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adam_text | Brief Contents
Detailed contents
About the author
Introducing the students
Guide to the book
Guided tour of textbook features
Guided tour of the
ORC:
lecturer resources
Guided tour of the
ORC:
student resources
Abbreviations
Part One
1
Social research strategies
2
Research designs
3
Planning a research project and formulating research questions
4
Getting started: reviewing the literature
5
Ethics and politics in social research
Part Two
6
The nature of quantitative research
7
Sampling
8
Structured interviewing
9
Self-completion questionnaires
10
Asking questions
11
Structured observation
12
Content analysis
13
Secondary analysis and official statistics
14
Quantitative data analysis
15
Using SPSS for Windows
Part Three
16
The nature of qualitative research
17
Ethnography and participant observation
18
Interviewing in qualitative research
19
Focus groups
20
Language in qualitative research
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xxxviii
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65
80
112
139
164
191
215
230
253
273
294
313
339
365
400
435
472
492
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Brief Contents
21
Documents as sources of data
22
Qualitative data analysis
23
Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis: using NVivo
Part Four
24
Breaking down the quantitative/qualitative divide
25
Mixed methods research: combining quantitative and qualitative research
26
Е
-research:
using the Internet as object and method of data collection
27
Writing up social research
Glossary
References
Name index
Index
514
537
564
587
602
627
660
691
701
727
733
Detailed contents
About the author
Introducing the students
Guide to the book
Guided tour of textbook features
Guided tour of the
ORC:
lecturer resources
Guided tour of the
ORC:
student resources
Abbreviations
Part One
Chapter
1
Chapter
2
Social research strategies
Introduction
Theory and research
What type of theory?
Deductive and inductive theory
Epistemological considerations
A natural science epistemology: positivism
Interpretivism
Ontological considerations
Objectivism
Constructionism
Relationship to social research
Research strategy: quantitative and qualitative research
Influences on the conduct of social research
Values
Practical considerations
Key points
Questions for review
Research designs
Introduction
Criteria in social research
Reliability
Replication
Validity
Relationship with research strategy
XXIII
xxiv
xxviii
xxxiv
xxxvi
xxxviii
xli
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4
6
6
9
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21
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24
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27
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29
30
31
31
32
32
33
Detailed contents
Research designs
35
Experimental design
35
Cross-sectional design
44
Longitudinal design(s)
49
Case study design
52
Comparative design
58
Bringing research strategy and research design together
61
Key points
63
Questions for review
63
Chapter
3
Planning a research project and formulating research questions
65
Introduction
66
Getting to know what is expected of you by your institution
66
Thinking about your research area
67
Using your supervisor
67
Managing time and resources
68
Formulating suitable research questions
69
Writing your research proposal
75
Preparing for your research
76
Doing your research and analysing your results
76
Checklist
78
Key points
78
Questions for review
79
Chapter
4
Getting started: reviewing the literature
80
Reviewing the existing literature
81
Getti
ng the most from you
r
read ing
82
Systematic review
85
Narrative review
92
Searching the existing literature
95
Electronic databases
95
Keywords and defining search parameters
100
Referencing your work
101
The role of the bibliography
106
Avoiding plagiarism
107
Checklist
110
Key points
110
Questions for review
111
Chapter
5
Ethics and politics in social research
112
Introduction
113
Ethical principles
118
Detailed contents XI
Harm to participants
Lack of informed consent
Invasion of privacy
Deception
Ethics and the issue of quality
The difficulties of ethical decision-making
New media and difficult decisions
Politics in social research
Checklist
Key points
Questions for review
118
121
123
124
125
128
129
130
133
134
135
Part Two
Chapter
6
The nature of quantitative research
Introduction
The main steps in quantitative research
Concepts and their measurement
What is a concept?
Why measure?
Indicators
Using multiple-indicator measures
Dimensions of concepts
Reliability and validity
Reliability
Validity
Reflections on reliability and validity
The main preoccupations of quantitative researchers
Measurement
Causality
Generalization
Replication
The critique of quantitative research
Criticisms of quantitative research
Is it always like this?
