Examines humanities and social sciences around the idea of postmodernism. This book leads the reader on an exhilarating tour encompassing the end of Marxism, the enchantment of fashion, symbolism about sex and the body, and the relations between economic exchange and death.

Guiding readers through the Jeffersonian transcription conventions, this book sets out the best practices for successfully transcribing talk and interaction, and covers guides to software and technology and how to transcribe more than just words.

This cutting-edge overview explores big data and the related topic of computer code, examining the implications for education and schooling for today and the near future.

A Crash Course in Statistics is a short introduction to key statistical methods including descriptive statistics, one-way and two-way ANOVA, the t-test, and Chi Square. Each of the five chapters provides an overview of each method, and then walks readers through a relevant example, using SPSS to highlight how to run the statistics and how to write up the results in APA style.

Arbeidssociologie richt zich op de studie van het sociale fenomeen 'arbeid'. Arbeid heeft een erg belangrijke plaats in ons leven. Daarom zijn sociologische vragen over arbeid bijzonder divers. Arbeidssociologen buigen zich onder meer over de manier waarop we 'arbeid' organiseren in onze samenleving, of staan stil bij de rol van de verschillende actoren die vorm geven aan het arbeidsbestel: werknemers, werkgevers, vakbonden, de overheid... Ze analyseren ook de gevolgen van arbeid voor werknem...

Using real research on antisocial behaviours such as cyberbullying, prejudice and discrimination, this text helps readers across the social sciences to understand the underlying theory behind statistical methods.

Conversations About Group Concept Mapping: Applications, Examples, & Enhancements takes a concise, practice-based approach to concept mapping. After defining the method, demonstrating how to design a project, and providing guidelines to analyse the results, the book then dives into real research exemplars.

Michael Quinn Patton's Facilitating Evaluation: Principles in Practice is the first book of its kind to explain in depth and detail how to facilitate evaluation processes with stakeholders, using the author's own stories of his experiences as an evaluation facilitator.

With coverage of both original ideas and the authors' own practical experiences, this book helps readers to unlock the importance of reflexivity and understand its benefits.

With a grounding in both theory and practice, this book focuses on the use and consumption of case studies to show readers the value and effectiveness of using this research method for their projects.