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Designing Social Research A Guide for the Bewildered

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Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

13.04.2011

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Sage Publications

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226

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24,4/17/1,2 cm

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399 g

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Englisch

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978-1-84920-190-2

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This is a detailed text which approaches many important areas of social research. The writing is informal and accessible with many practical pieces of advice for the novice researcher. The five things to remember at the end of each chapter pull the chapter's content together and more easily enables students to dip into the text. Dr Alaster Douglas drupal 20110607

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Taschenbuch

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13.04.2011

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Sage Publications

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226

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24,4/17/1,2 cm

Gewicht

399 g

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Englisch

ISBN

978-1-84920-190-2

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  • Produktbild: Designing Social Research
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  • Introduction to Social Research Design - Or What Are You Talking About?
    Introduction
    Defining terms
    Some general points about research questions
    Some other general guidelines
    Some practical examples of how questions, methods and philosophy combine
    What's the problem, and how are you going to research it? A logic of appropriateness
    Conclusion
    Five things to remember about this chapter
    Reviewing What Other People Have Said - Or How Can I Tell If Others' Research is Any Good?
    Introduction
    Nuts and bolts
    The hierarchy of evidence
    Reading efficiently and critically, and taking notes
    So is the study any good?
    Writing a review
    Conclusion
    Five things to remember about this chapter
    Example - 'Qualitative research and the evidence base of policy'
    Surveys and Questionnaires - Or How Can I Conduct Research With People at a Distance?
    Introduction
    The use of questionnaires - the best (and worst) of quantitative (and qualitative) social research
    Surveys and questionnaires
    Perspectives on questionnaires
    Designing questionnaires
    Open and closed responses
    Getting questions really clear
    Common response forms
    Questionnaire design
    Analysing and reporting questionnaire responses
    Reflexivity and questionnaires
    Contentious issues
    Conclusion - working with the good and bad of questionnaires
    Five things to remember about this chapter
    Example - The Paradox of Choice
    Elements of Quantitative Design: Sampling and Statistics - Or What Can I Do With Numbers?
    Introduction
    Numbers and their importance
    What are numbers good for?
    The philosophy of quantitative research
    Sampling
    Some issues in quantitative analysis - basic descriptive statistics
    Conclusion
    Five things to remember about this chapter
    Example - Super Crunchers
    Ethnography as a Research Approach - Or What Do I Gain from Watching People and Talking to Them?
    Introduction
    What is ethnography?
    When would I want to use an ethnography?
    What does it mean to conduct an ethnography?
    Philosophical debates around ethnography
    What do the differences in approach mean for the resulting ethnography?
    What kind of research does an ethnographic research project produce?
    How can you increase the chance of doing good ethnographic research?
    Conclusion - getting close or producing useless knowledge?
    Five things to remember about this chapter
    Example - Reading Ethnographic Research
    Dealing with Qualitative Data - Or What Should I Do With All These Words?
    Introduction
    The aims of qualitative research
    Grounded theory, coding and generalisation
    The mechanics of grounded theory
    Discourse analysis and its variants
    Quantitative approaches to textual analysis
    Analysing documents
    What are the criteria for a good qualitative analysis?
    Truth in social research
    Conclusion - finding appropriate methods for dealing with your data
    Five things to remember about this chapter
    Example - The Body Multiple
    Causality in your research - or how deep should ontology go?
    Introduction
    Ontology and depth
    Science, method and causality
    Constant conjunction
    The world is flat
    Going deeper
    Levels of analysis
    Conclusion - how deep do you need to go?
    Five things to remember about this chapter
    Example - Rogue Traders and financial losses
    Dealing With Time and Control - Or What Time Period Suits My Research, and How Do I Stop the World from Interfering in It?
    Introduction
    How does Social research deal with time?
    Phenomenology and process philosophy - researching the present
    History and political science - researching the past
    What time frame fits your research, and how does time affect what you can say?
    The openness (and closedness) of systems
    A way around the problem of the experimental method - scale and sampling
    What are case studies for - an aid to generalisation or an analysis of power and expertise?
    Conclusion - time and control in social research
    Five things to remember about this chapter
    Example - accounts of the financial crisis
    Ethics - Or What Practices are Appropriate in my Research? 142
    Introduction
    The importance of ethics in research
    The official line - what bodies such as the ESRC have to say
    Questioning the official line - or is it even possible to follow all these ethical principles?
    The importance of balance and appropriateness in ethics
    Different perspectives on ethics
    Conclusion - doing what's right and doing what's ethical
    Five things to remember about this chapter
    Example - 'Teenagers telling sectarian stories'
    Writing Up Your Research - Or What Can I Say I've Found?
    Introduction
    The differences between description, analysis and argument
    Making an argument - what have you found out?
    The bases of good arguments
    Supporting a conclusion
    Other concerns with arguments
    Deductive and inductive arguments
    Structuring a piece of writing to bring out your argument
    Conclusion - writing up research so that it is clear to you (and to everyone else)
    Five things to remember about this chapter
    Writing up reviews and putting together proposals - or can you provide some examples of all of this?
    Introduction
    Putting together a literature review
    The role of the literature review
    Doing a literature review
    Exclusion and systematic review
    Exclusion and realist review
    Putting together a research proposal
    Conclusion - the skills of being a practising researcher
    Five things to remember about this chapter
    Conclusion - Or Getting on with Social Research
    Introduction
    Others' claims as a basis for your own work
    Defining the job at hand
    Designing research that is appropriate for the job at hand
    Mixing methods
    Being careful with data and with ethics
    Writing it all up
    Conclusion - doing research well
    Example - Ladbroke Grove