Making an important new contribution to the field of narrative research, this text provides both a new theoretical orientation as well as a set of practical techniques that students can use to conduct narrative inquiry.

This book provides a useful, straightforward, yet technically rigorous guide for students, researchers, and practitioners that will help with the fundamental issues of design, sampling, response rates, reliability and validity, and ethics.

An undergraduate introduction to both classical and contemporary social theory.

Revised and updated edition of this student introduction to the sociology of work and occupations. Adopted in business and management departments as well as sociology.

This book provides a basis for class discussion about the responsible conduct of social science research.

Qualitative and Mixed Methods Data Analysis Using Dedoose®: A Practical Approach for Research Across the Social Sciences provides both new and experienced researchers with a guided introduction to dealing with the methodological complexity of mixed methods and qualitative inquiry using Dedoose® software.

This practical book is a candid collection of stories in which seasoned evaluators share professional mistakes they have made in the past, and what they learned moving forward.

Written for advanced undergraduate students, postgraduate students planning theses and dissertations and other early career researchers, Designing and Managing Your Research Project helps readers to successfully plan and complete their research projects by showing them the key skills that they need.

The work of Raymond Williams remains hugely influential, not just in the humanities but across the social sciences too. This collection introduces a new generation of students to a major figure in sociology, media studies and cultural studies.

"This is not yet another step-by-step guide to research methods. Rather, Pole and Hillyard draw the reader into fieldwork as a form of living and lived research. They take key threads of research practices and processes and weave them into a holistic approach to fieldwork.

Doing Fieldwork is a must read for new researchers planning a journey into the immersion of 'being there' that is field work." - Professor Garry Marvin, University of Roehampton Fieldwork is central to Sociology, but guides...