Social Research in Changing Social Conditions
PART ONE: DIRECTIONS IN SOCIAL RESEARCH
The End of the Paradigm Wars? - Alan Bryman
The History of Social Research Methods - Marja Alastalo
Assessing Validity in Social Research - Martyn Hammersley
Ethnography and Audience - Karen Armstrong
Social Research and Social Practice in Post-Positivist Society - Pekka Sulkunen
From Questions of Methods to Epistemological Issues - Ann Nilsen
The Case of Biographical Research
Research Ethics in Social Science - Celia B. Fisher and Andrea E. Anushko
PART TWO: RESEARCH DESIGNS
The Core Analytics of Randomized Experiments for Social Research - H S Bloom
Better Quasi-Experimental Practice - Thomas D. Cook and Vivian Wong
Sample Size Planning with Applications to Multiple Regression - Ken Kelly and Scott E. Maxwell
Power and Accuracy for Omnibus and Targeted Effects
Re-Conceptualizing Generalization in Qualitative Research - Giampietro Gobo
Old Issues in a New Frame
Case Study in Social Research - Linda Mabry
Longitudinal and Panel Studies - Janet Holland, Rachel Thomson and Jane Elliott
Comparative and Cross-National Designs - David de Vaus
PART THREE: DATA COLLECTION AND FIELDWORK
Modern Measurement in the Social Sciences - James A. Bovaird and Susan E. Embretson
Natural and Contrived Data - Susan Speer
Self Administered Questionnaires and Standardized Interviews - Edith de Leeuw
Qualitative Interviewing and Feminist Research - Andrea Doucet and Natasha Mautner
Biographical Methods - Joanna Bornat
Focus Groups - Janet Smithson
PART FOUR: TYPES OF ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF EVIDENCE
An Introduction to the Multi Level Model for Change - Suzanne E. Graham, Judith D. Singer and John B. Willett
Latent Variable Models of Social Research Data - Rick H. Hoyle
Equating Groups - Stephen West and Felix Thoemmes
Discourse Analysis and Conversation Analysis - Charles Antaki
Analyzing Narratives and Story-Telling - Matti Hyvärinen
Reconstructing Grounded Theory - Kathy Charmaz
Documents and Action - Lindsay Prior
Video and the Analysis of Work and Interaction - Christian Heath and Paul Luff
Secondary Analysis of Qualitative Data - Janet Heaton
Secondary Analysis of Quantitative Data Sources - Angela Dale, Jo Wathan and Vanessa Wiggins
Conducting a Meta Analysis - Erika A. Patall and Harris Cooper
Synergy and Synthesis - Jane Fielding and Nigel Fielding
Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Data
The Analytic Integration of Qualitative Data Sources - Ann Cronin, Victoria D. Alexander, Jane Fielding, Jo Moran-Ellis and Hilary Thomas
Combining Different Types for Quantitative Analysis - Max Bergman
Writing and Presenting Social Research - Amir Marvasti