This brief and accessible title integrates contemporary scholarly research with compelling vignettes to make it appealing to both instructors and undergraduate audiences. While focused on the United States in respect to its target audience and emphasis, it contains considerable international data that compares and contrasts social policies adopted in Europe and elsewhere.

The chapters in this book develop a working framework and contain worked examples and exercises to make sure that readers get the best results from their research and are fully versed in all the practical aspects of doing action research.

Written from the insider's perspective, this text helps organizations become more focused on using evaluation to improve policies, strategies, programming and delivery of public and communal services

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.

Now with a new companion website! Using IBM (R) SPSS (R) Statistics: An Interactive Hands-On Approach, Third Edition gives readers an accessible and comprehensive guide to walking through SPSS (R), providing them with step-by-step knowledge for effectively analyzing their data. From entering data to working with existing databases, and working with the help menu through performing factor analysis, Using IBM (R) SPSS (R) Statistics covers every aspect of SPSS (R) from introductory through inte...

This book gives you the tools to conduct your own documentary research and celebrates the importance of documentary analysis across the social sciences.

This book offers insight into how to secure, manage and effectively research funding in the changing order of global economy and competing research priorities.

Systematically explains the concepts that have preoccupied medical sociologists from its inception, and which have shaped the field as it exists today.

Being able to read and interpret tables and graphs is a skill that is frequently tested and where students often lose marks in tests. This Little Quick Fix prepares students to read, interpret and produce tables and graphs with confidence and succeed in their exams.