Scientific Inquiry in Social Work

A clear guide to collecting and analyzing qualitative data, covering interviews, focus groups, ethnography, and archival work, with dedicated chapters on coding, memoing, and building themes from transcripts.

Allison Hurst

A textbook that treats qualitative and quantitative analysis as two halves of the same craft, covering coding and content analysis alongside descriptive statistics and significance testing. Uses real social science datasets throughout.

Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur and Roger Clark

A practical companion for analyzing psychology research data, moving from describing distributions to running and interpreting t tests, ANOVA, and correlations. Each unit pairs the concept with the steps to carry it out in R.

Leyre Castro, J. Toby Mordkoff