This book is an in-depth glossary, this accessible book successfully introduces students to the key concepts and terms of both qualitative and quantitative research. Terms are organized alphabetically and fully cross-referenced for use of ease. Suggestions for further reading help to consolidate knowledge and aids understanding.

Key Concepts in Social Research Methods

Politics & Social Sciences

Gomm, Roger

Social Sciences

Red Globe Press

Today’s students of social science must understand a variety of research methods. This new edition fully explores the logic of research, whilst aiding acritical understanding of practical, evidence based work. With new chapters, an original framework and updated examples, this book continues to be the primary resource for undergraduates.

Social Research Methodology: A Critical Introduction

This clear, coherent and original text is designed to help the reader make informed judgements about appropriate research strategies and the credibility of particular pieces of research. Introductory in pitch and grounded in extensive real-life examples, it explores the assumptions behind the main methods of data collection and analysis and the ways in which methods shape findings. Key terms are explained in plain English, activities offer opportunities for readers to test and extend their understanding, and each chapter ends with recommendations for further reading. The wealth of illustrative research examples will appeal to students across a range of academic and applied social and health science programs.

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Mental Health Matters is an innovative, interdisciplinary collection of texts which challenge traditional understandings of mental health, emphasising the perspectives of mental health service-users. Combining classic writings about mental health practices and problems from psychiatry, sociology and psychology with specially commissioned new articles, it considers theories and debates in mental health and distress; the social and historical dimensions of mental health; involving users in mental health services and practically improving those services.

Mental Health Matters

Heller, Tom

Muston, Rosemary

Reference

Mental Health Matters is an innovative, interdisciplinary collection of texts which challenge traditional understandings of mental health, emphasising the perspectives of mental health service-users. Combining classic writings about mental health practices and problems from psychiatry, sociology and psychology with specially commissioned new articles, it considers theories and debates in mental health and distress; the social and historical dimensions of mental health; involving users in mental health services and practically improving those services.

Mental Health Matters (Reader)

The issue of educational opportunity has long been of public concern and a major focus for eduational research. As a result, there is now a substantial body of research findings in this field, both quantitative and qualitative.; This work relates to various levels of the educational system and to different categories of student, but particularly social class, gender, ethnicity and race. The central trend has been to find persisting inequalities despite reform at system, institutional and classroom levels. Furthermore, the educational system is frequently portrayed as playing a key role in reproducing wider social and economic inequalities.; This book examines the status of educational inequality as a social problem, explores the conceptual issues surrounding it, assesses a representative sample of recent research, and seeks to clarify the relevant methodological ground rules, thereby laying the basis for future research in the field.

Constructing Educational Inequality: A Methodological Assessment (SOCIAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL STUDIES SERIES)

Education & Teaching

Hammersley, Martyn

FOSTER, PETER

Schools & Teaching

Routledge

Constructing Educational Inequality: A Methodological Assessment (Clinical Procedure Series)

Sociology

Evaluating Research in Health and Social Care (Published in association with The Open University)

Practitioners across the caring professions increasingly need to know where evidence can be found and to evaluate different forms of evidence with a critical eye. This invaluable collection includes exemplars of a wide range of research techniques and provides a critical commentary for each. The commentary is designed to tackle jargon and demystify the text, highlighting the compromises that need to be made in real world research designs and the complexity of controlling relevant variables. The book seeks to underline the challenges of interpreting and generalising results both for the researchers and for those who fund their work. This is a set book for the Open University course K302 Critical Practice in Health and So

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Needham, Gill

Bullman, Anne

Mental Health

Sage Publications Ltd.

An exploration of case-focused methods as a means of bridging the quantitative-qualitative divide and the key methodological issues.

Challenging the Qualitative-Quantitative Divide: Explorations in Case-focused Causal Analysis (Continuum Research Methods)

Cooper, Barry

Glaesser, Judith

Continuum

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