The Illustrated Guide to Social Science Research

This accessible and engaging textbook helps students to get to grips with key concepts, issues, and practices in social science research through the use of fun and informative illustrations and examples.

Written and illustrated by an experienced teacher of research methods in the social sciences, each chapter explains research concepts while using everyday examples and illustrations to make applied research comprehensive to students. It explains the step-by-step process for carrying out research through a range of topics and approaches, including survey research, research ethics, sampling, and experimental research. Chapters also include learning objectives, class activities, key terms, helpful hints, and suggestions for further reading.

This book will be essential reading for any undergraduate research methodology class in the social sciences.

Divya Sharma is Professor of Justice & Law Administration at Western Connecticut State University, USA. Her research focuses on topics related to informal banking systems, money laundering, terror finance, immigration, globalization, ethnic identity, organized crime and terrorism. She has used a wide range of methodological approaches to study these topics and has collected data in India, Kenya, and the United States. She has developed and taught on a wide range of undergraduate and graduate modules in criminology and sociology and has extensive experience of supervising student research projects. She is the author of the textbook Fundamentals of Criminology (2018).