The new social contexts formed via the Internet, and the new forms of data made available by the increasing use of diverse forms of computer mediated communication, have challenged …
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 …
Statistics and statistical analyses have become a key feature of contemporary social science. Social statistics is the use of statistical measurement systems to study human …
Using Documents and Records in Social Research collects together a body of papers that highlight the different ways in which documents and records have, and can be, approached and …
Ethnography is an extremely broad church, and the range of methodological stances adopted by ethnographers extends across theoretical, political and technological divides. As a …
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 …
Selecting Research Methods provides advice from prominent social scientists concerning the most crucial steps for planning and undertaking meaningful research: selecting the …
This four-volume Major Work mines the extensive research of the past few decades into textual analysis. The set’s esteemed team of editorshave collated seminal papers which …
Actor-Network Theory has grown into one of the most innovative and influential approaches for social science research. Originating in the field of science and technology studies …
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 …
