Doing Social Science

FIONA DEVINE is Professor of Sociology and Head of the School of Social Sciences at the University of Manchester, UK.SUE HEATH is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences, University of Southampton, UK, and Co-director of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods.

• Doing Social Science; F.Devine& S.HeathTechnology: Taylor's Play Between Worlds; G.KirkpatrickCrime: Edgar et al.'s Prison Violence; A.MillsTime: Gershuny's Changing Times; D.SouthertonPlace: Savage et al.'s Globalization and Belonging; W.BotteroSubculture: Hodkinson's Goth; P.SweetmanTV Soaps: Tufte's Living with the Rubbish Queen; H.WoodPostcolonial History: Butalia's The Other Side of Silence; N.PurewalNews Interviews: Clayman and Heritage's The News Interview; C.GreiffenhagenFamily: Bengston et al.'s How Families Still Matter; V.May.

"I think it is very helpful in demonstrating to students how methodological issues have an impact on practical research projects, using examples that are accessible and entertaining... [I]t will be an excellent text for students to 'dip into' to help them to see that the methods we discuss are used and provide important findings. In addition, I think there are several specific examples that we can refer to in lectures." - Jamie Harding, Senior Lecturer in Research Methods, Northumbria University, UK. "The coverage of the volume is impressive, both in terms of topic, discipline and, importantly, method. What one takes from this volume as a whole is an understanding of the messy complexities of 'real' research, often absent from the 'how-to' textbooks; an appreciation that the field of research methods is a developing, dynamic and changing one; and that increasingly empirical projects are drawing on a range of methods and approaches, used in combination, to do justice to research topics and questions." - Amanda Coffey, Cardiff University in the British Journal of Sociology of Education