Reverse operationism
Reliability and validity testing
Sampling
Key points
Questions for review
139
140
140
143
143
144
144
147
148
149
149
151
153
155
155
156
156
157
159
159
160
160
161
162
162
162
XII
Detailed
contents
Chapter
7
Sampling
Introduction to survey research
Introduction to sampling
Sampling error
Types of probability sample
Simple random sample
Systematic sample
Stratified random sampling
Multi-stage cluster sampling
The qualities of a probability sample
Sample size
Absolute and relative sample size
Time and cost
Non-response
Heterogeneity of the population
Kind of analysis
Types of non-probability sample
Convenience sampling
Snowball sampling
Quota sampling
Limits to generalization
Error in survey research
Key points
Questions for review
Chapter
8
Structured interviewing
Introduction
The structured interview
Reducing error due to interviewer variability
Accuracy and ease of data processing
Other types of interview
Interview contexts
More than one interviewee
More than one interviewer
In person or by telephone?
Computer-assisted interviewing
Conducting interviews
Know the schedule
Introducing the research
Rapport
Asking questions
164
165
167
170
171
171
172
173
175
177
179
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180
182
182
183
183
184
185
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202
Detailed contents X
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Recording answers
202
Clear instructions
202
Question order
203
Probing
206
Prompting
207
Leaving the interview
209
Training and supervision
209
Problems with structured interviewing
210
Characteristics of interviewers
210
Response sets
210
The problem of meaning
211
The feminist critique
211
Key points
213
Questions for review
213
Chapter
9
Self-completion questionnaires
215
Introduction
216
Self-completion questionnaire or postal questionnaire?
216
Evaluating the self-completion questionnaire in relation to the
structured interview
217
Advantages of the self-completion questionnaire over the
structured interview
217
Disadvantages of the self-completion questionnaire in comparison
with the structured interview
218
Steps to improve response rates to postal questionnaires
220
Designing the self-completion questionnaire
221
Do not cramp the presentation
221
Clear presentation
222
Vertical or horizontal closed answers?
222
Clear instructions about how to respond
224
Keep question and answers together
224
Diaries as a form of self-completion questionnaire
224
Advantages and disadvantages of the diary as a method of data
collection
228
Key points
228
Questions for review
229
Chapter
10
Asking questions
230
Introduction
231
Open or closed questions?
231
Open questions
231
Closed questions
235
Detailed contents
Types of questions
238
Rules for designing questions
239
General rules of thumb
239
Specific rules when designing questions
240
Vignette questions
245
Piloting and pre-testing questions
247
Using existing questions
248
Checklist
249
Key points
251
Questions for review
251
Chapter
11
Structured observation
253
Introduction
254
Problems with survey research on social behaviour
254
So why not observe behaviour?
256
The observation schedule
260
Strategies for observing behaviour
261
Sampling
262
Sampling people
262
Sampling in terms of time
263
Further sampling considerations
263
Issues of reliability and validity
264
Reliability
264
Validity
265
Field stimulations as a form of structured observation
266
Criticisms of structured observation
268
On the other hand
... 269
Checklist
270
Keypoints 270
Questions for review
271
Chapter
12
Content analysis
273
Introduction
274
What are the research questions?
276
Selecting a sample
278
Sampling media
278
Sampling dates
278
What is to be counted?
280
Significant actors
280
Words
280
Subjects and themes
282
Detailed contents
Dispositions
282
Coding
283
Coding schedule
283
Coding manual
283
Potential pitfalls in devising coding schemes
288
Advantages of content analysis
288
Disadvantages of content analysis
291
Checklist
292
Key points
292
Questions for review
293
Chapter
13
Secondary analysis and official statistics
294
Introduction
295
Other researchers data
296
Advantages of secondary analysis
297
Limitations of secondary analysis
300
Accessing the Data Archive
300
Official statistics
304
Reliability and validity
306
Condemning and resurrecting official statistics
307
Official statistics as a form of unobtrusive method
309
Key points
311
Questions for review
312
Chapter
14
Quantitative data analysis
313
Introduction
314
A small research project
315
Missing data
318
Types of variable
321
Univariate analysis
322
Frequency tables
322
Diagrams
324
Measures of central tendency
325
Measures of dispersion
325
Bivariate analysis
325
Relationships not causality
326
Contingency tables
326
Pearson s
r
327
Spearman s rho
329
Phi and Cramer s V
329
Comparing means and eta
330
Detailed contents
Multivariate analysis
330
Could the relationship be spurious?
