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.

Proposing a post-positivist, interviewee-centred approach, Giampietro Gobo and Sergio Mauceri's new book offers students and researchers a practical introduction to the process of collecting and analyzing survey data.

An accessible exploration of both long standing and contemporary arguments within this key area of social science teaching and research.

Placing into perspective the meaning of evidence for evaluation professionals and applied researchers, the contributors to this book - a veritable 'who's who' in evaluation - provide observations about the diversity and changing nature of credible evidence.

Provides a unified framework for both single-level and multilevel modeling of ordinal categorical data

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

Taking a "bi-level" approach, this book gives readers a complete picture of focus groups with coverage of both the "how-to" and the why, and argues against there being any one right way to do the research.

Helping students to successfully visualise SEM by drawing on the graphical interface of EQS and providing plenty of screenshots throughout, this book assumes no prior statistical knowledge and includes practical assistance to encourage students to feel confident about using SEM for their research project.

This concise and practical guide explores the use of Conversation Analysis as a method for conducting research in a business and management Masters dissertation.