An End to the Crisis of Empirical Sociology?: Trends and Challenges in Social Research

by Louise Ryan

Research data are everywhere. In our everyday interactions, through social media, credit cards and even public transport, we generate and use data. The challenge for sociologists is how to collect, analyse and make best use of these vast arrays of information.

The chapters in this book address these challenges using varied perspectives and approaches: The economics of big data and measuring the trajectories of recently arrived communities...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113882867X
• ISBN13: 9781138828674
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"