From renowned author Ulrike Schuerkens comes an in-depth exploration of social transformations and developments. Combining an international approach with up-to-date research, this book provides a comprehensive introduction perfect for a range of Sociology courses taught at first and second year.

This book goes beyond mixed methods research design and data collection to provide a pragmatic discussion of the challenges of effectively integrating data to encourage a more comprehensive and rigorous level of analysis.

Examines humanities and social sciences around the idea of postmodernism. This book leads the reader on an exhilarating tour encompassing the end of Marxism, the enchantment of fashion, symbolism about sex and the body, and the relations between economic exchange and death.

Guiding readers through the Jeffersonian transcription conventions, this book sets out the best practices for successfully transcribing talk and interaction, and covers guides to software and technology and how to transcribe more than just words.

This cutting-edge overview explores big data and the related topic of computer code, examining the implications for education and schooling for today and the near future.

Arbeidssociologie richt zich op de studie van het sociale fenomeen 'arbeid'. Arbeid heeft een erg belangrijke plaats in ons leven. Daarom zijn sociologische vragen over arbeid bijzonder divers. Arbeidssociologen buigen zich onder meer over de manier waarop we 'arbeid' organiseren in onze samenleving, of staan stil bij de rol van de verschillende actoren die vorm geven aan het arbeidsbestel: werknemers, werkgevers, vakbonden, de overheid... Ze analyseren ook de gevolgen van arbeid voor werknem...

Using real research on antisocial behaviours such as cyberbullying, prejudice and discrimination, this text helps readers across the social sciences to understand the underlying theory behind statistical methods.

Conversations About Group Concept Mapping: Applications, Examples, & Enhancements takes a concise, practice-based approach to concept mapping. After defining the method, demonstrating how to design a project, and providing guidelines to analyse the results, the book then dives into real research exemplars.

Michael Quinn Patton's Facilitating Evaluation: Principles in Practice is the first book of its kind to explain in depth and detail how to facilitate evaluation processes with stakeholders, using the author's own stories of his experiences as an evaluation facilitator.