Researching Society and Culture
- Clive Seale - University of London, UK, Brunel University, UK
- Carol Rivas - University College London, UK
Research Methods for Cultural Studies | Social Research Methods | Sociological Research Methods
Just starting out with social research? With contributions from experts across the social sciences, this book equips you with the tools for successfully investigating society and culture.
It shows you how to prepare for research, generate and analyse data, and present your findings. Balancing theory with practice, it covers foundational concepts in methods and methodology alongside contemporary developments.
This radically updated new edition:
- Sees all chapters fully rewritten in a friendly, accessible style;
- Offers additional chapters on participatory research and online ‘big’ data;
- Includes multiple case studies of real-world research from across the globe in every chapter;
- Celebrates the dynamic, reflexive nature of research as engagement with the world.
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- Access PowerPoint slides for each chapter, featuring key figures, concepts and content summaries to be customized for your own use in lectures and presentations.
- Test your students’ knowledge with a Testbank, featuring multiple choice and short answer questions which can be used in the classroom, as homework or exams.
- Support your teaching with a detailed Lecturer’s guide, featuring real case studies, videos, teaching suggestions, transcripts and addition further reading resources for each chapter.
This brilliant book offers an authoritative exposé of all major aspects of empirical social research. The authors balance consideration for detail, necessary for hands-on research, with general methodological discussion, and show how both are necessary to achieve research excellence.
Concise and to the point. This is a highly useful methods book for approaching and teaching research on society and culture from start to finish, between qualitative and quantitative approaches.
This book has the potential to be a market leader. Seale put together a comprehensive collection of chapters that inspires students to take their classroom examination of methods out into the real world. This book moves ahead of many others by explaining concepts in a way that actively encourages students to engage with them and visualize how they can be used with actual problems. The authors address students directly on a personal level, rather than lecturing, which turns the book into the ‘story of methods’. Such an experience means that chapters on theory and ethics draw students into everyday life reassuring them that these are important topics to consider within actual research.
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