Research methods: general

How to Use SPSS(R) is designed with the novice computer user in mind and for people who have no previous experience using SPSS.

A groundbreaking and comprehensive order of battle for German ground troops in WWII, from the invasion of Poland to the final defeat in Berlin.

Queer Memory and Storytelling unpacks the ways in which the narrative practices of recounting past experiences play a formative role in formation of identities, cultures, and social change among gender and sexually diverse individuals.

This book delves into the rich history and cultural heritage of the Yemeni Jewish community in Israel.

This book adopts an innovative approach in exploring the evolution of fitness practices among a community of gym goers amid a global pandemic, considering its impact on the interplay of the words, habits, and relationships gym goers use in realizing their aspirations of wellness and well-being.

Reflecting on the methodological issues involved in researching digital spaces with children, this book shares good practices and delves into the ethics of such research.

Challenging the sanitized view of participants in standardized surveys, Interviews as Activated Storytelling contends that interviewing is a meaning-making process producing useful but context-sensitive knowledge.

This book explores the detrimental effects on global peace of populism's tendency to present complex social issues in simplistic "e;good versus evil"e; terms.

This practical and accessible textbook provides an overview of the key principles for conducting ethnography in healthcare settings.

This book investigates women's ritual authority and the common boundaries between religion and notions of gender, ethnicity, and identity.

A comprehensive guide for management and social science researchers to achieve a deeper understanding of the nature of explanation.

The Class Gap in Protest Participation discusses a theoretically grounded empirical analysis of the relationship between class and protest involvement across Central Eastern and Western Europe.

This book showcases the potential of computational approaches for research questions at the heart of migration and integration research via a set of original, cutting-edge empirical studies by a diverse, international team of authors.

Researching Care with Case Studies offers a fresh perspective on the universe of care practices, using case studies to illuminate their stretch and complexities.

Junior researchers in the field of childhood studies are often faced with many challenges that accompany research with young participants.

This volume explores the intersection of political history and consumption history by conceptualizing the "e;politics of consumption"e; as a discursive process in which consumers and acts of consumption are framed and politicized by state- and market-driven actors for broader societal objectives.

With a clear, engaging writing style and fascinating examples using a variety of real data, this text covers the contemporary statistical techniques that students will encounter in the world of social research.

The Routledge Handbook of Field Research presents a comprehensive, go-to resource for staff and students in preparing for and thinking about the doing of field research, including both individual fieldwork and group field classes.

This book situates sociological research as a vital tool for understanding, and responding to, the multispecies entanglements that cause, inform and arise from states of crisis involving the environment, climate and zoonotic disease transmission.

Local participation is increasingly seen as a central and ethical part of environmental research.

Critical Visual Methods to Advance Racial Justice in Educational Research advances critical research methodologies for analyzing visual and multimodal data, with particular attention to racial justice for minoritized communities.

###BOLD#TEXT[Integrating the role of culture is critical in preventing suicide]###Written by leading suicide researchersExplores suicide in different cultural contextsHighlights how to conduct culturally sensitive studiesBuilding on the seminal work of Colucci and Lester (2013), this volume examines the unique perspective of the role culture plays in suicide research and prevention.

This book is in honour of the late sociologist Ken Plummer - a remarkable scholar whose work transformed several fields, from his early writing on symbolic interactionism, stigma, and sexualities, through methodological innovations that have underpinned the 'narrative turn', to his explorations of citizenship and humanism.

This book explores the lived experiences of newly qualified midwives working in free-standing birth centres, highlighting the emotional, professional, and sociological aspects of their journeys from novices to confident practitioners in an out-of-hospital setting.

Fifty years since the publication of Toward a Poor Curriculum, William F.

This book is in honour of the late sociologist Ken Plummer - a remarkable scholar whose work transformed several fields, from his early writing on symbolic interactionism, stigma, and sexualities, through methodological innovations that have underpinned the 'narrative turn', to his explorations of citizenship and humanism.

Teachers Pumping in Schools chronicles the daily, visceral experiences of US teachers balancing infant feeding and full-time work.

Teachers Pumping in Schools chronicles the daily, visceral experiences of US teachers balancing infant feeding and full-time work.

Biology at all scales has become a data-driven science, with large-scale datasets driving fields from population genomics to ecology.

Navigating the World of Digital Data: The Challenges of Social Research Methods is a timely text that explores the emerging challenges and opportunities posed by digitalization in social research.

Navigating the World of Digital Data: The Challenges of Social Research Methods is a timely text that explores the emerging challenges and opportunities posed by digitalization in social research.

Fifty years since the publication of Toward a Poor Curriculum, William F.

This book explores the lived experiences of newly qualified midwives working in free-standing birth centres, highlighting the emotional, professional, and sociological aspects of their journeys from novices to confident practitioners in an out-of-hospital setting.

This groundbreaking volume investigates why practicing nurses decide to remain in the profession.

This book challenges the asymmetries in dialogues between the Global South and Global North.

This book provides researchers, faculty, and students with a comprehensive resource for applying qualitative methods in Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) research among underrepresented communities.

Biology at all scales has become a data-driven science, with large-scale datasets driving fields from population genomics to ecology.

This groundbreaking volume investigates why practicing nurses decide to remain in the profession.

This book provides researchers, faculty, and students with a comprehensive resource for applying qualitative methods in Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) research among underrepresented communities.

This book challenges the asymmetries in dialogues between the Global South and Global North.

The first full-length English translation of the 1909 book from the revolutionary Russian Marxist feminist Alexandra Kollontai on the state of the contemporary bourgeois women's movement and the role of working-class women in the struggle for women's equality.

Teaching Statistics and Quantitative Methods in the 21st Century is a guide for rethinking and revitalizing statistics and quantitative methods pedagogy for both novice and experienced instructors at undergraduate and graduate levels.

Teaching Statistics and Quantitative Methods in the 21st Century is a guide for rethinking and revitalizing statistics and quantitative methods pedagogy for both novice and experienced instructors at undergraduate and graduate levels.

Applied social research has long been recognised as essential in the field of social work and welfare, though its value is not always immediately apparent.

Applied social research has long been recognised as essential in the field of social work and welfare, though its value is not always immediately apparent.

This book engages in the stream of transnational migration studies by drawing on an empirical examination of the ties that Tunisian migrants and their descendants, living in both northern and southern Italy, maintain with their country of origin.

Selecting from the extensive range of research methodologies remains a challenge for all scholars, not least those studying the world of accounting.

Grounded Theory in Practice explores grounded theory (GT) as a flexible, ethical, and practice-oriented research methodology across a range of academic disciplines.

Grounded Theory in Practice explores grounded theory (GT) as a flexible, ethical, and practice-oriented research methodology across a range of academic disciplines.