330
Could there be an intervening variable?
331
Could a third variable moderate the relationship?
331
Statistical significance
332
The chi-square test
334
Correlation and statistical significance
335
Comparing means and statistical significance
335
Checklist
336
Key points
336
Questions for review
337
Chapter
15
Using SPSS for Windows
339
Introduction
340
Getting started in SPSS
342
Beginning SPSS
342
Entering data in the Data Viewer
342
Defining variables: variable names, missing values, variable labels,
and value labels
343
Recoding variables
345
Computing a new variable
347
Data analysis with SPSS
348
Generating a frequency table
348
Generating a bar chart
351
Generating a pie chart
351
Generating a histogram
352
Generating the arithmetic mean, median, standard deviation,
and range
352
Generating a contingency table, chi-square, and
Cramer s V
352
Generating Pearson s rand Spearman s rho
352
Generating scatter diagrams
353
Comparing means and eta
354
Generating a contingency table with three
variables
358
Further operations in SPSS
361
Saving your data
361
Retrieving your data
361
Printing output
361
Key points
361
Questions for review
362
Detailed
contents
XVII
Part Three
Chapter
16
The nature of qualitative research
365
Introduction
366
The main steps in qualitative research
370
Theory and research
373
Concepts in qualitative research
373
Sampling in qualitative research
375
Reliability and validity in qualitative research
376
Adapting reliability and validity for qualitative research
376
Alternative criteria for evaluating qualitative research
377
Recent discussions about quality criteria for qualitative research
380
Between quantitative and qualitative research criteria
381
Overview of the Issue of criteria
383
The main preoccupations of qualitative researchers
384
Seeing through the eyes of the people being studied
385
Description and the emphasis on context
386
Emphasis on process
388
Flexibility and limited structure
389
Concepts and theory grounded in data
390
The critique of qualitative research
391
Qualitative research is too subjective
391
Difficult to replicate
391
Problems of generalization
391
Lack of transparency
392
Is it always like this?
392
Some contrasts between quantitative and qualitative research
393
Some similarities between quantitative and qualitative research
394
Feminism and qualitative research
396
Key points
398
Questions for review
398
Chapter
17
Ethnography and participant observation
400
Introduction
401
Access
403
Overt versus covert ethnography
403
Access to closed settings
405
Access to open/public settings
407
Ongoing access
408
Key Informants
409
Roles for ethnographers
410
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Contents
Active or passive?
413
Sampling
414
Purposive sampling
414
Not just people
416
Field notes
417
Types of field notes
420
The end
421
Can there be a feminist ethnography?
422
The rise of visual ethnography
424
Key points
433
Questions for review
433
Chapter
18
Interviewing in qualitative research
435
Introduction
436
Differences between the structured interview and the
qualitative interview
437
Asking questions in the qualitative interview
438
Preparing an interview guide
442
Kinds of questions
445
Recording and transcription
451
Telephone interviewing
457
Sampling
458
Purposive sampling
458
Feminist research and interviewing in qualitative research
463
Qualitative interviewing versus participant observation
465
Advantages of participant observation in comparison to qualitative
interviewing
465
Advantages of qualitative interviewing in comparison to participant
observation
466
Overview
468
Checklist
469
Key points
470
Questions for review
470
Chapter
19
Focus groups
472
Introduction
473
Uses of focus groups
475
Conducting focus groups
476
Recording and transcription
476
How many groups?
477
Size of groups
479
Level of moderator involvement
480
Detailed contents
Selecting participants
481
Asking questions
483
Beginning and finishing
485
Group interaction in focus group sessions
485
The focus group as a feminist method
487
Limitations of focus groups
488
Checklist
489
Key points
490
Questions for review
491
Chapter
20
Language in qualitative research
492
Introduction
493
Conversation analysis
493
Assumptions of conversation analysis
495
Transcription and attention to detail
496
Some basic tools of conversation analysis
496
Overview
498
Discourse analysis
499
Uncovering interpretative repertoires
502
Producing facts
503
Critical discourse analysis
508
Overview
510
Key points
512
Questions for review
512
Chapter
21
Documents as sources of data
514
Introduction
515
Personal documents
516
Diaries, letters, and autobiographies
516
Visual objects
518
Official documents deriving from the state
521
Official documents deriving from private sources
522
Mass-media outputs
523
Virtual documents
525
The world as text
526
Readers and audiences
—
active or passive?
