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.
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.
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.
A step-by-step guide through various stages of data preparation and analysis, this text demonstrates descriptive and inferential statistics in communication studies.
This book offers a thought-provoking defence of social science - and particularly the discipline of sociology - and its relevance for 21st-century challenges to democratic societies.
This book offers a thought-provoking defence of social science - and particularly the discipline of sociology - and its relevance for 21st-century challenges to democratic societies.
This timely volume critically examines the influence of compulsory education and high-pressure school environments on the mental well-being of adolescents, using a participatory approach to encourage a deeper understanding of adolescents' real-life experiences of contemporary learning and achievement in schools.
Detailing the contemporary obstacles and battles that marginalized groups must fight, this handbook provides a comprehensive account that enables readers to understand the harmful nature of these issues and how they serve to place and keep marginalized groups at a disadvantage.
Detailing the contemporary obstacles and battles that marginalized groups must fight, this handbook provides a comprehensive account that enables readers to understand the harmful nature of these issues and how they serve to place and keep marginalized groups at a disadvantage.
Performing Stragismo and Counterspectacularisation offers a new theoretical lens on political violence as spectacle, drawing on performance theory to explore how acts of violence - particularly terrorism - are staged, circulated, and remembered.
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 timely volume critically examines the influence of compulsory education and high-pressure school environments on the mental well-being of adolescents, using a participatory approach to encourage a deeper understanding of adolescents' real-life experiences of contemporary learning and achievement in schools.
The Craft of the Psychodynamic Case Study: A Practical Guide is the first comprehensive guide to help clinicians transform their therapeutic experiences into compelling, meaningful case narratives that honor both clinical truth and literary craft.
This book examines how moralities of distribution and redistribution operate and intertwine in everyday African economic life, enhancing current understandings of capitalism on the continent.
Performing Stragismo and Counterspectacularisation offers a new theoretical lens on political violence as spectacle, drawing on performance theory to explore how acts of violence - particularly terrorism - are staged, circulated, and remembered.
This book explores the multispecies triad of cattle ranching, focusing on how humans, horses, and cattle meet, interact, and shape a common multispecies culture.
Esta nueva edicion de La practica investigativa en ciencias sociales, ahora con el subtitulo Nuevas perspectivas, retoma la intencionalidad formativa de la primera edicion, procurando conservar e incorporar capitulos sobre estrategias, enfoques, tecnicas y decisiones metodologicos, desde la trayectoria investigativa de los autores, con la intencion de que resuenen en la imaginacion creativa de los lectores, quienes sabran recontextualizarlas en sus propios intereses y campos de conocimiento.
The purpose of the book is to provide a description and explanation of various qualitative methods and mechanisms of analysis with case study examples.
The purpose of the book is to provide a description and explanation of various qualitative methods and mechanisms of analysis with case study examples.
This book explores the multispecies triad of cattle ranching, focusing on how humans, horses, and cattle meet, interact, and shape a common multispecies culture.
This book examines how moralities of distribution and redistribution operate and intertwine in everyday African economic life, enhancing current understandings of capitalism on the continent.
Education policy over the past thirty years has been powerfully influenced by well-funded and slickly produced research reports produced by advocacy think tanks.
A step-by-step guide through various stages of data preparation and analysis, this text demonstrates descriptive and inferential statistics in communication studies.
The purpose of the book is to provide a description and explanation of various qualitative methods and mechanisms of analysis with case study examples.
