An up to date, topical book which explores how society and politics are being shaped by the rise of technology, for good and for bad. Written for both an academic and general audience, this book examines how technology has the power to reshape our civic participation, our economic and political governance, and our entire existence.

This book provides guidance on how to set up mentorship programmes in your institutions, and the skills of an effective mentor.

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.

This book boldly pursues the challenge to teach researchers not just how to collect and analyze data but how to actively think about them.

Offers a fresh and creative approach to the research process based on author James V. Spickard's decades of teaching experience.

Material Methods brings introduces students and researchers to the wide range of cross-disciplinary methods which help us to approach and interpret material culture and materials.

A seminal study from a major name in sociology. Ulrich Brockling explores how the contemporary call for entrepreneurship leads to permanent 'over-challenging', exacerbates feelings of powerlessness and generates unbounded anger. We are promised that the most capable will reap the most success, but no amount of effort can remove the risk of failure.

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.