This book examines various types of neighbourhood-based care and relates them to the complex issues of commmunity care policy, contributing to the debate fostered by the ...

Care for the elderly, disabled and mentally-ill within and by the community forms a vital part of current social policy. Martin Bulmer argues that this policy is inadequately ...

A rich source of ideas about sociological research methods to assist the researcher in determining what method will provide the most reliable and useful knowledge, how to ...

Drawing on the latest research, the authors provide a full account of key controversies and debates and pinpoint new directions in research and scholarship that are likely to ...

Delivers key information on social research methods in developing countries, delaing with the particular problems of carrying out social surveys and censuses in the Third World.

The book will prove essential reading for students not only of sociology, social policy, political science and political philosophy, but also for those with broader interests ...

This new work brings together contributions from some of the leading researchers in the field, using the benefit of their experience to explore the practical and ethical issues ...

From 1915 to 1935 the inventive community of social scientists at the University of Chicago pioneered empirical research and a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods ...

This book argues that history and sociology share the same vital preoccupation: the desire to unravel the puzzle of human agency. How do large-scale social transformations ...

This collection of twenty original essays considers the relationship between social science research and government during the last 30 years in Britain and the United States ...