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Socio-Legal Studies: Methodologies

Subjects: Criminology, Law, Sociology

Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford

Methodologies

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Sociological jurisprudence -- Research -- Methodology
Law and the social sciences -- Research -- Methodology

Legal research
Interdisciplinary research

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Empirical Legal Research

Sociology of law

Surveys, Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods

Little Green Books, "SAGE’s popular Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences series, provide short and accessible texts on all kinds of quantitative methods. Providing clear statistical explanations, straightforward empirical examples, and ready-to-use procedures, these supplementary texts are appropriate for the individual researcher, and for any graduate-level, intermediate, or advanced statistics course across the spectrum of academic disciplines. Want to learn about analysis of variance? We have a Little Green Book for that! Our brief volumes address a spectrum of advanced quantitative topics including regression, models, data analysis, experimental design, measurement, survey data, and more."

Little Blue Books, "SAGE’s popular Qualitative Research Methods series, provide short and accessible texts on all kinds of qualitative methods. Providing clear explanations, and commentary on both theoretical and practical considerations in the implementation of qualitative research, these supplementary texts are appropriate for the individual researcher, and for any graduate-level, intermediate, or advanced qualitative methods course across the spectrum of academic disciplines. Want to know more about researching drug-related violence? Try a search in our Little Blue Book Dangerous Fieldwork. Our brief volumes address a full range of advanced qualitative topics including writing up qualitative research, participatory action research, feminist fieldwork analysis, discourse analysis, and ethnography."