"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 - as 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 des ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"This practical introduction for first time researchers provides a bridge between how to conduct research and the philosophy of social science, allowing students to relate what they are doing to why. It does not provide a set of rigid recipes for social scientists as many methodology books do, rather it stimulates students to think about the issues involved when deciding upon their research design. By discussing standard approaches to re ..."
"This edition draws upon recent findings of sociological research about a rapidly changing society, upon both classical and contemporary theoretical debates and upon public controversies over social policy in fields ranging from the health service to the future of industry. The book begins with an assessment of sociology as a discipline, which is then set against the background of the history of global development and of contemporary div ..."
"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 mate ..."
"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 ..."
"Provides new insights into household economic behaviour by exploring the frontier between economics and sociology.Drawing on data from the ground-breaking Social Change and Economic Life Initiative, it examines the variety of ways in which households organize their economic behaviour; how that behaviour varies between sections of the population; and how it changes over the household's life-time, as well as inthe longer term.The book def ..."
"What does it mean to say you're English, Scottish, British? Does it matter much to people? Has devolution and constitutional change made a difference to national identity? Does the future of the UK depend on whether or not people think they are British? Social and political scientists answer these questions vital to the future of the British state."
"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 ..."
"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 mate ..."
"The economics of the advanced industrial nations still contain legions of small business - family stores, two-man workshops, small production units and enterprises offering diverse services. Most businesses are small and persist in spit of, but also because of, the large corporations. In some socialist states small-scale concerns have not vanished but co-exist with collective or cooperative enterprises and, in the exploding cities of th ..."
"This collection provides new insights into British household economic behavior by exploring the frontier between economics and sociology. Drawing on data from the groundbreaking Social Change and Economic Life Initiative, the contributors present a comprehensive analysis of six representative towns to illuminate the ways in which households sustain themselves over time and the role of gender in modern society."
The Petite Bourgeosie Comparative Studies of the Uneasy Stratrum (Edinburgh Studies in Culture and Society) (Edinburgh Studies in Sociology) by FrankBechhofer, Brian Elliott Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 1981 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-0-333-35072-0, ISBN: 0-333-35072-3
The Petite Bourgeoisie Comparative Studies of the Uneasy Stratum (Edinburgh Studies in Culture and Society) by FrankBechhofer, Brian A. Elliott, F. Bechofer Hardcover, 219 Pages, Published 1981 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-0-333-23737-3, ISBN: 0-333-23737-4
"... chapter is based largely on previously unpublished data and we wish to
acknowledge the great contribution made by Richard Kiely, the research officer
working on our identity projects, in terms of data gathering, analysis and some
drafting."