Researching Society and CultureClive Seale This is the second and comprehensively revised and greatly expanded edition of the best selling book on methods and methodology written by members or associates of the Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London. All of the acknowledged strengths of the first edition have been retained and improved. There are completely new chapters covering audio recordings, the Internet, visual materials, focus groups, grounded theory, combining qualitative and quantitative methods, using data archives for statistical analysis, doing a dissertation, ethics, doing a literature review and more. A brand new section 3 provides case studies. |
Contents
4 | 35 |
CONTENTS | 48 |
Research and social theory | 49 |
CONTENTS | 60 |
7 | 72 |
8 | 86 |
9 | 100 |
Webers reconciliation of naturalism and the interpretive tradition | 104 |
Generating grounded theory | 241 |
Overreliance on coding? | 246 |
CONTENTS | 266 |
Using visual materials | 267 |
Using the Internet | 280 |
5655 | 283 |
Combining qualitative and quantitative methods | 293 |
from one to two variables | 324 |
Conclusion | 113 |
CONTENTS | 116 |
Ethics and social research | 117 |
Doing a literature review | 146 |
Writing your literature review | 160 |
13 | 164 |
Doing social surveys | 165 |
The uses of emotion | 170 |
Conclusion | 177 |
Qualitative interviewing | 179 |
Using focus groups | 193 |
CONTENTS | 208 |
Making and managing audio recordings | 209 |
Sound recording software | 221 |
17 | 226 |
Doing ethnography | 227 |
57 | 237 |
18 | 240 |
Conclusion | 338 |
CONTENTS | 342 |
26 | 356 |
27 | 368 |
Analysing conversation | 383 |
CONTENTS | 398 |
Reading and writing research | 399 |
30 | 410 |
The structure of the dissertation | 423 |
When things go wrong | 432 |
32 | 444 |
an ethnographic case study | 453 |
Assembled and edited by Thomas Zacharias | 477 |
Validity reliability and the quality of research 71 | 479 |
causal arguments and multivariate analysis 341 | 498 |
Glossary | 505 |
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