An unrivalled exploration of what visual ethnography is and what it should be, this book maintains a fine balance between theory and practice. The author provides up-to-date digital and technological topics in this 4th edition; offering clear, relevant guidance on the approaches that contemporary students want to understand and the tools they want to use.

This is an essential guide for graduate students and researchers in the social and behavioural sciences, identifying and answering the essential questions from assessing risks to protecting privacy and vulnerable populations. It is also a very useful resource for students developing their thesis and dissertation proposals.

Focusing on the methods that are commonly used by social scientists, this text introduces the regression methods for analysing spatial data.

Through a series of examples of statistics in the media, this book shows you how to critically assess the presentation of data in the media, to identify what is significant and to sort verifiable conclusions from misleading claims.

Looking at the rise of the auto-industrial economy and evaluating its effect on modern society, this book provides a succinct exploration that will be of interest across the social sciences

Includes most organized discussion of mass media culture, the meaning of leisure, and anomie in affluent society.

Ideal for those already familiar with basic Excel features, this updated Third Edition shows readers how to utilize Microsoft (R) Excel's functions and Analysis ToolPak to answer simple and complex questions about data.

Part of the SAGE Swifts series, this book examines the changing and competing conceptualizations of the political and the social in the Western European intellectual tradition, in particular, the way in which political thought and its consequences in action have become divorced from social and cultural experience.