This go-to guide covers both the historical background to the emergence of survey research and the practical tools necessary to write survey questions, design a questionnaire, use probability sampling and to understand both pretesting and data collection.

Guiding readers through the Jeffersonian transcription conventions, this book sets out the best practices for successfully transcribing talk and interaction, and covers guides to software and technology and how to transcribe more than just words.

A thought provoking and engaging exploration of contemporary youth studuies, with a focus on change and inequality in young lives in the emerging Asian century.

A brief and accessible text that provides undergraduate sociological theory students with the tools they need to think theoretically about their social world

Incorporating both theory and practice, this text provides students with an essential resource on how to do useful and effective evaluations.

A step-by-step approach to turning a research idea into a proposal worthy of funding, demystifying the process as a result.

A revised and updated edition of this accessible yet provocative survey of contemporary social and sociological theories.

A concise introduction to the writings, life, and influences of Georg Simmel - an important sociologist whose work is now taught across sociological theory courses worldwide.

Written from the insider's perspective, this text helps organizations become more focused on using evaluation to improve policies, strategies, programming and delivery of public and communal services

This text looks at what many survey scientists believe to be the largest source of error: nonsampling error.