By Various
July 11, 2025
This 7-volume set, first published between 1981 and 1990, forms part of the original Contemporary Social Research series. The structure of the social sciences combines two separate elements, theory and empirical evidence. Both are necessary for successful social understanding; one without the other...
By Lee Harvey
July 11, 2025
Originally published in 1990, Critical Social Research is a unique methodology textbook that provides students, lecturers and indeed all those involved in social research with an invaluable illustrative guide. The author argues that critical social research offers a perspective and a methodology ...
By Nicholas Bateson
July 11, 2025
Before the early 1980s, much attention had been given in the social survey literature to the analysis and interpretation of data, but much less to the problems of constructing the individual datum. Yet without good work at datum level a good data set cannot be produced, and without good data no ...
By Angela Dale, Sara Arber, Michael Procter
July 11, 2025
Originally published in 1988 Doing Secondary Analysis is a practical guide to the secondary analysis of large-scale survey data. At a time when funding for primary data collection was increasingly constrained, the secondary analysis of high-quality government surveys offered the social scientist an...
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By George Moyser, Margaret Wagstaffe
July 11, 2025
Elites are crucial groups of people in all but the very simplest societies. Whether one is concerned with politics and government, the economy, or the wider culture and structure of society, they are the people who occupy the central positions of influence that, in turn, enable them to help shape ...
By Jerald Hage, Barbara Foley Meeker
July 11, 2025
Originally published in 1988, Social Causality takes the reader through the theoretical and practical maze that has to be negotiated before definitive statements about cause and effect in social research can be made. It was designed for the undergraduate student on a first research methods course; ...
By Michael Carley
July 11, 2025
For the early pioneers of the social indicator movement, the possibilities of doing social good by developing the tools of social measurement seemed endless. However, in the early 1980s these high, and perhaps naïve, hopes remained unfulfilled, especially for the data needs of the policy-maker. If ...
By Catherine Marsh
July 11, 2025
In the early 1980s, the survey was the most widely used method of social research, but it had been the object of much damaging criticism. Critics maintained that there were philosophical flaws inherent in survey practice which made it unacceptable as valid method; sociology students were taught ...