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Principles of Research Design in the Social Sciences is an essential buy for students who know what they want to study, but who have yet to decide how best to study it. This book does not aim to provide a set of rigid recipes for social scientists - as many methodology books do - rather it is intended to stimulate them to think about the issues involved when deciding upon their research design.
This book will prove indispensable to students of all levels in the social sciences embarking upon a research project, and also to experienced researchers looking for a fresh perspective on their object of study.
Principles of Research Design in the Social Sciences is a book for researchers who know what they want to study, but who have yet to decide how best to study it. This book does not aim to provide a set of rigid recipes for social scientists - like many methodology books do - rather it is intended to stimulate them to think about the issues involved when deciding upon their research design. By discussing standard approaches to research design and method in various disciplines within the social sciences, the authors illustrate why particular designs have traditionally predominated in certain areas of study. But whilst they acknowledge the strengths of these standard approaches, Bechofer and Paterson's emphasis is on helping researchers to find the most effective solution to their given problem, encouraging them, through this familiarity with the principles of a variety of approaches, to innovate where it is appropriate. Principles of Research Design in the Social Sciences will prove indispensable to students of all levels in the social sciences embarking upon a research project and to experienced researchers looking for a fresh perspective on their object of study.
Shortlisted for the Saltire Society/NLS Scottish Research Book of
the Year Award, 2005 Living in Scotland gives an account of the key
social changes in Scottish society, describing how it has been
transformed over the last two to three decades. Drawing on a
uniquely wide range of data from government statistics, social
surveys and over-time data sources, the book tells the story of
society in Scotland during the approach and arrival of the new
century. The authors analyse the large-scale changes which have
profoundly altered Scottish society affecting the country's
demography, patterns of work and employment, the distributions of
income, wealth and poverty, social class and social mobility,
educational opportunities, and patterns of consumption and
lifestyle. While Scotland shares many of these social trends with
similar western societies, its reaction to them is shaped by its
own history and culture. The authors argue that Scotland is now a
more affluent, comfortable and pleasant place to live in than just
two or three decades ago, but that it remains seriously divided and
stratified. A significant minority of its people remain
disadvantaged and relatively deprived.This represents the major
political and cultural challenge for the new Scotland. Living in
Scotland is written by three of the country's foremost
sociologists. Together, they build a picture of a changing Scotland
at the beginning of the 21st century. Key Features: * A cd-rom of
all the key tables is provided with the book * Written by three of
Scotland's foremost sociologists * Builds a picture of the changing
society of Scotland over the second half of the twentieth century *
Uses a uniquely wide range of statistical data sources which are
set in context and explained in non-technical ways
We live in a world in which being a 'citizen' of a state and being
a 'national' are by no means the same. Amidst much scholarly debate
about 'nations' and 'nationalism', comparatively little has been
written explicitly on 'national identity' and a great deal less is
solidly evidence-based. This book focuses on national identity in
England and Scotland. Using data collected over twenty years it
asks: does national identity really matter to people? How does
'national identity' differ from 'nationality' and having a
passport? Are there particular people and places which have
ambiguous or contested national identities? What happens if someone
makes a claim to a national identity? On what basis do others
accept or reject the claim? Does national identity have much
internal substance, or is it simply about defending group
boundaries? How does national identity relate to politics and
constitutional change?
This final book in The Affluent Worker series was originally
published in 1969. It contains the findings and conclusions on the
issues the research was specifically designed to investigate - the
extent of working class embourgeoisment. This thesis is examined in
the several contexts of work, sociability, social aspirations and
imagery, and so on. At all these points it is called into question
empirically and conceptually. In this volume which brings the
project to an end, the authors also take up again the broad
questions of class and politics out of which the investigation
originally sprang.
This 1968 volume, the second of The Affluent Worker monographs,
reports on the voting and political attitudes of highly paid manual
workers. As in the first book, the affluent workers studied are
employed in Luton, a town which benefited faster and more
consistently than almost any other in Britain from the economic
progress of the 'fifties and early 'sixties. The sample was chosen
as a 'critical' case to test some widely accepted views on the
assimilation of the working classes into patterns of middle-class
social life. On the basis of material from interviews, the authors
give an account of the workers' political orientations, and this is
followed by an analysis of voting in relationship to income house
ownership, social origin and trade union membership. The main
findings - that, despite their affluence, the majority of these
workers remain staunch supporters of the Labour Party - runs
counter to contemporary beliefs about working-class
embourgeoisement.
The affluent workers studied in this book, originally published in
1968, were employees of three major industrial concerns sited in
Luton at the time. The three firms were selected as being amongst
Luton's best-paying employers and also on account of their advanced
personnel and labour relations policies. This choice enabled
comparisons to be made between workers engaged in very different
types of production system. On the basis of material from
interviews and other data, the authors examine in detail workers'
experience of their industrial jobs, their relations with
workmates, and the nature of their attachment both to the
organizations which employ them and to their trade unions. This
study forms part of a larger project which was aimed at testing
empirically the thesis, which was most prevalent 1968, that of the
progressive assimilation of manual workers and their families into
the pattern of middle class social life.
We live in a world in which being a 'citizen' of a state and being
a 'national' are by no means the same. Amidst much scholarly debate
about 'nations' and 'nationalism', comparatively little has been
written explicitly on 'national identity' and a great deal less is
solidly evidence-based. This book focuses on national identity in
England and Scotland. Using data collected over twenty years it
asks: does national identity really matter to people? How does
'national identity' differ from 'nationality' and having a
passport? Are there particular people and places which have
ambiguous or contested national identities? What happens if someone
makes a claim to a national identity? On what basis do others
accept or reject the claim? Does national identity have much
internal substance, or is it simply about defending group
boundaries? How does national identity relate to politics and
constitutional change?
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