Social Research & Statistics

*The top-selling SEM text, extensively revised: 45% new material includes the first primer-level introduction to Pearl's structural causal modeling...

Throughout the world, voters lack access to information about politicians, government performance, and public services. Efforts to remedy these inf...

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...

Is there more to qualitative data collection than face-to-face interviews? Answering with a resounding 'yes', this book introduces the reader to a ...

The two-volume set LNAI 13495 and LNAI 13496, constitute the refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 23rd Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLS...

This book presents current research in the study of education, with a particular focus on the training techniques for educators and educational imp...

This single reference volume features every cutting-edge CQ Researcher report published in 2017. CQ Researcher is the most trusted source for in...

This Major Work focuses on critical social research, shedding a light on the wider philosophical and methodological issues and disputes associated ...

Will a one-child policy increase economic growth?  Does globalization contribute to global warming?  Are unequal societies less healthy than more e...

This practical text integrates theoretical perspectives with guidelines for designing and implementing community-based qualitative research project...

Part of the popular BERA/SAGE Research Methods in Education series, this is the first book to specifically focus on the ethics of Education researc...

Video provides unprecedented opportunities for social science research, enabling fine-grained analysis of social organisation, culture and communic...

Doing Visual Research offers an innovative introduction to the use of photography, collaborative video, drawing, objects, multi-media production an...

Quantitative Research for the Qualitative Researcher is a concise, supplemental text that provides qualitatively oriented students and researchers ...

This book provides an introduction to the basic principles of discourse research, offering practical research strategies for doing discourse analys...

This book is the first textbook dedicated to critically examining gender and sex in study designs, methods, and analysis in health research. In ord...

Using Documents and Records in Social Research collects together a body of papers that highlight the different ways in which documents and records ...

Computational social science is an approach increasingly influential in a broad range of social sciences. It involves building a computer programm...

David Walkers analysis is incisive and hard hitting. Anyone who believes in the power of social science to inform better policy making should take ...

Why use qualitative methods? What kinds of questions can qualitative methods help you answer? How do you actually do rigorous and reflective qualit...

This practical how to guide integrates a comprehensive, interdisciplinary review of literature, alongside a wealth of the authors' combined researc...

Focus groups are a popular method for collecting qualitative data in the social sciences. Doing Focus Groups provides a concise, practical introduc...

Offering an engaging and entertaining introduction to research methods, this is a practical and easy-to-use companion for all new researchers and s...

Offering an engaging and entertaining introduction to research methods, this is a practical and easy-to-use companion for all new researchers and s...

The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Business and Management Research Methods provides a state-of-the-art overview of qualitative research methods in t...

Statistical methods in modern research increasingly entail developing, estimating and testing models for data. Rather than rigid methods of data an...

This bundle contains Denzin: The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research 5E and Creswell: 30 Essential Skills for the Qualitative Researcher.

Communication research is evolving and changing in a world of online journals, open-access, and new ways of obtaining data and conducting experimen...

This book is a guide to research methods for practitioner research. Written in friendly and accessible language, it includes numerous practical exa...

Research design is of critical importance in social research, despite its relative neglect in many methods resources. Early consideration of design...