Thinking and talking in everyday life differs from thinking and talking in more formal contexts,
and that difference is not always taken into account in social psychology. What is needed is …

This paper focuses on ways in which entrepreneurs engage with place and community.
Drawing on the ideas of embeddedness and transferring value across spheres, we develop …

Research Methods in Education introduces research methods as an integrated set of
techniques for investigating questions about the educational world. This lively, innovative …

“In this era of bountiful visual, qualitative and informationalised knowledge of the social
world a conscientious guide to social research is ever more valuable… this is a …

The second of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world's leading
intellectual historians. This collection includes some of his most important essays on the …

Are conflict situations such as the ethnic clashes in Yugoslavia or Rwanda, terrorist attacks
and riots, the same kind of social crises as those generated by natural and technological …

This fully revised, updated and extended edition of a successful text, introduces some of the
important philosophical issues arising from social research practices and historical research …

Any serious student attempting to better understand the nature, methods, and justification of
science will value Alex Rosenberg and Lee McIntyre's updated and substantially revised …

This new interdisciplinary textbook by Martin Hollis offers an exceptionally clear and concise
introduction to the philosophy of social science. It unearths central philosophical problems …

The Fourth Edition of Rafael J. Engel and Russell K. Schutt's The Practice of Research in
Social Work introduces an integrated set of techniques for evaluating research and practice …