Metrics evoke a mixed reaction from the research community. Metrics hold real power: they are constitutive of values, identities and livelihoods. Using extensive evidence-gathering, analysis and consultation, the authors take a thorough look at potential uses and limitations of research metrics and indicators.

This book provides a balanced foundation in the principles and practices of social research, suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students. It will be popular with lecturers who want to get their students thinking.

Proposing a post-positivist, interviewee-centred approach, Giampietro Gobo and Sergio Mauceri's new book offers students and researchers a practical introduction to the process of collecting and analyzing survey data.

An accessible exploration of both long standing and contemporary arguments within this key area of social science teaching and research.

Through developing a decomposition analysis of the inequality measures and promoting their effective use in research, this book provides readers with a step-by-step understanding of the inequality measures that are currently used.

This book presents a research model which can be used in the community in order to tackle problems and grow.

Provides instruction and guidance on preparing quantitative data sets prior to answering a study's research questions

Provides an introduction to the major theories, methods and findings of social network analysis research and the applications from that research.

Providing readers with practical, 'how to' advice and featuring plenty of worked examples, this book takes students through the entire process of doing network research

Challenging current modes of thinking, and covering areas not usually found in qualitative research texts such as social reality/ontology and quantum reality/mechanics, this book helps readers to choose and defend their research methods and to take their work beyond standard perspectives