This Major Work collection explores a number of substantive methodologies and focuses on generating data, drawing primarily on literature from sociology, social psychology, social anthropology, and education. This Major Work collection exp...Loe edasi...
Actor Network Theory has grown into one of the most innovative and influential approaches for social science research. Originating in the field of science an...Loe edasi...
Evaluation is an essential characteristic of the human condition, and perhaps the single most important and sophisticated cognitive process in the repertoire of human reasoning and logic. Evaluation serves soc...Loe edasi...
This four-volume Major Work contains texts which explore both the foundations of latent variables and factor analysis, and specific contemporary challenges in the field. ...Loe edasi...
From definitions to interdisciplinary methods, this set will address the practical case study by offering a structured selection of some of the best modern and classic writing on the case study in article fo...Loe edasi...
These four volumes map how the fieldwork approach to research has developed and matured over the past decades. Following on from the success of 2004’s major work,Fieldwork (ed. Christopher Pole),...Loe edasi...
The history of internet research methods is, naturally, much shorter than the histories of other research methods in the social sciences, though no less rich or significant as a result. The early devel...Loe edasi...
These four volumes provide a collection of key publications on categorical data analysis, carefully put together so that the reader can easily navigate, understand and put in context the major concepts and methods of analysing categorical data. Th...Loe edasi...
Since its appearance in the 1930s in the form of sociometry, social network analysis (SNA) has become a major paradigm for social research in such areas as communication, organizations, and social mobility, to name but a few. It is used by researc...Loe edasi...
This collection successfully discusses the different ways documentation comes into being and how and why they become objects of social research. It emphasizes the interdisciplinary scale of the field as well as both its qualitative and its quantitati...Loe edasi...
Mines the extensive research in textual analysis of the past few decades. With experienced and respected figures in the field at the helm, this title includes selected papers that are put into context and analyzed in a newly written introductory chap...Loe edasi...
Most social research is carried out in observational settings; that is, most social researchers collect information in the "real world" trying to do as little possible to alter the circumstances of study. However, there is a fundamental pro...Loe edasi...
This new four-volume major work brings together a wealth of valuable research on the qualitative research methods of grounded theory and its extension, situational analysis. This new four-volume major work brings together a wealth of valuable...Loe edasi...
This new four-volume major work presents a collection of landmark studies on the topic of regression modeling, identifying the most important, fundamental articles out of thousands of relevant contributions. This new four-volume major work pr...Loe edasi...
Framed by a newly-written introductory chapter, the collection includes work which spans disciplinary boundaries, bringing together a comprehensive resource which will prove invaluable to scholars in the field. From the 1980s onwards, there h...Loe edasi...
This collection, assembled and introduced by the esteemed editorial team of acclaimed Social Statistics, tracks the development of statistical methods for continuous or interval-scale data. The volumes are divided thematically, but the set maintains...Loe edasi...
Ever since its conception some 40 years ago, consumer research has been the channel through which innovations in social science, social and cultural theory and the arts have entered the marketing discipline. With each transformation and interjection...Loe edasi...