Suchergebnisse

Introduction -- Diary data collection as a qualitative research method -- Qualitative diary research design -- The analysis and writing a report on qualitative diary research -- Putting it all together: qualitative diary study planning, management, evaluation, and ethics

1. Introduction : ethnography as practice -- 2. Where to begin -- 3. Ethical ethnography -- 4. Participating and observing -- 5. Interviews : asking questions of individuals and groups -- 6. Practical issues in interviewing -- 7. New directions in ethnography -- 8. Ethnographic analysis -- 9. Writing and representation.

This collection of individually authored chapters provides cutting-edge approaches to ethnography. Specialized Ethnographic Methods: A Mixed Methods Approach complements the basic inventory of ethnographic data collection tools presented in Book 3 with a number of important additional approaches to conducting ethnography. These include defining and collecting cultural artifacts, collecting secondary and archival data, cultural sorting and comparing methods, spatial research and analysis, network research and analysis, use of multimedia strategies for the collection of ethnographic data, ways t

Intro -- Ecological Methods -- Contents -- Prefaces -- Preface to fourth edition -- Preface to third edition -- Preface to second edition -- Preface to first edition -- About the Companion Website -- 1 Introduction to the Study of Animal Populations -- 1.1 Population estimates -- 1.1.1 Absolute and related estimates -- 1.1.2 Relative estimates -- 1.1.3 Population indices -- 1.2 Errors and confidence -- References -- 2 The Sampling Programme and the Measurement and Description of Dispersion -- 2.1 Preliminary sampling -- 2.1.1 Planning and fieldwork -- 2.1.2 Statistical aspects -- 2.2 The sampling programme -- 2.2.1 The number of samples per habitat unit (e.g. plant, host or puddle) -- 2.2.2 The sampling unit, its selection, size and shape -- 2.2.3 The number of samples -- 2.2.4 The pattern of sampling -- 2.2.5 The timing of sampling -- 2.3 Dispersion -- 2.3.1 Mathematical distributions that serve as models -- 2.3.2 Biological interpretation of dispersion parameters -- 2.3.3 Nearest-neighbour and related techniques: measures of population size or of the departure from randomness of the distribution -- 2.4 Sequential sampling -- 2.4.1 Sampling numbers -- 2.5 Presence or absence sampling -- 2.6 Sampling a fauna -- 2.7 Biological and other qualitative aspects of sampling -- 2.8 Jack knife and Bootstrap techniques -- References -- 3 Absolute Population Estimates Using Capture-Recapture Experiments -- 3.1 Capture-recapture methods -- 3.1.1 Assumptions common to most methods -- 3.1.2 Estimating closed populations -- 3.1.3 Estimations for open populations -- 3.2 Methods of marking animals -- 3.2.1 Handling techniques -- 3.2.2 Release -- 3.2.3 Surface marks using paints and solutions of dyes -- 3.2.4 Dyes and fluorescent substances in powder form -- 3.2.5 Pollen -- 3.2.6 Marking formed by feeding on or absorption of dyes.

Legal Method Essentials is an invaluable study guide for students. It provides up-to-date, concise and comprehensive coverage of Legal Method and is the ideal text for students who come new to the subject and for those preparing for exams. This book is also an excellent resource for those who need to refresh or update their knowledge