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Weber and Durkheim: A methodological comparison is a systematic, comparative analysis of the methodologies of Max Weber and Émile Durkheim. Jensen shows how Weber and Durkheim analyse Protestants and Catholics in practice in The Protestant Ethic and Suicide, respectively. The very different ways...
To Be Published May 31st 2012 by Routledge
Series: CRESC
Social and cultural research has changed dramatically in the last few years in response to changing conceptions of the empirical, an intensification of interest in interdisciplinary work, and the growing need to communicate with diverse users and audiences. Methods texts, however, have not kept...
To Be Published June 4th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies
A new era of international migration has been accompanied by increasingly restrictive immigration controls to manage migration to more developed countries. The consequence has been fewer routes to enter and/or stay in countries in a regularised way and as a result, an increase in the...
To Be Published June 21st 2012 by Routledge
Designed to help students analyze and interpret research data using IBM SPSS, this user-friendly book, written in easy-to-understand language, shows readers how to choose the appropriate statistic based on the design, and to interpret outputs appropriately. The authors prepare readers for all of...
To Be Published June 25th 2012 by Routledge Academic
Visual sociology has been part of the sociological vocabulary since the 1970s, but until now there has not been a comprehensive text that introduces this area. Written by one of the founding fathers in the field, Visual Sociology explores how the world that is seen, photographed, drawn, or...
To Be Published July 1st 2012 by Routledge
Successfully completing a research project is a major milestone in most university degrees, and the cornerstone of an academic career. This textbook is an accessible, real-time guide to conducting academic research in international and cross-cultural settings. It provides advanced undergraduates...
To Be Published July 2nd 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge International Handbooks
Participatory design is about the direct involvement of people in the co-design of the technologies they use. Its central concern is how collaborative design processes can be driven by the participation of the people affected by the technology designed. Embracing a diverse collection of principles...
To Be Published August 8th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge International Handbooks
Over the past decade there has been a remarkable flowering of interest in food and nutrition, both within the popular media and in academia. Scholars are increasingly using foodways, food systems and eating habits as a new unit of analysis within their own disciplines, and students are rushing into...
To Be Published August 12th 2012 by Routledge
This is not a standard guide to writing a dissertation, thesis, project report, journal article or book. Rather, this book will help researchers who are dissatisfied with the typical recipe approaches to standardised forms of writing-up and want to explore how academic writing can be used to...
To Be Published August 14th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography
This book describes how a group of young people make decisions about drug taking. It charts the decision making process of recreational drug takers and non-drug takers as they mature from adolescence into young adulthood. With a focus upon their perceptions of different drugs, it situates their...
To Be Published August 15th 2012 by Routledge
