Understanding and Evaluating Research: A Critical Guide shows students how to be critical consumers of research and to appreciate the power of methodology as it shapes the research question, the use of theory in the study, the methods used, and how the outcomes are reported.

Researching City Life: An Urban Field Methods Text-Reader examines the city from a street level perspective and provides readers with tools to conduct research on urbanism—the everyday experiences of people in cities. Contending that culture is central to understanding urbanism, editors Tyler Schafer and Michael Ian Borer address qualitative research in cities and how it provides insights unable to be captured via quantitative methods. Carefully selected and edited readings cover participan...

A sophisticated, nuanced guide to qualitative content analysis that is inherently qualitative in both its method and its data.

The authors in this edited volume provide sociological insights, theoretical perspectives and applied contexts that contribute to a deeper understanding the complexities of power, violence, and justice. Underlying many chapters also lies the question of what is the role that sociology plays and can play in moving us forward?

Compiling the best episodes of SAGE's 'Social Science Bites' podcast since its beginning in 2012, this pocket-sized volume will show you how social science can solve problems in today's society. Featuring a multidisciplinary and diverse range of interviewees, the book covers topics from racial inequality to moral psychology, the pandemic, and the prison system.

A new textbook from statistics royalty that builds on a world-class brand to present core statistical techniques alongside an up-and-coming software created by the authors – JASP.

This practical urban studies research guide for students, revised and with new chapter additions, focuses on the city and on the different ways to research it.

Author Jenny Rogers distills her decades of experience to guide you through the challenges and pitfalls, joys and rewards, and dos and don'ts of coaching.

This book gives a broad, easy-to-read overview of the cultural, social and political ideas that have shaped our education system and how we think about the concept of Education. This new edition has been updated with new chapters, a new case study feature and coverage of hot topics trending today.