Social Research & Statistics

America is preoccupied with race statistics--perhaps more than any other nation. Do these statistics illuminate social reality and produce coherent...

The 2011 volume of Sociological Methodology continues a 43-year tradition of providing cutting-edge methodology for sociological research. Under th...

Family Spending provides analysis of household expenditure broken down by age and income, household composition, socio-economic characteristics and...

Knowledge Discovery in the Social Sciences helps readers find valid, meaningful, and useful information. It is written for researchers and data ana...

Knowledge Discovery in the Social Sciences helps readers find valid, meaningful, and useful information. It is written for researchers and data ana...

This textbook bypasses the need for advanced mathematics by providing in-text computer code, allowing students to explore Bayesian data analysis wi...

Researchers frequently experience sexualized interactions, sexual objectification, and harassment as they conduct fieldwork. These experiences are ...

Widespread media narratives portray an epidemic of neighborhood violence in urban areasoften ignoring the structural explanations advanced by commu...

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

An exploration of hypothetical turning points in history from Ancient Greece to September 11 What if history, as we know it, had run another course...

Widespread media narratives portray an epidemic of neighborhood violence in urban areasoften ignoring the structural explanations advanced by commu...

An expanded and revised edition of the first social work text to focus specifically on the theoretical and clinical issues associated with trauma, ...

The personal anecdotes and candid reflections on the lives and work of these important critical scholars, and their predictions on the future of th...

The added value of mixed methods research in poverty and vulnerability is now widely established. Nevertheless, gaps and challenges remain. This vo...

This book focuses on ethical and methodological issues faced by researchers working with young language learners in formal school contexts. It unco...

The author focuses on the research-policy nexus in development studies, highlighting reciprocal orientations and interactions between the domains o...

This book focuses on ethical and methodological issues faced by researchers working with young language learners in formal school contexts. It unco...

The U.S. population is aging. Social Security projections suggest that between 2013 and 2050, the population aged 65 and over will almost double, f...

This practical nuts-and-bolts how-to guide to carrying out single case research is keenly focused on practicing this type of research in educationa...

How and why do people make political decisions? This book is the first to present a unified framework of the Behavioral Political Science paradigm....

The U.S. Census Bureau maintains an important portfolio of economic statistics programs, including quinquennial economic censuses, annual economic ...

The Committee on National Statistics of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a 2-day public workshop from Decembe...