Researching society and culture /
Researching society and culture /
edited by Clive Seale.
- 3rd ed.
- Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE Publications, c2012.
- xii, 636 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + pbk.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 605-625) and indexes.
Part one: Starting out -- Introduction to the philosophy of science /M. Epstein -- Research and theory /D. Silverman -- Research and policy /D. Silverman -- Ethics and social research /S. Ali and M. Kelly -- Doing a literature review /D. Branley -- Research questions and proposals /M. Kelly -- Research design /C. Rutterford -- Sampling /C. Seale -- Doing a dissertation /C. Bhatt -- Part two: Doing research -- Structured methods: interviews, questionnaires and observation /C. N. Phellas, A. Bloch and C. Seale -- Qualitative interviewing /B. Byrne -- Focus groups /F. Tonkiss -- Doing ethnography /D. Walsh -- Doing historical and documentary research /B. Gidley -- Visual analysis /S. Ali -- Secondary analysis and official statistics /C. Seale -- Preparing data for statistical analysis /C. Seale -- Statistical reasoning: from one to two variables /A. Bloch -- Statistical reasoning: causal arguments and multivariate analysis /C. Seale -- Coding and analysing qualitative data /C. Rivas -- Generating grounded theory /C. Seale -- Discourse analysis /F. Tonkiss -- Analysing conversation /T. Rapley -- Narrative analysis and interpretative phenomenological analysis /A. Griffin and V. May -- Content and comparative keyword analysis /C. Seale and F. Tonkiss -- Combining qualitative and quantitative methods /N. Spicer -- Part three: Writing, presenting, reflecting -- Writing a research report /C. Rivas -- Giving oral presentations /D. Silverman -- Validity, reliability and the quality of research /C. Seale -- When things go wrong /M. Michael.
9781849207980 9781849207997
2011929421
Sociology--Methodology.
Sociology--Philosophy.
Sociology--Research.
Social sciences--Methodology
Social sciences--Philosophy.
Social sciences--Research
Culture--Research.
301.072
Includes bibliographical references (pages 605-625) and indexes.
Part one: Starting out -- Introduction to the philosophy of science /M. Epstein -- Research and theory /D. Silverman -- Research and policy /D. Silverman -- Ethics and social research /S. Ali and M. Kelly -- Doing a literature review /D. Branley -- Research questions and proposals /M. Kelly -- Research design /C. Rutterford -- Sampling /C. Seale -- Doing a dissertation /C. Bhatt -- Part two: Doing research -- Structured methods: interviews, questionnaires and observation /C. N. Phellas, A. Bloch and C. Seale -- Qualitative interviewing /B. Byrne -- Focus groups /F. Tonkiss -- Doing ethnography /D. Walsh -- Doing historical and documentary research /B. Gidley -- Visual analysis /S. Ali -- Secondary analysis and official statistics /C. Seale -- Preparing data for statistical analysis /C. Seale -- Statistical reasoning: from one to two variables /A. Bloch -- Statistical reasoning: causal arguments and multivariate analysis /C. Seale -- Coding and analysing qualitative data /C. Rivas -- Generating grounded theory /C. Seale -- Discourse analysis /F. Tonkiss -- Analysing conversation /T. Rapley -- Narrative analysis and interpretative phenomenological analysis /A. Griffin and V. May -- Content and comparative keyword analysis /C. Seale and F. Tonkiss -- Combining qualitative and quantitative methods /N. Spicer -- Part three: Writing, presenting, reflecting -- Writing a research report /C. Rivas -- Giving oral presentations /D. Silverman -- Validity, reliability and the quality of research /C. Seale -- When things go wrong /M. Michael.
9781849207980 9781849207997
2011929421
Sociology--Methodology.
Sociology--Philosophy.
Sociology--Research.
Social sciences--Methodology
Social sciences--Philosophy.
Social sciences--Research
Culture--Research.
301.072