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Monte Carlo Simulation and Resampling Methods for Social Science by Thomas M. Carsey 9781452288901
RRP: £76.00£66.76Taking the topics of a quantitative methodology course and illustrating them through Monte Carlo simulation, this book examines abstract principles, such as bias, efficiency, and measures of uncertainty in an intuitive, visual way. Instead of thinking in... -
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... -
Evaluation Thesaurus by Michael Scriven 9780803943643
RRP: £103.00£90.41Written by one of the leading figures in evaluation, Evaluation Thesaurus is the perfect alternative to the lengthy, expensive evaluation encyclopaedias and the all-too-brief glossaries at the end of evaluation texts. This edition includes recent work in... -
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... -
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... -
Understanding Statistics: An Introduction for the Social Sciences by Daniel B. Wright 9780803979185
RRP: £35.99£31.79In this comprehensive introduction to using statistics in the social sciences, Daniel B Wright describes the most popular statistical techniques, explaining their basic principles and demonstrating their use in a wide range of social research. The... -
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... -
Biographical Research Methods by Marta J. Eichsteller
RRP: £35.99£29.60Biographical data provide unique insights into social life, but they also pose some significant challenges for social science researchers. This book offers a systematic, flexible guide to using biographical narrative methods in your research project. ... -
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... -
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... -
Experimental Design and Analysis by Steven R. Brown 9780803938540
RRP: £33.99£30.09This volume introduces the reader to one of the most fundamental topics in social science statistics: experimental design. The authors clearly show how to select an experimental design based on the number of independent variables and the number of... -
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... -
Quantitative Methods in Social Science Research by Stephen Gorard 9780826465863
£43.02Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Quantitative Methods in Social Science Research by Stephen Gorard 9780826465863 [USED COPY]
RRP: £42.99£2.75This clever scheme builds on Gorard's previous book, Quantitative Methods in Educational Research (June 2001). He has revised the original book in the light of experience and feedback, and then reworks it so that it includes more social science examples... -
Making Sense of Social Research by Malcolm Williams 9780761964223 [USED COPY]
RRP: £52.00£2.40What 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... -
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... -
Writing Strategies: Reaching Diverse Audiences by Laurel Richardson 9780803935228
RRP: £33.99£30.09You've finished your research and have reached the point of writing it up. You know your findings are important both for your colleagues and for a more general public. But how do you write this material to appeal to different audiences? In Writing... -
Ethics and Process in the Narrative Study of Lives by Ruthellen H. Josselson 9780761902379
RRP: £103.00£90.01First-hand accounts of the ideological, moral, emotional and practical complexities that surround the doing of narrative research are offered in this volume. Exploring such issues as: whether work that risks exposing sensitive aspects of peoples' lives... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Researching Religion: Why We Need Social Science by Steve Bruce 9780198786580
£33.54Researching Religion: Why We Need Social Science establishes the relevance of social science for the study of religion and promotes a particular kind of social science. Even if we confine ourselves to academic disciplines, there are very many ways of... -
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£29.27Apologies 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: £41.99£36.75Artful 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... -
Interaction Effects in Multiple Regression by James Jaccard 9780761927426
RRP: £33.99£30.09Interaction Effects in Multiple Regression has provided students and researchers with a readable and practical introduction to conducting analyses of interaction effects in the context of multiple regression. The new Second Edition will expand the... -
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£8.08Apologies 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)...