Books by Derek Layder

Written in a clear, accessible way, drawing on exciting up-to-date examples and providing a reflective perspective on research as a human process, this book makes for a crucial companion to conducting small-scale research.

This book provides a challenge to the recent post-positivist orthodoxy in social analysis, outlining a theory of social domains which re-establishes the importance of the wider settings and contexts of society.

Provides an introduction to the core issues in social theory. This title provides a 'problem focus' that encourages students to acquire skills of argument and discussion. It provides a concluding chapter relating theory to social domains. It provides relevant examples from everyday life to illustrate key theoretical issues.

Whether they involve sexual partners in the bedroom, customers and sales clerks in stores, or work colleagues in committee meetings, interpersonal relations between real people are the essential heart of society. This book outlines a fresh way of thinking about control and power in everyday life.

Analyses where a person's views, attitudes, values come from and why they change?

This volume is an examination of the methods used by social researchers to produce knowledge. Focusing chiefly on research into sexuality and madness, it assesses survey methods and opens up broader philiosophical debates on the nature of knowledge.

In this textbook, Derek Layder offers a better understanding of the links between theory and research, and provides an analysis of the relationship between the two.