Understanding Social Research: Thinking Creatively About Method - Softcover

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Angela Dale is Professor of Quantitative Social Research at the Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research (CCSR) at the University of Manchester. She is an Academician of the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences (AcSS) and was awarded an OBE for services to social science in 2006. Recent work has focussed on women′s employment, with particular respect to ethnic differences and strategies for combining work and family life; change between generations; and the role of qualifications. In 2009 she became director of a new methods hub at the University of Manchester - methods@manchester.

Jennifer Mason is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester. She directs the Realities Centre, which is part of the UK National Centre for Research Methods, funded by the ESRC. She is also Co-Director of the Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life. She is the author of numerous articles, chapters and books on personal life and relationships, and on qualitative and mixed methods. Her books include the bestselling Qualitative Researching, Sage (2002).

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Focussing on three key areas in the social sciences, this book draws together contributors from a variety of areas who use a range of methodological approaches to present the reader with an inspirational guide to understanding and using methods and approaches in their research.