Sociology and Social Policy
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The Elgar Companion to War, Conflict and Peacebuilding in Africa
Edited by Geoff Harris
This dynamic Companion brings together esteemed academics from across the globe to provide ten distinct approaches to peacebuilding in Africa. With a timely and forward-thinking approach to war and conflict, the book focuses on the utili...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Advanced Introduction to Evidence
Richard D. Friedman
This Advanced Introduction to Evidence delivers a comprehensive exposition of the major tenets of evidence law, principally from an American perspective. Using the Federal Rules of Evidence as a structural framework, Richard D. Friedman ...eBook:Find out more$23.96
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Single Parents and Child Support Systems
Edited by Kay Cook, Thomas Meysen, Adrienne Byrt
Taking a novel approach to child support policy analysis, Single Parents and Child Support Systems locates the transfer of payments between separated parents within a wider social policy ecosystem and compares the political, institutiona...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Handbook on Transnationalism
Edited by Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Francis L. Collins
Providing a critical overview of transnationalism as a concept, this Handbook looks at its growing influence in an era of high-speed, globalised interconnectivity. It offers crucial insights on how approaches to transnationalism have alt...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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Handbook on Urban Social Policies
Edited by Yuri Kazepov, Eduardo Barberis, Roberta Cucca, Elisabetta Mocca
The importance of subnational welfare measures, and their complex embeddedness in wider multilevel governance systems, has often been underplayed in both urban studies and social policy analysis. This Handbook gives readers the analytica...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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How to Conduct Qualitative Research in Social Science
Edited by Pranee Liamputtong
Explaining both the theoretical and practical aspects of doing qualitative research, the book uses examples from real-world research projects to emphasise how to conduct qualitative research in the social sciences. Pranee Liamputtong dra...eBook:Find out more$35.16
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Personnel Management in Secret Service Organizations
Barbara Czarniawska, Sabina Siebert, John Mackay
While the careers of secret agents have inspired many genres of popular culture, relatively little research has been carried out until now on spying as a profession. Through the lens of personnel management, the authors offer a unique an...eBook:Find out more$28.00
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The Future of Social Care
Peter Beresford, Colin Slasberg
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Foreword by David Brindle In the face of major global demographic change, social care polic... -
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Pandemic Recovery?
Edited by Lauren Andres, John R. Bryson, Aksel Ersoy, Louise Reardon
This timely book offers an integrated and pragmatic approach to understanding recovery from all types of shock. Whilst particular focus is given to identifying and exploring various aspects of recovering societies in the context of COVID...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Research Handbook on the Sociology of Migration
Edited by Giuseppe Sciortino, Martina Cvajner, Peter J. Kivisto
Adeptly navigating one of the most pressing issues on the current global agenda, this topical Research Handbook provides a comprehensive and research-based exploration of the sociology of migration. As well as highlighting the field’s ac...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Handbook of Research Methods and Applications for Social Movements
Edited by Laurence Cox, Anna Szolucha, Alberto Arribas Lozano, Sutapa Chattopadhyay
This cutting-edge and authoritative Handbook covers a broad spectrum of social movement research methodologies, offering expert analysis and detailed accounts of the ways by which research can effectively be carried out on social movemen...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Social Reformism 2.0
Maurizio Ferrera, Joan Miró, Stefano Ronchi
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Automation, digitalisation, the post-industrial transition and climate change are creating n...eBook:Find out more$40.00