Focus Group: A Practical Guide for Applied Research was the standard for learning how to conduct a focus group. This highly acclaimed book in its third edition includes numerous updates and impro…
The SAGE Handbook of Quantitative Methodology for the Social Sciences is the definitive reference for teachers, students, and researchers of quantitative methods in the social sciences, as it pro…
Offering an insider′s view of the subject, this practical guide demystifies the process of publishing in scholarly journals. The author explains how to increase the chances of having articles acc…
Simulation modelling involves the development of models that imitate real-world operations, and statistical analysis of their performance with a view to improving efficiency and effectiveness. This…
A concise introduction to the fundamental concepts of social scientific thinking, this classic text--a favorite with students for over 30 years--makes scientific thinking, research methods and stat…
The research methods course that most psychology majors are required to take is a challenge for both students and the instructor. The challenge for students is to deal with concepts that are alien …
The Sociologically Examined Life is a lively and concise text that uses analyses of everyday life to inspire students to think sociologically about society and about themselves as social actors.
This long awaited successor of the original Cook/Campbell Quasi-Experimentation: Design and Analysis Issues for Field Settings represents updates in the field over the last two decades. The book co…
This is a new edition of the well-received Interpretive Social Science (California, 1979), in which Paul Rabinow and William M. Sullivan predicted the increasing use of an interpretive approach in …
Content analysis is one of the most important but complex research methodologies in the social sciences. In The Content Analysis Guidebookauthor Kimberly Neuendorf provides an accessible core text …