Social research: theory, methods and techniques
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| adam_text | Contents
Introduction
1
PART ONE: THE LOGIC OF SOCIAL RESEARCH
7
1
Paradigms of Social Research
9
1. Kuhn
and the paradigms of sciences
9
2.
Three basic questions
11
3.
Positivism
13
4.
Neopositivism and posrpositivism
17
5.
Interpretivism
20
6.
A final note: radicalization, criticism
and new tendencies
25
2
Quantitative and Qualitative Research
30
1.
Neopositivist paradigm: Crime in the Making
by Sampson and
Laub 30
2.
Interpretive paradigm: Islands in the Street
by Sanchez-Jankowski
33
3.
Quantitative and qualitative research: a comparison
36
4.
A final note: two different modes of
investigating social reality
49
PART TWO: QUANTITATIVE TECHNIQUES
55
3
From Theory to Empirical Research
57
1.
The typical structure of quantitative research
57
2.
From theory to hypotheses
59
3.
From concepts to variables
64
4.
Units of analysis
66
5.
Variables
68
6.
Nominal, ordinal and interval variables
70
7.
Concepts, indicators and indexes
75
8.
Total error
78
9.
A final note: reliability and validity
81
vi
Contents
4
Causality and Experimentation
88
1.
The concept of cause
88
2.
Empirical corroboration of the causal relationship
90
3.
Covariation analysis and experimentation
91
4.
Experiments in the social sciences
94
5.
Laboratory experiments and field experiments
97
6.
Experiments and quasi-experiments
102
7.
A final note: advantages and limitations of experimentation 111
5
The Survey
117
1.
Surveys in social research
117
2.
Standardization, or the
invariance
of the stimulus
120
3.
The reliability of verbal behaviour
123
4.
Question form and substance
125
5.
Formulation of the questions
129
6.
Item batteries
139
7.
Types of questionnaire administration
142
8.
Organizing data collection
148
9.
Secondary analyses and surveys repeated over time
150
10.
Data sets and archives in the US and the UK
154
11.
A final note: some emerging risks
158
6
Scaling
164
1.
Operationalizing complex concepts
164
2.
Questions with ordered answers: the semantic
autonomy of response categories
166
3.
The
Likért
scale
170
4.
Guttman s scalogram
176
5.
The semantic differential
180
6.
Sociometry
185
7.
A final note:
unidimensional
and multidimensional scaling
188
7
Official Statistics
194
1.
A classic study based on official statistics
194
2.
Main features of official statistics
196
3.
US and UK official statistics
200
4.
A final note: the study of social structures
207
8
Sampling
210
1.
Population and sample
210
2.
Sampling error
212
3.
Sample size
214
Contents
vii
4.
Probability sampling designs
218
5.
Non-probability sampling designs
221
6.
Problems of sampling in social research
223
7.
Weighting
225
8.
A final note: sample accuracy
228
PART THREE: QUALITATIVE TECHNIQUES
233
9
Participant Observation
235
1.
Observation and participant observation
235
2.
Fields of application and recent developments in
participant observation
238
3.
Overt and covert observation: access and informants
242
4.
What to observe
246
5.
Recording observations
249
6.
Analysis of empirical material
251
7.
Observation in microsociology
256
8.
A final note: limits and resources
261
10
The Qualitative Interview
264
1.
Collecting data by asking questions
264
2.
Quantitative and qualitative interviewing
265
3.
Types of interview
269
4.
Conducting interviews
277
5.
Analysis of empirical material
281
6.
A final note: interaction and lack of standardization
283
11
The Use of Documents
287
1.
Reading social traces
287
2.
Personal documents
288
3.
Institutional documents
296
4.
A final note: an endless source of social knowledge
305
References
309
Index
319
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