A comprehensive exploration of classical social theory portraying the historical context (Renaissance Europe to the Industrial Age), covering all major developments in sociological theory (the Enlightenment to George Herbert Mead) and focusing on all the key figures you would expect: Comte, Spencer, Marx, Weber, Simmel, Durkheim and Mead.

Packed with skill building activities, this guide takes you through all the stages of producing your social or behavioural sciences dissertation, from start to finish.

Making an important new contribution to the field of narrative research, this text provides both a new theoretical orientation as well as a set of practical techniques that students can use to conduct narrative inquiry.

The gap between high and low educated has a long history, since the Re-naissance in the 16th century, and she still grows. She creates discrimination and prejudice, and is accompanied by a gap in income.

In the 20th century there appeared to be a rebirth of humanism, in the cultural revolution of the 1960’s, but that faded away when the ‘babyboomers’ joined the game of the established order.

The gap is fatal, not only for the low educated, but for society as a whole, including the high ...

Takes a completely new approach to objectivity and subjectivity, no longer treating them as opposed - as many existing texts do - but as logically and methodologically related in social research

Covering core topics from preparation to questionnaire design, recruitment testing to analysis and survey software, this book covers the past 15 years of research and provides readers with practical direction on techniques for collecting valid and reliable data.

Taking a multidimensional approach, this book emphasizes the interplay between power, inequality, multiple oppressions, and the state. It provides students with a focus on the structure of power and inequality in society.

Provides 10 cases of research conducted using online interviews, with data collected through text-based, videoconferencing, multichannel meetings, and immersive 3-D environments.

This book visually presents quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research designs in a way that students and researchers can readily understand and accurately apply in their own investigations.