526
The reality of documents
526
Interpreting documents
528
Qualitative content analysis
529
Semiotics
531
Hermeneutics
532
XX Detailed contents
Checklist
Key points
534
Questions for review
535
Chapter
22
Qualitative data analysis
537
Introduction
538
General strategies of qualitative data analysis
539
Analytic induction
539
Grounded theory
541
Basic operations in qualitative data analysis
550
Steps and considerations in coding
550
Turning data into fragments
552
Problems with coding
553
Thematic analysis
554
Narrative analysis
556
Secondary analysis of qualitative data
561
Key points
562
Questions for review
562
Chapter
23
Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis: using NVivo
564
Introduction
565
Is CAQDAS like quantitative data analysis software?
566
No industry leader
566
Lack of universal agreement about the utility of CAQDAS
566
Learning NVivo
568
Coding
569
Searching text
576
Memos
580
Saving an NVivo project
582
Opening an existing NVivo project
582
Final thoughts
582
Key points
584
Questions for review
584
Part Four
Chapter
24
Breaking down the quantitative/qualitative divide
587
Introduction
588
The natural science model and qualitative research
589
Quantitative research and interpretivism
591
Quantitative research and constructionism
592
Detailed contents
XXI
Research methods and epistemological and ontological considerations
593
Problems with the quantitative/qualitative contrast
594
Behaviour versus meaning
594
Theory and concepts tested in research versus theory and concepts
emergent from data
595
Numbers versus words
595
Artificial versus natural
596
The mutual analysis of quantitative and qualitative research
597
A qualitative research approach to quantitative research
597
A quantitative research approach to qualitative research
597
Quantification in qualitative research
598
Thematic analysis
598
Quasi-quantification in qualitative research
598
Combating anecdotalism through limited quantification
599
Key points
600
Questions for review
600
Chapter
25
Mixed methods research: combining quantitative and
qualitative research
602
Introduction
603
The argument against mixed methods research
604
The embedded methods argument
604
The paradigm argument
604
Two versions of the debate about quantitative and qualitative
research
606
Approaches to mixed methods research
606
A content analysis of articles based on mixed methods research
608
Approaches to combining quantitative and qualitative research in
mixed methods research
610
Reflections on mixed methods research
624
Key points
625
Questions for review
626
Chapter
26
Е
-research:
using the Internet as object and method of
data collection
627
Introduction
628
The Internet as object of analysis
629
Using the Internet to collect data from individuals
632
An ethnography of the Internet?
