Social Research & Statistics

This book shows students and early-career researchers how to prepare for and conduct interviews and focus groups.   Interviews and focus groups are...

This book offers original, pedagogically sound, classroom-tested activities for teaching statistics and research methods that engage students, teac...

Field experiments -- randomized controlled trials -- have become ever more popular in political science, as well as in other disciplines, such as e...

A lively, practical, first-of-its-kind guide to understanding cold, clinical data and harnessing it to tell a persuasive story.__________How many h...

Qualitative interviewing has become one of the most common research methods across the human and social sciences, if not the most prevalent approac...

Despite all of the information that exists to encourage students to attend and do well in college, this is the first research-based guide that dire...

Through the use of eight original metaphors for understanding what may happen in interviews and what may guide the interviewee (more than telling t...

Through the use of eight original metaphors for understanding what may happen in interviews and what may guide the interviewee (more than telling t...

A comprehensive introduction and teaching resource for state-of-the-art Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) using R software. This guide facilit...

A state-of-the-art approach to evaluating research design for students and scholars across the social sciencesAssessing the properties of research ...

A state-of-the-art approach to evaluating research design for students and scholars across the social sciencesAssessing the properties of research ...

This one-of-a-kind literary and conceptual experiment does anthropology differentlyin all the wrong ways. No field trips. No other cultures. This i...

This one-of-a-kind literary and conceptual experiment does anthropology differentlyin all the wrong ways. No field trips. No other cultures. This i...

The National Accounts Statistics: Analysis of Main Aggregates, 2016 is the forty-seventh issue of this publication which comprises in the form of a...

A stress-free and enjoyable approach to the research methods courseREVELTM for Understanding Research is a practical and visually appealing introdu...

UNECE Countries in Figures presents a profile of social and economic indicators for each of the 56 UNECE member countries. These profiles, prepared...

What does mothering mean in different cultures and societies? This book extensively applies biographical and narrative research methods to motherin...

This thorough revision of Babbie's standard-setting text presents a succinct, straightforward introduction to the field of research methods as prac...

Suppose you were given two qualitative studies: one is a piece of empirically sound social science and the other, though interesting and beautifull...

All social scientists learn the celebrated theories and frameworks of their predecessors, using them to inform their own research and observations....

With a new chapter on the literature review, this accessible step-by-step guide to using the five major approaches to research design is now in a t...

This publication informs inter-governmental and inter-agency regional decision making in support of implementing the 2030 Agenda in the region. It ...

In Anthropology in the Meantime Michael M. J. Fischer draws on his real world, multi-causal, multi-scale, and multi-locale research to rebuild theo...

The Energy Statistics Pocketbook 2018 presents a compilation of energy statistics designed to highlight the availability of data on various aspects...

Beginning researchers get an overview of qualitative research through a concise look at the practice of conducting research and the theory and deba...

Joining the Dialogue offers an exciting new approach for teaching academic research writing to introductory students by drawing on communication et...

This new edition of the SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research represents the sixth generation of the ongoing conversation about the discipline, pra...

No inter/transdisciplinary Reader currently on the market Aimed at those new to the field, providing a grounding in the essential key reading nee...

Over 50 indicators have been collected from more than 20 international statistical sources and are presented in one-page profiles for 30 world geog...

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

Now issued as part of the Routledge Education Classic Edition series, The Qualitative Manifesto provides a call to arms for researchers from the le...

This publication presents the levels and trends in mortality from 1970 to 2015 drawn from the World Population Prospects. It highlights variations ...

The Social Panorama of Latin America 2018 analyzes issues crucial to understanding and action given the structural challenges facing the countries ...

The region has seen tremendous economic and social progress over the last 50 years, However, this conceals increasing risks to achieving the 2030 A...

The average achievements the Asia-Pacific region has seen in education, employment and income reflect the role economic growth can play in helping ...

This publication provides country examples and best practices on measuring international labour mobility. It was prepared by a task force composed ...

The main purpose of this publication is to provide the producers of population and housing censuses with guidance on the use of registers and admin...

This publication is an annual compilation of a wide range of international economic, social and environmental statistics on over 200 countries and ...

Net-Generation Student Motivation to Attend Community College explores the factors that affect student retention rates in community college by pres...

The era of digital communication provides endless opportunities for the collection and analysis of social data in novel ways. It also presents new ...

In den letzten Jahren hat die wissenschaftliche Beschäftigung mit Religion erheblich zugenommen. Sehr häufig fehlt den Forschenden jedoch das dafür...

This book guides you through designing and implementing an online experiment in social science research in a clear and straightforward manner.  At...

The second edition of Statistics for the Social Sciences prepares students from a wide range of disciplines to interpret and learn the statistical ...

Although comparative politics is conventionally seen as the study of politics across countries, the field has a longstanding and increasingly promi...

Activists Forever? explores the consequences of political involvement on an individual's life. While much of the research in this area has focused ...

What is a focus group? Why do we use them? When should we use them? When should we not? Focus Groups for the Social Science Researcher provides a s...