Understanding and doing successful research: data collection and analysis for the social sciences
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Contents
Acknowledgements xiii
1 Getting started 1
Introduction 1
What is research? Where and how do you start? 3
Coming up with a researchable research question 3
The rationale 5
Objectivity 8
Action research 10
A literature review 11
Identifying variables and indicators 12
So I don t have to do a questionnaire then? 13
The conventional stages in the design and execution of
a research project 14
Conclusion 15
Erica s research project 16
Bibliography 17
2 The ethics of social research 19
Introduction 19
Why research ethics are important to you 20
Informed consent 21
Committees and guidelines 23
Confidentiality 27
What makes an ethical researcher? 28
Tearoom Trade 30
What type of researcher are you? 34
Conclusion 35
Erica s research project 36
Bibliography 37
3 Searching and reviewing the literature 39
Introduction 39
Constructing literature reviews 40
Why do I need to justify my research question? 40
Assessment issues 41
Identifying variables and indicators 41
Journals 42
Textbooks 44
The internet 45
When to end your search of the literature 47
Plagiarism 48
Wikipedia 51
Quoting and referencing 52
Developing a bibliography 53
Conclusion 54
Erica s research project 55
Bibliography 56
Secondary analysis - research using other people s data 59
Introduction 59
Durkheim on suicide 61
Crime statistics 63
Databases and data sets 63
Conceptual and technical instruments 65
Categories of secondary data 65
Historical data 71
Advantages and disadvantages of secondary analysis 71
Conclusion 73
Erica s research project 73
Bibliography 74
Interviews 75
Introduction 75
Issues to be aware of 76
Structured and unstructured interviews 78
How to conduct the interview 79
Coding and data analysis: structured interviews 81
In-depth interviews 82
The funnel 87
Collaborative interviewing 87
Selecting the sample 88
Group interviews and focus groups 89
Online interviews 90
Conclusion 92
Erica s research project 92
Bibliography 93
The case study 95
Introduction 95
Forms of case study 97
Styles of case study 98
Emic v. etic approaches 101
The critical incident approach 103
Theoretical and empirical generalisations 105
Application to qualitative interviews 106
Criticisms of the case study approach 106
Analysis and interpretation of the case 107
Correspondence and pattern matching 108
Avoiding errors and using verification procedures 110
Conclusion 112
Erica s research project 113
Bibliography 114
Ethnographic approaches 117
Introduction 117
Ethical issues and trust 119
Verstehen 120
Empathy and shared feeling 122
Social action 122
Tertiary understanding 123
Guidelines to ensure authenticity 125
Learning the ropes 126
Marginality 127
Developing an ethnographic presence 128
Going native 128
Discourse 129
Practice - the unit of analysis 130
Redefining the concept of site : ethnography on the internet 133
Conclusion 136
Erica s research project 136
Bibliography 137
Observation, participant observation and observational inference 139
Defining participant observation 139
Understanding human meaning systems through observation 141
Problems with participant observation 144
Reading and recording observations 144
Covert methods 145
Observation in overt research projects 149
Summary of viewpoints 149
Data analysis 152
Thematic content analysis 153
Conclusion 154
Erica s research project 155
Bibliography 156
9 Biographical and autobiographical approaches 159
Introduction 159
Methods of data collection 161
Providing concrete examples 162
Advantages of biographical methods 165
Discourse and narrative 166
The feminist perspective 167
The neurotic narrator and other problems 168
The problem of generalisation 169
What is narrative analysis? 170
Data analysis in biographical and autobiographical research 174
The ethical issues 175
Conclusion 175
Erica s research project 176
Bibliography 176
10 Documentary and narrative analysis 179
Introduction 179
Semiology 182
Content analysis 185
Diaries 188
Letters 190
Visual methods 193
Analysing photographic data 197
Case studies and documentary methods 198
Conclusion 200
Erica s research project 201
Bibliography 201
11 Measurement and statistical inference 205
Introduction 205
Common measures to identify central tendency 206
Variance and Standard deviation 207
Classifkation 210
Measurement 211
Scientific parsimony 213
Why do we construct categories? 214
Probability 216
Scales of measurement 220
Complete inference 222
Producing knowledge from research findings 223
Correlations, causes and mechanisms 225
SPSS 229
Conclusion 230
Erica s research project 230
Bibliography 230
12 What is a sample survey? 233
Introduction 233
How the social survey began 234
Planning: how to go about conducting surveys 234
What is sampling? 235
The Institute of Community Studies 240
Questionnaires 249
Non-response 250
How to distribute the questionnaire 254
Devising questions 255
Descriptive and analytical surveys 258
Conclusion 262
Erica s research project 263
Bibliography 264
13 Mixed methods research 267
General characteristics of mixed methods research 267
At what stage does the mixing of methods take place? 269
Characteristics of mixed methods research 271
Why mix methods and/or methodologies? 273
Crystallisation 277
Conclusion 282
Erica s research project 282
Bibliography 283
14 Evaluation research and experiments 287
What is evaluation? 287
Evaluation: formative and summative 289
Evaluation: internal and external 290
Central features of evaluation research 291
Experiments 297
Summary and report writing 300
Writing an evaluation report 301
Conclusion 304
Erica s research project 304
Bibliography 305
15 Successfully completing the research project 307
Introduction 307
The structure of the report 308
Referencing 311
Where and when to start the writing up 313
Index 315
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