Research Methods: General

From diaries and letters to surveys and interview transcripts, documents are a cornerstone of social science research. This book guides you through...

This is a book about the ideas that drive statistics. It is an ideal primer for students who need an introduction to the concepts of statistics wit...

This four volume Major Work brings together the key articles that laid the foundations, extended and deepened the techniques, and demonstrated the ...

The focus of this Major Work is unequivocally cross-disciplinary: the three-volume collection contains landmark papers which explore ethics issues ...

How do views about children shape research concerned with their lives? What different forms can research with children take? What ethical issues do...

Why use qualitative methods? What kinds of questions can qualitative methods help you answer? How do you actually do rigorous and reflective qualit...

This is a book about the ideas that drive statistics. It is an ideal primer for students who need an introduction to the concepts of statistics wit...

Covering the general process of data analysis to finding, collecting, organizing, and presenting data, this book offers a complete introduction to ...

Covering the general process of data analysis to finding, collecting, organizing, and presenting data, this book offers a complete introduction to ...

In Research Methods in Tourism, Hospitality and Events Management, the authors use a step-by-step approach to guide students through the whole rese...

Being Ethnographic is an essential introductory guidebook to the methods and applications of doing fieldwork in real-world settings. It discusses t...

Being Ethnographic is an essential introductory guidebook to the methods and applications of doing fieldwork in real-world settings. It discusses t...

Fully updated and expanded to ten volumes, this second edition of The SAGE Qualitative Research Kit contains the essential, state-of-the-art tools ...

From pioneering leaders in the field, this is the first book to provide a solid foundation for three major stakeholder involvement approaches: coll...

The Great War is an immense, confusing and overwhelming historical conflict - the ideal case study for teaching game theory and international relat...

The Student Study Guide With SPSS Workbook for Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences includes a review of chapter learning objectives, chapter out...

The use of randomised controlled trials (RCTs), most commonly a medical sciences research tool, is a hotly debated topic in Education. This book ex...

The use of randomised controlled trials (RCTs), most commonly a medical sciences research tool, is a hotly debated topic in Education. This book ex...

Action Research: Using Strategic Inquiry to Improve Teaching and Learning helps educators use research to guide decision-making and determine the e...

Students embarking on their first clinical research protocol are often daunted by the task at hand, particularly by the statistical terminology, co...

Are you looking to find your voice, hone your writing tactics, and cultivate communication skills with impact?   Using real-world cases, student ...

The fully updated Second Edition presents systematic methods for analyzing qualitative data with clear and easy-to-understand steps. The first half...

The bestseller continues to teach an often intimidating and difficult subject in a way that is informative, personable, and clear.  Author Neil J. ...

Perhaps the greatest strength of choosing video as a method for social research is its flexible and almost limitless potential for gathering, analy...

Moving away from the common/traditional focus on studying organizations from a distance, this highly engaging book introduces the idea of studying ...

All qualitative researchers sample, yet methods of sampling and choosing cases have received relatively little attention compared to other qualitat...

This introductory text presents basic principles of social science research through maps, graphs, and diagrams. The authors show how concept maps a...

Focusing on research designs for projects that collect both qualitative and quantitative data, this practical book discusses strategies for bringin...

This is a book for any researcher using any kind of survey data. It introduces the latest methods of assessing the quality and validity of such dat...

Illustrating the techniques of qualitative research to help readers learn to read, analyze, and design studies themselves Taking a well-rounded and...

This book guides student researchers through the different stages of small-scale or practitioner research, a common component of study for students...

The Sage Handbook of Measurement is a unique methodological resource in which Walford, Viswanathan and Tucker draw together contributions from lead...

In recent years there has been an explosion of research on qualitative methodology and methods in the social sciences at large, and in the field of...

In Template Analysis, Nigel King and Joanna Brookes guide you through the origins of template analysis and its place in qualitative research, its b...

Why use qualitative research in psychology? How is qualitative research in psychology carried out? What are the major debates and unresolved issu...

This unique text provides a comprehensive framework for creating, managing, and interpreting qualitative research studies that yield valid and usef...

Evidence-based policing is a core part of the National Policing Curriculum but policing students and new officers often feel daunted by the prospec...