Social research and statistics Books

The importance of a strong evidence-base is widely recognised in contemporary health, social care and education practice, meaning that there is a real need for research which can be quickly and easily translated into real world situations.Research...

Based on the approaches of questionnaire and interview, this book studies the urban subalterns formed with a considerable scale in China since the 1990s. By investigating their living status in detail, it depicts the mental conditions, class...

This book examines how the voluntary organisations engaged with development programmes work with the approach of conscientisation to empower Adivasis.

This book argues that China's Belt and Road Initiative should be seen more as a geopolitical project and less as a global economic project, with China aiming to bring about a new Chinese-led international order.

The book demonstrates the unique contribution police ethnographies make to our understanding of policing cultures and practices globally. The book is a resource for scholars and researchers of policing, criminology, sociology, law, and research...

This book examines Chinese film in the twenty-first century. Organised around the themes 'movements', 'genres', and 'intermedia', it reflects on how Chinese cinema has evolved over past decades.

This edited volume provides a comprehensive examination of the philosophical foundations of mixed methods research. It offers new defences of six main approaches, including pragmatism, dialectical pluralism and critical realism, written by leading mixed...

This book delves into the relationship between client and therapist. It explores how the relational constructions of client-therapist meetings and subsequent narratives can be a catalyst for change and development of practice for both parties.  

This handbook provides a complete classroom guide for instructors teaching qualitative and mixed methods. Experts from across the social sciences present 70 methods for teaching qualitative and mixed methods research with step by step guides.

This book makes available, for the first time in English, lectures and interviews that Foucault gave in Japan in 1978, reconstructing their context, and isolating the question of their singular relevance for us today.

Get a comprehensive look at Scotland's education system with this detailed annual report. Education Scotland: Statistical Lists of Grant-Earning Day Schools and Institutions, and of Continuation Classes and Central Institutions provides information on...

In this book, Harold Ordway Rugg explores the use of statistical methods in education. His clear and concise explanations make it an accessible resource for educators and researchers who want to improve their understanding of the subject.This work has...

Preface. Foreword. Part One: Quality of Life after Heart Valve Replacement. A. Physiological State. B. Intellectual Functioning. C. Emotional State. D. General Satisfaction. Part Two: Quality of Life after Coronary Bypass Surgery. A. Physiolocial...

Simulation-oriented scenarios.- Politics and administration during a 'nuclear-political'crisis.- Comments on 'The Chernobyl disaster and nuclear fallout'.- The Zeebrugge ferry disaster. Elements of a communication and information processes scenario.-...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

Discover the techniques used by the top R programmers to generate data-driven solutions.Although the non-profit industry has advanced using CRMs and donor databases, it has not fully explored the data stored in those databases. Meanwhile, the data...

This timely Handbook is based on the principle that disasters are social constructions and focuses on social science disaster research. It provides an interdisciplinary approach to disasters with theoretical, methodological,...

This volume is a definitive manual for students and practitioners involved in learning and developing essential theories and models for fieldwork practicum in social work education. It addresses various functional issues in field practicum, delineates...

This book analyses the challenges of secrecy in security research, and develops a set of methods to navigate, encircle and work with secrecy.How can researchers navigate secrecy in their fieldwork, when they encounter confidential material, closed-off...

Preface Notes on the Contributors PART I: TOWARDS A SOCIOLOGY OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF 'RACE', ETHNICITY AND NATION Sociology, the State and Social Change: Theoretical Considerations; P.Ratcliffe The Color Line and Sociology; D.Basu PART II: NON-EUROPEAN...

Contributors thoroughly survey the most important statistical models used in empirical reserch in the social and behavioral sciences. Following a common format, each chapter introduces a model, illustrates the types of...

Preface by Mimi Sheller, Swarthmore College, USA Introduction; B.Fincham, M.McGuinness& L.Murray PART I: DRIVING THE MOBILE Contextualizing and Mobilizing Research; L.Murray Moving Towards Critical Mobility Analysis: Mixing Qualitative Approaches; M...

The main terrain of methodological disputes in the social sciences is empirical research, including the delineation of legitimate research questions, allocation of funding for projects, and employment in the profession. Yet we still lack practical...

This collection sets a new agenda for conducting research on the EU and learns from past mistakes. In doing so it provides a state-of-the-art examination of social science research designs in EU studies while providing innovative guidelines for the...

An exploration of core problems in experimental research on voting behavior and political institutions, ranging from design and data analysis to inferences with respect to constructs, constituencies and causal claims. The focus of it is on the...

White working class areas are often seen as entrenched and immobile, threatened by the arrival of 'outsiders'. This major new study of class and place since 1930 challenges accepted wisdom, demonstrating how emigration as well as shorter distance moves...

An incisive engagement with the subject of intimacy and interpersonal relationships and the methods used to research families and personal life, this book introduces readers to contemporary conceptual and methodological frameworks for understanding...

The authors explore three ways of conducting causal analysis in case studies. They draw on established practices as well as on recent innovations in case study methodology and integrate these insights into coherent approaches. They highlight the core...

The social research organization, Mass-Observation, was one of the most innovative intellectual projects of the 20th century. This study, now available in paperback, examines the historical and social significance of the project and shows how social...

We still lack practical answers to one of the most basic questions in empirical research:How should researchers interpret meanings? The contributors take seriously the goals of both post-modernist and positivist researchers, as they offer detailed...

In this major new work by one of the leading writers on Utopian Studies, Ruth Levitas argues that a prospective future of ecological and economic crises poses a challenge to the utopian imaginary, to conceive a better world and alternative future. Utopia...

Expert Interviews: An Introduction to a New Methodological Debate; A.Bogner, B.Littig & W.Menz PART I: THEORETICAL CONCEPTS: METHODOLOGY OF EXPERT INTERVIEWS The Expert Interview and Changes in Knowledge Production; M.Meuser & U.Nagel The...

This book guides the making of ethical decisions in research. It supports thinking through ethical dilemmas that arise while research is being planned, conducted and reported. It offers checklists to facilitate ethical review and is illustrated by real...

Theorist Clifford Geertz's influence extends far beyond anthropology. Indeed the case could be made that he has been abandoned by anthropology and that his legacy has been transferred to a more diffuse community of scholars interested in interpretation...

How do we persuade people that we all have common experiences and hopes? That we are ever more dependent on each other in times of globalization via technology, commerce, climate change, and overpopulation? How do we move from an "Us and Them" mentality...

In The Methodological Dilemma Revisited, authors examine what in their research processes has given pause, thwarted the process of seamless productivity, or stalled the easy research output but has, instead, insisted upon a deeper analysis. This...

This book shows how science works, fails to work, or pretends to work, by looking at examples from such diverse fields as physics, biomedicine, psychology, and economics. Social science affects our lives every day through the predictions of experts and...

Narrative inquiry is based on the proposition that experience is the stories lived and told by individuals as they are embedded within cultural, social, institutional, familial, political, and linguistic narratives. It represents the phenomenon of...

International Perspectives on Autoethnographic Research and Practice is the first volume of international scholarship on autoethnography. This culturally and academically diverse collection combines perspectives on contemporary autoethnographic thinking...

Madness as Methodology begins with the following quotation from Deleuze and Guattari, 'Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.' This quotation firmly expresses the book's intention to provide readers with radical and innovative...