Building on the acclaimed and successful previous editions, the Third Edition provides further critical updates and illustrations of the applications of reflexive methodology in formulating research strategies.

Covers the important new developments in meta-analysis methods over the last 14 years

This original and authoritative exploration of ethnographic writing comes from one of the world's leading academics in the field, Paul Atkinson. The third book in his seminal quartet on ethnographic research, it provides thoughtful, reflective guidance on a crucial skill that is often difficult to master.

A cornerstone of this exciting, growing discipline, this text gives readers a clear introduction to key ideas and common complexities met when doing sensory research and provides plenty of real-world examples to show the method in action.

Explaining both why and how to use mixed methods for discovering solutions to complex research problems, this book gives readers the tools to adapt approaches to suit their own research conditions.

In this fabulous little book, David Silverman lays bare what he considers to be good and bad qualitative research and gets readers thinking about how they can come to understand the world and each other better through qualitative methods.

Combining theory with plenty of practical, technical advice - and accompanied by original case studies and data sets - this book makes sure that students both understand Stata and know exactly what to do to make it meet their needs.

This book will help researchers to maximize the impact and highlight the innovation of their research by showing them how to get the most out of social media when evaluating, presenting and disseminating their work.

Helping the reader get to grips with theory and apply it to qualitative analysis, the authors introduce eight analytical approaches that are key to social science research.