Research Methods: General

This book serves as a succint and thorough guide to pursuing basic research in Chinese sources. Designed as a tool for both primary and secondary t...

This text offers researchers practical hints and advice as well as support/guidance in planning, carrying out, writing up and publishing research f...

This book addresses wide-ranging dilemmas that social researchers may face as a result of silences, neglected feelings, and blind-spots in their re...

Statistical Analysis: The Basics provides an engaging and easy‑to‑read primer on this sometimes daunting subject. Intended for those with little or...

As extreme and far right movements become increasingly widespread in many countries, the sociology of social movements is called to confront them. ...

The volume provides a field-analytical methodology for researching knowledge-based sociopolitical processes of transnationalization. Drawing on sem...

This book draws on both traditional and emerging fields of study to consider consider what a grounded definition of quantitative and qualitative re...

Challenge-Based Learning (CBL) is a cutting-edge educational approach that integrates traditional learning modules (theory and practice) with real-...

Much more than a style guide that teaches students the correct way to set up a footnote, Where Credit is Due provides complete nuts-and-bolts infor...

This is a practical and accessible, yet sophisticated introduction to interpretive methods for doing qualitative research projects and dissertation...

MATLAB Blues is an accessible, comprehensive introduction to the MATLAB computer programming language—a powerful and increasingly popular tool for ...

The Meeting of Aesthetics and Ethics in the Academy provides a deep understanding of the nuances of ethics in the creative environment and contribu...

This edited collection explores issues that arise when researching "hard-to-reach" groups and those who remain socially excluded and marginalized i...

Expanding the scope of the metadiscourse construct, Ho offers a comprehensive analysis of the online review response genre using hotel managers' re...

This comprehensive book is an introduction to multilevel Bayesian models in R using brms and the Stan programming language. Featuring a series of f...

This book adopts an innovative approach in exploring the evolution of fitness practices among a community of gym goers amid a global pandemic, cons...

This book addresses the functioning of financial markets, in particular the financial market model, and modelling. More specifically, the book prov...

This book explores the dynamics of the "middle-class global rebellion" born of the frustration at declining living standards. Addressing narratives...

Developing Grounded Theory: The Second Generation Revisited is a highly accessible description of the rapid development of grounded theories and th...

Cross-disciplinary scientific collaboration is emerging as standard operating procedure for many scholarly research enterprises. And yet, the skill...

This collection immerses scholars of communication and related disciplines in narratives of and conversations about social-justice-focused activism...

The issue of methodology is a fundamental concern for all who engage in educational research. Presenting a series of methodological dialogues betwe...

Originally published in 1990, Classroom Ethnography examines the interplay between empirical research and methodological reflection. It explores th...

Management Research: Applying the Principles of Business Research Methods supports new researchers on every step of the research journey, from defi...

The fifth edition of this comprehensive and engaging text guides readers through the essential tools and skills necessary to conduct quantitative c...

With so much technical information about research methods it is easy to lose sight of the bigger picture of why we carry out educational research a...

Arts-Based Research Methods for Educational Researchers is a book for early-career and established scholars who aim to use the arts to spark new id...

This is an essential how-to guide on the application of structural equation modeling (SEM) techniques with the AMOS software, focusing on the pract...

Studying people’s lives requires acknowledging the multiple entanglements between individual singularity and processes of social patterning. This b...

This book is based on the review of literature on different themes related to business and management in the Asia Pacific context. All seven chapte...

Narrative Portraits in Qualitative Research offers an analytical approach to qualitative data. Through narrative portraiture, research findings can...

This book extends debates in the field of biographical research, arguing that causal explanations are not at odds with biographical research and th...

In this book, first published in 1990, the authors have provided a scholarly treatment of the body of training literature between 1980 and 1988 tha...

This comprehensive book is an introduction to multilevel Bayesian models in R using brms and the Stan programming language. Featuring a series of f...

With new chapters and updated content throughout, this second edition of Higher Education Research Methodology is an essential guide to systematic ...

Respecifying Lab Ethnography delivers the first ethnomethodological study of current experimental physics in action, describing the disciplinary or...

The Poetics of Crime provides an invitation to reconsider and reimagine how criminological knowledge may be creatively and poetically constructed, ...

This groundbreaking collection explores the complexities of researching the lives of lesbian and queer women. It critically interrogates the concep...

The National Academy of Educational Research and the Association for the Advancement of Educational Research conduct a conference each year. This b...

The challenges and opportunities that are presented to both small and medium-sized enterprises have changed dramatically in recent decades as the w...

Research Methods in Crime and Justice, 2nd Edition, is an innovative text/online hybrid for undergraduate Criminal Justice Research Methods courses...

Qualitative Inquiry in Higher Education Organization and Policy Research provides readers with the theoretical foundations and innovative perspecti...

Performative Intergenerational Dialogues of a Black Quartet promotes the importance of intergenerational Black dialogue as a collaborative spirit-m...

This accessible textbook is for those without a mathematical background (just some notions of basic algebra are sufficient) and provides a comprehe...

This book presents the methodological framework of combining Multimodal Conversation Analysis (MCA) with Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (...