Research Methods Catalogue

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2013

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Welcome... Welcome to our Research Methods catalogue for 2013. SAGE offers an unrivalled range of materials from introductory textbooks for rst courses on Research Methods and Statistics, to postgraduate texts, tools and resources covering the entire research process. 2013 is a stellar year for new editions of our best-selling Research Methods texts, including the fourth edition of Andy Field’s, Discovering Statistics with IBM SPSS Statistics and David Silverman’s, Doing Qualitative Research. From Kathy Charmaz, we also have a new edition of Constructing Grounded Theory , and from Keith Punch, the much anticipated new edition of Introduction to Social Research.  As the needs of our customers are changing, so are the options for accessing our research methods content. All of our books are now available as ebooks for individual purchase and we’re continuing to add to our online research tool, SAGE Research Methods ( www.srmo.sagepub.com www.srmo.sagepub.com ), which contains over 640 methods books, including the little green and blue books, encyclopaedias and handbooks and video content. Methodspace, our online methods community, continues to grow and we now have over 14,000 members worldwide. Register for free and join the debate at www.methodspace.com www.methodspace.com!! This catalogue includes only our most recent and popular titles, so if you can’t nd what you’re looking for here, please visit our website at www.sagepub.co.uk , where you can nd full details of all of our books, journals and electronic products. If you are planning a Research Methods or Statistics course, you can even pick and choose content from our growing list of over 1,200 textbooks, reference works and journals in Research Methods, as well as content from the many other disciplines we publish in, to create course material that exactly matches what and how you teach. For advice on creating bespoke material contact your local representative at www.sagepub.co.uk/ndmyrep or see page 86. If you’d like to nd out more about writing or editing a Research Methods publication, please contact us – our contact details are on the opposite page. We hope you enjoy reading our new offerings in 2013!

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Research Methods | 2013

Welcome... Welcome to our Research Methods catalogue for 2013. SAGE offers an unrivalled range of materials from introductory textbooks for rst courses on Research Methods and Statistics, to postgraduate texts, tools and resources covering the entire research process. 2013 is a stellar year for new editions of our best-selling Research Methods texts, including the fourth edition of Andy Field’s, Discovering Statistics with IBM SPSS Statistics and David Silverman’s, Doing Qualitative Research. From Kathy Charmaz, we also have a new edition of Constructing Grounded Theory , and from Keith Punch, the much anticipated new edition of Introduction to Social Research.  As the needs of our customers are changing, so are the options for accessing our research methods content. All of our books are now available as ebooks for individual purchase and we’re continuing to add to our online research tool, SAGE Research Methods ( www.srmo.sagepub.com www.srmo.sagepub.com ), which contains over 640 methods books, including the little green and blue books, encyclopaedias and handbooks and video content. Methodspace, our online methods community, continues to grow and we now have over 14,000 members worldwide. Register for free and join the debate at www.methodspace.com www.methodspace.com!! This catalogue includes only our most recent and popular titles, so if you can’t nd what you’re looking for here, please visit our website at www.sagepub.co.uk , where you can nd full details of all of our books, journals and electronic products. If you are planning a Research Methods or Statistics course, you can even pick and choose content from our growing list of over 1,200 textbooks, reference works and journals in Research Methods, as well as content from the many other disciplines we publish in, to create course material that exactly matches what and how you teach. For advice on creating bespoke material contact your local representative at www.sagepub.co.uk/ndmyrep or see page 86. If you’d like to nd out more about writing or editing a Research Methods publication, please contact us – our contact details are on the opposite page. We hope you enjoy reading our new offerings in 2013!

Katie Metzler • Commissioning Editor • Research Methods• [email protected] Jai Seaman • Commissioning Editor • Research Methods• [email protected]

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Grounded The ory ............................................ .................................................................... .......................................31-32 ...............31-32 Ethnography ............................................. ..................................................................... ............................................... ............................ ..... 32  Action Resear ch ............................................... ...................................................................... ............................................ ..................... 33

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Interviewing ............................................. .................................................................... ...............................................33-34 ........................33-34 Focus Groups ........................................................... .................................................................................. .................................... ............. 34 Case Study Methods ................................ ....................................................... ...............................................34-35 ........................34-35

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Narrative Methods ........................................... ................................................................... ............................................. ..................... 35  Visual Method s ............................................. .................................................................... ...........................................35-37 ....................35-37

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SOCIAL RESEARCH

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

 An Introduction

 A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners

Second Edition

Third Edition

Matthew David Durham University and Carole D Sutton University of Plymouth

Ranjit Kumar University  of Western Australia

This new edition of Matthew David and Carole D Sutton's text provides those new

to social research with a comprehensive introduction to the theory, logic and practical methods of qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods research. Covering all aspects of research design, data collecti on, data analysis and writing up, Social

Research is an essential companion for all students embarking on

The Third Edition of this bestseller has been updated to now include a greater coverage of qualitative research, while still providing comprehensive treatment of quantitative research methods. The clear steps for doing

a research project that feature in this book will make it essential reading for those new to research.

a methods course or social research project.

2010 • 440 pages Cloth (978-1-84920-300-5) • £87.00 Paper (978-1-84920-301-2) • £28.99

CONTENTS PART ONE: STARTING YOUR RESEARCH / Getting Sta rted: Theor y, Research

Question and Research Design / Being Ethical / Literature Searching and Reviewing / Theory and Research: Quality and Quantity / PART TWO: DATA 

COLLECTION STRATEGIES / Introduction to the Process of Qualitative Research / Qualitative Interviewing / Focus Groups / Ethnography / Case Study Research / Collecting Textual and Visual Data: Public and Private /  Grounded Theory as a n Abductive Approach to Data Collection / Introduction

to Quantitative Research Design / Hypotheses, Operationalization and  Variables / Samplin g / S urvey De sign / Collecting and Codin g Quantit ative Data / Methodological Innovations: Mixing Methods and e-Research / PART THREE: DATA ANALYSIS / Introduction to Qualitative Data Ana lysis / Coding Qualitative Data: Qualitative Content Analysis / Semiotic a nd Narrative Forms

of Discourse Analysis, and Doing Conversation Analysis / Using Computer Software: Working with Nvivo8 / Visual Analysis / Introduction to Quantitative

Data Entry / Introduction to Quantitative Data Analysis: Describing Single  Variables / Describi ng and Exploring Relation ships between Two Variables /  Inferential Statis tics and Hypothesis Testing / Data Management Techniques

 / PART FOUR: PRESENTING RESEARCH / Presenting Research Findi ngs

READERSHIP  Any student taking a rese arch methods cours e for the first time 2010 • 680 pages Cloth (978-1-84787-012-4) • £91.00 Paper (978-1-84787-013-1) • £29.99

INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL RESEARCH Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches Third Edition Keith F Punch University of Western Australia In this new edition of Introduction to Social Research, Keith F Punch

takes a fresh look at the entire research process, from formulating a

research question to writing up the research. Covering qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods, the book focuses on matching research questions to appropriate methods. Offering concise, balanced coverage, this book clearly explains the underlying principles of social

research and shows how to put this understanding into practice. The Third Edition includes: a new chapter on literature searching and reviewing expanded coverage of ethics a new section on using the Internet in research a range of additional student learning features • • • • •

a brand new companion Website (www.sagepub.co.uk/punch3e) including full-text journal articles, additional case studies and student exercises.

Using a range of examples from student research and published work,

the book is an ideal introduction for any social science student taking a research methods course or embark ing on their own undergraduate or postgraduate research project.

CONTENTS

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Theory and Method in Social Research / Research Questions / From Research Questions to Data / Literature Searching and Reviewing / Qualitative Research

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Design / Collecting Qualitative Data / The Analysis of Qualitative Data /  Quantitative Research Design / Collecting Quantitative Data / The Analysis of Quantitative Data / Mixed Methods Research / Research Writing

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RESEARCHING SOCIETY AND CULTURE

SOCIAL RESEARCH  A Practical Introduction Bruce Curtis University of Auckland  and Cate Curtis University of Waikato

Third Edition Edited by Clive Seale University of London

The much-anticipated Third Edition of Clive Seale's bestselling title further expands its coverage to provide an

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

provides a mixed methods approach that

challenges historical divisions between

authoritative introduction to all of the social research methods used to analyze qualitative and quantitative data. Written by internationally renowned experts, every chapter is packed with real-world examples, student-

quantitative and qualitative research. Explicitly addressing the concerns of emergent researchers it provides both a 'how-to' account of social research

friendly learning aids and helpful practical tips.

- by discussing why social scientists work this way.

CONTENTS PART ONE: STARTING OUT / Introduction to the Philosophy of Science /  Research and Theory / Research and Policy / Ethics and Social Research /  Doing a Literature Review / Research Questions and Proposals / Research Design / Sampling / Doing a Dissertation / PART TWO: DOING RESEARCH /  Structured Methods: Interviews, Questionnaires and Observation / Qualitative

Interviewing / Focus Groups / Doing Ethnography / Doing Historical and Documentary Research / Visual Analysis / Secondary Analysis and Official

Statistics / Preparing Data for Statistical Analysis / Statistical Reasoning:

From One to Two Variables / Statistical Reasoning: Causal Arguments and

Multivariate Analysis / Coding and Analyzing Qualitative Data / Generating

Grounded Theory / Discourse Analysis / Analyzing Conversation / Narrative

 An aly sis an d Int er pre tiv e Phe nom en ol ogi ca l An aly sis / Co nte nt an d Comparative Keyword Analysis / Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods / PART THREE: WRITING, PRESENTING, REFLECTING / Writing a Research Report / Giving Oral Presentations / Validity, Reliability and the Quality of Research / When Things Go Wrong

and an understandin g of the main factors that contextualize research

CONTENTS PART ONE: INTRODUCTION / PART TWO: IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWING - THE INTERACTIVE BASE / PART THREE: LIFE HISTORIES - PRIVATE TROUBLES

 AND PUB LIC ISS UES / PART FOU R: ET HNO GR APH IC RES EA RC H STUDYING GROUPS IN NATURAL SETTINGS / PART FIVE: FOCUS GROUPS

- STUDYING ARTIFICIAL GROUPS / PART SIX: SURVEY RESE ARCH STUDYING MANY CASES / PART SEVEN: EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH - IN THE L ABORATORY AND BEYOND / PART EIGHT: UNOBTRUSIVE RESEARCH - STUDYING ARTEFACTS AND MATERIAL TRACES / PART NINE: CONTENT RESEARCH - CODING AND COUNTING / PART TEN: SECONDARY RESEARCH - MORE THAN LITERATURE REVIEWS / PART ELEVEN: SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS - STUDYING SIGNS AND ME ANINGS / PART

TWELVE: AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH - WRITING AND READING THE SELF

READERSHIP Students and lecturers across the social sciences

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November 2011 • 312 pages Cloth (978-1-84787-474-0) • £77.00 Paper (978-1-84787-475-7) • £27.99

Undergraduate and postgraduate students across the social sciences December 2011 • 656 pages Cloth (978-1-84920-798-0) • £88.00 Paper (978-1-84920-799-7) • £28.99

RESEARCHING SOCIAL LIFE

SOCIAL RESEARCH METHODS

Third Edition Edited by Nigel Gilbert University of Surrey 

Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches

The Third Edition of Nigel Gilbert's hugely

Second Edition

methods from quantitative to qualitative in a down-to-earth and unthreatening

H Russell Bernard University of Florida

manner. It offers the best coverage of the

This classic text provides a comprehensive

leading textbooks in the field, making this an essential text for any student starting a research methods course or doing a research project.

guide to doing research in the social and behavioural sciences, from the foundations and research design, to collecting and analyzing data. Rich in examples, this book has be en revised and updated to provide today's students with a conceptual understanding of each technique,

as well as showing them how to use it.

successful text covers the whole range of

full scope of resear ch methods of any of the

2008 • 576 pages Cloth (978-1-4129-4661-2) • £87.00 Paper (978-1-4129-4662-9) • £28. 99

CONTENTS PART ONE: BACKGROUND TO RESEARCH / About Social Science / The Foundations of Social Research / Preparing for Research / PART TWO: RESEARCH DESIGN / Research Design: Experiments and Experimental Thinking / Sampling: The Basics / Sampling Theory / Nonprobability Sampling

 / PART THR EE: DATA C OLL ECTI ON / I nte rvi ewin g I: Uns tru ctu red and Semistructured / Interviewing II: Questionnaires / Interviewing III: Relational Data - Domains and Networks / Scales and Scaling / Participant Observation

 / Field Notes and Database Management / Direct and Indire ct Observation /  PART FOUR: DATA ANALYSIS / Introduction to Qualitative and Quantitative

 Analysi s / Analyzi ng Cul tural Domains and P roximity Matrice s / Analyz ing Qualitative Data I: Applying Logic to Text / Analyzing Qualitative Data II: Grammar Beyond the Sentence / Analyzing Qualitative Data III: Grounded Theory and Content Analysis / Univariate Analysis / Bivariate Analysis: Testing

Relations / Multivariate Analysis May 2012 • 824 pages Cloth (978-1-4129-7854-5) • £39.99

ACTIVE LEARNING EXERCISES FOR RESEARCH METHODS IN SOCIAL SCIENCES Edited by Beth P Skott University  of Bridgeport and Masjo Ward This book comprises 29 hands-on, active

learning activities for use in research methods courses in the social sciences. March 2012 • 192 pages Paper (978-1-4129-8123-1) • £ 22.99

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DOING RESEARCH IN THE REAL WORLD Third Edition David E Gray University of Greenwich The Third Edition of David Gray's essential textbook is the ideal companion for any student undertaking a research project. It guides

readers smoothly through the research process from start to finish setting out the skills needed to design and conduct effective research.

Clear, articulate and comprehensive, the book introduces the reader to the reality of conducting research in the real world. It gives students

practical advice on how best to select appropriate projects, design strategies, sources and methods and provides the tools needed to collect, analyze and present data.  Applicabl e to any disciplin e and firmly rooted in the practicalit ies of research, there are new and exciting chapters on: using SPSS for quantitative data analysis sampling strategies in quantitative and qualitative research approaches to secondary analysis using focus groups ethnography and participant observation. Packed full of learning features and fully supported by an interactive • • • • •

Companion Website this excellent book enables the student to develop his/her own research. Each chapter contains case studies, student activities and 'top tips' as well as examples taken from actual research projects.

READERSHIP Students in business studies, education and across the social sciences

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CONTENTS PART ONE: PRINCIPLES AND PLANNING FOR RESEARCH / Theoretical Perspectives and Research Methodologies / Selecting and Planning Research

Proposals and Projects / Research Ethics / Searching, Reviewing and Using

the Literature / PART TWO: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY / Research Design:

Quantitative Methods / Research Design: Qualitative Methods / Research Design: Mixed Methods / Sampling Strategies in Quantitative and Qualitative

Research / Designing Descriptive and Analytical Surveys / Designing Case Studies / Designing Evaluati ons / Action Research and Change / PART THREE:

DATA COLLECTION METHODS / Collecting Primary Data: Questionnaires /  Collecting Primary Data: Interviewing / Collecting Primary Data: Structured Observation / Collecting Primary Data: Ethnography and Participant Observation  / Collecting Primary Data: Focus Groups (See Draft Chapter) / Collecting Primary

Data: Unobtrusive Measures / Secondary Analysis / PART FOUR: ANALYSIS

November 2013 • 672 pages Cloth (978-1-4462-6018-0) • £85.00 Paper (978-1-4462-6019-7) • £29.99

 AND REPORT WRITIN G / Analyzi ng and Presenti ng Quantitat ive Data / Using

SPSS for Quantitative Analysis / Analyzing and Presenting Qualitative Data /  Writing Up the Research / Preparing for Presentations and Vivas

DAVID GRAY

DAV ID

David Gray  (BSc (Econ), MA(Ed), MSc, Cert Ed., PhD, FRSA) is Professor of

Leadership and Organisational Behaviour at the University of Greenwich. His research interests, and publication record, include research methods, management learning (particularly coaching and mentoring), action learning, reflective learning,

and e-learning. He has written books on work-based learning, coaching and teacher education and published in prestigious journals such as Organization Studies, Management Learning, and the International Journal of Human Resource Management . He has been a member of the International Coach Federation’s global research committee, and is currently editing a European handbook for mentors. David has led a significant number of coaching research programmes both for managers of SMEs, for unemployed managers who want new employment and more recently for unemployed managers who seek to start their own businesses. When not writing books he tries to play golf.

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RESEARCH METHODS Designing and Conducting Research with a Real-World Focus Carrie Picardi Sacred Heart University and Kevin Masick Krasnoff Quality Management Institute, a

INVESTIGATING THE SOCIAL WORLD The Process and Practice of Research

division of the North Shore-LIJ Health System

Seventh Edition

This advanced research methods textbook provides the tools and

Russell K Schutt University 

knowledge required to conduct relevant, high-quality research across a variety of settings, and facilitates knowledge acquisition and development of research skills not only while students are in the research course, but also long after as a reference throughout their careers. September 2013 • 432 pages Paper (978-1-4522-3033-7) • £35.99

of Massachusetts, Boston

This Seventh Edition continues to make research come alive through stories that illustrate the methods presented in each chapter and hands-on exercises that enable students to learn by doing. It helps readers understand research methods as an integrated whole, appreciate the value of both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, and understand the need to make ethical research decisions.

CONTENTS

REASON & RIGOR How Conceptual Frameworks Guide Research Sharon M Ravitch and Matthew Riggan both at University of Pennsylvania

Designed for novice as well as more experienced researchers embarking on a thesis or dissertation, this book helps readers understand the functional, comprehensive role of conceptual frameworks

Science, Society, and Social Research / The Process and Problems of Social Research / Research Ethics and Philosophies / Conceptualization and

Measurement / Sampling / Research Design and Causation / Experiments /  Survey Research / Qualitative Methods / Qualitative Data Analysis / Evaluation and Policy Research / Historical and Comparative Research / Secondary Data  Analysis and Content Analys is / Quantitative Data Analys is / Summarizin g and

Reporting Research / Appendix A: Summaries of Frequently Cited Research  Articles / Appendix B: Questions to Ask About a Research Article / Appendix

C: How to Read a Research Article / App endix D: Table of Random Numbers  / Appendix E: How to Use a Statistica l Package / Appendix F: Annotated List of Web Sites / Bibliography / Credits / Glossary/Index

READERSHIP Undergraduate students on research methods courses across the social sciences

in organizing and guiding empirical research.

December 2011 • 648 pages Paper (978-1-4129-9980-9) • £49.99

November 2011 • 200 pages Paper (978-1-4129-8125-5) • £35.99

THE DYNAMICS OF SOCIAL PRACTICE

MAKING SENSE OF THE SOCIAL WORLD Methods of Investigation

Everyday Life and how it Changes

Fourth Edition

Elizabeth Shove University of  Lancaster , Mika Pantzar National 

Daniel F Chambliss Hamilton College and Russell K Schutt University 

Consumer Research Centre, Helsinki  and Matt Watson University of Sheffield 

 Applying a r ange of theories and using real-world examples - like the history of car-driving and the emergence of frozen food - this innovative book shows how the 'everyday' forms the basis of social transformation. September 2 011 • 208 pages Cloth (978-0-85702-042-0) • £65.00 Paper (978-0-85702-043-7) • £20.99

of Massachusetts, Boston

This engaging introduction to social research is for students who need to understand methodologies and results, but who may never conduct research themselves. It provides a balanced treatment of qualitative and quantitative methods, integrating substantive examples and research techniques throughout. It is written in a less formal style than many comparable texts, and is complete with practical examples drawn from everyday experience.

CONTENTS Science, Society, and Social Research / The Process and Problems of Social Research / Ethics in Research / Conceptualization and Measurement

 / Sam pli ng / Cau sat ion and Exp eri men tal Des ign / Sur vey Res ear ch /  Elementary Quantitative Data Analysis / Qualitative Methods: Observing, Participating, Listening / Qualitative Data Analysis / Evaluation Research  / R eview ing, Prop osin g, and Repo rtin g R esea rch / A ppe ndix A: Find ing Information / Appendix B: Table of Random Numbers / Appendix C: Secondary

Data Sources / Appendix D: How to Use a Statistical Package

READERSHIP Undergraduate students studying social research methods across the social sciences March 2012 • 344 pages Paper (978-1-4522-1771-0) • £49.99

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THE HANDBOOK OF FEMINIST RESEARCH

TRANSCRIBING FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH

Theory and Praxis Second Edition

 Alexa Hepburn Loughborough University and Galina B Bolden Rutgers University 

Edited by Sharlene Nagy HesseBiber Boston College

This volume describes and assesses key methodological and epistemological

Presenting key research concepts, feminist epistemologies, methodologies,

debates about the status of transcription

and methods as well as up-to-date debates

in the field, this handbook provides students and researchers with a key resource for understanding and engaging with this field. December 2011 • 792 pages Cloth (978-1-4129-8059-3) • £ 97.00

in research and the value of alternative approaches. It offers the first book-length exposition of the Jeffersonian transcription conventions and shows how these conventions support the analysis of talk as a medium for social action. The book features important recent developments in transcribing, including: non-vocal conduct talk in languages other than English • • •

talk produced by speakers with limited proficiencies such as young children, language learners and people with disabilities.

FEMINIST RESEARCH PRACTICE

CONTENTS PART ONE: THE JEFFERSONIAN TRANSCRIPTION CONVENTIONS /  Getting Started and Transcript Layout / Time and Sequence in Transcription

 / Transcribi ng Spee ch Del ivery / Transcrib ing L aughter a nd Cr ying / PART

 A Primer

TWO: NEW DEVELOPMENTS / Transcribing Visible Conduct / Transcribing for

Languages other than English / Issue of Proficiency and Delivery / Software and Data Management for Transcription / PART THREE: DIALOGUES AND

Second Edition

DEBATES / Comparing Different Approaches to Transcription / Epistemological

Edited by Sharlene Nagy HesseBiber Boston College

Issues in Transcription / Concluding Remarks: Transcription in Analysis

The topic of feminist research has frequently been neglected in standard

Students and researchers across the social sciences

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research methods books; this Primer invites

undergraduates to explore the range of feminist perspectives, including feminist empiricist, feminist standpoint and

December 2013 • 152 pages Cloth (978-1-4462-4703-7) • £75.00 Paper (978-1-4462-4704-4) • £24.99

postmodern perspectives, in order to bridge the divide between theory and research methods.  Augu st 2013 • 44 8 page s Paper (978-1-4129-9497-2) • £33.99

RESEARCHING RACISM  A Guidebook for Academics and Professional Investigators Muzammil Quraishi and Rob Philburn

KEY CONCEPTS IN SOCIOLOGY

both at University of Salford  This book offers students and researchers

a clear and authoritative introduction to

Peter Braham The Open University 

researching the sociology and criminology

of race and ethnicity.

Covering both classic and contemporary concepts, this is a concise introduction to the key themes. Striking the right balance

It introduces the essential debates, key ethical issues and the practical considerations associated with conducting qualitative research on racism. This

in terms of not overcomplicating but also not oversimplifying, it will support undergraduate students throughout

up-to-date guide, informed by current research, sets out a coherent

applicable framework for those undertaking research in the field.  A critical discussion of definitional and conceptual debates relating

their degree.

to race, ethnicity and faith in social science research is carefully

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developed throughout the book and the exploration of overlaps are specifically addressed.

February 2013 • 224 pages Cloth (978-1-84920 304-3) • £65.00 Paper (978-1-84920-305-0) • £21.99

CONTENTS Racism and the History of Race / Defining and Conceptualizing Racism(s)  / A nti-R acism: Law and Polici es / Ra cism Rese arch: Two Case Studie s /  Researching Racism: Qualitative Methodology and Methods / A Racism Researcher's Toolkit

READERSHIP Students, lecturers and researchers investigating racism within the social sciences September 2013 • 224 pages Cloth (978-1-84787-533-4) • £65.00 Paper (978-1-84787-534-1) • £ 22.99

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RESEARCH METHODS FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE

COMPARATIVEHISTORICAL METHODS

 A Project-Based Approach

Matthew Lange McGill University 

Second Edition

This bright, engaging title provides a thorough and integrated review of comparative-historical methods. It sets

Randy Stoecker University  of Wisconsin, Madison

This book presents a research model which can be used in the community in order to tackle problems and grow.

out an intellectual history of comparativehistorical analysis and presents the main

methodological techniques employed by researchers, including: comparative-historical analysis case-based methods comparative methods data, case selection and theory. •

 Apri l 2012 • 304 page s Paper (978-1-4129-9405-7) • £34.99

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A STUDENT'S GUIDE TO METHODOLOGY Third Edition

Comparative-Historical Methods: An Introduction / Comparative-Historical  Analy sis: An Intell ectua l Hi stor y a nd O verv iew / Wit hin- Case Method s in Comparative-Historical Analysis / Within-Case Methods and the Analysis of Temporality and Inter-Case Relations / Comparative Methods in Comparative-

Historical Analysis / Combining Comparative and within-Case Methods for Comparative-Historical Analysis / Data, Case Selection and Theory in Comparative-Historical Analysis / Comparative-Historical Methods:

Peter Clough Liverpool Hope University and Cathy Nutbrown

Conclusion and Assessment

University of Sheffield 

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METHODOLOGICAL THINKING Basic Principles of Social Research Design Donileen R Loseke University  of South Florida

focuses on the underlying logic of social research, encouraging students to understand Methodological Thinking

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ENHANCING COMMUNICATION & COLLABORATION IN INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH

DATA COLLECTION Key Debates and Methods in Social Research Wendy Olsen University of Manchester 

Edited by Michael O'Rourke, Stephen Crowley , Sanford D Eigenbrode and J D Wulfhorst

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THE MYTH OF RESEARCH-BASED POLICY AND PRACTICE Martyn Hammersley The

MANAGING AND SHARING RESEARCH DATA

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 A Guide to Good Practice Louise Corti , Matthew Woollard,  Veerle Van den Eynden and Libby Bishop all at UK Data

 Addressing a series of probing questions, this book reflects on the challenge posed by the idea that social resear ch can directly

 Archive, Universi ty of Essex 

Researchers have new responsibilities towards their research data, meaning that they need to improve, enhance and professionalize their research data management skills to meet the challenge of producing high-quality research assets with

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Some Questions about Evidence-Based Practice / The Myth of ResearchBased Policy-Making and Practice / Is Scientific Research EvidenceBased? / What Counts as Evidence for Evidence-Based Practice?  / I s S oci al Meas ure ment Poss ible and Is It Nec ess ar y? / T he Que stio n of Quality in Qualitative Research / Action Research: A Contradiction in

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Unsystematic, Is That the Question? Some Reflections on the Science, Art, and Politics of Reviewing / The Interpretive Attack on the Traditional Review  / What is Qualitative Synthe sis and Why Do It?

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RESEARCHING SOCIAL MEDIA

ACHIEVING IMPACT IN RESEARCH

Farida Vis University of Sheffield and Mike Thelwall Wolverhampton University 

Edited by Pam Denicolo Universities of Reading and Surrey 

Contemporary changes in digital media have created many opportunities for research of a kind not possible before as a huge quantity of information is now

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published online in the form of blogs, Twitter

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DOING EXCELLENT SMALL-SCALE RESEARCH Derek Layder University of Leicester  In this inspiring and engaging book, readers are presented with the key principles and practices of small-scale research. In addition, it provides a peerless

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Written in a clear, accessible way and drawing on exciting up-to-date examples, this book makes for a crucial companion on the way to research excellence. The book:

Research series addresses the importance

of understanding and achieving impact for the purposes of gaining research funding and reporting achieved impact for the Research Excellence Framework (REF). The book includes contributions from researchers and researcher developers who feel that impact is ill-defined and poorly understood despite its prevalence in policy documents, Websites and institutional activities. This succinct and cohesive text draws on the expert contributors' collective research practice, knowledge and experience.

CONTENTS What is the Meaning of Impact in Relation to Research and Why Does it Matter? / How Does the Impact Agenda Fit with Attitudes and Ethics That Motivate Research? / What Are the Different Characterisations of Research Impact? / When Might Impact Be Apparent? / How Can Impact Be Planned into Research Proposals? / How Can Impact Be Evaluated – Methodological Issues? / How Can Impact Be Evidenced – Practical Methods? / What Skills  Are Needed to Be an Impactful Rese archer? / Infras tructures in Univers ities

 Around Knowledg e Transfer, Partne rship Brokerin g and Manageme nt a nd

How This Interacts with Impact Issues / How Can You Become an Impactful Researcher? – a Summary of Key Messages

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DEVELOPING TRANSFERABLE SKILLS Enhancing Your Research and Employment Potential Pam Denicolo Universities of  Reading and Surrey and Julie Reeves University of Southampton This book provides a succinct guide for doctoral and early career researchers about the nature of transferable skills, why they are needed and how they can be acq uired, evidenced and marketed. In the UK, possessio n of a doctorate is no longer the

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institutions are also required to provide well organized, relevant candidates. With coverage of project management, teamworking, communication, leadership and technical skills, this book is an essential guide for researchers who want to make the most of the skills they have and acquire the skills they need.

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TEACHING IN HIGHER EDUCATION Lucinda Becker University  of Reading and Pam Denicolo Universities of  Reading and Surrey 

This book is designed to walk students step by step through each teaching experience they will face. It includes advice, practical exercises, top tips and words of warning on: seminar presentations to peers leading undergraduate seminars choosing material for teaching preparing productive teaching aids giving lectures dynamic learning environments handling assessment success as a guest speaker mentoring. •

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Pam Denicolo Universities of Reading and Surrey  and Lucinda Becker University of Reading

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This is a practical 'how-to' guide which is supported throughout by accessible explorations of how teaching can support research. Written by lecturers who have taught for many years, the 'voice of experience' sections will support and encourage novice teachers in their move towards becoming a successful and conf ident educator.

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CONTENTS Why Teach? / Seminar Presentations to Your Peers / Leading an Undergraduate Seminar / Dynamic Learning Environments / Lectures  / Productive Teaching Aid / Handling Assess ment

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WRITING SUCCESSFUL GRANT PROPOSALS FROM THE TOP DOWN AND BOTTOM UP Edited by Robert J Sternberg Oklahoma State University 

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DEVELOPING EFFECTIVE RESEARCH PROPOSALS Second Edition Keith F Punch University  of Western Australia

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PROPOSALS THAT WORK   A Guide for Planning Dissertations and Grant Proposals Sixth Edition Lawrence F Locke University of Massachusetts, Amherst , Waneen Wyrick Spirduso University of Texas, Austin and Stephen J Silverman Teachers College, Columbia University  Covering all aspects of the proposal process, from the most basic

THE RESEARCH FUNDING TOOLKIT How to Plan and Write Successful Grant Applications Jacqueline Aldridge University of  Kent and Andrew M Derrington University of Liverpool   A complex set of factors determine whether research projects win grants. This handbook

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questions about form and style to the task of seeking funding, Proposals That Work offers clear advice backed up with excellent examples. Included within are a number of specimen proposals, to help shed light on the important issues surrounding the writing of proposals.

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THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO DOING YOUR RESEARCH PROJECT

YOUR RESEARCH PROJECT Designing and Planning  Your Work

Second Edition

Third Edition

Zina O'Leary University  of Western Sydney 

Nicholas Walliman Oxford 

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Your Introduction: Starting Points / Project Management / The Literature Review  / Decide on Your Question - Again / Deciding on an Approach: Methodology and Research Design / The Design Frame / Ethics in Research / Practical Matters / 

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HOW TO WRITE A MASTER'S THESIS Second Edition  Yvonne N Bui University  of San Francisco

is a comprehensive manual on how to conceptualize and write a five-chapter masters thesis, including the introduction, literature review, methodology, results and How to Write a Master's Thesis

discussion/conclusion.  Very often, a theory-practi ce gap exists for students who have taken

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Yvonna Bui demystifies this process by integrating the language learned in these prerequisite courses into a step-by-step guide for developing one's own thesis/project.

CONTENTS Overview of the Master's Degree and Thesis / Selecting a Research Topic /  Using the Literature to Research Your Problem / Conducting Ethical Research

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YOUR UNDERGRADUATE DISSERTATION The Essential Guide for Success Second Edition Nicholas Walliman Oxford Brookes University  In the Second Edition of this bestselling guide, Nicholas Walliman provides expert, step-by-step advice on managing and developing a successful undergraduate project.

This book takes readers through each stage of their dissertation, answering questions including: how do I choose an appropriate topic for my dissertation? how do I write a research proposal? what is a literature review, how do I conduct it and how do I write it up? how can I ensure I am an ethical researcher? • • •

HOW TO DESIGN, WRITE, AND PRESENT A SUCCESSFUL DISSERTATION PROPOSAL Elizabeth A Wentz Arizona State University   A guide for students on how to design, write and present a successful

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what methods of data collection are appropriate for my

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Data? / How Can I Manage Such a Long Piece of Writing? / What about Referencing? / How Can I Make My Work Look Interesting and Easy to Read?

 / Who Else Might Be Interested in My Writing?

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SURVIVING YOUR DISSERTATION  A Comprehensive Guide to Content and Process Third Edition Kjell Erik Rudestam and Rae R Newton Fielding Graduate University 

Using examples from a wide range of disciplines, the authors give readers expert advice on the entire dissertation process . The text has

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DOING YOUR MASTERS DISSERTATION From Start to Finish

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF METHODOLOGY

Inger Furseth KIFO Centre for 

Kerry E Howell Plymouth University 

Church Research, Norway and Euris Larry Everett Career  Design Institute, California

Standing apart from existing methodology

This book is an indispensible guide to writing a successful Masters dissertation. The book begins by addressing issues students will face in the early stages of writing a dissertation, such as deciding on what to research, planning a project and searching for literature online. It then guides readers through different aspects of carrying out their research and writing up, helping them to: write a research proposal discuss the literature formulate research questions choose one or more methods analyse your findings build your argument write the introduction and the conclusion edit and reference. • • • • • • • •

The book offers guidance that other books often miss, from dealing with emotional blocks, to ways of identifying strengths and

weaknesses, and improving one's writing. It addresses the social aspects of the writing process, such as choosing and working with an advisor, using social media and forming stude nt work groups for added help and inspiration. Each chapter ends with an action plan,

which is a resource section that features exercises and reflection questions designed to help students apply what they’ve read to

texts, this book clarifies, in a studentfriendly and engaging way, distinctions between philosophical positions, paradigms of inquiry, methodology and methods. Building an understanding of the relationships and distinctions between philosophical positions and paradigms is an essential part of the research process and integral to deploying the methodology and method s best suited

for a research project, thesis or dissertation.  Aided throughout by definitio n boxes, examp les and exercises for students, the book covers topics such as: positivism and post-positivism phenomenology critical theory constructivism and participatory paradigms postmodernism and post-structuralism. • • • • •

CONTENTS Problems Identified: Truth Knowledge and the Role of Theory / Explaining Theory / Positivism and Post-Positivism / Phenomenology / Critical Theory /  Constructivism and Participatory Paradigms: Introducing Action Research /  Postmodernism and Post-Structuralism / Ethnography / Grounded Theory /  Hermeneutics / Foucault / Validity, Reliability and Generalization / Methods  / Conclusions

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CONTENTS Help, How Do I Find a Research Topic? / Overcoming Barriers and Getting Started / Basic Rules of Writing / Who Can Help You? Establishing a Network

 / A Guide for Searching the Literature / Reviewing Research Literature / How

Do I Formulate Research Questions? / Easier Said Than Done - Choosing a Suitable Research Design and Method / The Art of Keeping a Steady Course - Structuring the Analysis / Beginning and End - Introduction and

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OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY IN SOCIAL RESEARCH

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Objectivity and subjectivity are key concepts in social research. This book, written by leading author s in the field, takes

a completely new approach to objectivity and subjectivity, no longer treating them as opposed - as many existing texts do - but as logically and methodologically related in social research. The book debates: the philosophical bases of objectivity and relativity situated objectivity theorized subjectivity relationism and dynamic synthesis social objects and realism.

COMPLETING YOUR QUALITATIVE DISSERTATION

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Linda Dale Bloomberg and Marie  Volpe both at Teachers College,

The Philosophical Bases of Objectivity and Relativity / Relationism and Dynamic Synthesis / Situated Objectivity in Sociology / Theorized Subjectivity

Columbia University, USA

 / S ocia l O bjec ts and Real ism / Ob jec tivit y a nd Subj ecti vit y i n Pr acti ce / 

This book addresses the common challenge of turning a qualitative research project into a master's thesis or doctoral dissertation.

Objectivity Established? A Trialogue

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Philosophy of Research

THE SAGE HANDBOOK OF HISTORICAL THEORY Edited by Nancy Partner McGill University  and Sarah Foot University of Oxford  The SAGE Handbook of Historical Theory  introduces the foundations of modern historical theor y and the applications of theory to a full range of subfields of historical

research, bringing the reader as up to date as possible with continuing debates

and current developments. This important hand book brings together, in one volume, discussions of modernity, empiricism, deconstruction, narrative and postmodernity in the continuing evolution

of the historical discipline into our post-postmodern era. Chapters are written by

leading academics from around the world and cover a wide array of specialized areas of the discipline, including social histor y, intellectual history, gender, memory, psychoanalysis and cultural history. The influence of major thinkers such as Jacques

Derrida, Michel Foucault and Hayden White is fully examined.

CONTENTS PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS FOR KNOWLEDGE OF THE PAST

 / Modernit y and History: The Professiona l Discipline / T he Turn towards 'Science': Historians Delivering Untheor ized Truth / The Implications of Empiricism for History / The Case for His torical

Imagination: Defending the Human Factor and Narrative / The Annales School: Variations on

Realism, Methods and Time / Intellectual History: From Ideas to Meanings / Social History:

 A New Kind of Histor y / Postmode rnism: The Linguistic Turn and Historica l Knowledge / The Work of Hayden White I: Mimesis, Figuration, and the Writing of History / The Work of Hayden White II: Defamiliarizing Narrative / Derrida and Deconstruction: Challenges to the Transparency

of Language / The Return of Rhetoric / Michel Foucault: The Unconscious of History and Culture / History as Text: Narrative Theory and History / The Boundaries of History and Fiction  / PART TWO: APPLICATIONS: THEORY-INTENSIVE AREAS OF HISTORY / The Newest Social

History: Crisis and Renewal / Women's History/Feminist History / Gender I: From Women's History to Gender History / Gender II: Masculinity Acquires a History / Sexuality and History  / Psychoana lysis a nd the Making of History / New National Narratives / Cultura l Studie s and

History / Memory: Witness, Experience, Collective Meaning / Postcolonial Theory and History /  PART THREE: CODA. POST-POSTMODERNISM: DIRECTIONS AND INTERROGATIONS / Post-

Positivist Realism: Regrounding Representation / Historical Experience beyond the Linguistic Turn / Photographs: Reading the Image for History / Digital Infor mation: 'Let a Hundred Flowers

Bloom…' Is Digital a Cultural Revaluation? / Recovering the Self: Agency after Deconstruction

 / T he Funda menta l T hings Appl y: Aris totle's Narr ative The ory and the Clas sica l Or igins of Postmodern History

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PRINCIPLES OF METHODOLOGY Research Design in Social Science Perri 6 and Christine Bellamy  Nottingham Trent University 

Existing literature glosses over the often difficult interrelationship between practical

research design and the theoretical underpinnings of methodology. This text addresses such issues head on and helps the reader to better understand each stage of the research process. October 2011 • 336 pages Cloth (978-0- 85702-473-2) • £77.00 Paper (978-0-85702-474-9) • £25.99

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REFLEXIVE METHODOLOGY New Vistas for Qualitative Research Second Edition Mats Alvesson Lund University, Sweden and Kaj Sköldberg Stockholm School of Business

Presenting complex issues in an easy-toundersta nd way, this Second Edition is the guide to putting field research in perspective, with attention to the interpretive, political and rhetorical nature of empirical research. 2009 • 360 pages Cloth (978-1-84860-111-6) • £97.00 Paper (978-1-84860-112-3) • £34. 99

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PLANNING ETHICALLY RESPONSIBLE RESEARCH

ETHICS IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

Second Edition

Second Edition

Joan E Sieber California State University, East Bay and Martin B Tolich Otago University, New Zealand 

Edited by Tina Miller Oxford  Brookes University , Maxine Birch The Open University , Melanie Mauthner Freelance translator, editor and writer  and Julie Jessop University of Cambridge (Former)

 An invaluable guide to help readers underst and ethical concerns within real-life research situation s, this book addresses all the 'ethical

hot spots' in contemporary research.  APPLIED SOCI AL RESEA RCH METHODS

Expanding its focus on the theoretical and practical aspects of doing qualitative research in light of new ethical dilemmas facing researchers today, this engaging textbook explores key ethical dilemmas within the context of a rapidly changing research environment. The Second Edition now:

February 2013 • 264 pages Paper (978-1-4522-0259-4) • £25.99

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maps the changing and increasingly technology-reliant aspects of research relationships and practices provides researchers with guidance through practical examples,

enabling those engaged in qualitative research to question and navigate in ethical ways.

CONTENTS

Controversies and Contexts

Introduction to the Second Edition / Ethics and Feminist Research: Theory

Martyn Hammersley The Open University and Anna Traianou

and Practice / Reconfiguring Research Relationships: Regulation, New Technologies and Doing Ethical Research / The Ethics of Intention: Research

Goldsmiths, University of London

as a Political Tool / Consenting to What? Issues of Access, Gate-Keeping

Ethics in Qualitative Research explores

Ethics, Professional and Occupational Responsibilities / Encouraging

and 'Informed' Consent / Divided Loyalties, Divided Expectations: Research

conflicting philosophical assumptions,

Participation: Ethics and Responsibilities / 'Doing Rapport' and the Ethics of 'Faking Friendship' / Knowing Responsibly: Ethics, Feminist Epistemologies

the diverse social contexts in which ethical

problems arise, and the complexities of handling them in practice.

The authors argue that the starting point for any discussion of research ethics must be the values intrinsic to research, above all

the commitment to knowledge-production. However, the pursuit of inquiry is rightly constrained by external values, and the book focuses on three of these: minimizing harm; respecting autonomy; and protecting privacy.

CONTENTS

and Methodologies / Eliciting Research Accounts: Re/Producing Modern Subjects? / 'Accounting for Our Part of the Entangled Webs We Weave': Ethical and Moral Issues in Digital Data Sharing / Conclusions: Navigating Ethical Dilemmas and New Digital Horizons

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What Is Ethics? / The Research Ethos / The Risk of Harm / Autonomy and Informed Consent / Privacy, Confidentiality and Anonymity / Conclusion: Challenging Moralism / References

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RESEARCH DESIGN Creating Robust Approaches for the Social Sciences

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Stephen Gorard University  of Birmingham

This new book discusses the nature of design; an introduction to design notation;

CASE STUDIES FOR ETHICS IN ACADEMIC RESEARCH IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

a flexible approach to new designs; a range of standard design models; and craft tips for real-life problems and compromises.

Most importantly, it provides the rationale for preferring one design over another within any given context.

Each section is illustrated with case studies of real work and concludes with suggested readings and topics for discussion in seminars and workshops.

Leisa Reinecke Flynn The University  of Southern Mississippi  and Ronald E Goldsmith Florida State University 

CONTENTS PART ONE: INTRODUCTION: 'DESIGN' AS DISTINCT FROM METHODS /  What Is Research Design? / Introducing Designs in the Cycle of Research  / PART TWO: T HE PR ELIMINAR IES OF RESEA RCH D ESIGN / Id entif ying

16 brief research ethics cases describe situations in which ethical dilemmas arise and present the student with the opportunity to think through the different implications for researchers. June 2012 • 104 pages Paper (978-1-4129-9638-9) • £18.99

Researchable Questions / Warranting Research Claims / The Nature of Causal Claims / PART THREE: PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER / Identifying the Sample or Cases / Allocating Cases to Sub-Groups / Matters of Timing and Sequence  / Experimental Design s / PART FOUR: MORE ADVANCED CONSIDERATIONS

 / A Range of Further Designs / Issues of Validit y / How Big Is a Difference? /  Second Principle of Ethics / PART FIVE: CONCLUSION / Developing a First Proposal / Conclusion: Summary of Need for Design

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Research Design

RESEARCH DESIGN International Student Edition

QUALITATIVE INQUIRY AND RESEARCH DESIGN

Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches

Choosing Among Five Approaches

Fourth Edition

Third Edition

John W Creswell University of Nebraska, Lincoln

John W Creswell University 

The book that has helped more than 80,000 students and

of Nebraska, Lincoln

researchers prepare their plan or proposal for a schorlarly journal

In this Third Edition of his bestselling text, John W Creswell explores the philosophical

article, dissertation or thesis has been revised and updated while maintaining all the features that have made the previous editions so popular. New to this edition: •

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underpinnings, history and key elements of each of five qualitative inquiry traditions: narrative research; phenomenology;

grounded theory; ethnography; and case study. In his signature

every chapter now shows how to implement a mixed method design in a proposal or plan as well as showing how to do qualitative and quantitative approaches ethical issues that may arise in quantit ative, qualitative and mixed methods designs have been added writing tips and considerations have been expanded and moved to the first part of the book to get a research plan started in the right direction the latest developments in qualitative inquir y, including advocacy, participatory and emancipatory approaches have been added mixed method procedures show readers how to identify the type of mixed method strategy, select the data collection and analysis approaches, and plan the overall structure of the study.

accessible writing style, the author relates re search designs to each

of the traditions of inquiry. He compares theoretical frameworks, ways to employ standards of quality and strategies for writing introductions to studies, collecting data, analyzing data, writing a narrative and verifying results

CONTENTS Introduction / Philosophical Assumptions and Interpretive Frameworks /  Designing a Qualitative Study / Five Qualitative Approaches to Inquiry / Five

Different Qualitative Studies / Introducing and Focusing the Study / Data Collection / Data Analysis and Representation / Writing a Qualitative Study

 / Stan dards of Validat ion an d Relia bility in Qua litative Research / "Turning

the Story" and Conclusion / Appendix A. An Annotated Glossary of Terms /   Appendix B. A Narrative Research Study / Appendix C. A Phenomenologi cal Study / Appendix D. A Grounded Theory Study / A ppendix E. An Ethnography

 / Appendix F. A Case Study

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PART ONE: PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS / The Selection of a Research

 Approach / Review of the Literatur e / The Use of Theory / Writing Strategi es

and Ethical Considerations / PART TWO: DESIGNING RESEARCH / The Introduction / The Purpose Statement / Research Questions and Hypotheses

 / Quantitative Metho ds / Qualitative Methods / Mixed Method s Procedures

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DESIGNING RESEARCH IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES Martino Maggetti University of Zurich and University of Lausanne Fabrizio Gilardi University of Zurich and Claudio Radaelli University of Exeter 

RESEARCH DESIGN IN SOCIAL RESEARCH David de Vaus University of Queensland 

Showing students the importance of attending to design issues when undertaking social research, this book argues that the core of research methods is the structure and design of the research 2001 • 296 pages Cloth (978-0-7619-5346-3) • £91.00 Paper (978-0-7619-5347-0) • £26.99

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approaches and with examples drawn from a wide range of social science disciplines, the authors explain what is at stake when choosing a research design and discuss the trade-offs that researchers have to make when considering issues such as: causality categories and classification meaning levels of analysis time. • • • • •

CONTENTS Introduction: What Is at Stake in Research Design? / Establishing Causality in the Social Sciences / Dealing with Concepts, Typologies and Conditions: Observation and Measurement / Connecting Levels of Analysis / Modeling Interaction / Addressing Temporality and Change / Variation and Causation: Exploring Heterogeneity / Conclusions

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Research Design

CONSTRUCTING RESEARCH QUESTIONS

QUALITATIVE RESEARCH DESIGN

Doing Interesting Research

 An Interactive Approach

Mats Alvesson Lund University, Sweden and Jorgen Sandberg

Third Edition Joseph A Maxwell George

University of Queensland 

Mason University 

Traditional textbooks on research methods

This book gives researchers and students

tend to ignore, or gloss over, actual ways

questions in the social sciences tend to focus on 'gap-

a user-friendly, step-by-step guide to planning qualitative research. Based on a course that the author taught for seven years, it is written in an informal, jargon-free style and incorporates many examples and hands-on exercises. This edition includes new or

approaches, providing detailed idea s for how one can work through such problems and formulate novel research questions that challenge

substantially expanded discussions of: research paradigms; defining a research problem; site and participant selection; relationships with

of constructing research questions. Established methods of generating research

spotting', which means that existing literature remains largely unchallenged. The authors show the dangers of conventional existing theories and produce more imaginative empirical studies.

CONTENTS Research Questions: A Core Ingredient in Developing Interesting Theories

research participants; data analysis; and validity, all supported by new examples and exercises.

CONTENTS

 / The Contex t of Constr ucting and For mulating Res earch Ques tions / Gap Spotting: The Prevalent Way of Constructing Research Questions in Social

 A Model for Qua litative R esearch Design / Goals: Why Are You Doing Th is

Research Questions / Applying the Problematization Methodology in Practice  / Why the Strong Dominance of Gap-Spottin g When It Reduces the Chance to

Presenting and Justifying a Qualitative Study / Appendix A. A Proposal for a Study of Medical School Teaching / Appendix B. A Proposal for a Study of Online Learning by Teachers

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Create Interesting Theories? / Constructing Interesting Research Questions: Problematization and beyond

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DESIGNING QUALITATIVE RESEARCH A REALIST APPROACH FOR QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

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Joseph A Maxwell George

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Literature Review

THE LITERATURE REVIEW  A Step-by-Step Guide for Students Second Edition

SEVEN STEPS TO A COMPREHENSIVE LITERATURE REVIEW

Diana Ridley Sheffield University 

 A Multimodal and Cultural Approach

This Second Edition of Diana Ridley's

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bestselling book provides a step-by-step guide to conducting a literature search and literature review, using cases and examples

throughout to demonstrate best practice. Ridley outlines practical strategies for conducting a systematic search of the available literature, reading and note-

Houston State University and Rebecca K Frels Lamar University 

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field and secondary data through the idea that culture plays a central

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role in knowledge interpretation.

The seven steps help demystify the literature review process and encourage readers to synthesize information thematically, rather than merely summarize the existing literature and findings. The book outlines the CORE of the literature review process - Critical thinking,

Organization, Reflections and Evaluation - and provides a guide for reflexivity at the end of each of the seven steps.

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CONTENTS The Multiple Purposes of a Literature Review / Sources of Information and

Conducting Searches / Reading and Note-Taking Strategies / Reference Management: Keeping Records and Organising Information / Structuring the

Literature Review / In-Text Citations / Being Critical / Foregrounding Writer

Voice in Your Writing / The Continuing Process / A Systematic Literature Review / Conclusion / Electronic Guides / References

PART ONE: OVERVIEW / Foundations of the Literature Review / Identity of

the Literature Review / Identity of the Literature Reviewer / Methodology of the Literature Review / PART TWO: EXPLORATION / Step 1: Exploring Beliefs and Selecting and Refining a Topic / Step 2: Searching Databases /  Step 3: Storing and Organizing Literature / Step 4: Selecting and Deselec ting

Literature / Step 5: Expanding the Search / PART THREE: INTEGRATION /  Step 6: Analyzing and Synthe sizing Sources / PART FOUR: COMMUNICATION

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DOING YOUR LITERATURE REVIEW Traditional and Systematic Techniques Jill Jesson , Lydia Matheson and Fiona M Lacey  Aston Universit y  Guiding students through the process of

writing both traditional and systematic literature reviews, this book tackles an area

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CONDUCTING RESEARCH LITERATURE REVIEWS From the Internet to Paper Third Edition  Arlene Fink University of  California at Los Angeles

This book is written for anyone wanting to research social, health, educational and business issues. It is ideal for students, researchers, marketers, planners and policy makers

SYSTEMATIC APPROACHES TO A SUCCESSFUL LITERATURE REVIEW

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 Andrew Booth Diana Papaioannou and Anthea Sutton all at the University of Sheffield 

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Literature Review

DOING A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW  A Student's Guide Rumona Dickson and Angela Boland University of Liverpool 

AN INTRODUCTION TO SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS

Written by an expert team of authors with years of experience in conducting systematic

reviews and supervising students doing systematic reviews, the book provides a

Edited by David Gough, Sandy  Oliver and James Thomas all at the Institute of Education

roadmap to guide students through the process.

The book addresses the following questions: what’s the best way to manage my review? how do I formulate an appropriate review question? how do I develop my search strategy? how do I get started on data extraction? how do I assess the quality of the studies I’m using? how can I analyse and synthesise my data? how should I write up the discussion and conclusion sections of my dissertation or thesis? where should I publish my data? Throughout the book, the authors make extensive use of questions

This timely, engaging book provides an overview of the nature, logic, diversity and process of undertaking systematic reviews as part of evidence-informed decision-making.  A focus ed, accessib le and technicall y up-to-

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posed by real students when carrying out reviews to help readers through some of the challenges they may face. This book will provide students with the tips and tools they need for a successful dissertation.

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Criteria? / Data Extraction - Where Do I Be gin? / What Tools Do I Use to Quality  Asse ss My Studies? / Unders tandi ng My Results and Syn thesis ing My Data?

Introducing Systematic Reviews / Stakeholder Perspectives and Participation

 / When and How Do I Review th e Cost-Effecti veness Literatu re? / How Do I Present My Discussion and Conclusions Sections?

in Reviews / Commonality and Diversity in Reviews / Getting Started with a

Review / Information Management in Reviews / Finding Relevant Studies  / D escr ibing and Anal ysin g S tudi es / Q uali ty and Rele vanc e A ppra isa l / 

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Synthesis: Combining Results Systematically and Appropriately / Making a Difference with Systematic Reviews / Moving Forward

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Qualitative Research

INTRODUCING RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

INTRODUCING QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

 A Beginner's Guide to Doing a Research Project

 A Student's Guide

Uwe Flick Alice-Sal omon Universit y  of Applied Sciences, Berlin

This text gives readers the fundamental data collection and analysis skills that they need for their first project, as well as a good understanding of the research process as a whole. 2011 • 296 pages Cloth (978-1-84920-780-5) • £77.00 Paper (978-1-84920-781-2) • £24.99

Second Edition Rosaline Barbour University of Dundee Introducing Qualitative Research is an ideal starte r text for those new to the field, providing thorough coverage of all the core

areas of qualitative research practice.

Rosaline Barbour draws on her extensive teaching experience to provide a clear, user-friendly introduction to the craft

of doing qualitative research. Each chapter includes examples of real-life quali tative data and a range of exercises to help students get

a feel for the process of generating and analyzing qualitative data. The Second Edition includes: new examples from a range of social science disciplines, making this the ideal book no matter what course is being studied •

QUALITATIVE METHODOLOGY  A Practical Guide Jane Mills James Cook Universit y and Melanie Birks Monash University 

This practical book provides a helpful guide to the research process, introducing

the relevant methods of generating, collecting and analyzing data for each discrete methodology and then looking at best practice for presenting findings. This enables new researchers to compare qualitative methods and to confidently select

the approach most appropriate for their own research projects. Key features include: •

summary table for each chapter - allowing quick checks to test knowledge

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'window into' sections - real world examples showing each methodology in action student activities learning objectives full glossary annotated suggestions for further reading links to downloadable SAGE articles links to relevant websites and organizations.

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more on unobtrusive methods of data collection, such as documentary analysis

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CONTENTS PART ONE: INTRODUCTION / Qualitative Research Paradigms: Ontology and Epistemology / The Scope and Contribution of Qualitative Research: An Overview of Methods / Research Design / Ethics / PART T WO: GENERATING

DATA / Ethnography / Interviewing / Focus Groups / Documentary Analysis,

Media Analysis, Internet-Based Research, Visual Methods, Secondary  Analy sis / PART THREE: COMPLEX RESEA RCH DESIGN S IN PRACTIC E  / Mix ing Met hod s / Act ion Res ear ch / PART FOUR : AN ALYZI NG AND PRESENTING QUALITATIVE DATA / Approaches to Analysis: The matic  Analy sis, Ground ed Theor y and Patternin g, Narrative Ana lysis, Conv ersati on

 Analysis, Dis cursive Analys is, IPA, CAQDAS / Theorizing in Qual itative Data  Analysis / Presenting and Writing up Qualitati ve Research / New Challenges and Perennial Dilemmas

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Discourse Analysis / Ethnography / Grounded Theory / Historical Research

AN INTRODUCTION TO QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

Proposal / Quality in Qualitative Research / A New Era of Qualitative Research

Fourth Edition

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Uwe Flick Alice-Sa lomon Universit y 

Students and researchers across the social sciences

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 An Intro ducti on t o Qu alita tive Rese arch Desi gns / P racti cal Philo sophy /  Methodology: The Blueprint for Qualitative Research / Action Research /   / C ase Stud y / Narr ative Inqui ry / Ph enome nolog y / Writing Your Fo rmal

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This book guides the student step-by-step

through the qualitative research process,

covering all of the main theoretical approaches to qualitative research and providing unmatched coverage of the full range of different qualitative methods and approaches now available to researchers. 2009 • 528 pages Cloth (978-1-84787-323-1) • £88.0 0 Paper (978-1-84787-324-8) • £29.99

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Qualitative Research

INTERPRETING QUALITATIVE DATA

DOING QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

Fourth Edition

Fourth Edition

David Silverman Goldsmiths

David Silverman Goldsmiths

College, University of London

College, University of London

This is the perfect book for any student

In the Fourth Edition of his bestselling textbook, David Silverman provides a step-by-step guide to planning and

new to qualitative research. In this exciting

and major updating of his bestselling, benchmark text, David Silverman takes the

conducting qualitative research. Using real

reader through the basics of gathering and analyzing qualitative data.

David Silverman offers beginners unrivalled hands-on guidance necessary to get the best out of a research methods course or an undergraduate research project. New to the Fourth Edition: •

a new chapter on data analysis dealing with grounded theory,

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discourse analysis and narrative analysis further worked-through examples of different kinds of data and how to interpret them

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a separate section on focus groups and interpreting focus

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group data an expanded ethics chapter more coverage of digital media and photographs as data

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a Companion Website with additional case studies and examples,

links to SAGE journals online, and links to useful websites,

examples from real postgraduate students, the book makes it easy to link theory to methods, and shows how to move from understanding the pr inciples of qualitative

research to doing it yourself. The new edition has been fully updated and now includes: •

a brand new chapter on formulating a research question

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appropriate for qualitative research an expanded discussion of the role of theory in research which

includes discussion of grounded theory and narrative analysis

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as well as the ways in which constructionism and naturalism can inspire research extended discussion of case study research and the number of cases need for effective qualitative research further coverage of focus groups and analyzing Internet data new student examples from around the world

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a new section on the common pitfalls encountered in

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podcasts and YouTube videos.

qualitative research

CONTENTS

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PART ONE: THEORY AND METHOD IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH / What Is Qualitative Research? / Designing a Research Project / Data Analysis /  Research Ethics / PART TWO: METHODS / Ethnography and Observation /  Interviews / Focus Groups / Texts / Naturally-Occurring Talk / Visual Images /  PART THREE: RESEARCH PRACTICE / Credible Qualitative Research / Writing

Your Report / PART FOUR: IMPLICATIONS / The Relevance of Qualitative Research / The Potential of Qualitative Research: Eight Reminders

an expanded Companion Website with more student examples and videos.

CONTENTS PART ONE: INTRODUCTION / How to Use This Book / What You Can (and Can't) Do with Qualitative Research / The Research Experience I /  The Research Experiences II / What Counts as 'Originality'? / PART TWO: STARTING OUT / Selecting a Topic / Using Theories / Choosing a Methodology

 / Selecting a Case / Eth ical Researc h / Writing a Research Pr oposal / PART

THREE: COLLECTING AND ANALYSING YOUR DATA / Collecting Your

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Effective Qualitative Research / PART FOUR: WRITING UP / Writing the First Few Pages and the Literature Review / The Methodology Chapter / Writing Your Data Chapters / Your Final Chapter / PART FIVE: THE FINAL STAGES /  Making Good Use of Your Supervisor / Getting Feedback / Surviving an Oral Examination / Getting Published / Audiences

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Second Edition Jennifer Mason University  of Manchester 

QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS

Bridging the gap between 'cookbook' approaches to qualitative research and theory, this edition includes expanded coverage of observation, documents, visual data, CAQDAS and writing up

Monique Hennink Emory  University , Inge Hutter and Ajay  Bailey University of Groningen

qualitative research. 2002 • 224 pages Cloth (978-0-7619-7427-7) • £83.00 Paper (978-0-7619-7428-4) • £ 26.99

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QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

A VERY SHORT, FAIRLY INTERESTING AND REASONABLY CHEAP BOOK ABOUT QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

Third Edition Edited by David Silverman Goldsmiths College, University of London This book draws on a stellar list of leading

qualitative researchers, each of whom is writing on their own specialized area in qualitative research, bu t doing so in a way that is clear and accessible to students and those new to the field of qualitative meth ods

Second Edition David Silverman Goldsmiths College, University of London

2010 • 464 pages Cloth (978-1-84920-416-3) • £87.00 Paper (978-1-84920-417-0) • £ 28.99

David Silverman's Second Edition provides a refreshing introduction to doing and debating qualitative research. The book demonstrates

that getting to grips with qualitative methods means asking

ourselves fundamental questions about how we are influenced by contemporary culture. By drawing on examples from websites and social media, Silverman's text acknowledges how our social world s

DA VID

are changing and explores new arenas for data collection. A new 'glossary of received ideas' which aims to challenge conventional understandings of terms central to qualitative research will inform, amuse and stimulate students and academics alike.

CONTENTS Introduction to the Second Edition / Innumerable Inscrutable Habits: Why Unremarkable Things Matter / On Finding and Manufacturing Qualitative Data

 / Instances or Sequence s? / Applying Qualitative Research / The Aestheti cs of Qualitative Research: On Bullshit and Tonsils / A Very Short Conclusion /   A Glossary of Rec eived Ideas

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DAVID SILVERMAN David Silverman is Professor Emeritus at the Sociology Department of Goldsmiths, University of London. He is also Visiting Professor in the Management Department at King’s College, University of London

and Visiting Professor in the Business School at the University of

Technology, Sydney. He attended Christ's College Finchley and did a BSc (Economics) at the London School of Economics in the 1960s. Afterwards, he went to the USA for graduate work, obtaining

an MA in the Sociology Department, University of California, Los Angeles. He returned to LSE to write a PhD on organization theory. This was published as The Theory of Organizations in 1970.  Apart from brief spells teaching at UCLA, his main teaching career was at Goldsmiths College. His three major research projects were

on decision making in the Personnel Department of the Greater London Council (Organizational Work, writ ten with Jill Jones, 1975), paediatric outpatient clinics (Communication and Medical Practice,

1987) and HIV-test counselling (Discourses of Counselling, 1997). He pioneered a taught MA in Qualitative Research at Goldsmiths in 1985 and supervised around 30 successful PhD stude nts. Since becoming Emeritus Professor in 1999, he has continued publishing

methodology books. He has also run workshops for research students in Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, France, Sri Lanka

and Tanzania. Besides all this, David's other interests include classical music, literary fiction, bridge, county cricket and spending

time with his grandchildren.

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Qualitative Research

QUALITATIVE RESEARCH PRACTICE

SUCCESSFUL QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

 A Guide for Social Science Students and Researchers

 A Practical Guide for Beginners

Second Edition

 Virginia Brau n University of   Auckland  and Victoria Clarke

Jane Ritchie, Jane Lewis and Carol McNaughton Nicholls

Successful Qualitative Research

University of the West of England 

is an accessible, practical guide to doing qualitative research. It sidesteps detailed

National Centre for Social Research, London and Rachel Ormston Scottish Centre for Social Research

Written by a team of leading researchers associated with NatCen Social Research (the National Centre for Social Research) this textbook leads students and researchers through the entire process

of qualitative research from beginning to end - moving through

design, sampling, data collection, analysis and reporting. In this fully revised Second Edition you will find: a practical account of how to carry out qualitative research which recognizes a range of current approaches and applications •

• •

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theoretical discussion and focuses on the core commonalities, providing a toolkit of methods, explains

why and when each method is used, and demonstrates how they

are used. For clarity and consistence, the authors use the same data set - reproduced in full - to apply the different processes and outcomes of the analytical method s they cover. Additional data sets and audio interviews to support the textbook are available online at www.sagepub.co.uk/braunandclarke. Key features include: •

new case studies which illustrate issues students may encounter and how problems have been tackled by other researchers brand new chapters on ethics and observational research.

CONTENTS PART ONE / Foundations of Qualitative Research / Application of Qualitative

organization based around the process of doing qualitative research successfully from start to finish

updated advice on using software when analyzing qualitative data •

it adopts a unique 'patterns framework' to qualitative data analysis,

also known as 'thematic analysis' •

its skills-based approach, utilising a range of pedagogical features,

encourages students to actually apply particular techniques and learn from their experience.

Methods to Social Research / Generalising from Qualitative Research /  Ethical Issues in Qualitative Research / PART TWO: RESEARCH DESIGN  / Des ign I ssues / Desi gning and Se lecting Samples / Des igning Fieldwork Strategies and Materials / PART THREE: DATA COLLECTION / In Depth

CONTENTS

Interviews / Focus Groups and Other Forms of Group Work / Observations,  Visual Meth ods and New Technolog y / PART FOUR: ANALYSIS / Analy sis /  Carrying out Qualitative Analysis / PART FIVE: REPORTING / Reporting and Presenting Qualitative Data

PART TWO: SUCCESSFULLY COLLECTING QUALITATIVE DATA / Interactive

PART ONE: SUCCESSFULLY GETTING STARTED IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH / Some Very Important Starting Information / Ten Fundamentals

for Qualitative Research / Planning and Designing Qualitative Research /  Data Collection 1: Interviews / Interactive Data Collection 2: Focus Groups /  Textual Data Collection: Surveys, Stories, Diaries and Secondary Sources /  PART THREE: SUCCESSFULLY ANALYSING QUALITATIVE DATA / Preparing

 Audi o D ata for Ana lysi s: Transc ript ion / C hapte r E ight : Mo ving Towards

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Patterns Across Data / Analysing and Interpreting Patterns Across Data /  PART FOUR: Successfully Completing Qualitative Research / Quality Criteria

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BASICS OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH Techniques and Procedures for Developing Grounded Theory  Fourth Edition

QUALITATIVE RESEARCH FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

Juliet Corbin International Institute for Qualitative Methodology and Anselm Strauss

The Fourth Edition of this bestselling text continues to offer immensely practical advice and technical expertise to aid researchers in making sense of their collected data. It presents methods that will enable researchers to analyze and interpret their data, and ultimately build theory from it. Highly accessible in their approach, the authors provide a step-by-step guide to the research

act - from the formation of the research question through several approaches to coding and analys is, to reporting on the research. Full

of definitions and illustrative examples, this highly accessible book concludes with chapters that present criteria for evaluating a study,

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Qualitative Research

DOING QUALITATIVE RESEARCH DIFFERENTLY

DIGITAL TOOLS FOR QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

 A Psychosocial Approach

Trena Paulus University of  Tennessee Knoxville, Jessica Lester Washington State University and Paul Dempster University of Leeds

Second Edition Wendy Hollway Open University and Tony Jefferson Keele University  Wendy Hollway and Tony Jefferson have updated their ground-breaking book for students and researchers looking to do qualitative research differently. The new edition critically reviews many of the assumptions, claims and methods of qualitative resear ch and also acts as a 'how to' guide to the method the authors call the 'free association narrative interview'.

In the new edition, the authors situate their arguments firmly within a tradition of psychosocial research and show how their

Digital Tools for Qualitative Research

shows how the research process in its entirety can be supported by technology tools in ways that can save time and add robustness and depth to qualitative work. It addresses the use of a variety of tools (many of which may already be familiar to you) to support every phase of the research

process, providing practical case studies taken from real world research. The text shows studen ts how to select and use technology

with an extended case study which demonstrates the value of their method in producing a psychosocial research subject; that is, one

tools to: engage in reflexivity collaborate with other researchers and stakeholders manage their project do a literature review generate and manage data

with socially imbued depth, complexity and biographical uniqueness.

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method has developed over the last decade. The book follows this

approach through the phases of empirical research practice. At each stage, they use examples from their own research and end

• • • • •

transcribe and analyse textual, audio and visual data and represent

and share findings.

CONTENTS 'A Life Changing Book': Introduction to the Second Edition / The Need to

CONTENTS

Do Research Differently / Researching the Fear of Crime / Producing Data

Engaging in Reflexivity and Making Ethical Choices as a Researcher /  Collaborating and Managing Research Projects / Reviewing the Literature  / G ene rati ng and Manag ing Data / Tra nsc ribi ng Audi o a nd Vide o D ata / 

with Defended Subjects / Analyzing Data with Defended Subjects / The Ethics of Researching Psychosocial Subjects / Biography, Demography and Generalizability / A Psychosocial Case Study / Original Afterword / New Developments since 2000

 Analyzing Textual Data / Analyzing Audio and Visual Data / Representing the Findings / Looking to the Future

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QUALITATIVE INQUIRY IN EVERYDAY LIFE Working with Everyday  Life Materials Svend Brinkmann Aalborg University, Denmark  This book is a 'survival guide' for students and researche rs who would like to conduct

a qualitative study with limited resources. Svend Brinkmann shows how everyday life materials such as books, television, the Internet, the media, and everyday conversations and interactions can help us to understand larger social issues.

This book will help its reader develop a disciplined and analytic awareness informed by theory, and shows how less can be more

README FIRST FOR A USER'S GUIDE TO QUALITATIVE METHODS Third Edition Lyn Richards RMIT University  and Janice M Morse University  of Utah, Salt Lake City 

This book teaches not just a single method, but a range of methods to help students understand why there are so many ways of working qualitatively. June 2012 • 336 pages Paper (978-1-4129-9806-2) • £35.99

in qualitative research. Each chapter introduces theoretical tools to think with and demonstrates how they can be put to use in working concretely with everyday life materials.

CONTENTS Introduction: Making Less More / PART ONE / Qualitative Research and Everyday Life / The Epistemology of Working with Everyday L ife Materials / The Ethics of Working with Everyday Life Materials / PART TWO / Self Observation

 / Conversati ons / Media Materials / Movies, Image s and Television / Books of Fiction / Conclusions: On Quality

 View our full listing at Research Methods titles online at www.sagepub.co.uk

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Qualitative Research

 A Step-by-Step Guide

SAMPLING AND CHOOSING CASES IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

Second Edition

Nick Emmel University of Leeds

 Ann Lewins and Christina Silver

By introducing widely used sampling methodologies and identifying key theoretical assumptions, Nick Emmel considers how researchers generate

USING SOFTWARE IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

both at CAQDAS Networking Project, University of Surrey  Using Software in Qualitative Research

is an essential introduction to the practice and principles of Computer Assisted Qualitative

samples and make empirical and theoretical

claims from the cases they choose.

Data Analysis (CAQDAS). The book will help studen ts to choose the most appropriate package for their needs and get the most out of the software once they are using it.

This book offers clear guidelines to inform researchers' justifications for sampling. It accepts that social research is often messy and that

Considering a wide range of tasks and processes in the data

social sciences, it examines: approaches to sampling sample size accessing participants ethical issues

management and analysis process, the book shows how software

can help students at each stage. In the new edition, the authors present three case studies with different forms of data (text, video and mixed methods data) and show how each step in the analysis process for each project could be supported by software.

researchers need insight into the methodological principles that underlie their judgements. Dr awing on case studies from across the • • • • •

CONTENTS Qualitative Data Analysis and CAQDAS / How Can Software Support My Research Project? / Data and Their Preparation for CAQDAS Packages /  Early Steps in Software: Practical Tasks and Familiarisation / Exploration and Data-Level Work / Qualitative Coding in Software: Principles and Approaches  / Coding Tasks in Software / Coding Scheme, Coding Frames / Basic Retrieval

of Coded Data / Managing Processes and Interpretations through Writing /  Mapping Ideas, Linking Concepts and Visualising Connections / Organising Data to Known Characteristics / Interrogation of Data

ways in which sampling choices and cases frame claims made from research.

