In covering both traditional and newer approaches, and presenting them alongside each other, and by consistently referring to two data sets throughout, this book provides students with a brand-new way of understanding methods and a tool with which they can think about their own research.

Written by award-winning scholar Jonathan H Turner, this 936 page resource is a comprehensive, in-depth and detailed review of both classical and present-day theory in sociology.

This book presents an overview of common SPSS commands and contains a collection of more or less independent sections to help readers find the specific information they need.

Providing readers with non-technical and applied explanations of both conceptual and practical aspects of sampling, this book covers the changing technology landscape of survey research and big data.

Covering the full spectrum of skills needed, including planning, scoping, analysis, argumentation, theory building, modelling theories, methods, gathering data, presenting evidence, and writing, this book clearly helps students through each stage of doing a research project.

This practical, hands-on guide helps beginning researchers create a mixed methods research proposal for their dissertations, grants, or general research studies.

This practical book provides researchers strategic and practical guidance on using text mining methods to analyze large text collections more efficiently and productively.

Revised edition of the author's A guide to qualitative field research, 2007.

This book leads the new researcher into the field by explaining the core concepts through theory, research and applied examples. This Fourth Edition now provides boxes that include real-world examples; new content on using social media, blogs, and doing research online; and more international examples.

Broad in its coverage and examining the wide range of uses of visual images, this second edition helps the reader overcome some of the practical challenges they face when conducting visually orientated research.