Flowerdew / Martin Methods in Human Geography

A guide for students doing a research project
2. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-317-87337-2
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 392 Seiten

This text is an essential guide to current research approaches in human geography, covering all aspects of undertaking a geography research project, from the selection of an appropriate topic through to the organisation and writing of the final report.

Covering a wide range of contemporary research methods, the authors provide practical advice on how to actually undertake a project.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Flowerdew, Robin

Martin, David M.

Martin, David

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures

List of tables

List of boxes

List of contributors

Preface

Acknowledgements



1 Introduction

2 Philosophies underlying human geography research

Section A Preparing for the research project

3 Choosing a topic

4 Finding previous work on the topic

5 Secondary data

Section B Collecting primary data

6 Questionnaire design and sampling

7 Tell me about …: using interviews as a research methodology

8 Focus groups

9 ‘Participatory’ approaches and diagramming techniques

10 Participant observation

Section C Analysis of data

11 Analysing numerical spatial data

12 Analysing categorical data

13 Analysing qualitative materials

14 Textual analysis: reading culture and context

15 Visual methodologies: what you see is not always what you get

16 Geographical information systems and spatial analysis

Section D Producing the report

17 Designing the report

18 Writing the report

19 Illustrating the report

20 Conclusion

References

Index