A comprehensive exploration of classical social theory portraying the historical context (Renaissance Europe to the Industrial Age), covering all major developments in sociological theory (the Enlightenment to George Herbert Mead) and focusing on all the key figures you would expect: Comte, Spencer, Marx, Weber, Simmel, Durkheim and Mead.

This handy guide can be used in conjunction with any introductory or intermediate statistics book where the focus is on in-depth presentation of how graphs are used.

Packed with skill building activities, this guide takes you through all the stages of producing your social or behavioural sciences dissertation, from start to finish.

Making an important new contribution to the field of narrative research, this text provides both a new theoretical orientation as well as a set of practical techniques that students can use to conduct narrative inquiry.

This agenda-setting text brings together the biggest names in membership categorization analysis to provide readers with a contemporary analysis of the field and a platform to build upon when doing research.

Focussing on the global nature of research in today's society, this book takes the reader through the process of designing, conducting and analysing a research project within the context of international networks, cultural signifiers and technological advancements.

This practical book is a candid collection of stories in which seasoned evaluators share professional mistakes they have made in the past, and what they learned moving forward.

Written for advanced undergraduate students, postgraduate students planning theses and dissertations and other early career researchers, Designing and Managing Your Research Project helps readers to successfully plan and complete their research projects by showing them the key skills that they need.

The work of Raymond Williams remains hugely influential, not just in the humanities but across the social sciences too. This collection introduces a new generation of students to a major figure in sociology, media studies and cultural studies.

Takes a completely new approach to objectivity and subjectivity, no longer treating them as opposed - as many existing texts do - but as logically and methodologically related in social research