This handy reference provides students, either new to methods or in need of a refresher, with the answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about qualitative research.

A fully updated and accessible overview of randomized response

In this landmark third edition, Netnography: The Essential Guide provides the theoretical and methodological groundwork as well as the practical applications, helping students both understand and do netnographic research projects of their own.Â

With an emphasis on qualitative research as a process, and with new chapters on researching social mass media and writing a research project, this book takes a holistic approach to research and provides readers with a clear, step-by-step guide

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.

The Sixth Edition of Making Sense of the Social World offers students an introduction to the variety of social research methods, and helps the reader to understand research in their roles as consumers and novice producers of social science.

This book discusses the conceptual foundation of statistical methods and specifies what questions they can, or cannot, answer when we study social phenomena. It also helps students understand the logic of statistical methods and the appropriate ways of using them.

An impassioned and controversial new book from two leading sociologists in the field of social exclusion. They argue that social exclusion is not simply seen in ghettos or sink estates, but also in exclusive gated housing developments, the vacuous non-places of the shopping mall, the deadening reality of low-level service work, and in the depressing uniformity of our political parties.

Explaining how the Web is a socially constructed phenomenon, this timely text provides readers with a complete theoretical and practical guide to Web Social Science

Waarom dragen we geen zwarte kleding meer bij een uitvaart? Is voetbal een nieuwe religie? Waar komt de populariteit van babyshowers en vrijgezellenfeesten vandaan? Hoe moeten we terrorisme begrijpen? Waarom is de discussie over Zwarte Piet heilzaam? Waar komt de Boze Witte Nederlander ineens vandaan? En waarom dienen we internet en smartphones te wantrouwen?

In Wij zijn ons verzamelt bestuurssocioloog Mark van Ostaijen verschillende alledaagse thema’s en behandelt ze in het licht van klass...