Research Methods - Soc. Policy Books

New and Published Books

1. Involving Children and Young People in Health and Social Care Research

   Edited by Jennie Fleming, Thilo Boeck

   Led by both children’s rights perspectives and methodological arguments, there is an increasing emphasis on children and young people’s participation in health and social care research by researchers, policy makers and funding bodies – with many now considering the active involvement of children...

   Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
2. Sociology and Human Rights: New Engagements

   Edited by Patricia Hynes, Michele Lamb, Damien Short, Matthew Waites

   Sociology and Human Rights: New Engagements is the first collection to focus on the contribution sociological approaches can make to analysis of human rights. Taking forward the sociology of human rights which emerged from the 1990s, it presents innovative analyses of global human rights struggles...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
3. Applied Statistics for the Social and Health Sciences

   By Rachel A. Gordon

   Applied Statistics for the Social and Health Sciences provides graduate students in the social and health sciences with the basic skills that they need to estimate, interpret, present, and publish statistical models using contemporary standards. The book targets the social and health science...

   Published May 8th 2012 by Routledge
4. Beyond Methodological Nationalism

   Research Methodologies for Cross-Border Studies

   Edited by Anna Amelina, Devrimsel D. Nergiz, Thomas Faist, Nina Glick Schiller

   Series: Routledge Research in Transnationalism

   Cross-border studies have become attractive for a number of fields, including international migration, studies of material and cultural globalization, and history. While cross-border studies have expanded, the critique on nation-centered research lens has also grown. This book revisits drawbacks of...

   Published April 24th 2012 by Routledge
5. Multilevel Modeling of Categorical Outcomes Using IBM SPSS

   By Ronald H Heck, Scott Thomas, Lynn Tabata

   Series: Quantitative Methodology Series

   This is the first workbook that introduces the multilevel approach to modeling with categorical outcomes using IBM SPSS Version 20. Readers learn how to develop, estimate, and interpret multilevel models with categorical outcomes. The authors walk readers through data management, diagnostic tools,...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge Academic
6. Models in Statistical Social Research

   By G¨otz Rohwer

   Series: Social Research Today

   Models in Statistical Social Research provides a comprehensive insight of models used in statistical social research based on statistical data and methods. While traditionally understood statistical models relate to data generating processes which presuppose facts, this book focuses on analytical...

   Published March 30th 2012 by Routledge
7. Social Class in Europe

   An introduction to the European Socio-economic Classification

   Edited by David Rose, Eric Harrison

   Series: Routledge/ESA Studies in European Societies

   This timely volume introduces a new social class schema, the European Socio-economic Classification (ESeC), which has been specifically developed and tested for use in EU comparative research. Social Class in Europe aims to introduce researchers to the new classification and its research potential....

   Published March 30th 2012 by Routledge
8. Max Weber

   Collected Methodological Writings

   Edited by Hans Henrik Bruun, Sam Whimster

   Series: Weber in Translation

   Weber’s methodological writings form the bedrock of key ideas across the social sciences. His discussion of value freedom and value commitment, causality, understanding and explanation, theory building and ideal types have been of fundamental importance, and their impact remains undiminished today....

   Published March 14th 2012 by Routledge
9. Statistical Concepts

   A Second Course, 4th Edition

   By Richard G. Lomax, Debbie L. Hahs-Vaughn

   Statistical Concepts consists of the last 9 chapters of An Introduction to Statistical Concepts, 3rd ed. Designed for the second course in statistics, it is one of the few texts that focuses just on intermediate statistics. The book highlights how statistics work and what they mean to better...

   Published March 11th 2012 by Routledge Academic
10. An Introduction to Statistical Concepts

    Third Edition

    By Richard G. Lomax, Debbie L. Hahs-Vaughn

    This comprehensive, flexible text is used in both one- and two-semester courses to review introductory through intermediate statistics. Instructors select the topics that are most appropriate for their course. Its conceptual approach helps students more easily understand the concepts and interpret...

    Published February 29th 2012 by Routledge Academic