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Patricia Leavy (2)
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Population and Society / 1st edition

An Introduction

2016 || Paperback || GL Carter || John Wiley and Sons Ltd

This exciting new book presents the field of social demography, animating the study of population with a vibrant sociological imagination. Gregg Lee Carter provides multiple demonstrations of how taking a demographic perspective can give us a better understanding of social phenomena once thought to be largely the products of culture, politics, or the economy. Five key chapters concentrate on (1) the social and individual determinants of fertility, mortality, and migration; (2) the social and ...

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Data and Society

A Critical Introduction

2021 || Paperback || Anne Beaulieu e.a. || SAGE

The standard teaching text for Data and Society modules explaining to undergraduates, in different social-science disciplines, the Big Data Revolution in an accessible and critical way.

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Key Concepts in Development Geography

2012 || Paperback || Rob Potter e.a. || SAGE

An accessible and thought-provoking survey of this vast field. Emphasising the underlying concepts students need to understand and authored by world-renowned experts.

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Doing a Successful Research Project / 2nd Edition

Using Qualitative or Quantitative Methods

2014 || Paperback || Martin Brett Davies e.a. || Bloomsbury Publishing

This straightforward, student-friendly guide contains all the practical advice for successfully undertaking a research project, leading students through all the stages of the research process. The second edition of this no-nonsense textbook supports students in conducting their own research projects, whatever discipline they are from. Describing processes, tools and strategies in a simple, succinct way, it supports the reader carefully through the planning and design stages, to implementation...

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Working with Involuntary Clients / 4th edition

A Guide to Practice

2022 || Paperback || Chris Trotter || Taylor & Francis

Fully updated fourth edition of Trotter's well-established text on working with involuntary clients. The new edition includes a new chapter on Collaborative Family Work and additional emphasis on trauma informed practice. Includes plentiful case examples and links to practice, from a range of settings including work with people with addictions, young people who refuse to go to school and mental health patients who refuse treatment, as well as examples from criminal justice and child protection.

Presents a practical model for evidence-based practice and discusses a range of intervention models and relationships skills. Takes into account up-to-date research evidence throughou...

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The Data Revolution / 2nd Edition

A Critical Analysis of Big Data, Open Data and Data Infrastructures

2021 || Paperback || Rob Kitchin || SAGE

Widely acknowledged as being the first academic text to provide a critical overview of the (big) data revolution and the classification of data which it outlined is now widely used/recognised as the taxonomy in social science. The Data Revolution a canonical text in data studies and the wider social sciences.

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Research Design / 2nd Edition

Quantitative, Qualitative, Mixed Methods, Arts-Based, and Community-Based Participatory Research Approaches

2023 || Paperback || Patricia Leavy || Guilford Publications

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 thoroughly revised second edition. The prior edition's user-friendly features are augmented by a new companion website with worksheets keyed to each chapter. For each approach, the text presents a template for a research proposal and explains how to conceptualize and fill in every section.

Interdisciplinary research examples draw on current events a...

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The Short Guide to Community Development / 3rd edition

2023 || Paperback || Alison Gilchrist e.a. || Bristol University Press

The only up-to-date, accessibly written short guide to community development, this third edition offers an invaluable and authoritative introduction. Fully updated to reflect changes in policy, practice, economics and culture, it will equip readers with an understanding of the history and theory of community development, as well as practical guidance on how to do it. This is a key text for all students and practitioners working with communities.

It includes:* a broad overview of core themes, ...

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Common Space

The City as Commons

2016 || Paperback || Stavros Stavrides || Bloomsbury Publishing

Space is both a product and a prerequisite of social relations, it has the potential to block and encourage certain forms of encounter. In Common Space, activist and architect Stavros Stavrides calls for us to conceive of space-as-commons - first, to think beyond the notions of public and private space, and then to understand common space not only as space that is governed by all and remains open to all, but that explicitly expresses, encourages and exemplifies new forms of social relations a...

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Community Development / 3rd Edition

A Critical and Radical Approach

2019 || Paperback || Margaret Ledwith || Policy Press

The fully updated third edition of this bestselling book offers a radical approach to community development. Building on the theories of Gramsci and Freire, new ideas are introduced which offer an inspiring approach to practice for all those committed to social and environmental justice. Neoliberalism has created a dangerous escalation of economic inequalities with inevitable environmental consequences.

Practice needs to be informed by analyses of power, and links are made using international...