633
Qualitative research using online focus groups
637
Qualitative research using online personal interviews
642
XXII
Detailed
contents
Online social surveys
644
Email surveys
644
Web surveys
645
Mixing modes of survey administration
646
Sampling issues
647
Overview
649
Ethical considerations in Internet research
654
Key points
658
Questions for review
658
Chapter
27
Writing up social research
660
Introduction
661
Writing up your research
662
Start early
662
Be persuasive
662
Get feedback
663
Avoid sexist, racist, and disablist writing
663
Structure your writing
663
Writing up quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research
668
Writing up quantitative research
669
Writing up qualitative research
672
Writing up mixed methods research
675
Postmodernism and its implications for writing
679
Writing ethnography
684
Experiential authority
685
Typical forms
685
The native s point of view
685
Interpretative omnipotence
686
Checklist
686
Key points
688
Questions for review
688
Glossary
691
References
701
Name index
727
Index
733
|
adam_txt |
Brief Contents
Detailed contents
About the author
Introducing the students
Guide to the book
Guided tour of textbook features
Guided tour of the
ORC:
lecturer resources
Guided tour of the
ORC:
student resources
Abbreviations
Part One
1
Social research strategies
2
Research designs
3
Planning a research project and formulating research questions
4
Getting started: reviewing the literature
5
Ethics and politics in social research
Part Two
6
The nature of quantitative research
7
Sampling
8
Structured interviewing
9
Self-completion questionnaires
10
Asking questions
11
Structured observation
12
Content analysis
13
Secondary analysis and official statistics
14
Quantitative data analysis
15
Using SPSS for Windows
Part Three
16
The nature of qualitative research
17
Ethnography and participant observation
18
Interviewing in qualitative research
19
Focus groups
20
Language in qualitative research
ix
xxiii
xxiv
xxviii
xxxiv
xxxvi
xxxviii
xli
3
29
65
80
112
139
164
191
215
230
253
273
294
313
339
365
400
435
472
492
VIU
Brief Contents
21
Documents as sources of data
22
Qualitative data analysis
23
Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis: using NVivo
Part Four
24
Breaking down the quantitative/qualitative divide
25
Mixed methods research: combining quantitative and qualitative research
26
Е
-research:
using the Internet as object and method of data collection
27
Writing up social research
Glossary
References
Name index
Index
514
537
564
587
602
627
660
691
701
727
733
Detailed contents
About the author
Introducing the students
Guide to the book
Guided tour of textbook features
Guided tour of the
ORC:
lecturer resources
Guided tour of the
ORC:
student resources
Abbreviations
Part One
Chapter
1
Chapter
2
Social research strategies
Introduction
Theory and research
What type of theory?
Deductive and inductive theory
Epistemological considerations
A natural science epistemology: positivism
Interpretivism
Ontological considerations
Objectivism
Constructionism
Relationship to social research
Research strategy: quantitative and qualitative research
Influences on the conduct of social research
Values
Practical considerations
Key points
Questions for review
Research designs
Introduction
Criteria in social research
Reliability
Replication
Validity
Relationship with research strategy
XXIII
xxiv
xxviii
xxxiv
xxxvi
xxxviii
xli
3
4
6
6
9
13
14
15
18
18
19
21
21
24
24
26
27
28
29
30
31
31
32
32
33
Detailed contents
Research designs
35
Experimental design
35
Cross-sectional design
44
Longitudinal design(s)
49
Case study design
52
Comparative design
58
Bringing research strategy and research design together
61
Key points
63
Questions for review
63
Chapter
3
Planning a research project and formulating research questions
65
Introduction
66
Getting to know what is expected of you by your institution
66
Thinking about your research area
67
Using your supervisor
67
Managing time and resources
68
Formulating suitable research questions
69
Writing your research proposal
75
Preparing for your research
76
Doing your research and analysing your results
76
Checklist
78
Key points
78
Questions for review
79
Chapter
4
Getting started: reviewing the literature
80
Reviewing the existing literature
81
Getti
ng the most from you
r
read ing
82
Systematic review
85
Narrative review
92
Searching the existing literature
95
Electronic databases
95
Keywords and defining search parameters
100
Referencing your work
101
The role of the bibliography
106
Avoiding plagiarism
107
Checklist
110
Key points
110
Questions for review
111
Chapter
5
Ethics and politics in social research
112
Introduction
113
Ethical principles
118
Detailed contents XI
Harm to participants
Lack of informed consent
Invasion of privacy
Deception
Ethics and the issue of quality
The difficulties of ethical decision-making
New media and difficult decisions
Politics in social research
Checklist
Key points
Questions for review
118
121
123
124
125
128
129
130
133
134
135
Part Two
Chapter
6
The nature of quantitative research
Introduction
The main steps in quantitative research
Concepts and their measurement
What is a concept?
Why measure?
Indicators
Using multiple-indicator measures
Dimensions of concepts
Reliability and validity
Reliability
Validity
Reflections on reliability and validity
The main preoccupations of quantitative researchers
Measurement
Causality
Generalization
Replication
The critique of quantitative research
Criticisms of quantitative research
Is it always like this?
