Research methods: general books

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A major new resource book for academics and students of youth studies, Contemporary Youth Research offers a rare...  Read More >>

This book explores the design, communication and implementation of social change programmes aimed at solving various...  Read More >>

This handbook contains about 500 real small data sets in electronic form on the accompanying data disk, which is...  Read More >>

Moving away from the quantitative and empiricist-positivist approaches that have often characterised migration research,...  Read More >>

How do scholars transform qualitative data into finalized analysis? What does making analysis imply? This book sheds...  Read More >>

Humor as a topic of research has received a considerable amount of attention, but as a methodology has been severely...  Read More >>

This book presents the main analytical approaches through which lifestyles and subcultures have been studied, and...  Read More >>

With a reflexive, anthropological approach and drawing on rich empirical and ethnographic studies from around the...  Read More >>

A rich and original qualitative study of the close relationship between financial capitalism, consumer aspirations,...  Read More >>

Despite illustrious origins dating to the 1920s, qualitative crime research has long been overshadowed by quantitative...  Read More >>

Cataloguing the World’s Endangered Languages brings together the results of the extensive and influential Catalogue...  Read More >>

Covering a broad spectrum of qualitative research methodologies, including emerging techniques, this exhaustive...  Read More >>

With attention to the manner in which online gambling can be a source of criminal activity, not only on the part...  Read More >>

Richly illustrated with ethnographic research, together with extensive survey and interview material drawn from...  Read More >>

Recent scholarship on archival research has raised questions concerning the character and impact of 'the archive'...  Read More >>

As extreme and far right movements become increasingly widespread in many countries, the sociology of social movements...  Read More >>

This book highlights the recent re-emergence of Edward Westermarck's work in modern approaches to morality and altruism,...  Read More >>

Respecifying Lab Ethnography delivers the first ethnomethodological study of current experimental physics in action,...  Read More >>

Responsible Research and Innovation provides a comprehensive and impartial overview of the European Commission’s...  Read More >>

This book examines potential synergies between the fields of Terrorism Studies and Peace and Conflict Studies.  Read More >>

This volume reviews key debates concerning reflexivity in theory, methods, and practice.  Read More >>

Echoing recent developments in existential anthropology, Communication as Constitutive of Organization (CCO) research,...  Read More >>

Adopting a conversation analytic approach informed by ethnomethodology, this book examines the process of socialization...  Read More >>