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Summary
Summary
`A detailed and valuable addition to the literature that will be a very useful resource for lecturers, as well as having a wide appeal among students′ - Tim May, University of Salford
Have you ever wondered what a concise, comprehensive book providing critical guidance to the whole expanse of social science research methods and issues might look like? The A-Z is a collection of 94 entries ranging from qualitative research techniques to statistical testing and the practicalities of using the Internet as a research tool. Alphabetically arranged in accessible, reader-friendly formats, the shortest entries are 800 words long and the longest are 3000. Most entries are approximately 1500 words in length and are supported by suggestions for further reading. The book:
- Answers the demand for a practical, fast and concise introduction to the key concepts and methods in social research
- Supplies students with impeccable information that can be used in essays, exams and research projects
- Demystifies a field that students often find daunting
This is a refreshing book on social research methods, which understands the pressures that modern students face in their work-load and seeks to supply an authoritative study guide to the field. It should fulfil a long-standing need in undergraduate research methods courses for an unpatronising, utterly reliable aid to making sense of research methods.
Table of Contents
Abduction and Retroduction |
Action Research |
A Case Study |
Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) |
Attitudes |
Biographical Method |
CAPI (Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing) |
Case Study |
Causation |
Central Tendency |
Child Research |
Comparative Analysis |
Computer Simulation of Social Processes |
Constructionism, Social |
Content Analysis |
Contingency Tables |
Conversation Analysis |
Correlation and Regression |
Critical Theory |
Cultural Analysis |
Data Archives |
Deduction |
Diaries, Self-Completion |
Discourse Analysis |
Dispersion and the Normal Distribution |
Documentary Sources |
Ecological Fallacy |
E-Mail as a Research Tool |
Empiricism, Abstracted Empiricism |
Epistemology |
Ethics |
Ethnography |
Ethnomethodology |
Exploratory Data Analysis |
Factor Analysis |
Feminist Epistemology |
Feminist Methodology |
Focus Groups |
Gender Identity Dysphoria Assessment |
Generalization |
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) |
Grounded Theory |
Hawthorne Effect |
Hermeneutics |
Historical Methods |
Hypothesis Testing |
Ideal Type |
Impact Assessment |
Induction |
Intellectual Property Rights |
Internet |
Interpretation |
Interviews |
Literature Searching |
Loglinear Analysis |
Longitudinal Research |
Measurement, Level of |
Meaning |
Methodology |
'Micro' Sampling Techniques |
Modernity |
Multilevel Models |
Narrative Approach |
Naturalism |
Observation, Overt and Covert |
Online Methods |
Paradigm |
Participant Observation |
Participatory Action Research |
Phenomenology |
Philosophy of Social Research |
Policy Research |
Positivism |
Qualitative Research |
Qualitative Research Data, Archiving |
Queer Research |
Questionnaire and Structured Interview Schedule Design |
Questionnaires and Structured Interview Schedules |
Realism |
Reflexivity |
Research Design |
Sampling, Probability |
Sampling, Quota |
Sampling, Snowball |
Assessing Hidden and Hard-to-Reach Populations |
Secondary Analysis Qualitative |
Secondary Data Analysis |
Sensitive Research |
Sex Surveys |
Social Fact |
Social Indicators |
Social Statistics |
Social Survey |
Standardisation |
Statistical Interaction |
Structuralism/Poststructuralism |
Systematic Review |
Telephone Methods for Social Surveys |
Theory |
Triangulation |
Unobtrusive Measures |
Verbal Protocol Analysis |
Verstehen |
Vignette |
Visual Research Methods |