This innovative new text provides a sophisticated theoretical and practical understanding of research design in the social sciences.

The March 2010 issue considers the Internet, its effect on free speech and how it has reinvented free speech.

Leading contributors combine practical pieces with overviews of the state of the art in the field, making this handbook essential reading for any student or researcher looking to apply multilevel techniques in their own research

This book reflects recent attention in both the press and peer-reviewed research on learning through online engagement, whether formally through online classes and MOOCs or informally within game environments and popular culture discussion boards.

Updates to this new edition include: more coverage of regression assumptions and model fit; additional material on residual analysis; more examples of transformations; and the inclusion of the measures of tolerance and VIF within the discussion about collinearity.

An all-new anthology showcasing readings that reflect the diversity and complexity of racial dynamics in the contemporary United States.

An all-new, brief reference work that gives practical advice about the variety of writing tasks and issues that undergraduate students undertake in their introductory sociology courses.

Uwe Flick takes you through the steps in method and design to ensure quality and reliability throughout the entire research process.

A guide to how participatory visual methods and arts-based methods can influence social change and make a significant contribution to policy dialogue.

Exploring the historical, theoretical and practical bones of modern case study research, and featuring an extended example that has been annotated line by line, this book takes readers through the complexities of case study research.