What is Gender? explores these complex and important questions, helping readers to critically analyze how women's and men's lives are shaped by the society in which they live. The book offers a comprehensive account of trends in sociological thinking, from a material and economic focus on gender inequalities to the debates about meaning initiated by the linguistic or cultural turn.

Realistic Evaluation shows how programme evaluation needs to be, and can be, bettered. It presents a profound yet highly readable critique of current evaluation practice, and introduces a `manifesto' and `handbook' for a fresh approach.

This book presents a disciplined, qualitative exploration of case study methods by drawing from naturalistic, holistic, ethnographic, phenomenologic and biographic research methods.

A trusted, full-featured companion to criminological research, this edition expands and updates case studies, methods and project strategies to help students prepare, do and present their research.

Including an interview with Judy Blume, the author illustrates a short story from Turkey.

Helps students understand how theory impacts and informs social work practice across a range of contexts and with different service user groups

This groundbreaking book takes a humanistic approach to counselling young people, establishing humanistic counselling as an evidence-based psychological intervention.

This timely book showcases the variety of qualitative longitudinal methods and tools available to researchers today. It will help you find, generate, and manage data from a variety of research tools

By using a fresh, sociological perspective, this book explores the development of sexualities across both public and private spheres, highlighting the history and development of 'sexualities' before looking at how sexualities are framed by cultural factors, including the media, religion, and politics, with thoughtful consideration given to heterosexualities, cis, bi and trans identities.

Focusing on what students really need to know, this book breaks down all of the key social work theory covered across a students' training, demystifying complex concepts by demonstrating their application to real-life practice.