Researching society and culture /

Researching society and culture / edited by Clive Seale. - 3rd edition. - xii, 636 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Previous ed.: 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to the philosophy of science / Miran Epstein -- Research and theory / David Silverman -- Research and policy / David Silverman -- Ethics and social research / Suki Ali and Moira Kelly -- Doing a literature review / Duncan Branley -- Research questions and proposals / Moira Kelly -- Research design / Clare Rutterford -- Sampling / Clive Seale -- Doing a dissertation / Chetan Bhatt -- Structured methods: interviews, questionnaires and observation / Constantinos N. Phellas, Alice Bloch and Clive Seale -- Qualitative interviewing / Bridget Byrne -- Focus groups / Fran Tonkiss -- Doing ethnography / David Walsh -- Doing historical and documentary research / Ben Gidley -- Visual analysis / Suki Ali -- Secondary analysis and official statistics / Clive Seale -- Preparing data for statistical analysis / Clive Seale -- Statistical reasoning: from one to two variables / Alice Bloch -- Statistical reasoning: causal arguments and multivariate analysis / Clive Seale -- Coding and analysing qualitative data / Carol Rivas -- Generating grounded theory / Clive Seale -- Discourse analysis / Fran Tonkiss -- Analysing conversation / Tim Rapley -- Narrative analysis and interpretative phenomenological analysis / Ann Griffin and Vanessa May -- Content and comparative keyword analysis / Clive Seale and Fran Tonkiss -- Combining qualitative and quantitative methods / Neil Spicer -- Writing a research report / Carol Rivas -- Giving oral presentations / David Silverman -- Validity, reliability and the quality of research / Clive Seale -- When things go wrong / Mike Michael.

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Social sciences--Research.
Social sciences--Methodology.

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