Phenomenology originated as a novel way of doing philosophy early in the twentieth
century. In the writings of Husserl and Heidegger, regarded as its founders, it was a non …

Norms are a pervasive yet mysterious feature of social life. In Explaining Norms, four
philosophers and social scientists team up to grapple with some of the many mysteries …

One of the greatest challenges for social science today is to say something novel and
interesting. Today's conventional wisdom is founded on a mountain of established …

Institutional theory plays a significant role in contemporary political science. As in the
previous editions, the new fourth edition provides an overview of the major institutional …

Nursing is typically understood, and understands itself, as a care-giving occupation. It is
through its relationships with patients–whether these are absent, present, good, bad or …

An informative real-world guide to studying the" why" of human behavior Introduction to
Qualitative Research Methods is a practical, comprehensive guide to the collection and …

This essay offers a critical summation of the use of neo-institutionalism to study
organizations. While institutionalism has succeeded in becoming the dominant theory to …

Analyzing Qualitative Data by Graham R. Gibbs is the sixth volume in The SAGE Qualitative
Research Kit. This book can be used together with the other titles in the Kit as a …

This chapter will consider alternative foundations for the modern analysis of power: the
contributions of the seventeenth-century English political theorist, Thomas Hobbes, and the …

Names: Gross, Matthias, 1969–editor.| McGoey, Linsey, editor. Title: Routledge international
handbook of ignorance studies/edited by Matthias Gross and Linsey McGoey. Description …