Reverse operationism
Reliability and validity testing
Sampling
Key points
Questions for review
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159
160
160
161
162
162
162
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Detailed
contents
Chapter
7
Sampling
Introduction to survey research
Introduction to sampling
Sampling error
Types of probability sample
Simple random sample
Systematic sample
Stratified random sampling
Multi-stage cluster sampling
The qualities of a probability sample
Sample size
Absolute and relative sample size
Time and cost
Non-response
Heterogeneity of the population
Kind of analysis
Types of non-probability sample
Convenience sampling
Snowball sampling
Quota sampling
Limits to generalization
Error in survey research
Key points
Questions for review
Chapter
8
Structured interviewing
Introduction
The structured interview
Reducing error due to interviewer variability
Accuracy and ease of data processing
Other types of interview
Interview contexts
More than one interviewee
More than one interviewer
In person or by telephone?
Computer-assisted interviewing
Conducting interviews
Know the schedule
Introducing the research
Rapport
Asking questions
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170
171
171
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184
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202
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Recording answers
202
Clear instructions
202
Question order
203
Probing
206
Prompting
207
Leaving the interview
209
Training and supervision
209
Problems with structured interviewing
210
Characteristics of interviewers
210
Response sets
210
The problem of meaning
211
The feminist critique
211
Key points
213
Questions for review
213
Chapter
9
Self-completion questionnaires
215
Introduction
216
Self-completion questionnaire or postal questionnaire?
216
Evaluating the self-completion questionnaire in relation to the
structured interview
217
Advantages of the self-completion questionnaire over the
structured interview
217
Disadvantages of the self-completion questionnaire in comparison
with the structured interview
218
Steps to improve response rates to postal questionnaires
220
Designing the self-completion questionnaire
221
Do not cramp the presentation
221
Clear presentation
222
Vertical or horizontal closed answers?
222
Clear instructions about how to respond
224
Keep question and answers together
224
Diaries as a form of self-completion questionnaire
224
Advantages and disadvantages of the diary as a method of data
collection
228
Key points
228
Questions for review
229
Chapter
10
Asking questions
230
Introduction
231
Open or closed questions?
231
Open questions
231
Closed questions
235
Detailed contents
Types of questions
238
Rules for designing questions
239
General rules of thumb
239
Specific rules when designing questions
240
Vignette questions
245
Piloting and pre-testing questions
247
Using existing questions
248
Checklist
249
Key points
251
Questions for review
251
Chapter
11
Structured observation
253
Introduction
254
Problems with survey research on social behaviour
254
So why not observe behaviour?
256
The observation schedule
260
Strategies for observing behaviour
261
Sampling
262
Sampling people
262
Sampling in terms of time
263
Further sampling considerations
263
Issues of reliability and validity
264
Reliability
264
Validity
265
Field stimulations as a form of structured observation
266
Criticisms of structured observation
268
On the other hand
. 269
Checklist
270
Keypoints 270
Questions for review
271
Chapter
12
Content analysis
273
Introduction
274
What are the research questions?
276
Selecting a sample
278
Sampling media
278
Sampling dates
278
What is to be counted?
280
Significant actors
280
Words
280
Subjects and themes
282
Detailed contents
Dispositions
282
Coding
283
Coding schedule
283
Coding manual
283
Potential pitfalls in devising coding schemes
288
Advantages of content analysis
288
Disadvantages of content analysis
291
Checklist
292
Key points
292
Questions for review
293
Chapter
13
Secondary analysis and official statistics
294
Introduction
295
Other researchers' data
296
Advantages of secondary analysis
297
Limitations of secondary analysis
300
Accessing the Data Archive
300
Official statistics
304
Reliability and validity
306
Condemning and resurrecting official statistics
307
Official statistics as a form of unobtrusive method
309
Key points
311
Questions for review
312
Chapter
14
Quantitative data analysis
313
Introduction
314
A small research project
315
Missing data
318
Types of variable
321
Univariate analysis
322
Frequency tables
322
Diagrams
324
Measures of central tendency
325
Measures of dispersion
325
Bivariate analysis
325
Relationships not causality
326
Contingency tables
326
Pearson's
r
327
Spearman's rho
329
Phi and Cramer's V
329
Comparing means and eta
330
Detailed contents
Multivariate analysis
330
Could the relationship be spurious?
330
Could there be an intervening variable?
331
Could a third variable moderate the relationship?
