De case study, de bestudering van een verschijnsel in zijn natuurlijke omgeving, wordt in het Nederlandse en internationale sociale onderzoek steeds belangrijker. De vraag hoe case studies uitgevoerd (moeten) worden is niet eenvoudig te beantwoorden. In verschillende wetenschappelijke benaderingen worden uiteenlopende antwoorden op deze vraag gegeven.

In Case studies vindt de lezer een grondige bespreking van de verschillende mogelijkheden. Aan de hand van enkele centrale vragen komen de moge...

“For twenty years we've been struggling to find a solution and to come to an agreement. Nobody has ever accomplished this, not even the experts. Now we have done it ourselves in just 7 weeks!” - Sabaanse visser en PAO-deelnemer

Participatief Actieonderzoek (PAO) is een benadering die ons in staat stelt complexe problematiek aan te pakken met datgene wat we in overvloed hebben op aarde: mensen. Wanneer al die mensen vanuit intrinsieke motivatie bijdragen aan een betere wereld op een manie...

De eerste druk van het Basisboek criminologie is door de gebruikers ontvangen als een welkome aanvulling op het Nederlandstalig aanbod. Het is inmiddels de standaard voor het bacheloronderwijs in het hbo en ook op verschillende universiteiten wordt het boek gebruikt als toegankelijke inleiding. Hoewel er voor deze doelgroep een grote hoeveelheid – met name Engelstalige – literatuur beschikbaar is, blijkt het voor docenten lastig om daar een keuze uit te maken. Veel boeken gaan voor een ee...

What is happening to public debate in Western cultures? Is our public sphere disintegrating? In the face of popular tabloid newspapers, new forms of reality television and an increasing lack of respect for traditional authorities, many critics are concerned that our society no longer has a rational, informed and unified space where everyone can communicate about the issues that affect us all. In this book Alan McKee answers these questions by providing an introduction to the concept of the pu...

Social media has come to deeply penetrate our lives: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and many other platforms define many of our daily habits of communication and creative production. The Culture of Connectivity studies the rise of social media in the first decade of the twenty-first century up until 2012, providing both a historical and a critical analysis of the emergence of major platforms in the context of a rapidly changing ecosystem of connective media. Such history is needed to understand h...

The 9th edition of this textbook for hybrid introductory communication courses provides a balanced introduction to the fundamental theories and principles of communication. The book explores communication in a variety of contexts-including interpersonal, group, organizational, and mass media-and provides students the theoretical knowledge and the research and critical thinking skills they'll need to succeed in advanced communication courses and communication professions. The first section exp...

War has always been close to the centre of British culture, but never more so than in the period since 1850. "Warrior Nation" explores the way in which images of battle, both literary and visual, have been constructed in British fiction and popular culture since this time. The rise of war reporting has helped to shape a society fascinated by conflict, and the development of mass communications has aided in the creation of mass-produced martial heroes and the relation of epic adventures for po...

Contests the association of care with women as empirically and historically inaccurate, as well as politically unwise. Tronto presents care as one of the central activites of human life and illustrates the ways in which society degrades the importance of caring in order to maintain the power of those who are privileged.

This text provides a comprehensive and critical exploration of food from the unique perspective of place. It shows that our experiences with food are deeply influenced by their cultural, social, economic, and political contexts. The authors explore a wide range of questions such as: Do GMOs threaten rural livelihoods? Why don't we eat dogs? Does your neighborhood make you fat? Do community gardens encourage urban gentrification? Can cheese save a local economy? Why are gourmet burgers appeari...

Looking at the intersection of religion and popular culture through a theoretical lens, this new text offers an insightful treatment of this topical area of study. Each chapter outlines different theories and explores how key ideologies inform and interact with aspects of popular culture, including television, film, music, and the Internet.