TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alasuutari,Pertti
AU  - Bickman,Leonard
AU  - Brannen,Julia
TI  - The SAGE handbook of social research methods
SN  - 9781412919920 (hbk.)
U1  - 300.72 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - London
PB  - SAGE
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Research
KW  - Methodology
N1  - 1; Social Research in Changing Social Conditions; Part I; Directions in Social Research --; 2; The End of the Paradigm Wars?; Alan Bryman --; 3; The History of Social Research Methods; Marja Alastalo --; 4; Assessing Validity in Social Research; Martyn Hammersley --; 5; Ethnography and Audience; Karen Armstrong --; 6; Social Research and Social Practice in Post-Positivist Society; Pekka Sulkunen --; 7; From Questions of Methods to Epistemological Issues: The Case of Biographical Research; Ann Nilsen --; 8; Research Ethics in Social Science; Celia B. Fisher, Andrea E. Anushko --; Part II; Research Designs --; 9; The Core Analytics of Randomized Experiments for Social Research; Howard S. Bloom --; 10; Better Quasi-Experimental Practice; Thomas D. Cook, Vivian C. Wong --; 11; Sample Size Planning with Applications to Multiple Regression: Power and Accuracy for Omnibus and Targeted Effects; Ken Kelley, Scott E. Maxwell --; 12; Re-conceptualizing Generalization: Old Issues in a New Frame; Giampietro Gobo --; 13; Case Study in Social Research; Linda Mabry --; 14; Longitudinal and Panel Studies; Jane Elliott, Janet Holland, Rachel Thomson --; 15; Comparative and Cross-National Designs; David de Vaus --; Part III; Data Collection and Fieldwork --; 16; Modern Measurement in the Social Sciences; James A. Bovaird, Susan E. Embretson --; 17; Naturaland Contrived Data; Susan A. Speer --; 18; Self-Administered Questionnaires and Standardized Interviews; Edith de Leeuw --; 19; Qualitative Interviewing and Feminist Research; Andrea Doucet, Natasha Mauthner --; 20; Biographical Methods; Joanna Bornat --; 21; Focus Groups; Janet Smithson --; Part IV; Types of Analysis and Interpretation of Evidence --; 22; An Introduction to the Multilevel Model for Change; Suzanne E. Graham, Judith D. Singer, John B. Willett --; 23; Latent Variable Models of Social Research Data; Rick H. Hoyle --; 24; Equating Groups; Stephen G. West, Felix Thoemmes --; 25; Discourse Analysis and Conversation Analysis; Charles Antaki --; 26; Analyzing Narratives and Story-Telling; Matti Hyvdrinen --; 27; Reconstructing Grounded Theory; Kathy Charmaz --; 28; Documents and Action; Lindsay Prior --; 29; Video and the Analysis of Work and Interaction; Christian Heath, Paul Luff --; 30; Secondary Analysis of Qualitative Data; Janet Heaton --; 31; Secondary Analysis of Quantitative Data Sources; Angela Dale, Jo Watham, Vanessa Higgins --; 32; Conducting a Meta-Analysis; Erika A. Patall, Harris Cooper --; 33; Synergy and Synthesis: Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Data; Jane Fielding, Nigel Fielding --; 34; The Analytic Integration of Qualitative Data Sources; Ann Cronin, Victoria D. Alexander, Jane Fielding, Jo Moran-Ellis, Hilary Thomas --; 35; Combining Different Types of Data for Quantitative Analysis; Manfred Max Bergman --; 36; Writing and Presenting Social Research; Amir Marvasti
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