With its unique modelling and mapping of social processes, investigative research offers an alternative approach to social research. This book guides you through the theoretical grounding and rules you need to effectively combine the evidence-based explanations of social behaviour and distinctive strategies of data collection associated with investigative research.

Covering the general process of data analysis to finding, collecting, organizing, and presenting data, this book offers a complete introduction to the fundamentals of data analysis.

A compact and accessible book that links issues regarding post-modern society to the ideas and individuals that gave rise to sociological thinking in the late 19th century.

Taking a multidimensional approach, this book emphasizes the interplay between power, inequality, multiple oppressions, and the state. It provides students with a focus on the structure of power and inequality in society.

Provides 10 cases of research conducted using online interviews, with data collected through text-based, videoconferencing, multichannel meetings, and immersive 3-D environments.

Focussing on online research, this text shows readers how to access and interpret public health data.

This new volume in the Social Thinkers series serves as an introduction to the life, work, and ideas of Erving Goffman.

Providing readers with an expansive and international overview, this handbook is the ideal resource on this fast-paced and ubiquitous field

The fifth volume in the cutting edge Cultures and Globalization Series, this volume explores a city's cultural dynamics and its impact on policy including alternative economies, creativity, migration, diversity, sustainability, education and urban planning.

Introducing students to the concepts of statistics, stripping away any technical jargon and mathematical language, this book sets out the tools needed by those doing statistical procedures for the first time, or those in need of a refresher.