New to online qualitative research? This book equips you with the skills to make good research choices so you can confidently conduct a project using internet methods.

- Actuele sociologische thema’s gekoppeld aan Social Work;

- biedt een toegankelijke, maar ook genuanceerde blik op het werkveld;

- daagt uit om na te denken over maatschappelijke ontwikkelingen.

Sociologie voor Sociaal Werk is speciaal geschreven als eerste kennismaking met sociologie voor hbo-studenten Social Work. Dit nieuwe boek benadert actuele maatschappelijke ontwikkelingen die relevant zijn voor sociaal werkers vanuit sociologisch perspectief.

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Nigel Ford provides readers with the strategies they need when using the internet as part of their research and guides them through the necessary skills needed to independently conduct and evaluate research.

Engaging analysis of sport's role in the 'making of race', and the place of sport in relation to the politics of racial equality.

This text looks closely at interdisciplinary research, covering topics such as applying theory and practice to problems, the importance of finding a common ground and suggests new solutions to problems that cover multiple disciplines.

Since the beginning of the economic crisis of 2008, Spain, like other Southern European countries, has witnessed a mass departure of mostly young people looking for opportunities abroad. Leaving Spain is based on 58 autobiographical narrative interviews with recent Spanish migrants who went to the UK and Germany, and sometimes returned. By presenting a combination of in-depth case studies and comparative analyses, the author demonstrates the potential of biographical research and narrative an...

A Clever, innovative book which makes an important contribution to social theory and social policy. An effective introduction it covers core themes and demonstrates exactly how our everyday life is defined by the rise, change and collapse of social practices.

Advances in Visual Methodology examines and introduces the cutting edge in using visual methods in social research.

A new sociological and social anthropological analysis of contemporary cities in the West, looking at both their historical development and the critical positive changes that are currently taking place.

An engaging, and refreshingly international analysis of globalisation from two of the world's leading figures in the field.