Yet another book on Q methodology has recently been published:

Kim, Soon Eun (2007, November). Q methodology and social sciences [in Korean]. Busan, Korea: Goldwell Publishing, Inc. 246 pp., ISBN 978-89-86305-65-4, 20,000 won (approx. $20 USD).

Part 1: Theory and Practice

Ch1: Theoretical Discussions Related to Q Methodology Ch2: Theoretical Background of Q Methodology Ch3: Procedures of Q Methodology Ch4: Statistical Principles of Q Methodology Ch5: Interpretation of Q Results Ch6: Case Study: Perceptions of Q Methodology Ch7: Samples of Q Studies Ch8: Bibliographies of Q Methodology Made by Professor Brown

Part 2: PQM Manual (translation of PQM manual with the permission of Professor Schmolck)

Soon Eun Kim <sekim@deu.ac.kr>is Dean of External Cooperation, Dong-eui University, Busan, Korea. His book joins the following four other non-English books that have recently appeared and that are soon to be jointly reviewed in Operant Subjectivity:

Dragos Iliescu, Metodologia Q [Romanian] (Bucharest: Comunicare.ro, 2005).

Ali-Reza Khoshgooyanfard, Q-methodology [Persian] (Tehran: Research Center of IRIB [Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting], 2008).

Hung Kyu Kim, Q methodology: Philosophy of science, theories, analysis, and application [Korean] (Seoul: CommunicationBooks, Inc., 2008).

Sasitorn Suwannathep and Kanikar Sookasame, Variety of innovative research methods: Q methodology: A scientific study of subjectivity (concepts, theory and application) [Thai] (Bangkok: Samlada Publishing, 2007).

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Author of Political Subjectivity (Yale University Press 1980), founding editor of Operant Subjectivity (1977), organizer of first Q conference (1985) and founding member of the International Society for the Scientific Study of Subjectivity (1989), founder and moderator of Q-Method electronic discussion list (1991), and laureate of ISSSS's William Stephenson Award (2010). Also past editor of Policy Sciences, co-founder of the International Society of Political Psychology and the Society of Policy Scientists, list manager of PolicySciencesSociety, executive director of ISPP, laureate of ISPP's Harold Lasswell Award (2009) for lifetime scientific contributions, and Kappa Tau Alpha award (2001) for contributions to journalism and mass communication.