"This comprehensive and authoritative statement of fundamental principles of sociological analysis integrates approaches that are often seen as mutually exclusive. John Scott argues that theorising in sociology and other social sciences is characterised by the application of eig…
The contributors probe the nature of the case and the ways in which different understandings of the concept affect the conduct and results of research.
The contributors probe the nature of the case and the ways in which different understandings of the concept affect the conduct and results of research.
This volume brings together many of the core classic and contemporary works in social and cultural research methods, giving students direct access to methodological debates and examples of practical research across the qualitative/quantitative divide.
This comprehensive, yet concise, introduction to the use of documents as tools within social science research argues that documents stand in a dual-relation to human activity. Therefore by transmitting ideas and influencing the course and nature of human activity they are integr…
Using documents in social research
by ebrary, Inc, Ebrary, Prior, Lindsay
fromIntroducing qualitative methods
This comprehensive, yet concise, introduction to the use of documents as tools within social science research argues that documents stand in a dual-relation to human activity. Therefore by transmitting ideas and influencing the course and nature of human activity they are integr…