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 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 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 …
`This book can provide an excellent framework for bolstering what is often an experiential process - doing a literature review. It is best seen alongside the supervisor, as a guide, through the mul…
This publication has a very specific and clear goal, which is, to focus on the needs of a variety of readers, including students, researchers, and teachers of qualitative research methods. This boo…
Multimethod Research explains how a planned synthesis of different research techniques can be purposely used to improve social science knowledge and avoid vulnerability to error. The authors examin…
Offers rare insight from an expert in the dynamics of trading psychology. Shows why most traders are unprepared for the strategies required for success in trading, and why behaviors which are learn…
This engaging and intelligent book provides an accessible, down to earth assessment of the role of formalism and rigour in economics.Professor Mayer argues that there is room in economics for both …
This is a major, original contribution to economic science, which presents a new vision of economic theory. Yew-Kwang Ng develops a representative-firm analysis which incorporates elements of mi…