Social Research & Statistics

Whilst a great deal of progress has been made in recent decades, concerns persist about the course of the social sciences. Progress in these discip...

Cluster analysis finds groups in data automatically. Most methods have been heuristic and leave open such central questions as: how many clusters a...

The primary data driver behind US drug policy is the National Survey on Drug Use and Health. This insider history traces the evolution of the surve...

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

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Real-world data sets are messy and complicated. Written for students in social science and public management, this authoritative but approachable g...

Thomas Robert Malthus (17661834) was a pioneer in demography, economics and social science more generally whose ideas prompted a new 'Malthusian' w...

Research justice is a strategic framework and methodological intervention that aims to transform structural inequalities in research. This book is ...

Many theories in the social sciences predict spatial dependence or the similarity of behaviors at neighboring locations. Spatial Analysis for the S...

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

Multilayer networks, in particular multilayer social networks, where users belong to and interact on different networks at the same time, are an ac...

Dieses erfolgreiche Lehrbuch ist gedacht für Sozialwissenschaftlerinnen und Sozialwissenschaftler, die in einem Kurs vom Umfang eines Semesters das...

This book combines a methodological guide with an extended case study to show how digital research methods can be used to explore how ethnicity, ge...

Evaluators who are interested in developing or improving a program or policy frequently look to formative evaluation as a guiding framework. This b...

This volume of Comparative Social Research emphasizes unsolved issues and new developments within class and stratification analysis, discussing bot...

An edition, with introduction and notes, of the unique census for religious worship, in north-east England. In 1851, for the only time in British ...

Daten sind Gold. Dieses Gold liegt auf der Straße allerdings im Staub verborgen. Man findet es beispielsweise in Unternehmensdatenbanken oder ausg...

This open access book explores the synergy between AI and education, highlighting its potential impact on pedagogical practices. It navigates the e...

This book draws upon data collected over an 18 year period with over 1000 boys and young men across Northern Ireland. Providing critical reflection...

This book is designed for an undergraduate, one-semester course in experimental research, primarily targeting programs in sociology, political scie...

Low income households are faced with various types of risks, increasing their vulnerability to poverty. In Cambodia, conditions of the rural poor -...

Waste is increasingly a site of social conflict. The questions related to waste management are not merely technical; what, how, where, and by whom ...

Significantly revised, the fifth edition of the most complete, accessible text now covers all three approaches to structural equation modeling (SEM...

Due miliardi e mezzo di utenti internet, oltre un miliardo di account Facebook, 550 milioni di profili Twitter. Che parlano, discutono, si confront...

University rankings have gained popularity around the world and are now a significant factor shaping reputation. This second edition updates Ellen ...

This collection on researching later life and ageing critically reflects upon the qualitative methods used in gaining knowledge of under-researched...

Multiple sclerosis is an incurable neurological disease of unknown cause with a fearful reputation for generating disability, unemployment, poverty...

These essays by no means cover all areas of interest in long-term care programs, but they offer new insights (and intriguing questions for future r...

With its unique combination of humour and step-by-step instruction, this award-winning book is the statistics lifesaver for everyone. From initial ...

With its unique combination of humour and step-by-step instruction, this award-winning book is the statistics lifesaver for everyone. From initial ...

Places that Matter asks the reader to identify a place that matters in their lifetheir home, a place of worship, a park, or some other site that ac...

This book presents a series of analyses of educational policies largely in the UK, but some also in Europe researched by a team of social scienti...

This book is concerned with the contexts, nature and quality of the participation of young people in European democratic life. The authors understa...

In recent years, social scientists have engaged in a deep debate over the methods appropriate to their research. Their long reliance on passive obs...

In recent years, social scientists have engaged in a deep debate over the methods appropriate to their research. Their long reliance on passive obs...

This book, now in paperback, revisits Peter Townsend's classic study of residential care for older people in Britain conducted in the late 1950s. I...

This book, now in paperback, revisits Peter Townsend's classic study of residential care for older people in Britain conducted in the late 1950s. I...

Inspiration and Innovation in Teaching and Teacher Education is an edited collection that offers a variety of conceptual and research-based discuss...