This book provides practical step-by-step guidance for doing grounded theory (GT) using the classic approach articulated by Barney Glaser.

With a particular focus on the complexities of cross-national, comparative survey research, explored by a team of international experts at local and national levels, this exciting new handbook provides readers with a cutting-edge resource.

John MacInnes takes the fear out of statistics for students, and helps to raise the standards of their quantitative methods skills, by clearly and accessibly introducing all that's needed to know about using secondary data and working with IBM SPSS Statistics.

A cutting edge exploration of this vital sociological sub-discipline. 40 original chapters offering a much needed international approach to cultural sociology.

A clear, contemporary, and student-friendly exploration of age and ageing as it relates to culture and society.

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.

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.

Describing how autoethnographers go about collecting, analyzing and reporting data, this book provides an historical and theoretical background, followed by methods chapters that guide students through the process.

With an emphasis on qualitative research as a process, and with new chapters on researching social mass media and writing a research project, this book takes a holistic approach to research and provides readers with a clear, step-by-step guide