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ISBN 10: 1473947162
ISBN 13: 978-1473947160
Author: Clive Seale
Written by internationally renowned experts, each chapter provides a full introduction to a key aspect of research methodology. From starting out to generating, analyzing, and presenting data, this new Fourth Edition covers foundational concepts in social research, while also keeping readers on the pulse of topics like digital social research, social surveys, and big data. Packed with international examples from across the social sciences, this text shows how to interpret and work with data generated from real-world research.
Readers will learn to:
- Design the right research question for a project
- Access, understand, and use existing data
- Effectively write-up projects and assignments
- Be confident in the A to Z of the research process
Supported by an interactive website with videos, data-sets, templates, and additional exercises, this book is the perfect hand-holder for any social science student starting a methods course or project.
Researching Society and Culture 4th Table of contents:
1 Introduction and guide to using this book
Part One Starting Out
2 Philosophy, politics and values
3 Research and theory
4 Ethics and social research
5 Doing a literature review
6 Research questions and proposals
7 Research design
8 The dissertation
Part Two Generating Data
9 Sampling
10 Questionnaires and interviews
11 Questions, measurement and structured observation
12 Qualitative interviewing
13 Focus groups
14 Doing ethnography
15 Grounded theory
16 Doing historical and documentary research
17 Combining qualitative and quantitative methods
18 Digital social research
Part Three Doing Analysis
19 Preparing data for statistical analysis
20 Analysing single variables
21 Bivariate analysis
22 Causal arguments and multivariate analysis
23 Secondary analysis
24 Content and text analysis
25 Finding themes in qualitative data
26 Visual analysis
27 Discourse analysis
28 Analysing conversation
29 Narrative analysis and interpretative phenomenological analysis
Part Four Writing, Presenting, Reflecting
30 Writing a research report
31 Giving oral presentations
32 Research quality
Glossary
References
Index
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