Continually praised for its conversational tone, personal examples, and helpful pedagogical tools, this book is organized around the modern ideas of progress, knowledge, and democracy.

Uses dance, yoga, and meditation metaphors to help researchers tap into the intuitive and creative side of their research.

This concise text from The SAGE Quantitative Research Kit provides a clear and digestible introduction to completing quantitative research. Taking you step-by-step through the process of completing your quantitative research project, it offers guidance on formulating a research question, completing a literature review, designing your research around your data source, and choosing appropriate methodology.

The Data Gaze is concerned with understanding how data-led, data-driven and data-reliant forms of capitalism pervade organisational and everyday life.

The Little Quick Fix to Understanding Probability breaks it down step by step with crystal clear examples and exercises from one of the leading quantitative teachers in the UK. All you need is an hour and you'll finally get it. Once it clicks into place, you can nail that section of your exam.

A cutting text that offers a critical approach to current theories and practices of intercultural communication, and invites students and professionals to explore alternative concepts and to become aware of cultural prejudices.

Extremely practical in its focus featuring examples, exercises and resources, this book is an ideal introduction to understanding survival and event history analysis

This book will hold the novice researcher's hand through the process of undertaking a research project using mixed methods. It has a particular focus on ethics, a key concern for researchers in education and the social sciences.

Individualisering is met het streven naar succes, glamour en geluk, maar ook met stress, depressie en afnemende zorg een kenmerk van deze tijd. Maar wat bindt mensen en hoe zien zij de zorg naar elkaar, nu en in de toekomst?

Verzorgingssociologie onderzoekt deze kernvragen aan de hand van vijf benaderingen:

- het structureel functionalisme/de systeemtheorie,

- het symbolisch interactionisme/de etiketteringstheorie,

- de disciplineringstheorie,

- de kritische theorie,

- de civilisatietheorie.

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Fascinerende gesprekken over hipsters, millenials, tatoeages, social media en andere cultuuruitingen van deze tijd. Eminent filosoof Zygmunt Bauman kruist de degens met de jonge Italiaanse filosoof Thomas Leoncini. Wie is de meester en wie de leerling? Een heerlijk boek voor iedereen die zich jong voelt, of oud, ingeleid door een voorwoord van voormalig Denker des Vaderlands Marli Huijer.