Written in a clear, accessible way, drawing on exciting up-to-date examples and providing a reflective perspective on research as a human process, this book makes for a crucial companion to conducting small-scale research.
With its unique modelling and mapping of social processes, investigative research offers an alternative approach to social research. This book guides you... Læs mere
Analyses where a person's views, attitudes, values come from and why they change?
In this textbook, Derek Layder offers a better understanding of the links between theory and research, and provides an analysis of the relationship between the two.
Offers a 'problem focus' that encourages students to acquire skills of argument and discussion; a concluding chapter relating theory to social domains; and relevant examples from everyday life to illustrate key theoretical issues.
This book is an examination of the methods used by social researchers to produce knowledge. Focussing chiefly on research into sexuality and madness, it assesses survey methods and opens up broader philiosophical debates on the nature of knowledge.
This book provides a challenge to the recent post-positivist orthodoxy in social analysis, outlining a theory of social domains which re-establishes the importance of the wider settings and contexts of society.