Social research and statistics

The Good Research Guide provides practical and straightforward guidance for those who need to conduct small-scale research projects as part of their undergraduate, postgraduate or professional studies.

Since 1997, the number of American families filing for federal bankruptcy annually has exceeded one million.

An invaluable resource for health professionals and students engaged in research, this thoroughly updated edition provides a guide to the major measures of health and functioning.

From statistical databases to story archives, from fan sites to the real-time reactions of Twitter-empowered athletes, the digital communication revolution has changed the way sports fans relate to their favorite teams.

This is a book of signposts, of key turning points, of Gregory Bateson's 'knots tied in a handkerchief.

Cinderella Story is an experimental autoethnography that explores critical racial issues in America through the media of language and images.

American Studies has long been a home for adventurous students seeking to understand the culture and politics of the United States.

Does a young person commit suicide every thirteen minutes in the United States?

Graduate schools have faced attrition rates of approximately 50 percent for the past 40 years.

This book discusses in detail a series of examples drawn from scholarly projects that use the OCHRE database platform (Online Cultural and Historical Research Environment).

El Guindi provides a comprehensive guide to the methods of visual anthropology and the use of film in cross-cultural research and ethnography.

In the twenty-first century, more than ever, everything and everybody seems to be on the move.

Addressing the explosive growth in qualitative research in recent years, this volume represents the first anthology to bring together a representative sample from this growing body of work, and comments on the reasons for the extraordinary interest in qualitative research.

This exciting new core textbook offers a clear and practical introduction to quantitative methods, taking a project-based approach.

This clearly written textbook clarifies the concepts underpinning descriptive and inferential statistics in organizational research.

Published social science rarely gives real attention to the actual doing of research, making the process appear magical, or at least self-evident and simple.

Informal work - family care, voluntary work, and undeclared or unregulated work - is a critical form of labor in today's economy, yet remains underanalyzed and examined.

Based on rich interview data drawn from a large scale longitudinal study of homeless young people, this book examines the personal, familial and structural factors that impact on homeless young people's long-term outcomes.

The project of twentieth-century sociology and political science--to create predictive scientific theory--resulted in few full-scale theories that can be taken off the shelf and successfully applied to empirical puzzles.

Along the Archival Grain offers a unique methodological and analytic opening to the affective registers of imperial governance and the political content of archival forms.

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Study of ethnic groups and race relations have always existed in the academy, primarily in the areas of sociology and anthropology.

The 77th Annual International Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS) brought together quantitative researchers who focus on methods relevant to psychology.

It can be hard to find great employees and the worst time to hire is when you are forced to.

DIY Conflict Resolution is the first book by New York City Attorney, Mediator and Conflict Resolution Coach, Nance L.

This book offers a relatively self-contained presentation of the fundamental results in categorical data analysis, which plays a central role among the statistical techniques applied in the social, political and behavioral sciences, as well as in marketing and medical and biological research.

This book explores nonprofit organizations (NPOs) from an operations and supply chain management (OM/SCM) perspective.

Unlike other athletes, the rock climber tends to disregard established norms of style and technique, doing whatever she needs to do to get to the next foothold.

The scientific method is used to solve many great mysteries in natural science.

The second edition of Research Methods for Criminology and Criminal Justice is a core text for criminology and criminal justice research methods courses.

American schools are undergoing huge changes, among the most significant of which is that their size is increasing rapidly.

The first edition of A Better World, Inc.

"e;Surviving Leukemia and Hodgkin's Lymphoma"e; is a text that will give the reader a more than basic insight into the inner workings of both diseases.

This unique book, a milestone of graphic reporting, has become a trade reference classic since its first publication in the 1970s.

This volume supports the ethical negotiations of empirical researchers and enhances understanding of the complex imbrication of ethics and knowledge in contemporary social research.

Strategic Human Resources Planning for Academic Libraries: Information, Technology and Organization provides an in-depth discussion of human resources as a strategic element of a library organization, especially as staffing needs and competencies change.

Tamotsu Shibutani is professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

A single reference source for understanding, leading, and managing the change process to skillfully translate vision into results.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the issues surrounding allyship as one of the tools in the arsenal of organisational leaders to further advance the goal of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in organisations.

Resistance has often been connected with anti-social attitudes, destructiveness, reactionary or revolutionary ideologies, unusual and sudden explosions of violence and emotional outbursts.

Creating The Accountability Culture: The Science of Life Changing Leadership takes a close look at the challenges facing business today which demand higher productivity, improved efficiency, and increased employee engagement.

This book explores organizational knowledge and how it can be pragmatically exploited within many of today's socio-technical-economic contexts.

This book represents the first comprehensive investigation of the role of emotional intelligence in promoting innovation in the organizational context.

This book examines the effective and appropriate integration of project customers in intercultural settings.

Collaborative innovation networks are cyberteams of motivated individuals, and are self-organizing emergent social systems with the potential to promote health, happiness and individual growth in real-world work settings.

When leadership teams do not perform at their best, everyone suffers.

Unpacking the complexities of Nordic consumer culture, this edited collection responds to the growing interest in regionalism within consumer research and marketing.

This book employs a multidisciplinary and multi-level perspective to understand how well-being and resilience can influence innovation in knowledge-intensive contexts.

This book systematically assesses the political and social values of the more than 1.