Description:
Social research is facing challenges, as well as exciting new opportunities, from the growth of private sector research companies, rapid advance of social media, and intense debates on privacy and big data. The 12 chapters of this book address these issues drawing upon up to date research and ideas.
Review Quotes:
"Periodic reflection on where we are and where we might be heading is useful. Linda Mckie and Louise Ryan's book treats this as an urgent task for sociological researchers, mindful too of the past... There is much here to hearten sociologists anxious about the discipline's prospects"
Graham Crow, University of Edinburgh, Network