Detailing the steps involved in planning and carrying out a comprehensive approach to monitoring a process or new programme, policy or practice implementation in an organization, this book will develop students' skills in program evaluation, specifically in implementation monitoring.

Containing numerous step-by-step examples throughout, this new edition introduces readers to how to use IBM SPSS to plan a study, prepare data for analysis, perform the analysis and interpret the output.

Focussing on applied knowledge and providing straightforward coverage of R objects and functions, this introduction helps students with little or no background in statistics or programming to develop real-world R skills.

Video is an increasingly important topic in the social sciences, particularly in the US, UK, Europe and the Far East, where researchers and students are using this widely available technology to gather data about a wide range of social activities.

A much needed retrospective and prospective look at how GIS technology influences and is influenced by today's post-industrial society.

This book presents a method for bringing data analysis and statistical technique into line with theory.

An intelligent and engaging exploration of the continuing relevance of both classical and contemporary social theory in today's world.

A fresh look at the numbers of daily living, particularly in light of current economic troubles, where modern economic practices, mathematical concepts, and everyday moral dilemmas are discussed.

Covering theoretical foundations and practical applications, this book introduces the reader to PCP in its entirety and will be instrumental in helping them to do unbiased, rich interpretative, constructivist research

This book engages with key intellectual challenges facing social science today, at a time when it is under considerable pressure to demonstrate its value. It addresses questions that carry implications for research practice, quantitative or qualitative, by making use of contemporary examples, such as the London riots.