The SAGE handbook of social research methods /
edited by Pertti Alasuutari, Leonard Bickman, Julia Brannen.
- xvi, 631 p.
Social Research in Changing Social Conditions / Directions in Social Research -- The End of the Paradigm Wars? / The History of Social Research Methods / Assessing Validity in Social Research / Ethnography and Audience / Social Research and Social Practice in Post-Positivist Society / From Questions of Methods to Epistemological Issues: The Case of Biographical Research / Research Ethics in Social Science / Research Designs -- The Core Analytics of Randomized Experiments for Social Research / Better Quasi-Experimental Practice / Sample Size Planning with Applications to Multiple Regression: Power and Accuracy for Omnibus and Targeted Effects / Re-conceptualizing Generalization: Old Issues in a New Frame / Case Study in Social Research / Longitudinal and Panel Studies / Comparative and Cross-National Designs / Data Collection and Fieldwork -- Modern Measurement in the Social Sciences / Naturaland Contrived Data / Self-Administered Questionnaires and Standardized Interviews / Qualitative Interviewing and Feminist Research / Biographical Methods / Focus Groups / Types of Analysis and Interpretation of Evidence -- An Introduction to the Multilevel Model for Change / Latent Variable Models of Social Research Data / Equating Groups / Discourse Analysis and Conversation Analysis / Analyzing Narratives and Story-Telling / Reconstructing Grounded Theory / Documents and Action / Video and the Analysis of Work and Interaction / Secondary Analysis of Qualitative Data / Secondary Analysis of Quantitative Data Sources / Conducting a Meta-Analysis / Synergy and Synthesis: Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Data / The Analytic Integration of Qualitative Data Sources / Combining Different Types of Data for Quantitative Analysis / Writing and Presenting Social Research / Alan Bryman -- Marja Alastalo -- Martyn Hammersley -- Karen Armstrong -- Pekka Sulkunen -- Ann Nilsen -- Celia B. Fisher, Andrea E. Anushko -- Howard S. Bloom -- Thomas D. Cook, Vivian C. Wong -- Ken Kelley, Scott E. Maxwell -- Giampietro Gobo -- Linda Mabry -- Jane Elliott, Janet Holland, Rachel Thomson -- David de Vaus -- James A. Bovaird, Susan E. Embretson -- Susan A. Speer -- Edith de Leeuw -- Andrea Doucet, Natasha Mauthner -- Joanna Bornat -- Janet Smithson -- Suzanne E. Graham, Judith D. Singer, John B. Willett -- Rick H. Hoyle -- Stephen G. West, Felix Thoemmes -- Charles Antaki -- Matti Hyvdrinen -- Kathy Charmaz -- Lindsay Prior -- Christian Heath, Paul Luff -- Janet Heaton -- Angela Dale, Jo Watham, Vanessa Higgins -- Erika A. Patall, Harris Cooper -- Jane Fielding, Nigel Fielding -- Ann Cronin, Victoria D. Alexander, Jane Fielding, Jo Moran-Ellis, Hilary Thomas -- Manfred Max Bergman -- Amir Marvasti. 1. Part I. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Part II. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. Part III. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. Part IV. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36.