331
Statistical significance
332
The chi-square test
334
Correlation and statistical significance
335
Comparing means and statistical significance
335
Checklist
336
Key points
336
Questions for review
337
Chapter
15
Using SPSS for Windows
339
Introduction
340
Getting started in SPSS
342
Beginning SPSS
342
Entering data in the Data Viewer
342
Defining variables: variable names, missing values, variable labels,
and value labels
343
Recoding variables
345
Computing a new variable
347
Data analysis with SPSS
348
Generating a frequency table
348
Generating a bar chart
351
Generating a pie chart
351
Generating a histogram
352
Generating the arithmetic mean, median, standard deviation,
and range
352
Generating a contingency table, chi-square, and
Cramer's V
352
Generating Pearson's rand Spearman's rho
352
Generating scatter diagrams
353
Comparing means and eta
354
Generating a contingency table with three
variables
358
Further operations in SPSS
361
Saving your data
361
Retrieving your data
361
Printing output
361
Key points
361
Questions for review
362
Detailed
contents
XVII
Part Three
Chapter
16
The nature of qualitative research
365
Introduction
366
The main steps in qualitative research
370
Theory and research
373
Concepts in qualitative research
373
Sampling in qualitative research
375
Reliability and validity in qualitative research
376
Adapting reliability and validity for qualitative research
376
Alternative criteria for evaluating qualitative research
377
Recent discussions about quality criteria for qualitative research
380
Between quantitative and qualitative research criteria
381
Overview of the Issue of criteria
383
The main preoccupations of qualitative researchers
384
Seeing through the eyes of the people being studied
385
Description and the emphasis on context
386
Emphasis on process
388
Flexibility and limited structure
389
Concepts and theory grounded in data
390
The critique of qualitative research
391
Qualitative research is too subjective
391
Difficult to replicate
391
Problems of generalization
391
Lack of transparency
392
Is it always like this?
392
Some contrasts between quantitative and qualitative research
393
Some similarities between quantitative and qualitative research
394
Feminism and qualitative research
396
Key points
398
Questions for review
398
Chapter
17
Ethnography and participant observation
400
Introduction
401
Access
403
Overt versus covert ethnography
403
Access to closed settings
405
Access to open/public settings
407
Ongoing access
408
Key Informants
409
Roles for ethnographers
410
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Detailed
Contents
Active or passive?
413
Sampling
414
Purposive sampling
414
Not just people
416
Field notes
417
Types of field notes
420
The end
421
Can there be a feminist ethnography?
422
The rise of visual ethnography
424
Key points
433
Questions for review
433
Chapter
18
Interviewing in qualitative research
435
Introduction
436
Differences between the structured interview and the
qualitative interview
437
Asking questions in the qualitative interview
438
Preparing an interview guide
442
Kinds of questions
445
Recording and transcription
451
Telephone interviewing
457
Sampling
458
Purposive sampling
458
Feminist research and interviewing in qualitative research
463
Qualitative interviewing versus participant observation
465
Advantages of participant observation in comparison to qualitative
interviewing
465
Advantages of qualitative interviewing in comparison to participant
observation
466
Overview
468
Checklist
469
Key points
470
Questions for review
470
Chapter
19
Focus groups
472
Introduction
473
Uses of focus groups
475
Conducting focus groups
476
Recording and transcription
476
How many groups?
477
Size of groups
479
Level of moderator involvement
480
Detailed contents
Selecting participants
481
Asking questions
483
Beginning and finishing
485
Group interaction in focus group sessions
485
The focus group as a feminist method
487
Limitations of focus groups
488
Checklist
489
Key points
490
Questions for review
491
Chapter
20
Language in qualitative research
492
Introduction
493
Conversation analysis
493
Assumptions of conversation analysis
495
Transcription and attention to detail
496
Some basic tools of conversation analysis
496
Overview
498
Discourse analysis
499
Uncovering interpretative repertoires
502
Producing facts
503
Critical discourse analysis
508
Overview
510
Key points
512
Questions for review
512
Chapter
21
Documents as sources of data
514
Introduction
515
Personal documents
516
Diaries, letters, and autobiographies
516
Visual objects
518
Official documents deriving from the state
521
Official documents deriving from private sources
522
Mass-media outputs
523
Virtual documents
525
The world as text
526
Readers and audiences
—
active or passive?
