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Evaluating and Valuing in Social Research by Thomas A. Schwandt
£39.04Much applied research takes place as if complex social problems--and evaluations of interventions to address them--can be dealt with in a purely technical way. In contrast, this groundbreaking book offers an alternative approach that incorporates... -
Survey Questions: Handcrafting the Standardized Questionnaire by Jean M. Converse 9780803927438 [USED COPY]
RRP: £33.99£3.17Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Survey Questions: Handcrafting the Standardized Questionnaire by Jean M. Converse 9780803927438
RRP: £33.99£30.36"An extremely useful handbook for students and any newcomers to survey research."--NetworkRecent research has yielded many new clues about how survey questions "behave," and some of these findings have offered practical guidance for question writing... -
Managing Quality in Qualitative Research by Uwe Flick
RRP: £35.99£29.51Quality underpins the success (or failure) of any piece of qualitative research. In this book, Uwe Flick takes you through the steps in method and design to ensure quality and reliability throughout the entire research process. Showing hands-on what it... -
Analyzing and Reporting Focus Group Results by Richard A. Krueger 9780761908166
RRP: £76.00£66.76Richard Krueger offers a rich and valuable discussion of focus group analysis that is sure to become a major guide in future focus group efforts. Because analyzing focus group data is different from analyzing data collected through other qualitative... -
Participant Observation: A Guide for Fieldworkers by Kathleen Musante DeWalt
£55.33Participant observation is the foundation of ethnographic research design and supports and complements other types of qualitative and quantitative data collection. Qualitative research in such diverse areas as anthropology, sociology, education, medicine... -
100 Questions (and Answers) About Statistics by Neil J. Salkind 9781452283388
RRP: £33.99£30.36In an increasingly data-driven world, it is more important than ever for students as well as professionals to better understand basic statistical concepts. 100 Questions (and Answers) About Statistics addresses the essential questions that students ask... -
Researching Young People's Lives by Eleanor Ireland
RRP: £39.99£32.66'Researching young people's lives will be useful to both the novice researcher and anyone interested in learning about new methods of practice' - Youth Studies Australia Researching Young People's Lives provides an overview of some of the key... -
Data Collection: Key Debates and Methods in Social Research by Wendy Olsen 9781847872562
RRP: £42.99£35.02This innovative book provides students and researchers alike with an indispensible introduction to the key theoretical issues and practical methods needed for data collection. It uses clear definitions, relevant interdisciplinary examples from around... -
Latent Class Analysis by Allan L. McCutcheon 9780803927520
RRP: £33.99£30.09This important method provides researchers with a powerful and flexible new technique for analyzing the structure of relationships among categorically scored variables. Frequently described as a "categorical data analogue to factor analysis", the method... -
Hierarchical Linear Models: Applications and Data Analysis Methods by Stephen W. Raudenbush 9780761919049
RRP: £103.00£91.04"This is a first-class book dealing with one of the most important areas of current research in applied statistics...the methods described are widely applicable...the standard of exposition is extremely high." --Short Book Reviews from the International... -
Sociological Methods: A Sourcebook by Norman K. Denzin
RRP: £49.99£43.90A comprehensive collection of contemporary and classical readings on sociological method, this book provides students with systematic analyses of each of the major strategies employed in sociological research. It may be used as a supplement or as the... -
Problem-Solving Sociology: A Guide for Students by Professor of Sociology Monica Prasad
RRP: £20.99£17.94A broad resource that offers tools for how to conduct problem-solving sociology in order to deepen and reformulate our understanding of society. Most students arrive in graduate sociology programs eager to engage with the pressing social and political... -
Doing Critical Research by Mats Alvesson
RRP: £52.00£42.30This title builds on the success of Doing Critical Management Research which has proven to be a seminal text in the 20 years since publication. In 2020, Alvesson and Deetz have broadened their focus and updated the original book to offer relevance to... -
Analyzing Narrative Reality by Jaber F. Gubrium 9781412952194
RRP: £76.00£66.76Analyzing Narrative Reality offers a comprehensive framework for analyzing the construction and use of stories in society. This centers on the interplay of narrative work and narrative environments, viewed as reflexively related. Topics dealing with... -
Applied Regression Models in the Social Sciences by Dudley L. Poston, Jr 9781108926263
RRP: £44.99£40.48This accessible and practical textbook gives students the perfect guide to the use of regression models in testing and evaluating hypotheses dealing with social relationships. A range of statistical methods suited to a wide variety of dependent variables... -
Improving Schools Through Action Research: A Reflective Practice Approach by Cher C. Hendricks
RRP: £64.19£57.06Note: This is the bound book only and does not include access to the Enhanced Pearson eText. To order the Enhanced Pearson eText packaged with a bound book, use ISBN 0134027426. A brief, user-friendly, solid look at the action research cycle and the... -
Constructing Effective Questionnaires by Robert A. Peterson 9780761916413
RRP: £121.00£105.50This book is for all of our customers who have read our books and need to know more. Robert A. Peterson has written a comprehensive text on questionnaire design and construction. This volume goes a step beyond the Survey Kit to give the reader more... -
Ethnographic Research: A Reader by Stephanie Taylor 9780761973935 [USED COPY]
RRP: £53.00£2.70Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Focus Group Methodology: Principle and Practice by Pranee Liamputtong 9781847879097
RRP: £44.99£36.59Focus Group Methodology is an introductory text which leads readers through the entire process of designing a focus group study, from conducting interviews to analysing data and presenting the findings. It also includes discussions on cross-cultural... -
China in the Age of Xi Jinping by Michael Dillon
