Social Research & Statistics

This book shows students and early-career researchers how to prepare for and conduct interviews and focus groups.   Interviews and focus groups are...

This book offers original, pedagogically sound, classroom-tested activities for teaching statistics and research methods that engage students, teac...

Field experiments -- randomized controlled trials -- have become ever more popular in political science, as well as in other disciplines, such as e...

A lively, practical, first-of-its-kind guide to understanding cold, clinical data and harnessing it to tell a persuasive story.__________How many h...

Qualitative interviewing has become one of the most common research methods across the human and social sciences, if not the most prevalent approac...

Despite all of the information that exists to encourage students to attend and do well in college, this is the first research-based guide that dire...

Through the use of eight original metaphors for understanding what may happen in interviews and what may guide the interviewee (more than telling t...

Through the use of eight original metaphors for understanding what may happen in interviews and what may guide the interviewee (more than telling t...

A comprehensive introduction and teaching resource for state-of-the-art Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) using R software. This guide facilit...

A state-of-the-art approach to evaluating research design for students and scholars across the social sciencesAssessing the properties of research ...

A state-of-the-art approach to evaluating research design for students and scholars across the social sciencesAssessing the properties of research ...

This one-of-a-kind literary and conceptual experiment does anthropology differentlyin all the wrong ways. No field trips. No other cultures. This i...

This one-of-a-kind literary and conceptual experiment does anthropology differentlyin all the wrong ways. No field trips. No other cultures. This i...

The National Accounts Statistics: Analysis of Main Aggregates, 2016 is the forty-seventh issue of this publication which comprises in the form of a...

A stress-free and enjoyable approach to the research methods courseREVELTM for Understanding Research is a practical and visually appealing introdu...

UNECE Countries in Figures presents a profile of social and economic indicators for each of the 56 UNECE member countries. These profiles, prepared...

What does mothering mean in different cultures and societies? This book extensively applies biographical and narrative research methods to motherin...

This thorough revision of Babbie's standard-setting text presents a succinct, straightforward introduction to the field of research methods as prac...

Suppose you were given two qualitative studies: one is a piece of empirically sound social science and the other, though interesting and beautifull...

All social scientists learn the celebrated theories and frameworks of their predecessors, using them to inform their own research and observations....

With a new chapter on the literature review, this accessible step-by-step guide to using the five major approaches to research design is now in a t...

This publication informs inter-governmental and inter-agency regional decision making in support of implementing the 2030 Agenda in the region. It ...