This text brings together in one volume the range of methods available for undertaking qualitative data collection and analysis in organizations.

Published in association with the ISA, and part of the SAGE Studies in International Sociology series, this is a passionate and stimulating exploration of how the work of Georg Simmel can help revitalise and focus the aims of sociology today.

This book is a "survival guide" for students and researchers who would like to conduct a qualitative study with limited resources.

Introducing the idea of 'granular ethnography', this interdisciplinary text shows readers how to take ethnography's theoretical foundations into account and clearly lays out the importance of doing so.

This is a unique methodological resource drawing together contributions from leading scholars across the social sciences, each offering insights into particular measurement-related challenges they have confronted and how they have addressed them.

Incorporating both theory and practice, this text provides students with an essential resource on how to do useful and effective evaluations.

A step-by-step approach to turning a research idea into a proposal worthy of funding, demystifying the process as a result.

Systematically explains the concepts that have preoccupied medical sociologists from its inception, and which have shaped the field as it exists today.

New to online qualitative research? This book equips you with the skills to make good research choices so you can confidently conduct a project using internet methods.

Nigel Ford provides readers with the strategies they need when using the internet as part of their research and guides them through the necessary skills needed to independently conduct and evaluate research.