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This four-volume Major Work contains texts which explore both the foundations of latent variables and factor analysis, and specific contemporary challenges in the field.

These volumes advise on planning and undertaking meaningful research and provide an integrated approach to methodological choice.

Attitude Measurement is one of the most essential areas within social psychology. International figures, within this field, Jowell and Roberts bring together the most inclusive collection embracing methodological to theoretical issues.

This valuable work brings together the classic sources and the most advanced contemporary examples of causal analysis and methodological discussion.

Semiotics, the study of the sign systems that constitute human culture, has since its discovery in the late 19th century and early 20th century, transformed the ways in which we think about culture and communication. It has opened new areas of study and made fruitful connections between established disciplines. This four-volume set offers the most extensive, systematic and in-depth survey of the foundations and development of semiotics as a field. It covers foundational texts in semiotics, from the constitution of the field in the early 20th century, through its blossoming with the advent of structuralism in the 1960s and `70s and the formative dialogue between structuralism and Marxism. It goes on to present a representative selection of central essays in literary semiotics, narratology and poetics, the semiotics of anthropology, myth, art, architecture, music, theatre, film, fashion and other aspects of contemporary culture. Special attention is paid to the development of a poststructuralist, semiotically aware discourse in the analysis of culture and history, to the related areas of deconstruction and psychoanalysis, and to the current controversy over the possibilities and issues raised by a postmodernist semiotics.The anthology offers a unique and valuable research tool for students and scholars alike in all areas of the social sciences and humanities, including linguistics, social and cultural anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, philosophy, psychology, literature, and media and communication studies.

Evaluation is a set of research methods and associated methodologies with a distinctive purpose. They provide a means to judge actions and activities in terms of values, criteria and standards. At the same time evaluation is also a practice that seeks to enhance effectiveness in the public sphere and policy making.

Comparative research methods are central to sociology and its associated disciplines. This four-volume set, brings together seventy-seven articles and book chapters from key sources, spanning the history of comparative analysis in the social sciences, from ancient to modern works.

Mixed methods is one of the major areas of growth in social research methodology. Much of the literature on mixed-methods research is widely dispersed across a variety of journals and other publications resulting in much of it being inaccessible. This volume brings together the key articles in this important field.

This collection extends the value of the critically acclaimed first edition by focusing on key issues in qualitative research.