526
The reality of documents
526
Interpreting documents
528
Qualitative content analysis
529
Semiotics
531
Hermeneutics
532
XX Detailed contents
Checklist
Key points
534
Questions for review
535
Chapter
22
Qualitative data analysis
537
Introduction
538
General strategies of qualitative data analysis
539
Analytic induction
539
Grounded theory
541
Basic operations in qualitative data analysis
550
Steps and considerations in coding
550
Turning data into fragments
552
Problems with coding
553
Thematic analysis
554
Narrative analysis
556
Secondary analysis of qualitative data
561
Key points
562
Questions for review
562
Chapter
23
Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis: using NVivo
564
Introduction
565
Is CAQDAS like quantitative data analysis software?
566
No industry leader
566
Lack of universal agreement about the utility of CAQDAS
566
Learning NVivo
568
Coding
569
Searching text
576
Memos
580
Saving an NVivo project
582
Opening an existing NVivo project
582
Final thoughts
582
Key points
584
Questions for review
584
Part Four
Chapter
24
Breaking down the quantitative/qualitative divide
587
Introduction
588
The natural science model and qualitative research
589
Quantitative research and interpretivism
591
Quantitative research and constructionism
592
Detailed contents
XXI
Research methods and epistemological and ontological considerations
593
Problems with the quantitative/qualitative contrast
594
Behaviour versus meaning
594
Theory and concepts tested in research versus theory and concepts
emergent from data
595
Numbers versus words
595
Artificial versus natural
596
The mutual analysis of quantitative and qualitative research
597
A qualitative research approach to quantitative research
597
A quantitative research approach to qualitative research
597
Quantification in qualitative research
598
Thematic analysis
598
Quasi-quantification in qualitative research
598
Combating anecdotalism through limited quantification
599
Key points
600
Questions for review
600
Chapter
25
Mixed methods research: combining quantitative and
qualitative research
602
Introduction
603
The argument against mixed methods research
604
The embedded methods argument
604
The paradigm argument
604
Two versions of the debate about quantitative and qualitative
research
606
Approaches to mixed methods research
606
A content analysis of articles based on mixed methods research
608
Approaches to combining quantitative and qualitative research in
mixed methods research
610
Reflections on mixed methods research
624
Key points
625
Questions for review
626
Chapter
26
Е
-research:
using the Internet as object and method of
data collection
627
Introduction
628
The Internet as object of analysis
629
Using the Internet to collect data from individuals
632
An ethnography of the Internet?
633
Qualitative research using online focus groups
637
Qualitative research using online personal interviews
642
XXII
Detailed
contents
Online social surveys
644
Email surveys
644
Web surveys
645
Mixing modes of survey administration
646
Sampling issues
647
Overview
649
Ethical considerations in Internet research
654
Key points
658
Questions for review
658
Chapter
27
Writing up social research
660
Introduction
661
Writing up your research
662
Start early
662
Be persuasive
662
Get feedback
663
Avoid sexist, racist, and disablist writing
663
Structure your writing
663
Writing up quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research
668
Writing up quantitative research
669
Writing up qualitative research
672
Writing up mixed methods research
675
Postmodernism and its implications for writing
679
Writing ethnography
684
Experiential authority
685
Typical forms
685
The native's point of view
685
Interpretative omnipotence
686
Checklist
686
Key points
688
Questions for review
688
Glossary
691
References
701
Name index
727
Index
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title_exact_search_txtP | Social research methods |
title_full | Social research methods Alan Bryman |
title_fullStr | Social research methods Alan Bryman |
title_full_unstemmed | Social research methods Alan Bryman |
title_short | Social research methods |
title_sort | social research methods |
topic | Forschungsmethode (DE-588)4155046-8 gnd Empirische Sozialforschung (DE-588)4014606-6 gnd Sozialwissenschaften (DE-588)4055916-6 gnd Methode (DE-588)4038971-6 gnd |
topic_facet | Forschungsmethode Empirische Sozialforschung Sozialwissenschaften Methode Lehrbuch |
url | http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=016473928&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA |
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