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What is Qualitative Interviewing? by Professor Rosalind Edwards 9781849668095
Booksplease Price: $53.78This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on bloomsburycollections.com.What is Qualitative Interviewing? is an accessible and comprehensive... -
The Retold Story of David and Goliath by Rosalind Edwards 9798891555617
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798891555617Author Rosalind EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint -
Qualitative Interviewing: Research Methods by Rosalind Edwards 9781350275126
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $34.73First published Open Access under a Creative Commons license as What is Qualitative Interviewing?, this title is now also available as part of the Bloomsbury Research Methods series. This book is... -
Qualitative Interviewing: Research Methods by Rosalind Edwards 9781350275133
RRP: $117.00Booksplease Price: $112.92First published Open Access under a Creative Commons license as What is Qualitative Interviewing?, this title is now also available as part of the Bloomsbury Research Methods series. This book is a... -
Sibling Identity and Relationships: Sisters and Brothers by Rosalind Edwards 9780415339308
RRP: $77.98Booksplease Price: $74.08Sibling Identity and Relationships explores the special place that siblings occupy in the lives of children and young people, providing new insights into sibling identity and relationships. Drawing... -
Risk and Citizenship: Key Issues in Welfare Rosalind Edwards 9780415241595
RRP: $101.38Booksplease Price: $95.63Contemporary welfare provision poses serious challenges for social policy. Large and rapid changes are said to be taking place in the way we live, work and relate to each other, characterised by... -
Researching Families and Communities: Social and Generational Change Rosalind Edwards 9780415427128
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $82.37Recent years have seen a concern with how family and community relationships have changed across the generations, whether for better or worse, and particularly how they have been affected by social... -
International Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Mixedness and Mixing Rosalind Edwards 9781138110366
RRP: $93.58Booksplease Price: $87.34People from a 'mixed' or 'inter' racial and ethnic background, and people partnering and parenting across different racial and ethnic backgrounds, are of increasing political, public and intellectual... -
Mature Women Students: Separating Of Connecting Family And Education Rosalind Edwards 9780748400874
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $97.29First Published in 1993. At a time when more mature women are encouraged to enter higher education, this book investigates the effects that being a student has on women's family and social... -
Governing Families: Problematising Technologies in Social Welfare and Criminal Justice by Rosalind Edwards
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $90.66This book provides a focused discussion of how families are governed through technologies. It shows how states attempt to influence, shape and govern families as both the source of and solution to a... -
Working with Paradata, Marginalia and Fieldnotes: The Centrality of By-Products of Social Research Rosalind Edwards 9781784715243
Booksplease Price: $204.75This book asks the important question; Can the by-products of research activity be treated as data and of research interest in themselves? This groundbreaking interdisciplinary volume considers the... -
Governing Families: Problematising Technologies in Social Welfare and Criminal Justice by Rosalind Edwards 9780367530754
Booksplease Price: $40.93This book provides a focused discussion of how families are governed through technologies. It shows how states attempt to influence, shape and govern families as both the source of and solution to a... -
Mothers and Education: Inside Out?: Exploring Family-Education Policy And Experience by Miriam E. David 9780333565933
Booksplease Price: $90.27Examines the various aspects of the relationships between mothers and education at different levels in the education system. In particular, mothers of young children in relation to various... -
Lone Mothers, Paid Work and Gendered Moral Rationalitie by Simon Duncan 9780333644539
Booksplease Price: $89.31Why are most British lone mothers unemployed? And is 'welfare to work' the right sort of policy response? This book provides an in-depth analysis of how lone mothers negotiate the relationship... -
Analysing Families: Morality and Rationality in Policy and Practice Alan Carling 9780415250405
RRP: $101.38Booksplease Price: $95.63While the family and its role continues to be a key topic in social and government policy, much of the literature is concerned with describing the dramatic changes that are taking place. By contrast,... -
Exploring 'Unseen' Social Capital in Community Participation: Everyday Lives of Poor Mainland Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong by Sam Wong
RRP: $91.55Booksplease Price: $90.66This book argues that using social capital to eradicate poverty is less likely to succeed because the mainstream neoinstitutional approach mistakenly assumes that social capital necessarily benefits... -
Divorce, Families and Emotion Work: 'Only Death Will Make Us Part' by Elena Moore 9781137438218
Booksplease Price: $128.62"This book is a carefully researched, clearly written, very important contribution to our understanding of divorce." -Arlie Hochschild, University of California, USA "This rich, evidence-informed... -
Innovations in Critical Policy Analysis: What’s the Problem Represented to Be? Malin Rönnblom 9781447373797
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $122.62Public policy is often framed as a response to social problems rather than the cause of them. Carol Bacchi's influential 'What's the Problem Represented to Be?' (WPR) approach - first published in... -
