The SAGE Handbook of Social Research Methods 1st Edition by Sage 9781473971264, 1473971268

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• ISBN 10: 1473971268
• ISBN 13: 9781473971264
• Author: Sage 

The SAGE Handbook of Social Research Methods is a must for every social-science researcher. It charts the new and evolving terrain of social research methodology, covering qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods in one volume. The Handbook includes chapters on each phase of the research process: research design, methods of data collection, and the processes of analyzing and interpreting data. The volume maintains that there is much more to research than learning skills and techniques; methodology involves the fit between theory, research questions research design and analysis. The book also includes several chapters that describe historical and current directions in social research, debating crucial subjects such as qualitative versus quantitative paradigms, how to judge the credibility of types of research, and the increasingly topical issue of research ethics. The Handbook serves as an invaluable resource for approaching research with an open mind. This volume maps the field of social research methods using an approach that will prove valuable for both students and researchers.

Table contents:

1. Social Research in Changing Social Conditions
PART I: DIRECTIONS IN SOCIAL RESEARCH
2. The End of the Paradigm Wars?
3. The History of Social Research Methods
4. Assessing Validity in Social Research
5. Ethnography and Audience
6. Social Research and Social Practice in Post-Positivist Society
7. From Questions of Methods to Epistemological Issues: The Case of Biographical Research
8. Research Ethics in Social Science
PART II: RESEARCH DESIGNS
9. The Core Analytics of Randomized Experiments for Social Research
10. Better Quasi-Experimental Practice
11. Sample Size Planning with Applications to Multiple Regression: Power and Accuracy for Omnibus and Targeted Effects
12. Re-conceptualizing Generalization: Old Issues in a New Frame
13. Case Study in Social Research
14. Longitudinal and Panel Studies
15. Comparative and Cross-National Designs
PART III: DATA COLLECTION AND FIELDWORK
16. Modern Measurement in the Social Sciences
17. Natural and Contrived Data
18. Self-Administered Questionnaires and Standardized Interviews
19. Qualitative Interviewing and Feminist Research
20. Biographical Methods
21. Focus Groups
PART IV: TYPES OF ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF EVIDENCE
22. An Introduction to the Multilevel Model for Change
23. Latent Variable Models of Social Research Data
24. Equating Groups
25. Discourse Analysis and Conversation Analysis
26. Analyzing Narratives and Story-Telling
27. Reconstructing Grounded Theory
28. Documents and Action
29. Video and the Analysis of Work and Interaction
30. Secondary Analysis of Qualitative Data
31. Secondary Analysis of Quantitative Data Sources
32. Conducting a Meta-Analysis
33. Synergy and Synthesis: Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Data
34. The Analytic Integration of Qualitative Data Sources
35. Combining Different Types of Data for Quantitative Analysis
36. Writing and Presenting Social Research

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