Routledge Revivals: Key Variables in Social Investigation (1986) (Routledge Revivals: British Sociological Association)

Robert Burgess

ISBN 10: 0815346999 / ISBN 13: 9780815346999

Published by Routledge 2018-01-30, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Routledge Revivals: Key Variables in Social Investigation (1986) (Routledge Revivals: British Sociological Association)
• Publisher: Routledge 2018-01-30
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0815346999
• ISBN 13: 9780815346999
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Key Variables in Social Investigation encourages sociologists and other social scientists to think about the conceptual and empirical problems of using and evaluating key variables in social research. The book contains reviews of ten major variables: age; gender; race and ethnicity; health and illness; education; social class and occupation; work, employment and unemployment and unemployment; leisure; politics; and voluntary ways in which concepts can be specified and translated into variables and indicators.

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Robert Burgess