Julie Gibbs

Social Measurement through Social Surveys (eBook, ePUB)

An Applied Approach
Redaktion: Bulmer, Martin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is an important resource for students, academic and professional researchers, offering an overview of both new and practiced methods of social measurement for quantitative survey research. It will provide readers looking to investigate 'hot' social science topics with a way of learning how key measurement techniques can be utilized in that topic in a practical way.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317053859
• Artikelnr.: 44873308

Autorenporträt

Martin Bulmer is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey, which he joined in 1995. He was previously Professor of Sociology at the University of Southampton and before that he taught at the London School of Economics for seventeen years. He is an Academician of the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences and the Director of The Question Bank. His research interests cover the methodology of social research, the history of the social sciences, the study of ethnicity and race, the application of sociology to public policy and the sociology of social care. He has published more than twenty books, most recently Questionnaires (4 vols, Sage, 2004) and Researching Race and Racism (ed with J. Solomos, 2004). Julie Gibbs is Senior Research and Information Officer at the Information Centre about Asylum and Refugees at City University, London and was Content Manager and then Manager of the ESRC Question Bank 2001 - 2008. Laura Hyman is a Research Student in Sociology at the University of Surrey and was a Research Officer for the ESRC Question Bank, 2005-2007.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction
Martin Bulmer
Julie Gibbs
Laura Hyman; Chapter 2 Measuring Family and Household Variables
John Haskey; Chapter 3 Measuring Crime
Ian Brunton-Smith
Jonathan Allen; Chapter 4 Measuring Political Behaviour and Attitudes
Oliver Heath
Robert Johns; Chapter 5 Measuring Religious Behaviour
Peter Brierley; Chapter 6 Measuring Social Class
Eric Harrison; Chapter 7 Measuring Race and Ethnicity
Martin Bulmer; Chapter 8 Measuring Sexual Behaviour
Catherine H. Mercer
Sally McManus
Bob Erens; Chapter 9 Measuring Health
Nicola Shelton
Jennifer Mindell; Chapter 10 Measuring Social Capital: Formal and Informal Activism
its Socio-demographic Determinants and Socio-political Impacts
Yaojun Li; Chapter 11 Measuring Social Attitudes
Caroline Roberts; Chapter 12 Challenges for Social Measurement
Martin Bulmer;