Social Research & Statistics

The Oxford Handbook of Gangs and Society is the premier reference book on gangs for practitioners, policymakers, students, and scholars. This caref...

Academic Literacy in the Social Sciences is a practical introductory guide that supports students through the process of understanding and critical...

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

Offering pragmatic guidance for planning and conducting a meta-analytic review, this book is written in an engaging, nontechnical style that makes ...

A broad resource that offers tools for how to conduct problem-solving sociology in order to deepen and reformulate our understanding of society. M...

When more than twenty million immigrants arrived in the United States between 1880 and 1920, the government attempted to classify them according to...

This unique text shows researchers how to develop theories derived through qualitative inquiry. Johnny Saldaña illustrates how a theory is a resear...

Research skills are as critical to social work practitioners as skills in individual and group counselling, policy analysis, and community developm...

The 2021 Energy Balances contains energy balances for over 220 countries and territories, showing production, trade, transformation and consumption...

The 2021 Electricity Profiles contains electricity profiles for about 225 countries and territories, providing detailed information on production, ...

In this edition of the Demographic Observatory, the impact of population dynamics is illustrated through an analysis of selected indicators of labo...

This publication is the seventh in a series of pocketbook compilations on energy statistics designed to highlight the availability of data on vario...

A straightforward, comprehensive, and approachable guide to research as practiced by social scientists, the Fourteenth Edition of this gold-standar...

In the evolving environment of academic research, scholars face a persistent challenge navigating the complexities of indeterminacy in data. Tradi...

'Andrew Gold is the new Jon Ronson. Smart, funny, brave and deeply thoughtful, The Psychology of Secrets is an absolute must read' - Will Storr, be...

From the host of award-winning podcast On the Edge with Andrew Gold comes The Psychology of Secrets, a bizarre, surprising and thrilling deep dive ...

Modern statistical software provides the ability to compute statistics in a timely, orderly fashion. This introductory statistics textbook presents...

In this edited collection, leading scholars seek to disrupt Eurocentric research methods by introducing students, professors, administrators, and p...

Qualitative Inquiry at a Crossroads critically reflects on the ever-changing dynamics of qualitative research in the contemporary moment. We live a...

In its second edition, Research Literacy for Health and Community Practice introduces students to fundamental research concepts that will enable th...

In his signature pragmatic and friendly style, David Silverman acts as your stand-in supervisor in the seventh edition of this book, taking you ste...

Prepares students to conduct their first empirical research study, with quantitative and qualitative methods covered in detail. Common features as...

Indigenous Research Design is an interdisciplinary text that explores how researchers reimagine research paradigms, frameworks, designs, and method...

This book is premised on the assumption that games and simulations provide welcome alternatives and supplements to traditional lectures and class d...

This book covers a wide range of contemporary methods for researching social problems and connects these approaches to the broader substance and th...

This is the first book to show the capabilities of Microsoft Excel to teach social science statistics effectively.  It is a step-by-step exercise-d...

This book provides the first English-language account of the history of Danish sociology, examining it from the late 19th century to the present da...

This timely book inspires researchers to deploy relevant, effective, innovative digital methods. It explores the relationship of such methods to 'm...

Die verflixte Mathematik der Demokratie ist eine Erläuterung und historische Einführung in die Probleme, die in einer Demokratie entstehen können. ...

Migrant Capital covers a broad range of case studies and, by bringing together leading and emerging researchers, presents state-of-the-art empirica...

Offering pragmatic guidance for planning and conducting a meta-analytic review, this book is written in an engaging, nontechnical style that makes ...

This is the first book to show the capabilities of Microsoft Excel to teach social science statistics effectively.  It is a step-by-step exercise-d...

Using qualitative research data on Mexican/Mexican Americans and their historias de éxito that center on Mexican centric concepts such as buen trab...

Researchers often have difficulties collecting enough data to test their hypotheses, either because target groups are small or hard to access, or b...