Social research methods : a reader / edited by Clive Seale.
This volume brings together many of the core classic and contemporary works in social and cultural research methods, giving students direct access to methodological debates and examples of practical research across the qualitative/quantitative divide.
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. Methodological awareness
- 1. Methodology and Scholarship in Understanding Ideological Explanation / Michael Billig
- 2. On Intellectual Craftsmanship / C. Wright Mills
- Pt. 2. Social research as science
- 3. Laws and Social Facts / Emile Durkheim
- 4. The Logic of Science in Sociology / Walter L. Wallace
- 5. Popper and Falsificationism / Thomas D. Cook and Donald T. Campbell
- 6. Validity / Thomas D. Cook and Donald T. Campbell
- 7. Go Forth and Experiment / Ray Pawson and Nick Tilley
- Pt. 3. Collecting quantitative data
- 8. Sampling / Barry Hedges
- 9. Questionnaires / Claus Moser and Graham Kalton
- 10. Interviewing in Social Research / Herbert H. Hyman, William J. Cobb, Jacob J. Feldman, Clyde W. Hart and Charles Herbert Stember
- 11. Attitude Scaling Methods / A. N. Oppenheim
- 12. On-Line Surveys / Kim Sheehan and Mariea Hoy
- 13. Interaction Analysis / Ned Flanders
- 14. Content Analysis / Robert Philip Weber
- 15. The Taming of Chance / Ian Hacking
- Pt. 4. Analysing quantitative data
- 16. Secondary Analysis of Survey Data / K. Jill Kiecolt and Laura E. Nathan
- 17. A Sociological Perspective on Secondary Analysis / Angela Dale, Sara Arber and Michael Procter
- 18. The Quantification of Questionnaire Data / A. N. Oppenheim
- 19. Interpretation of Statistical Relations as a Research Operation / Paul F. Lazarsfeld
- 20. The Strategy of Survey Analysis / Morris Rosenberg
- Pt. 5. Critiques of quantification
- 21. Hired Hand Research / Julius A. Roth
- 22. Fixed-Choice Questionnaires / Aaron V. Cicourel
- 23. The Critics of Surveys / Cathie Marsh
- 24. Quality of Life Assessment Interviews / Hanneke Houtkoop-Steenstra
- 25. Sex, Lies, and Social Science (A Book Review with Subsequent Correspondence) / R. C. Lewontin
- Pt. 6. The limits of science
- 26. Against Method / Paul Feyerabend
- 27. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions / Thomas S. Kuhn
- 28. Episodes in the History of the Research Article / John M. Swales
- Pt. 7. Ethnography: the qualitative alternative
- 29. Concept and Theory Formation in the Social Sciences / Alfred Schutz
- 30. First Efforts / William Foote Whyte
- 31. The Field Work Situation: Social Roles for Observation / Buford H. Junker
- 32. Theoretical Sampling / Barney G. Glaser and Anselm L. Strauss
- 33. Field Notes / John Lofland
- 34. Being There / Clifford Geertz
- 35. Some Reflections on Ethnography and Validity / Martyn Hammersley
- 36. Participant Observation and Interviewing: A Comparison (And a Subsequent Exchange with Martin Trow) / Howard S. Becker and Blanche Geer
- Pt. 8. Qualitative interviewing
- 37. Depth Interviewing / Sue Jones
- 38. Interviewing Women: a Contradiction in Terms (And a Subsequent Exchange with Joanna Malseed) / Ann Oakley
- 39. The Methodology of Focus Groups: The Importance of Interaction Between Research Participants / Jenny Kitzinger
- Pt. 9. Other sources of qualitative data
- 40. Principles of Visual Research / John Collier, Jr. and Malcolm Collier
- 41. On the Diversity of Life Documents / Ken Plummer
- 42. Qualitative Data Archiving: Some Reflections on Its Prospects and Problems / Martyn Hammersley
- 43. The Application of Ethnographic Methodology in the Study of Cybersex / Robin Hamman
- Pt. 10. Analysing qualitative data
- 44. Open Coding / Anselm L. Strauss and Juliet Corbin
- 45. Searching for Text / Graham R. Gibbs
- 46. Theory Building in Qualitative Research and Computer Programs for the Management of Textual Data / Udo Kelle
- 47. Harvey Sacks: Social Science and Conversation Analysis / David Silverman
- 48. Reliability and Validity in Research Based on Tapes and Transcripts / Anssi Perakyla
- Pt. 11. Structuralism, post-structuralism and the linguistic turn
- 49. The Structural Study of Myth / Claude Levi-Strauss
- 50. Semiology and the Study of Advertising / William Leiss, Stephen Kline and Sut Jhally
- 51. Foucault and Discourse / Stuart Hall
- 52. Unfolding Discourse Analysis / Jonathan Potter and Margaret Wetherell
- 53. Critical Discourse Analysis / Norman Fairclough and Ruth Wodak
- 54. The Theory and Practice of Critical Discourse Analysis / H. G. Widdowson
- 55. Strategic Uses of Narrative in the Presentation of Self and Illness: A Research Note / Catherine Kohler Riessman
- Pt. 12. Reflexivity and representation
- 56. Toward a Reflexive Sociology / Alvin W. Gouldner
- 57. Partial Truths / James Clifford
- 58. Transcriptions / Paul Atkinson
- 59. Grief and a Headhunter's Rage / Renato Rosaldo
- 60. The Consequences of Poetic Representation / Laurel Richardson
- 61. The Ethnographic Critique of Ethnography / John D. Brewer
- Pt. 13. Postmodernism
- 62. Intellectuals: From Modern Legislators to Post-Modern Interpreters / Zygmunt Bauman
- 63. Postmodernism / Madan Sarup
- 64. Can We Research Suffering? / Arthur W. Frank
- 65. Fertile Obsession: Validity After Poststructuralism / Patti Lather
- 66. Farewell to Criteriology / Thomas A. Schwandt
- Pt. 14. Political and ethical aspects of research practice
- 67. Science as a Vocation / Max Weber
- 68. The Many Meanings of Research Utilization / Carol H. Weiss
- 69. Research Ethics: Two Statements / British Sociological Association and Council for American Survey Research Organizations
- 70. What is Action Research? / Julienne Meyer
- 71. Is There a Feminist Method? / Sandra Harding
- 72. Methods, Practice and Epistemology: The Debate About Feminism and Research / Mary Maynard
- 73. Doing Research, Writing Politics: The Dilemmas of Political Intervention in Research on Racism / Les Back and John Solomos
- 74. Hierarchy and Emancipation / Martyn Hammersley
- Pt. 15. Paradigm disputes and resolutions
- 75. Qualitative Sociology and Deconstructionism: An Exchange / William Foote Whyte, Laurel Richardson and Norman K. Denzin
- 76. Closing Down the Conversation: The End of the Quantitative-Qualitative Debate Among Educational Inquirers / John K. Smith and Lous Heshusius
- 77. Quantitative and Qualitative Research: Further Reflections on Their Integration / Alan Bryman
- 78. Who's Afraid of the Randomized Controlled Trial? Some Dilemmas of the Scientific Method and 'Good' Research Practice / Ann Oakley
- 79. Towards a Rehabilitation of Data / Maureen Cain and Janet Finch.