Key Concepts in Social Research Methods

I had not looked at the Palgrave Key Concepts series before, so when offered this book for review I assumed it was an introductory handbook or a study skills guide for students. There are hundreds of these. In the heady days of sociology's major expansion in the mid‐1970s, compiling them was a major academic industry. I even helped write one (Summerfield et al., 1982), although, in self‐defence I should emphasise that it was given free to all our students, and if the web had been in existence at the time we would certainly have tried to make...