Shirk finds that gender relations account in part for the great divide between the liberal and conservative moral sensibilities in pastoral counseling
Meta-study permits investigators to: * look beyond individual findings * critically interpret variations and contradictions in the body of available research * move toward the potential for knowledge synthesis The authors of this timely volume: * differentiate between meta-analysis and meta-synthesis * write in a how-to style * illustrate each step with examples from their own meta-study projects in the substantive field of chronic illness * use their own experience with performing a meta-study to explain the process
They offer critical perspectives to help users reflect on research approaches and to scrutinise key issues in devising research questions
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Crossing Borders Aaron Bradbury Shirk finds that gender relations"Crossing Borders" explores the question of what happens to theory when it literally crosses borders from one culture to another. The author investigates the histories of reception theory, poststructuralism and deconstruction in postwar Germany and the United States. He looks at how imported theories assume a place in the political discourse of a country, and how indigenous intellectual traditions and prejudices affect, modify, or even distort foreign