There have been vigorous debates about the roles played by gender, sexuality and sexual orientation in research. This collection brings together the debates together, set them into their historical and theoretical context, and deal with the major criticism

Offers advice concerning the most crucial steps for planning and undertaking meaningful research: selecting the methods to be used. This title addresses the methodological choices in four stages: design, sampling, coding and measurement, and analysis.

Life Story Research gathers together articles on a number of methodological approaches within the social sciences that focus on research where the individual and his or her life, experiences, and thinking is the core focus of study. The personal narrative can be teased out in many ways using methods such as the auto/biographical or oral history, and even the psychoanalytical. This four volume set cover an extensive time period, with classic pieces providing an important context for much of the later work. This set will be invaluable to researchers within the social sciences and related...

Mass communication research is a field of research approaches and theories, drawing inspiration from a range of disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences. This work combines 'pure' methods articles or discussions with a range of 'exemplary' app