Social Research Methods
eBook - ePub

Social Research Methods

Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Methods Approaches

  1. 656 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Social Research Methods

Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Methods Approaches

About this book

Framing research as the process of asking and answering questions, this book demonstrates how to identify good research questions and how to structure and explore them successfully. Whether you are just beginning your research journey or are a seasoned traveller, it helps you: • Decide what you want to achieve with your research
• Know what options you have to explore your goals
• Navigate the nuances of different research approaches
• Understand the decisions of other researchers
• Choose what path best suits your project. Through real-life examples demonstrating different types of research, the book introduces qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches so you can compare different methods at every stage of the research process, from initial idea and design to data collection and analysis. This new edition includes new chapters on collecting and analysing mixed methods data, and additional content on qualitative data analysis. New examples reflect the cultural and global diversity of social research, and extra visual aids and summaries support understanding of key research concepts and stages. The book is accompanied by an online teaching guide, including videos, additional case studies, annotated articles, and critical thinking exercises.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. About the Author
  8. Your Online Resources
  9. Part I Researching society
  10. 1 How and why we study society
  11. 2 Methods and methodologies in social science
  12. 3 The ethics and politics of research
  13. Part II Designing social research
  14. 4 Creating research questions
  15. 5 Doing a literature review
  16. 6 Choosing a research design
  17. 7 Finding sources and data
  18. 8 Sampling
  19. PART III Data collection and data quality
  20. 9 Ethnography and participant observation
  21. 10 Structured observation
  22. 11 Unstructured interviews and focus groups
  23. 12 Questionnaires and surveys
  24. 13 Documentary sources and qualitative content analysis
  25. 14 Quantitative content analysis
  26. 15 Collecting qualitative and quantitative data: Comparisons and combinations
  27. 16 Data quality, reliability and validity
  28. Part IV Data analysis
  29. 17 Qualitative data analysis: Coding, categorization and concept development
  30. 18 Qualitative data analysis: Typologies, hypotheses and holistic understanding
  31. 19 Quantitative data analysis: Indexes and distributions
  32. 20 Quantitative data analysis: Relationships between variables
  33. 21 Generalizing empirical findings
  34. 22 Analysing qualitative and quantitative data: Comparisons and combinations
  35. Part V Asking and answering questions in social science
  36. 23 Description, explanation and understanding
  37. 24 Time, space and level
  38. 25 Relations, networks and structures
  39. 26 Big data and computational social science
  40. Part VI Writing and presenting research
  41. 27 Working with data visualization
  42. 28 Writing about research
  43. Glossary
  44. References
  45. Index