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book presents a concise introduction to China in the Xi Jinping era. It is intended as a first book for those coming new to the subject, providing the essential information that most people need to know, without going into excessive detail. Its... -
Social Research: A Practical Introduction by Bruce Curtis 9781847874757
RRP: £52.00£42.52Original, fresh and relevant this is a theoretically-informed practical guide to researching social relations. The text provides a mixed methods approach that challenges historical divisions between quantitative and qualitative research. It adopts a... -
Essentials of Consensual Qualitative Research by Clara E. Hill
RRP: £22.99£19.33The brief, practical texts in the Essentials of Qualitative Methods series introduce social science and psychology researchers to key approaches to capturing phenomena not easily measured quantitatively, offering exciting, nimble opportunities to gather... -
Making Sense of Social Research by Malcolm Williams 9780761964223 [USED COPY]
RRP: £52.00£2.64Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Making Sense of Social Research by Malcolm Williams 9780761964223
RRP: £52.00£42.12What are the essentials for undergraduates and postgraduates engaged in quantitative and qualitative research? How can the gap between formulating a research question and carrying out research be bridged? This accessible, well-judged text provides... -
Reliability and Validity in Qualitative Research by Jerome Kirk 9780803924703
RRP: £33.99£30.09Authors Jerome Kirk and Marc L. Miller define what is-and what is not-qualitative research. They suggest that the use of numbers in the process of recording and analyzing observations is less important than that the research should involve sustained... -
Doing Social Network Research: Network-based Research Design for Social Scientists by Garry L. Robins
RRP: £42.99£37.77Are you struggling to design your social network research? Are you looking for a book that covers more than social network analysis? If so, this is the book for you! With straight-forward guidance on research design and data collection, as well as... -
Analyzing Social Networks by Stephen P Borgatti 9781529609158
RRP: £39.99£33.17Kickstart your research with this practical, bestselling guide to doing social network analysis. Get to grips with the mathematical foundations and learn how to use software tools such as NeTDraw and UCINET to reach your research goals. Supporting... -
Netnography: The Essential Guide to Qualitative Social Media Research by Robert Kozinets
RRP: £117.00£95.31Netnography is an adaptation of ethnography for the online world, pioneered by Robert Kozinets, and is concerned with the study of online cultures and communities as distinct social phenomena, rather than isolated content. In this landmark third edition,... -
Rapid Qualitative Inquiry: A Field Guide to Team-Based Assessment by James Beebe 9780759123205
RRP: £45.00£39.49Practitioners in need of timely results for program and policy planning-and students looking for realistic research projects-will find solutions in Rapid Qualitative Inquiry (RQI), a team-based, applied research method designed to quickly develop an... -
Text Mining: A Guidebook for the Social Sciences by Gabe Ignatow 9781483369341
RRP: £76.00£67.24Online communities generate massive volumes of natural language data and the social sciences continue to learn how to best make use of this new information and the technology available for analyzing it. Text Mining brings together a broad range of... -
Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling by Sarah Depaoli
£69.00This book offers researchers a systematic and accessible introduction to using a Bayesian framework in structural equation modeling (SEM). Stand-alone chapters on each SEM model clearly explain the Bayesian form of the model and walk the reader through... -
Qualitative Inquiry at a Crossroads: Political, Performative, and Methodological Reflections by Norman K. Denzin
RRP: £39.99£35.06Qualitative Inquiry at a Crossroads critically reflects on the ever-changing dynamics of qualitative research in the contemporary moment. We live at a crossroads in which the spaces for critical civic discourse are narrowing, in which traditional... -
Ordinary Wars: Doing Transdisciplinary Research by Genevieve Durham Decesaro 9781612298429
RRP: £43.00£29.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612298429Author Genevieve Durham DecesaroFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Common Ground PublishingPublisher Common Ground PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Applied Logistic Regression Analysis by Scott Menard 9780761922087
RRP: £33.99£30.09The focus in this Second Edition is again on logistic regression models for individual level data, but aggregate or grouped data are also considered. The book includes detailed discussions of goodness of fit, indices of predictive efficiency, and... -
Artful Collaborative Inquiry: Making and Writing Creative, Qualitative Research by Davina Kirkpatrick
RRP: £39.99£35.06Artful Collaborative Inquiry comprises essays created collectively by a group of scholars and artists, the majority of whom have several decades of experience of working together. The book challenges commonly-held, individualistic beliefs about... -
Finding Your Social Science Project: The Research Sandbox by John Gerring
RRP: £22.99£19.96The most important step in social science research is the first step - finding a topic. Unfortunately, little guidance on this crucial and difficult challenge is available. Methodological studies and courses tend to focus on theory testing rather than... -
Visualizing Social Science Research: Maps, Methods, & Meaning by Johannes P. Wheeldon 9781412991049
RRP: £54.00£47.18This introductory text presents basic principles of social science research through maps, graphs, and diagrams. The authors show how concept maps and mind maps can be used in quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research, using student-friendly... -
The Graduate Student as Writer: Encouragement for the Budding Scholar by Shuyi Chua 9781076850256
RRP: £9.99£8.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781076850256Author Shuyi ChuaFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm)... -
Focus Group Interviews in Education and Psychology by Sharon R. Vaughn 9780803958937
RRP: £76.00£67.24This manuscript provides a blueprint for people conducting focus groups. The examples are highly useful and in combination with the book give people the information they need to actually run a focus group. . . . Chapter nine is uniquely useful for...