Q Methodology (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)

✍ Scribed by Bruce F. McKeown

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 121
Edition: 2
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Direct, well-organized, and easy to follow, Q Methodology, Second Edition, by Bruce McKeown and Dan B. Thomas, reviews the philosophical foundations of subjective communicability (concourse theory), operant subjectivity, and quantum-theoretical aspects of Q as relevant to the social and behavioral sciences. The authors discuss data-gathering techniques (communication concourses, Q samples, and Q sorting), statistical techniques (correlation and factor analysis and the important calculation of factor scores), and strategies for conducting small person-sample research along Q methodological lines.

✦ Table of Contents

Q METHODOLOGY--FRONT COVER
Q METHODOLOGY
CONTENTS
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
SERIES EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1. METHODOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES
CHAPTER 2. COMMUNICATION CONCOURSES, Q SAMPLES, AND CONDITIONS OF INSTRUCTION
CHAPTER 3. PERSON SAMPLES AND THE SINGLE CASE
CHAPTER 4. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
CHAPTER 5. A CONCLUDING SUBJECTIVE-SCIENCE POSTSCRIPT
REFERENCES
AUTHOR INDEX
SUBJECT INDEX

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