Books by Julie Scott Jones

Nervous about statistics? This guide offers a clear, straight to the point break down of exploratory and descriptive statistics and its potential. Anchored by lots of examples and exercises to enhance your learning, this book will give you the know-how and confidence needed to succeed on your quantitative research journey.

Explores Christian fundamentalism in the USA. Establishing the key characteristics of a Protestant Christian fundamentalist worldview, this work investigates the degrees to which these are adhered to amongst different groups, whilst exploring the ways in which such belief systems are constructed and reinforced through everyday life.

Explains risk and how perceptions of risk, risk taking, and risk assessment dominate our everyday lives and explores it in a variety of settings. This book interrogates the rational self at the heart of social theories by thinking through the construction of risk choices and the socio-cultural dynamics that 'present' some risks as acceptable.