Social Measurement through Social Surveys

Description

This book is an important resource for students, academic and professional researchers, offering an overview of both new and practiced methods of social measurement for quantitative survey research. It will provide readers looking to investigate "hot" social science topics with a way of learning how key measurement techniques can be utilised in that topic in a practical way. Introduction / Martin Bulmer, Julie Gibbs and Laura Hyman -- Measuring family and household variables / John Haskey -- Measuring crime / Jan Brunton-Smith and Jonathan Allen -- Measuring political behaviour and attitudes / Oliver Heath and Robert Johns -- Measuring religious behaviour / Peter Brierley -- Measuring social class / Eric Harrison -- Measuring race and ethnicity / Martin Bulmer -- Measuring sexual behaviour / Catherine M. Mercer, Sally McManus and Bob Erens -- Measuring health / Nicola Shelton and Jennifer Mindell -- Measuring social capital : formal and informal activism, its socio-demographic determinants and socio-political impacts / Yaojun Li -- Measuring social attitudes / Caroline Roberts -- Challenges for social measurement / Martin Bulmer