The A-Z of Social Research
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The A-Z of Social Research

A Dictionary of Key Social Science Research Concepts

  1. 346 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The A-Z of Social Research

A Dictionary of Key Social Science Research Concepts

About this book

`A detailed and valuable addition to the literature that will be a very useful resource for lecturers, as well as having a wide appeal among students? - Tim May, University of Salford

Have you ever wondered what a concise, comprehensive book providing critical guidance to the whole expanse of social science research methods and issues might look like? The A-Z is a collection of 94 entries ranging from qualitative research techniques to statistical testing and the practicalities of using the Internet as a research tool. Alphabetically arranged in accessible, reader-friendly formats, the shortest entries are 800 words long and the longest are 3000. Most entries are approximately 1500 words in length and are supported by suggestions for further reading. The book:

- Answers the demand for a practical, fast and concise introduction to the key concepts and methods in social research

- Supplies students with impeccable information that can be used in essays, exams and research projects

- Demystifies a field that students often find daunting

This is a refreshing book on social research methods, which understands the pressures that modern students face in their work-load and seeks to supply an authoritative study guide to the field. It should fulfil a long-standing need in undergraduate research methods courses for an unpatronising, utterly reliable aid to making sense of research methods.

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Contents

Acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction
Abduction and retroduction
Action research: a case study
Analysis of variance (ANOVA)
Attitudes
Autobiography see Biographical method
Biographical method
CAPI (Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing)
Cartographic techniques see Geographic information systems
Case study
Causation
Central tendency
Child research
Comparative analysis
Computer simulation of social processes
Confirmatory statistics see Hypothesis testing
Constructionism, social
Content analysis
Contingency tables
Conversation Analysis
Correlation and regression
Critical theory
Crosstabulation see Contingency tables
Cultural analysis
Data archives
Deduction
Diaries, self-completion
Discourse analysis
Dispersion and the normal distribution
Documentary sources
Ecological fallacy
e-mail as a research tool
Empiricism, abstracted empiricism
Epistemology
Ethics
Ethnography
Ethnomethodology
Exploratory data analysis
Factor analysis
Feminist epistemology
Feminist methodology
Focus groups
Frankfurt School
Gender identity dysphoria assessment
Generalisation
Geographic information systems (GIS)
Grounded theory
Hawthorne effect
Hermeneutics
Historical methods
Hypothesis testing
Ideal type
Impact assessment
Induction
Intellectual property rights
Internet
Interpretation
Interviewer effects see Interviews
Interview schedule see Questionnaires and structured interview schedules
Interviews
Literature searching
Loglinear analysis
Longitudinal research
Measurement, level of
Meaning
Methodology
‘Micro’ sampling techniques
Modernity
Multilevel mod...

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Contributors
  7. Introduction
  8. Abduction and retroduction
  9. Action research: a case study
  10. Analysis of variance (ANOVA)
  11. Attitudes
  12. Autobiography see Biographical method
  13. Biographical method
  14. CAPI (Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing)
  15. Cartographic techniques see Geographic information systems
  16. Case study
  17. Causation
  18. Central tendency
  19. Child research
  20. Comparative analysis
  21. Computer simulation of social processes
  22. Confirmatory statistics see Hypothesis testing
  23. Constructionism, social
  24. Content analysis
  25. Contingency tables
  26. Conversation Analysis
  27. Correlation and regression
  28. Critical theory
  29. Crosstabulation see Contingency tables
  30. Cultural analysis
  31. Data archives
  32. Deduction
  33. Diaries, self-completion
  34. Discourse analysis
  35. Dispersion and the normal distribution
  36. Documentary sources
  37. Ecological fallacy
  38. e-mail as a research tool
  39. Empiricism, abstracted empiricism
  40. Epistemology
  41. Ethics
  42. Ethnography
  43. Ethnomethodology
  44. Exploratory data analysis
  45. Factor analysis
  46. Feminist epistemology
  47. Feminist methodology
  48. Focus groups
  49. Frankfurt School
  50. Gender identity dysphoria assessment
  51. Generalisation
  52. Geographic information systems (GIS)
  53. Grounded theory
  54. Hawthorne effect
  55. Hermeneutics
  56. Historical methods
  57. Hypothesis testing
  58. Ideal type
  59. Impact assessment
  60. Induction
  61. Intellectual property rights
  62. Internet
  63. Interpretation
  64. Interviewer effects see Interviews
  65. Interview schedule see Questionnaires and structured interview schedules
  66. Interviews
  67. Literature searching
  68. Loglinear analysis
  69. Longitudinal research
  70. Measurement, level of
  71. Meaning
  72. Methodology
  73. `Micro' sampling techniques
  74. Modernity
  75. Multilevel models
  76. Narrative approach
  77. Naturalism
  78. Observation, overt and covert
  79. Online methods
  80. Paradigm
  81. Participant observation
  82. Participatory action research
  83. Phenomenology
  84. Philosophy of social research
  85. Policy research
  86. Positivism
  87. Primary data see Secondary data analysis
  88. Post-modernism see Modernity
  89. Qualitative see Methodology
  90. Qualitative research
  91. Qualitative research data, archiving
  92. Quantitative see Methodology
  93. Queer research
  94. Questionnaire and structured interview schedule design
  95. Questionnaires and structured interview schedules
  96. Realism
  97. Reflexivity
  98. Research design
  99. Sampling, probability
  100. Sampling, quota
  101. Sampling, snowball: accessing hidden and hard-to-reach populations
  102. Scales, scaling see Attitudes
  103. Secondary analysis of qualitative data
  104. Secondary data analysis
  105. Sensitive research
  106. Sex surveys
  107. Social change see Historical methods
  108. Social fact
  109. Social indicators
  110. Social statistics
  111. Social surveys
  112. Spatial statistical analysis see Geographic information systems
  113. Standardisation
  114. Statistical interaction
  115. Statistical testing see Hypothesis testing
  116. Structuralism/post-structuralism
  117. Systematic review
  118. Telephone methods for social surveys
  119. Theory
  120. Transsexualism see Gender identity dysphoria assessment
  121. Triangulation
  122. Type I and Type II errors see Hypothesis testing
  123. Unobtrusive measures
  124. Verbal protocol analysis
  125. Verstehen
  126. Vignette
  127. Visual research methods
  128. World Wide Web see Internet