Part of The SAGE Quantitative Research Kit, this book is an ideal companion for those looking to undertake survey research. Anchored by lots of case studies of real research and expert interviews to strengthen your understanding, it provides guidance on the range of skills needed for watertight survey research and sampling.

Drawing on real world data to showcase different techniques, this practical book helps you use R for data analysis in your own research.

Taking students through the essentials of managing, coding and interpreting interview data, this Little Quick Fix helps them master interviews as a data collection method.

A concise and student-friendly companion to a subject that's central to sociology degrees, and yet can often seem dense and impenetrable to undergraduates approaching the classics for the first time.

A streamlined edition of the book that restored the role of government in promoting science and technology.

Advances in Visual Methodology examines and introduces the cutting edge in using visual methods in social research.

A new sociological and social anthropological analysis of contemporary cities in the West, looking at both their historical development and the critical positive changes that are currently taking place.

The Third Edition of a seminal text which is widely recommended to upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students of health, anthropology, nursing and cultural studies.

This succinct overview focusses on the experience of conducting linguistic ethnography and the role of the researcher, providing readers with both a philosophical and practical introduction

With a strong focus on the theoretical, this book covers both the fundamentals and important applications of realist research and clearly illustrates why scientific realism is of such relevance to the social sciences