Social Research & Statistics

Bringing together interdisciplinary leaders in methodology and arts-based research (ABR), this comprehensive handbook explores the synergies betwee...

First published in 1968. This volume holds the census reports of 1801 which from an abstract of the answers and returns, Parish Registers, together...

The Ashgate Research Companion to Black Sociology provides the most up to date exploration and analysis of research focused on Blacks in America. B...

Exploring practitioner research and the possibilities it creates for increasing student participation and developing inclusive practices in educati...

Exploring practitioner research and the possibilities it creates for increasing student participation and developing inclusive practices in educati...

For scholars seeking to undertake consequential research in service-learning and community engagement (SLCE) at a time when there is widening inter...

Scholarship on immigration to America is a coin with two sides: it asks both how America changed immigrants, and how they changed America. Were the...

Offering a variety of innovative methods and tools, The Oxford Handbook of Multi- and Mixed-Methods Research Inquiry provides the most comprehensiv...

'A powerful and punchy explanation of why misinformation is a problem that affects us all. Timely and very provocative!' - Gillian Tett, Editor-at-...

The only practical guide for helping social work students create high-quality applied capstone research projects from start to finishThis mentor-in...

An Introduction to W. E. B. Du Bois examines the historical contributions to social science and the continuing relevance of the work of W. E. B. Du...

The need for and the threats to improved public policy are equally acute. Crime policy agenda continues to be driven by anecdotal evidence and poli...

What is age? A simple question but not that easy to answer. 'Unmasking Age' addresses it using data from a series of research projects relating to ...

Research Methods for Early Childhood Education takes an international perspective on research design, and illustrates how research methods are inex...

Kälin and Kochenovs Quality of Nationality Index (QNI) ranks the objective value of all nationalities as legal statuses of attachment to states. Us...

This volume seeks to address the emerging relationships between qualitative research and digital data. At the present time, ubiquitous digital data...

Seven Resources for Lifelong Wellbeing and Retirement Planning: The Golden Age Playbook redefines aging and retirement for the young-old generation...

A challenge to prevailing ideas about innovation and a guide to identifying the best growth strategy for your community. Across the world, cities ...

Winner of Balsillie Prize for Public Policy Winner of Donner Prize A Summer Book of 2021, Financial Times Longlisted Financial Times and McKinsey B...

Online communities generate massive volumes of natural language data and the social sciences continue to learn how to best make use of this new inf...

The Fifth Edition of Harris Coopers bestselling text offers practical advice on how to conduct a synthesis of research in the social, behavioral, a...

The Second Edition of Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory After the Interpretive Turn offers an innovative extension of grounded theory useful in...

David M. Fetterman captures the ethnographic imagination with the Fourth Edition of his popular text, Ethnography: Step-by-Step. He shares new case...

Filling a gap in the literature of the field, this first-of-its-kind book provides researchers with a practical guide to using the factorial survey...

This is a clear introduction to the methodological and philosophical debates in the field of education research. It sets out the key ideas, questio...

The Fifth Edition of Floyd J. Fowler Jr.s bestselling Survey Research Methods presents the very latest methodological knowledge on surveys. Offerin...

Like all writing, biographies are interpretive. In Interpretive Autoethnography, Norman Denzin combines one of the oldest techniques in the social ...

If you want to learn to use R for data analysis but arent sure how to get started, this practical book will help you find the right path through yo...

In Methods of Randomization in Experimental Design, author Valentim R. Alferes presents the main procedures of random assignment and local control ...

If you want to learn to use R for data analysis but arent sure how to get started, this practical book will help you find the right path through yo...

Designed to help both graduate students and start-up researchers with their own case study research, this book presents 21 individual applications ...

This text provides a comprehensive guide to doing research in the social and behavioral sciencesfrom research design and sampling to collecting and...

The book shows how to apply validity concepts when planning and conducting an evaluation, thereby making sure that the evaluation stays true to the...

The Practice of Evaluation: Partnership Approaches for Community Change provides foundational content on evaluation concepts, approaches, and metho...

Erin Ruels 100 Questions (and Answers) About Survey Research covers the entire survey research process, starting with developing research questions...

*Winner of the 2015 Outstanding Book Award from the American Educational Research Associations Qualitative Research Special Interest Group (SIG)...

Understanding and Evaluating Research: A Critical Guide shows students how to be critical consumers of research and to appreciate the power of meth...

The highly-anticipated second edition of the Foundations of Mixed Methods Research:Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches in the Socia...

What statistical test should I use for this kind of data? How do I set up the data? What parameters should I specify when ordering the test? How do...

This is the ideal introduction for students seeking to collect and analyze textual data from online sources. It covers the most critical issues tha...

Michael Quinn Pattons Facilitating Evaluation: Principles in Practice is the first book of its kind to explain in depth and detail how to facilitat...

For students and researchers new to mixed methods, A Concise Introduction to Mixed Methods Research 2e by renowned author John W. Creswell provides...

The authors are proud sponsors of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Awardenabling graduate students and early career faculty to atte...

Focusing on applied conversation analysis (CA), this timely book offers practical insights and guidelines for CA scholars studying social interacti...

Continuing to be THE guide to the whole qualitative research process for students, this book looks at both the theory behind qualitative research a...

Drawing on the authors thirty years of combined experience in the field, this authoritative, step-by-step guide to conducting focus groups features...

Uniting methods from disciplines across the social sciences and humanities, this hands-on guide develops a novel approach to doing document analysi...