Social Research
eBook - ePub

Social Research

A Practical Introduction

  1. 312 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Social Research

A Practical Introduction

About this book

Original, fresh and relevant this is a theoretically-informed practical guide to researching social relations.

The text provides a mixed methods approach that challenges historical divisions between quantitative and qualitative research. It adopts a multidisciplinary approach to social science research, drawing from areas such as sociology, social psychology and social anthropology.

Explicitly addressing the concerns of emergent researchers it provides both a ?how to? account of social research and an understanding of the main factors that contextualize research by discussing ?why do? social scientists work this way.

Throughout the twelve comprehensive chapters procedural (how to) accounts and contextual (why do) issues are usefully applied to major themes and substantive questions.

These key themes include:

(1) Research design

(2) The practices of research and emergent researchers: Beyond ontology, epistemology and methodology

(3) The impact of technology on research

(4) Putting the research approach in context.

A superb teaching text this book will be relished by lecturers seeking an authoritative introduction to social research and by students who want an accessible, enriching text to guide and inspire them.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Publisher Note
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Contents
  8. About the Authors
  9. Illustration List
  10. Illustration List
  11. Acknowledgements
  12. One: Introduction
  13. Two: In-Depth Interviewing – the Interactive Base
  14. Three: Life Histories – Private Troubles and Public Issues
  15. Four: Ethnographic Research – Studying Groups in Natural Settings
  16. Five: Focus Groups – Studying Artificial Groups
  17. Six: Survey Research – Studying Many Cases
  18. Seven: Experimental Research – in the Laboratory and Beyond
  19. Eight: Unobtrusive Research – Studying Artefacts and Material Traces
  20. Nine: Content Research – Coding and Counting
  21. Ten: Secondary Research – more than Literature Reviews
  22. Eleven: Semiotic Analysis – Studying Signs and Meanings
  23. Twelve: Autoethnographic Research – Writing and Reading the Self
  24. Glossary
  25. Index