With an exciting new look, new characters to meet, and its unique combination of humour and step-by-step instruction, this award-winning book is the statistics lifesaver for everyone. From initial theory through to regression, factor analysis and multilevel modelling, Andy Field animates statistics and SPSS software with his famously bizarre examples and activities. What’s brand new: A radical new design with original illustrations and even more colour A maths diagnostic tool to help studen...

An accessible, multidisciplinary introduction to a wide range of social research methods. With a coherent mixed methods approach to each of the core methods in social research it reflects real world practice and contextual perspectives.

Extremely practical in its focus featuring examples, exercises and resources, this book is an ideal introduction to understanding survival and event history analysis

By concentrating on the nature of terminology used in research, this book helps students better understand, and learn how to use, the specialist vocabulary of educational and social science research.

Written in a clear, accessible way, drawing on exciting up-to-date examples and providing a reflective perspective on research as a human process, this book makes for a crucial companion to conducting small-scale research.

This innovative new text provides a sophisticated theoretical and practical understanding of research design in the social sciences.

The March 2010 issue considers the Internet, its effect on free speech and how it has reinvented free speech.

- Compleet overzicht van alle sociologische theorie;

- modulair te gebruiken;

- volop digitale ondersteuning: toetsen, opdrachten en begrippentrainers.

Samenlevingen analyseert het sociale leven in termen van wederzijdse afhankelijkheden en brengt studenten hiermee een sociologische manier van denken bij. Het boek introduceert eerst de verschillende basisafhankelijkheden, namelijk op economisch, affectief, cognitief en politiek vlak. Vervolgens gaat het boek in op sociale ongelijkheid als uni...