This 4th edition offers guidance for success in small scale research projects, with new sections on ethics, Internet research, phenomenology, grounded theory and image-based methods.

Previous ed.: 2007.

Part 1 Strategies for social research: surveys and sampling; case studies; experiments; ethnography; phenomenology; grounded theory, action research, mixed methods -- Part 2 Methods of social research: questionnaires; interviews; observation; documents -- Part 3 Analysis: quatative data; qualitative data; writing up the research -- Frequently asked questions, Research ethics, Data protection, Triangulation, Focus groups.