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These items are selected and annotated by the staff of The American Behavioral Scientist in a periodic search of 360 journals and reviews, including nearly 100 published outside the United States. Book and pamphlets are selected for NEW STUDIES from the total output of American commercial, governmental, and non-profit publishers; as well as leading English and Continental publishing houses.

These items are selected and annotated by the staff of The American Behavioral Scientist in a periodic search of 360 journals and reviews, including nearly 100 published outside the United States. Book and pamphlets are selected for NEW STUDIES from the total output of American commercial, governmental, and non-profit publishers; as well as leading English and Continental publishing houses.

These items are selected and annotated by the staff of The American Behavioral Scientist in a periodic search of 360 journals and reviews, including nearly 100 published outside the United States. Book and pamphlets are selected for NEW STUDIES from the total output of American commercial, governmental, and non-profit publishers; as well as leading English and Continental publishing houses.

These items are selected and annotated by the staff of The American Behavioral Scientist in a periodic search of 360 journals and reviews, including nearly 100 published outside the United States. Book and pamphlets are selected for NEW STUDIES from the total output of American commercial, governmental, and non-profit publishers; as well as leading English and Continental publishing houses. Items selected for special emphasis are boxed.

These items are selected and annotated by the staff of The American Behavioral Scientist in a periodic search of 360 journals and reviews, including nearly 100 published outside the United States. Book and pamphlets are selected for NEW STUDIES from the total output of American commercial, governmental, and non-profit publishers; as well as leading English and Continental publishing houses. Items selected for special emphasis are boxed.

These items are selected and annotated by the staff of The American Behavioral Scientist (NEW STUDIES Editor: Rhea Margulies) in a periodic search of 360 journals and reviews, including nearly 100 published outside the United States. Books and pamphlets are selected for NEW STUDIES from the total output of American commercial, governmental, and non-profit publishers; as well as leading English and Continental publishing houses. Items selected for special emphasis are boxed.

"Dieser Artikel soll die Leser/innen in die FQS-Schwerpunktausgabe 'Qualitative Methoden zur Managementforschung in sozialen Systemen' einführen. Die Beiträge in dieser Schwerpunktausgabe beschäftigen sich vor allem mit drei Themen, welche offensichtlich eine besondere Wichtigkeit für qualitative Managementforschung mit systemischer Perspektive haben: Das erste Thema diskutiert die Beobachtung bzw. das Beobachtbare in der Managementforschung, das zweite betrachtet die Verwendung von Methoden und das Studiendesign, und das dritte Thema reflektiert die Wirkungen systemtheoretischer Managementstudien auf das, was untersucht wurde, d.h. auf das Management in Organisationen. Diese drei Themen und die Positionen, welche die Autor/innen der Artikel dieser Schwerpunktausgabe beziehen, werden in diesem Artikel eingehend reflektiert und diskutiert." (Autorenreferat)

An increasing amount of publications are recognizing that a person's risk of diabetes and diabetes outcomes are influenced largely by social determinants of health. This renewed understanding of disease should influence health provision and diabetes research, but will it?

Democratically inspired critics identify a number of problems with the contemporary identification of survey research and public opinion. Surveys are said to normalize or rationalize opinion, to promote state or corporate rather than democratic interests, to constrain authentic forms of participation, and to force an individualized conception of public opinion. Some of these criticisms are relatively easily answered by survey researchers. But the criticisms contain a complaint that survey researchers have largely failed to address: that survey research discourages the public, visible, and face-to-face generation of opinion. Public opinion researchers who use surveys paradoxically seek the opinions of citizens in private, nonpolitical situations. But nothing inherent in the methods of survey research requires this private focus. The author argues that by reframing the survey's unit of analysis and considering alternatives to standard, national samples in political surveys, new democratic possibilities within survey research may be found.

Doctoral students and faculty members sometimes face unexpected barriers when engaging in qualitative research that can impede career advancement. In part, this can be because qualitative methodologies often conflict with objectivist epistemological assumptions that are deeply embedded in university cultures. Since ontology, epistemology, methodology, and methods are related, it is imperative for qualitative researchers to understand these differences and recognize the resulting tensions. Furthermore, when conducting qualitative research it is critical to design studies in which the epistemology, methodology, and methods are logically integrated for the best quality work. In this article, I seek to make transparent the link between everyday problems that arise (in dissertation defenses, funding and Institutional Review Board applications, peer review, tenure and promotion, etc.) and the underlying epistemological and methodological issues that produce them. I seek to educate beginning qualitative researchers about the importance of this integration in their own work and to arm them with some diagnostic skills. In doing so they will be better prepared to successfully negotiate the politics of science, the politics of evidence, and the politics of methods within their home institutions.