Research Methods: General

When investigating the diverse, complex and changing contemporary field of sport, we recognize there is no methodology that meets the needs of all ...

When it comes to presenting research there′s the good, the bad, and the messy. Students need to factor in the different elements of a presentation ...

Departing from a concern with certain ’hard’ problems in social theory and focusing instead on the theoretical strategies employed in their solutio...

Research in Analytical Psychology: Empirical Research provides an original overview of empirical research in Analytical Psychology, focusing on qua...

In this book, Mertens provides a brief history of the emergence of mixed methods research and numerous examples to illustrate its application in di...

Proposing Empirical Research: A Guide to the Fundamentals provides step-by-step instructions for students who will be writing their first research ...

This book is an introduction to regression analysis, focusing on the practicalities of doing regression analysis on real-life data.Contrary to othe...

Facilitating Community Research for Social Change asks: what does ethical research facilitation look like in projects that seek to move toward soci...

Realism and Complexity in Social Science is an argument for a new approach to investigating the social world, that of complex realism. Complex real...

In company with its sister volume, this book explores arts-based approaches to research across media, including film and comics-related material, f...

This bestselling textbook has been fully updated, and provides readers with a comprehensive overview of methods for conducting business and managem...

Behind the Scenes in Social Research discusses the informal, adaptive, and real-life process of doing social science research. It complements the m...

Reading Autoethnography situates autoethnographic insights within the context of two fundamental concerns of critical qualitative inquiry: justice ...

The last 46 years have witnessed a deep and continued interest in information literacy. This interest has resulted in an extensive range of researc...

Developed in response to the theoretically driven mainstream sociology, institutional ethnography starts from people’s everyday experiences, and wo...

Community Engagement Through Collaborative Writing: Storytelling Together is designed to support scholars and communities storytelling together to ...

Covering basic univariate and bivariate statistics and regression models for nominal, ordinal, and interval outcomes, Applied Statistics for the So...

Interviewing is one of the most frequently used research tools in the social sciences, yet its importance as a technique is usually underestimated....

In company with its sister volume, this book explores arts-based approaches to research across media, including film and comics-related material, f...

Behind the Scenes in Social Research discusses the informal, adaptive, and real-life process of doing social science research. It complements the m...

This practical and easy-to-use book offers professional educators of any academic level, subject area, or position the tools, techniques, and strat...

Methodological Concepts: A Critical Guide clarifies many key terms and issues in social research methodology. It outlines the conventional meanings...

This book investigates why economics makes less visible progress over time than scientific fields with a strong practical component, where interact...

Dissertation Research Methods: A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing Up Your Research in the Social Sciences focuses specifically on the methodology for ...