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SOcIOLOgy / rESEArcH METHODS
Beyond the Nuclear Family
For Better or worse?
Daniela Cutas and Sarah Chan
• Includes a variety of disciplinary
perspectives spanning philosophical,
ethical, legal and sociological analysis
• Addresses alternative modes of
reproduction and parenthood
• Examines and critically evaluates the
norms surrounding personal relationships
and families in western societies
• Examines how children are affected by their alternative family
arrangements
This book discusses the theory that alternative relationship and
family structures challenge the privileged status of the nuclear
family as the preferable mode of family life for all, and the one
to be endorsed and encouraged by society.
DANIELA cuTAS works in the Department of Philosophy at the university of
gothenburg, Sweden.
SArAH cHAN is Deputy Director and research Fellow in Bioethics and
Law at the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation, university of
Manchester, uK.
uK July 2012 uS September 2012
288 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches
HB 9781780930107 - £55.00 / $100.00
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What is Narrative
Research?
Molly Andrews,
Mark Davis,
Cigdem Esin,
Lar-Christer
Hyden,
Margareta
Hyden, Corinne
Squire and
Barbara Harrison
• A short and authoritative introduction
to narrative research
• written by an impressive team of active
researchers
• Presents an exciting new
interdisciplinary perspective of the
social sciences
• Addresses an international audience
This pioneering text presents cutting-edge
readings of the social sciences through
the lens of narrative research.
The authors are all at the centre for Narrative
research, university of East London, uK.
uK December 2012 uS February 2013
112 Pages 129 x 198 mm 5 x 7.7 inches
PB 9781849669733 - £16.99 / $27.95
‘what is?’ research Methods
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What is Qualitative
Interviewing?
Meritocracy and the University
Elite universities and Admissions in the uSA and uK
Anna Zimdars
• covers a topic which causes controversy
year after year
• The first book to offer a trans-Atlantic
comparison of higher education
admissions practices and policies
• The author’s research has already been
widely cited in the uK press and by
important figures in universities, such
as Sir Steve Smith, former president of
universities uK
This book investigates university admissions in the uK and
uSA, with a particular focus on the most selective and elite
universities in the two countries.
ANNA ZIMDArS is a research Fellow in the Institute for Social change,
university of Manchester, uK.
uK December 2012 uS February 2013
192 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches
HB 9781849665223 - £50.00 / $90.00
Bloomsbury Academic
Rosalind Edwards
and Janet Holland
• An authoritative
and succinct
introduction
to qualitative
interviewing
• Includes a broad
range of examples
and techniques
• Suitable for all levels of researchers
and students
• Examines both the practicalities and
philosophy of qualitative interviewing
• Accessibly written by leading scholars
in the field
with short accessibly written chapters,
What is Qualitative Interviewing? explores
a range of interview types and practices,
and provides illuminating examples with
diagrams and extracts.
rOSALIND EDwArDS is Professor in Social Policy,
and an elected member of the Academy of
Social Sciences, university of Southampton, uK.
JANET HOLLAND is Professor of Social research
at London South Bank university, uK.
uK December 2012 uS February 2013
112 Pages 129 x 198 mm 5 x 7.7 inches
PB 9781849668095 - £16.99 / $27.95
‘what is?’ research Methods
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What is Social Network
Analysis?
John Scott
• An impressive
yet concise
introduction to
social network
analysis
• John Scott is one
of the highest
profile sociologists
in the uK
• This methodology is in use across a
broad range of social sciences
Social networks operate at many
levels from families to the level of
nations. Social network theory maps
the relationships between individual
actors. This is a concise introduction
to a complex yet extremely influential
methodology.
JOHN ScOTT is Professor of Sociology at the
university of Essex, uK.
uK July 2012 uS September 2012
112 Pages 129 x 198 mm 7.7 x 5 inches
PB 9781849668170 - £16.99 / $27.95
‘what is?’ research Methods
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