In a new textbook designed for students new to statistics and social data, Gorard focuses on non-inferential statistics as a basis to provide readers with fundamental statistical literacy. Assuming no previous statistical knowledge, the author demystifies the subject in an engaging and approachable style.

This edited book guides students and researchers through the processes of researching everyday stories about families.

Through templates and real-world examples, this step-by-step guide clearly illustrates what good and bad data look like, in order to help students get going quickly and build an effective survey around a research question. In each chapter, survey-based challenges are linked to the broader research issues, maintaining the important theoretical context to the learning process.

This original and authoritative exploration of ethnographic writing comes from one of the world's leading academics in the field, Paul Atkinson. The third book in his seminal quartet on ethnographic research, it provides thoughtful, reflective guidance on a crucial skill that is often difficult to master.

The sixth volume in SAGE's Mixed Methods Research Series provides an introduction and practical applications for using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) as part of a mixed methods approach to research and evaluation.

An encyclopedic introduction to research, showing students how to think about every stage of their project and equipping them with the tools they need to understand different research processes.

This Handbook offers students, researchers and policy-makers a multidisciplinary overview of contemporary scholarship relating to the intersection of the digital economy and the media, cultural, and creative industries.

With new coverage of digital research tools and social media, as well as that of areas such as autoethnography, visual and feminist ethnography, this important introduction continues to provide readers with the perfect mix of theory and practical advice to ensure their research is carefully thought through, replicable, and ethically sound

In combining a critical, philosophical approach with an expertly selected body of practical examples, the Second Edition of Chris Hart's landmark text provides both the intellectual understanding and the technical skills required to produce sophisticated, robust literature reviews of the very highest standard.

Now in its fourth edition, The SAGE Dictionary of Criminology continues to be an authoritative reference text for the key concepts, theories, and methods in criminology and criminal justice.