LEADER 05084nam 22007695 450 001 9910874693003321 005 20250519144358.0 010 $a9789819734627 024 7 $a10.1007/978-981-97-3462-7 035 $a(CKB)32970607700041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31529340 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31529340 035 $a(DE-He213)978-981-97-3462-7 035 $a(EXLCZ)9932970607700041 100 $a20240715d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aUnity from Diversity $ePluralist Systemic Thinking for Social and Behavioural Research /$fby Ray W. Cooksey 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aSingapore :$cSpringer Nature Singapore :$cImprint: Springer,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (487 pages) 311 08$a9789819734610 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPluralist Systemic Thinking for Researchers -- The Evolving Landscape of Choices for Navigating the ?Data Triangle? -- Systemic Contextualisation: Situating & Positioning -- Systemic Contextualisation: Guiding Assumptions & Framing -- Making Convincing Choices: Scoping, Configuring & Implementing -- Making Convincing Choices: Sharing/Communicating Research Outcomes. 330 $aThis book is about the choices that researchers can make when building knowledge in social and behavioural spaces. Knowledge is the unity we seek and, given that social and behavioural research is a human endeavour focusing on human lives and experiences, there are diverse and ever-evolving pathways towards achieving that unity. Any one pathway will only ever yield partial glimpses into human life and diversity of potential choices serves to enrich, expand, and enlarge those glimpses in pursuit of more complete understanding. The book shows that researchers and the researched are far more connected than disconnected in this world and those connections are spread out through a network of interlinked complex systems. The book argues that pluralist systemic thinking provides the means by which a researcher?s methodological choices for navigating the ?Data Triangle? (comprising data source, data gathering, and data analysis strategies) and the learning they provide can be fully and robustly contextualised with respect to those systems and the expectations and influences that emerge from them. Such contextualisations facilitate the refinement, augmentation, and/or narrowing of those choices during the researcher?s journey. Anticipating choices downstream may have implications for more immediate choices and more immediate choices may create a cascade of necessary downstream choices. An essential part of contextualisation involves making choices about patterns of guiding assumptions, modes of knowledge building, and research frames. Researchers must develop the capacity to be flexible and adapt to unanticipated emergent events, obstacles, and political influences, making trade-offs where necessary throughout their research journey, always with an eye on both feasibility and quality. Importantly, research has no meaning unless the researcher can ensure that it connects with intended audiences via specific research outcomes, especially since the ultimate judgments about the convincingness, meaningfulness, quality, and utility of the research are vested in those audiences. Throughout the book, special attention is devoted to the role(s) that stakeholders and gatekeepers play in shaping the researcher?s journey as well as to what can be learned from Indigenous/First Nations perspectives on social and behavioural research. 606 $aResearch$xMethodology 606 $aStatistics 606 $aQuantitative research 606 $aSampling (Statistics) 606 $aStudy skills 606 $aSociology 606 $aResearch Skills 606 $aStatistical Theory and Methods 606 $aData Analysis and Big Data 606 $aMethodology of Data Collection and Processing 606 $aStudy and Learning Skills 606 $aSociology 606 $aSociologia$2thub 606 $aInvestigació psicològica$2thub 606 $aMetodologia$2thub 608 $aLlibres electrònics$2thub 615 0$aResearch$xMethodology. 615 0$aStatistics. 615 0$aQuantitative research. 615 0$aSampling (Statistics) 615 0$aStudy skills. 615 0$aSociology. 615 14$aResearch Skills. 615 24$aStatistical Theory and Methods. 615 24$aData Analysis and Big Data. 615 24$aMethodology of Data Collection and Processing. 615 24$aStudy and Learning Skills. 615 24$aSociology. 615 7$aSociologia. 615 7$aInvestigació psicològica 615 7$aMetodologia 676 $a150.72 700 $aCooksey$b Ray W.$01015113 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910874693003321 996 $aUnity from Diversity$94183878 997 $aUNINA