Researching society and culture
This is the second and comprehensively revised and greatly expanded edition of the bestselling book on methods and methodology. There are new chapters on: audio recordings, the Internet, visual materials, focus groups, grounded theory, combining qualitative and quantitative methods, using data archives for statistical analysis, and more.
viii, 536 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
9780761941965, 9780761941972, 0761941967, 0761941975
57282020
Introduction / Clive Seale
Selected issues in the philosophy of social science / David Lazar
Politics, identities and research / Suki Ali [and others]
Developments in social theory / Paul Filmer [and others]
Research and social theory ; Research and social policy / David Silverman
Validity, reliability and the quality of research / Clive Seale
History of social statistics and the social survey / Fran Tonkiss
History of qualititive methods / Clive Seale
Ethics and social research / Moira Kelly and Suki Ali
Research design and proposals / Moira Kelly
Doing a literature review / Duncan Branley
Doing social surveys / Alice Bloch
Qualitative interviewing / Bridget Byrne
Using focus groups / Fran Tonkiss
Making and managing audio recordings / Duncan Branley
Doing ethnography / David Walsh
Generating grounded theory / Clive Seale
Doing historical and archival research / Ben Gidley
Using visual materials / Suki Ali
Using the Internet / Pamelah Odih. Combining qualitative and quantitative methods / Neil Spicer
Coding and analysing data / Clive Seale
Statistical reasoning : from one to two variables / Alice Bloch
Statistical reasoning : causal arguments and multivariate analysis / Clive Seale
Using data archives for secondary analysis / Clive Seale
Analysing text and speech : content and discourse analysis / Fran Tonkiss
Analysing conversation / Tim Rapley
Reading and writing research / Les Back
Doing a dissertation / Chetan Bhatt
When things go wrong / Mike Michael
Representing otherness : collecting and analysing visual data / Thomas Zacharias
Embodiment, reflexivity and movement re-education : an ethnographic case study / Jen Tarr
My research practice / Clive Seale