Howard Saul Becker & Charles C. Ragin 
What Is a Case? [PDF ebook] 
Exploring the Foundations of Social Inquiry

For years, corruption has been dismissed as a cultural phenomenon prevalent in developing countries, mirroring low salaries, weak infrastructure, disorganized administration and unstable political co …

Since 1955 when Dr. Paul Kirk first presented a bloodstain evidence affidavit in State of Ohio v. Samuel Sheppard, expert testimony on bloodstain interpretation has gained wide acceptance in U.S. cou …

Social Research and Disability argues that the contemporary rules of sociological methods outlined in numerous research methods texts make a number of assumptions concerning the researcher including …

This book analyses India s middle class by recognising the diversity within the class, the people, their practices, and the production of spaces. It explores the economic and social lives of the new …

This book studies the Hahalis Welfare Society, a Bougainville movement which worked for many years to maintain and reform traditional practices and to retain a degree of autonomy in a world of rapid …

The rising visibility of interracial couples calls for increased attention to the overlapping of culture and race, in safe spaces centered on small-group dynamics, or in public spaces where peoples o …

Embattled Reason constitutes an intellectual profile of one of America »s preeminent sociologists. This collection of essays, published over the course of thirty years, embodies a series of intellect …

Much of the literature on police corruption and police reforms is dominated by case studies of societies classified as developed. However, under the influence of globalization, developing societies h …