Ray Pawson: The Science of Evaluation

Cover: 9781446252437 | The Science of Evaluation | A Realist Manifesto | Ray Pawson | Buch

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Beschreibung

Always engaging and relentlessly pushing the boundaries, this is a must-read from a pioneer in realist research.

Über den Autor

Ray Pawson is Professor of Social Research Methodology in the School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds. His main interest, perforce, is in research methodology and he has written widely on the principles and practice of research, covering methods - qualitative and quantitative, pure and applied, contemporaneous and historical.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: The Armchair Methodologist and the Jobbing Researcher
PART ONE: PRECURSORS AND PRINCIPLES
Precursors: From the Library of Ray Pawson
First Principles: A Realist Diagnostic Workshop
PART TWO: THE CHALLENGE OF COMPLEXITY - DROWNING OR WAVING?
A Complexity Checklist
Contested Complexity
Informed Guesswork: The Realist Response to Complexity
PART THREE: TOWARDS EVALUATION SCIENCE
Invisible Mechanisms I: The Long Road to Behavioural Change
Invisible Mechanisms II: Clinical Interventions as Social Interventions
Synthesis as Science: The Bumpy Road to Legislative Change
Conclusion: A Mutually Monitoring, Disputatious Community of Truth Seekers

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2013
Genre:	Importe , Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781446252437
ISBN-10:	1446252434
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Pawson, Ray
Hersteller:	SAGE Publications Ltd
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Kolibri 360 GmbH, Ettore-Bugatti-Str. 6-14, D-51149 Köln, produktsicherheit@kolibri360.de
Maße:	244 x 170 x 13 mm
Von/Mit:	Ray Pawson
Erscheinungsdatum:	28.02.2013
Gewicht:	0,422 kg