Challenging the Politics of Early Intervention: Who's 'Saving' Children and Why by Val Gillies 9781447324096
RRP: $165.75Booksplease Price: $136.09A vital interrogation of the internationally accepted policy and practice consensus that intervention to shape parenting in the early years is the way to prevent disadvantage. Given the divisive... -
Motherhood, Absence and Transition: When Adult Children Leave Home by Trish Green 9780754677338
RRP: $194.98Booksplease Price: $176.83The vast majority of academic texts on motherhood have focused on women's experiences of the early years of mothering, while texts covering the topic of home-leaving have tended to privilege the... -
Challenging the Politics of Early Intervention: Who's 'Saving' Children and Why Val Gillies (University of Westminster) 9781447324102
RRP: $50.68Booksplease Price: $46.88A vital interrogation of the internationally accepted policy and practice consensus that intervention to shape parenting in the early years is the way to prevent disadvantage. Given the divisive... -
Motherhood, Absence and Transition: When Adult Children Leave Home by Trish Green
RRP: $68.23Booksplease Price: $65.77The vast majority of academic texts on motherhood have focused on women's experiences of the early years of mothering, while texts covering the topic of home-leaving have tended to privilege the... -
Families in Transition: Social Change, Family Formation and Kin Relationships by Nickie Charles 9781861347893
RRP: $165.75Booksplease Price: $136.11This book addresses the complexity of family change. It draws on evidence from two linked studies, one carried out in the 1960s and the other in the early years of the 21st century, to analyse the... -
Families in transition: Social change, family formation and kin relationships by Nickie Charles 9781861347886
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $51.25This book addresses the complexity of family change. It draws on evidence from two linked studies, one carried out in the 1960s and the other in the early years of the 21st century, to analyse the... -
Winning Research Funding by Abby Day Peters 9780566084591
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $82.37This book gives advice on writing and successful publication following completion of the research project and features real-life case studies and interviews throughout. It explains how to build and... -
Power, Knowledge and the Academy: The Institutional is Political by V. Gillies 9781349546763
Booksplease Price: $90.25This book takes a close-up and critical look at both the elusive and blatant workings and consequences of power in a range of everyday sites in universities. Chapters focus on specific locations in... -
Relating Intimacies: Power and Resistance by Paul Bagguley 9780333747643
Booksplease Price: $46.12Relating Intimacies contains papers presented at the 1997 British Sociological Association Conference which discuss contemporary research and theorizing with regard to intimate relationships... -
Designing Social Research: The Logic of Anticipation Norman Blaikie (RMIT University Melbourne and Universiti Sains, Malaysia) 9781509517404
RRP: $126.75Booksplease Price: $112.22Designing Social Research is a uniquely comprehensive and student-friendly guide to the core knowledge and types of skills required for planning social research. The authors organize the book around... -
Designing Social Research: The Logic of Anticipation Norman Blaikie (RMIT University Melbourne and Universiti Sains, Malaysia) 9781509517411
RRP: $64.33Booksplease Price: $54.54Designing Social Research is a uniquely comprehensive and student-friendly guide to the core knowledge and types of skills required for planning social research. The authors organize the book around... -
Objectivity and Subjectivity in Social Research by John G. Scott 9780857028419
Booksplease Price: $212.63Objectivity and subjectivity are key concepts in social research. This book, written by leading authors in the field, takes a completely new approach to objectivity and subjectivity, no longer... -
Risk, Trust and Welfare by Peter Taylor-Gooby 9780333764930
Booksplease Price: $78.76This book contains new theoretical discussion and new empirical evidence on the way people think about and cope with the risks and uncertainties of modern life. The national surveys cover areas... -
Mixed Race in Asia: Past, Present and Future by Zarine L. Rocha 9780367885748
RRP: $91.63Booksplease Price: $85.68Mixed racial and ethnic identities are topics of increasing interest around the world, yet studies of mixed race in Asia are rare, despite its particular salience for Asian societies. Mixed Race in... -
Feminist Dilemmas in Qualitative Research: Public Knowledge and Private Lives by Jane Catherine Ribbens 9780761956655
Booksplease Price: $211.50How can researchers produce work with relevance to theoretical and formal traditions and requirements of public academic knowledge while still remaining faithful to the experiences and accounts of... -
Sampling and Choosing Cases in Qualitative Research: A Realist Approach by Nick Emmel 9780857025104
Booksplease Price: $182.27All qualitative researchers sample, yet methods of sampling and choosing cases have received relatively little attention compared to other qualitative methods. This innovative book critically... -
The Archive Project: Archival Research in the Social Sciences by Niamh Moore
RRP: $99.43Booksplease Price: $93.95Recent scholarship on archival research has raised questions concerning the character and impact of 'the archive' on how the traces of the past are researched, the use and analysis of different kinds... -
Interviewing in Social Science Research: A Relational Approach Lee Ann Fujii 9780415843744
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $75.72What is interviewing and when is this method useful? What does it mean to select rather than sample interviewees? Once the researcher has found people to interview, how does she build a working...