Providing concise, focussed introductions to everything from the central research methods, to ethics, to metaphysics, and with helpful features such as real-world examples, cross-references and lists of key thinkers, this guide is an ideal introduction.  Meer

Is social science really a science at all, and if so in what sense? This is the first question that any course on the philosophy of the social sciences must tackle.  Meer

Is social science really a science at all, and if so in what sense? This is the first question that any course on the philosophy of the social sciences must tackle.  Meer

Realism and Complexity in Social Science is an argument for a new approach to investigating the social world, that of complex realism. Complex realism brings together a number of strands of thought, in scientific realism, complexity science, probability theory and social research methodology.  Meer

Realism and Complexity in Social Science is an argument for a new approach to investigating the social world, that of complex realism. Complex realism brings together a number of strands of thought, in scientific realism, complexity science, probability theory and social research methodology.  Meer

Providing concise, focussed introductions to everything from the central research methods, to ethics, to metaphysics, and with helpful features such as real-world examples, cross-references and lists of key thinkers, this guide is an ideal introduction.  Meer

This accessible, well-judged text provides students with a matchless introduction to generic research skills.  Meer

This accessible, well-judged text provides students with a matchless introduction to generic research skills.  Meer

Takes a completely new approach to objectivity and subjectivity, no longer treating them as opposed - as many existing texts do - but as logically...  Meer

For this study of Sir Philip Sidney, first published in 1915, Professor Malcolm William Wallace sought to examine all the previous manuscripts and published sources of information pertaining to Sidney's life.  Meer