Gives students simple, easy-to-understand instructions on how to run statistical tests using the latest software.

Offers a unified framework to help students and researchers to analyze and understand any social science data that are organized in cross-classified formats.

This book provides a balanced foundation in the principles and practices of social research, suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students. It will be popular with lecturers who want to get their students thinking.

Explains the basic ideas behind the statistics as clearly and briefly as possible, showing that the basics of statistics are something that virtually everyone can handle with a bit of time and effort.

An engaging exploration of the social, economic and cultural processes that have resulted in our cities being defined through consumption.

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.

A compact and accessible book that links issues regarding post-modern society to the ideas and individuals that gave rise to sociological thinking in the late 19th century.

By concentrating on the nature of terminology used in research, this book helps students better understand, and learn how to use, the specialist vocabulary of educational and social science research.

Focussing on three key areas in the social sciences, this book draws together contributors from a variety of areas who use a range of methodological approaches to present the reader with an inspirational guide to understanding and using methods and approaches in their research.

Tackles disability from a broad range of interdisciplinary studies), and sets forth a new integrative theory and provides guidance on the advancement of social justice and human rights within a global perspective.