Social Research & Statistics

This accessible, hands-on text has now been revised and updated, with expanded coverage of topics including how theory may emerge from exploratory ...

Using Action Inquiry in Engaged Research: An Organizing Guide offers higher education and school professionals practical guidance and methods for u...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

Student Affairs by the Numbers aims to be the go-to book for student affairs professionals who want to know the basics of quantitative research and...

Student Affairs by the Numbers aims to be the go-to book for student affairs professionals who want to know the basics of quantitative research and...

An authoritative review of the long history of federal responses to state and local budget crises, from Alexander Hamilton through the COVID-19 pan...

Many practice-based researchers have expert knowledge of doing research but often experience difficulties when writing it up and communicating the ...

At a time when policy discussions are dominated by I feel instead of I know, it is more important than ever for social scientists to make themselve...

In the social sciences today, students are taught theory by reading and analyzing the works of Karl Marx, Max Weber, and other foundational figures...

When it comes to sizing up Americas public schools, test scores are the go-to metric of state policy makers and anxious parents looking to place th...

Utilizing the latest software, this book presents the essential statistical procedures for drawing valuable results from data in the social science...

A decade-long study of young adulthood in Malawi that demonstrates the impact of widespread HIV status uncertainty, laying bare the sociological im...

Scholars and practitioners who witness violence and loss in human, animal, and ecological contexts are expected to have no emotional connection to ...

For most of political science's history, discussions about professional ethics had nothing to do with human subjects. Professional ethics involved ...

This book is based on the idea that social work as a profession can do better with advancing our mission if practitioners are knowledgeable, skille...

For researchers in the Learning Sciences, there is a lack of literature on current design practices and its many obstacles. Design as Scholarship i...

This book represents a close engagement with vulnerable populations in the city of Calabar in southeastern Nigeria. Following the traditions of Cli...

A comprehensive and practical guide to ethnographic research, this book guides you through the process, starting with the fundamentals of choosing ...

Si tratta di un'opera introduttiva al campionamento da popolazioni finite. Si ritiene che un'opera su questo argomento sia adatta alle lauree trien...

Die Methode der Videographie findet in der Sozial- und Kulturforschung immer größeren Anklang und wird dabei zur Untersuchung unterschiedlichster F...