Social Research & Statistics

This book explains why elections from 1960 to 2016 came out the way they did. Why did voters choose one candidate over the other and what issues we...

Researchers often have difficulties collecting enough data to test their hypotheses, either because target groups are small or hard to access, or b...

Research Methods is an essential guide to carrying out a research project. Each of the focused chapters introduces and explains an aspect of social...

India Migration Report 2018 looks at Indian migrants in Europe and their lived experiences. It looks at how over the last few decades, the European...

Title first published in 2003. As more and more cities consider introducing urban road pricing schemes, this book describes, compares and contrasts...

This groundbreaking text makes an intervention on behalf of disability studies into the broad field of qualitative inquiry. Ronald Berger and Laura...

Modern Applied Regressions creates an intricate and colorful mural with mosaics of categorical and limited response variable (CLRV) models using bo...

This title was first published in 2000: This text tackles the issues raised by comparative research into criminal justice on other cultures. How fa...

Economic and political uncertainty has brought the language of class especially discussion of the working class to a broad audience across schola...

Economic and political uncertainty has brought the language of class especially discussion of the working class to a broad audience across schola...

Through a series of case studies, this book provides an understanding of the practice of ethnographic fieldwork in a variety of contexts, from ever...

The Practice of Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice, Eighth Edition continues to demonstrate the vital role research plays in criminal jus...

Over the past decade, a new set of interactive, open, participatory and networked spatial media have become widespread.  These include mapping plat...

Over the past decade, a new set of interactive, open, participatory and networked spatial media have become widespread.  These include mapping plat...

Bringing key developments and debates together in a single volume, this book provides an authoritative guide for students and practitioners embarki...

This textbook provides a comprehensive, user-friendly guide to meta-analysis and how to conduct it, using open source software and based on example...

The new Sixth Edition of Making Sense of the Social World continues to be an accessible and student-friendly introduction to the variety of social ...

How do social work students learn to use research to underpin their practice decisions? How do they learn that research is not an activity unconnec...

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...

This book brings together a diverse, international array of contributors to explore the topics of news quality in the online age and the relationsh...

Empirical data is one of the cornerstones of knowledge in the social sciences, and yet the researcher often takes it for granted, reserving his or ...

Evaluation Management: How to Commission and Conduct Evaluations that Matter helps evaluation teams and commissioners achieve results that meet uti...

There are many ways of conducting an analysis, but most studies show only a few carefully curated estimates. Applied research involves a complex ar...

Mathematical models and computer simulations of complex social systems have become everyday tools in sociology. Yet until now, students had no up-t...

Beyond the Visual is a survey of contemporary approaches to researching a wide range of visual and multimodal phenomena. Building on his earlier bo...

Designing research is about making decisions to transform an idea into a plan that can provide answers to a research problem or question. Thinking ...

Using IBM® SPSS® Statistics for Research Methods and Social Science Statistics is the perfect companion for students who are learning to use SPSS® ...

Spatial Regression Models for the Social Sciences shows researchers and students how to work with spatial data without the need for advanced mathem...

Designed to help students develop skills in evaluating research and conducting studies, this brief version of the popular, The Practice of Research...

This practical book shows practicing social scientists and graduate students how to account for cultural factors when developing and evaluating psy...

This book makes the task of interpreting statistical findings much more approachable and less daunting for those with little, or no, previous exper...

Recipient of a 2021 Most Promising New Textbook Award from the Textbook & Academic Authors Association (TAA) Evaluation in Todays World: Res...

Ethics in Social Science Research: Becoming Culturally Responsive provides a thorough grounding in research ethics, along with examples of real-wor...