evaluating. We focus on understanding how these phenomena and associated practices are at work in social research, what inv...

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Hauptverfasser: Schwandt, Thomas A. (VerfasserIn), Gates, Emily F. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York : The Guilford Press, [2021]
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Zusammenfassung:"This book offers conceptual and practical guidance to social researchers and evaluators who intend to navigate the tangled and complicated terrain of values, valuing, and evaluating. We focus on understanding how these phenomena and associated practices are at work in social research, what investigators can and should do in dealing with such matters, and how their actions relate to longstanding concerns about objectivity, impartiality, the nature and use of evidence, and the purpose(s) of applied social research. Our primary aim is to help researchers become more explicit about values, valuing and evaluative judgments in their practices and to refine their capacity to engage in deliberative argumentation guided by standards of reasonableness"--
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xxi, 250 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9781462547364
1462547362

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