CONTENTS Introduction: From Sampling to Making Claims in Qualitative Research /  Theoretical Sampling: Lifting the Veil on Theory / Purposeful, and Purposive or Theoretical Sampling: Making Choices / A Realist Sampling Strategy / It's not the Size That Matter s, It's What You Do with It: Sample Size / 'Oh No, They Said No': The Challenges of Access / From the Swamp to a Clearer View from the Uplands: Representativeness and Abstraction / The On-Going Negotiation

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APPLIED THEMATIC ANALYSIS

THE SAGE HANDBOOK OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

Greg Guest Social Research Solutions, Kathleen M MacQueen FHI 360, Emily E Namey Social 

Fourth Edition

Research Solutions and FHI 360

Edited by Norman K Denzin University of Illinois and Yvonna S Lincoln Texas A&M University 

This book provides step-by-step instructions on how to analyze text generated from in-depth interviews and focus groups, relating predominantly to

Representing the best thinking from top scholars around the world, this new edition continues the book's tradition of

applied qualitative studies. January 2012 • 320 pages Cloth (978-1-4129-7167-6) • £44.99

synthesizing an existing literature, defining the

present and shaping the future of qualitative research. The editors and contributors address issues of social justice and examine how people's struggles can inform public issues and in turn be transformed into social policy. Their writings are unde rpinned by a critical framework and they are committed to addressing inequalitie s.

THE SAGE DICTIONARY OF QUALITATIVE INQUIRY

 As with previous edition s, their aim is to show how the practices of qualitative research can ef fect change in the world in positive ways.

Fourth Edition

PART ONE: LOCATING THE FIELD / PART TWO: PARADIGMS AND

Thomas A Schwandt University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 / PART FOUR: METHODS OF COLLECTING AND ANALYZING EMPIRICA L

 A guide to the terms and phrases that partially shape the origins, purpose, logic, meaning, and methods of the practices known as

EVALUATION, AND PRESENTATION / PART SIX: THE FUTURE OF

CONTENTS PERSPECTIVES IN CONTENTION / PART THREE: STRATEGIES OF INQUIRY

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as a Readers' Guide.

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THE LANDSCAPE OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

STRATEGIES OF QUALITATIVE INQUIRY

Fourth Edition

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Qualitative Data Analysis

QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS WITH NVIVO

QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS

Second Edition

Practical Strategies

Pat Bazeley Research Support P/L and Kristi Jackson Queri, Inc.

Pat Bazeley Research Support P/L

This straightforward, jargon-free book provides an invaluable

field of qualitative methods, this dynamic

Written by an experienced researcher in the

introduction to planning and conducting qualitative data analysis with

new book provides a definitive introduction

NVivo. Written by leading authorities, with over 40 years combined experience in computer-assisted analysis of qualitative and mixedmode data, the new edition of this best selling textbook is an ideal mix of practical instruction, methodology and real world examples. Practical, clear and focused the book effectively shows how NVivo

to analyzing qualitative data. It is a clear, accessible and practical guide to

datasets, and approaching NVivo as a team. An insightful step-bystep guide to the messy reality of doing computer-assisted analysis,

each stage of the process, including: designing and managing qualitative data for analysis working with data through interpretive, comparative, pattern and relational analyses developing explanatory theory and coherent conclusions, based on qualitative data. The book pairs theoretical discussion with practical advice using a host of examples from diverse projects across the social sciences.

using NVivo software.

links these to the use of computer software where relevant.

CONTENTS

CONTENTS

software can accommodate and assist analysis across a wide range of research questions, data t ypes, perspectives and methodologies. This Second Edition contains new chapters on handling a literature review, visualizing data, working in mixed methods and social media

this successful book is essential reading for anyone considering

Perspectives: Qualitative Computing and NVivo / Starting Out, with a View

 Ahe ad / D esig ning an NVi vo D ata base / C odin g B asi cs / G oing on with Coding / Cases, Classifications, and Comparisons / Working with Multimedia

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It describes data analysis strategies in actionable steps and helpfully

PART ONE: PREPARING THE WAY: LAYING THE FOUNDATIONS FOR  ANALYSIS / Foundations for Thinking and Working Qualitatively / Designing for  Analys is / Managin g and Preparing Data for Analysis / PART TWO: WORKING

Sources / Adding Reference Material to Your NVivo Project / Datasets and

WITH DATA: A PATHWAY INTO ANALYSIS / DATA SAMPLES - BECOMING/  BEING A RESEARCHER / Read, Reflect and Connect: Initial Explorations of

and Queries to Further Analysis / Teamwork with NVivo

Data / Codes and Coding: Principles and Practic e / Naming, Organising, and

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Mixed Methods / Tools and Strategies for Visualizing Data / Using Coding

Refining Codes / Alternative Approaches to Breaking Open and Connecting FROM CODES AND THEMES / Describing, Evolving and Theorising Concepts

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PAT BAZELEY For the past 12 years Pat Bazeley  has been providing training, assistance, time out, country baking and fresh food to local and international researchers from a wide range of disciplines at her research farm retreat at Bowral, in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales. Occasionally she retreats herself. She also has a small role as an Associate Professor

in the Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity at the University of New South Wales.

Since graduating in psychology – with some slow-down periods for child development and house construction – Pat has worked in community development, project consulting and academic research development. In consequence, she has had experience with research design and methodology broadly across the social sciences, in both academic and applied settings. Her particular expertise is in helping researchers make sense of both quantitative and qualitative data and in using computer software for management and analysis of data. Her

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Qualitative Data Analysis

THE CODING MANUAL FOR QUALITATIVE RESEARCHERS

INTERPRETATIVE PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANALYSIS

Second Edition

Theory, Method and Research

Johnny Saldaña Arizona

Jonathan A Smith Birkbeck  College, Paul Flowers Glasgow Caledonian University and Michael Larkin University of Birmingham

State University 

The Second Edition of Johnny Saldaña's international bestseller provides an in-depth guide to the multiple approaches available for

coding qualitative data. Fully up-to-date, it includes new chapters, more coding techniques and an additional glossary. Practical and authoritative, the book: describes how coding initiates qualitative data analysis demonstrates the writing of analytic memos discusses available analytic software suggests how best to use The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers for particular studies.

Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) is an increasi ngly popular approach to qualitative

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In total, 32 coding methods are profiled that can be applied to a range of research genres from grounded theory, to phenomenology, to narrative inquiry. For each approach, Saldaña discusses the method's origins,

presents a clearly illustrated example with analytic follow-up.

QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS

CONTENTS

 An Introduction

gives a description of the method, offers practical applications,and

 An Introduction to Codes and Coding / Writing Analy tic Memos / First Cycle Coding Methods / After First-Cycle Coding / Second-Cycle Coding Methods

 / After Second- Cycle Coding

READERSHIP Students, teachers and practitioners in disciplines such as education, sociology, communication, anthropology, psychology, business, political science, social work and health care October 2012 • 328 pages Cloth (978-1-4462-4736-5) • £75.00 Paper (978-1-4462-4737-2) • £ 25.99

Second Edition Carol Grbich Flinders University 

In this fully updated and expanded Second Edition, Carol Grbich provides a guide through current issues in the analysis

of qualitative data. Packed with detailed examples, a glossary, further reading lists and a section on writing up, this easy-to-read text is exactly what students

QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS USING A DIALOGICAL APPROACH

need to get them started in qualitative research. The new edition covers analytical approaches including: grounded theory classical, existential and hermeneutic phenomenology feminist research including memory work classical, auto- and cyber-ethnography as well as ethnodrama content, narrative, conversation and discourse analysis visual interpretation semiotic, structural and post-structural analyses.

Paul Sullivan University of Bradford 

CONTENTS

 A major new contribut ion to the field of qualitative data analysis, this book sets out the theory and practice of

PART ONE: GENERAL APPROACHES TO COLLECTING AND ANALYZING

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dialogical approaches. December 2011 • 208 pages Cloth (978-1-84920-609-9) • £75.00 Paper (978-1-84920-610-5) • £24.99

QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS WITH ATLAS.TI Susanne Friese University of Hannover 

Written by an ATLAS.ti trainer with 15 years experience, this is the very first book written to help readers carry out a qualitative research project usin g ATLAS.ti.

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QUALITATIVE DATA / Introduction / Desig n Methodologies , Data Management and Analytical Approaches / Incorporating Data from Multiple Sources: Mixing

Methods / PART TWO: TRADITIONAL APPROACHES FOR COLLECTION  AND A NALYSIS OF QUALITATIVE DATA / C lassic al Et hnogra phy / Critic al Ethnography / Feminist Approaches / Grounded Theory / Phenomenology /  PART THREE: NEWER QUALITATIVE APPROACHES / Postmodern Influences

on Society and Qualitative Research / Auto-Ethnography / Poetic Inquiry / 

Ethnodrama / Cyber-Ethnography and E-Research / PART FOUR: ANALYTIC

 APPROACHES FOR E XISTI NG D OCUMENTATION / S truc tural and PostStructural / Semiotic Structural and Post-Structural Analysis / Content  Ana lys is of Writ ten Texts / C onte nt Ana lys is of Vis ual Doc umen tat ion /  Narrative Analysis / Conversational Analysis / Discourse Analysis / PART FIVE:

DATA MANAGEMENT USING QUALITATIVE COMPUTING PROGRAMMES  / Cod ing / Ove rv iew of Qua lit ati ve Com put ing Pro gra ms / PART SIX : INTERPRETING AND PRESENTING QUALITATIVE DATA / Theorizing from Data / Innovative Data Display

READERSHIP Students and researchers across the social sciences November 2012 • 344 pages Cloth (978-1-4462-0296-8) • £75.00 Paper (978-1-4462-0297-5) • £26.99

2011 • 288 pages Cloth (978-0-85702-130-4) • £77.00 Paper (978-0-85702-131-1) • £25.99

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Qualitative Data Analysis

ANALYSIS IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS FROM START TO FINISH

Hennie R Boeije University of Utrecht 

This book helps students prepare and successfully finish their qualitative data

Jamie Harding University  of Northumbria

analysis. It sets out an easy to grasp model

In this brilliant new book, Jamie Harding breaks down the process of analysing qualitative data into simple, retraceable steps. After providing some top tips for

- the spiral of analysis - that shows how to break up the data with coding and how to subsequently integrate the data to yield

a meaningful picture of the phenomenon under study. It offers useful devices to guide the reader through the last difficult integrating phase of qualitative analysis including diagramming, memoing, thinking aloud and using

one's feelings. The book incorporates the support of software for qualitative data analysis. The analysis is placed in the context of modern quality criteria and the demands posed on the reporting. The book cannot take the place of the process of thinking about the data, but it does provide thinking aids and practical tools to process

the data, which can result in interesting findings.

CONTENTS PART ONE: INTRODUCTION TO QUALITATIVE RESEARCH / PART TWO: RESEARCH DESIGN / PART THREE: ETHICS IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

 / PAR T FOU R: DATA CO LL EC TI ON / PAR T FI VE: PR IN CI PL ES OF QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS / PART SIX: DOING QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS /  PART SEVEN: INTEGRATIVE PROCEDURES / PART EIGHT: FINDINGS /  PART NINE: QUALITY OF THE RESEARCH / PART TEN: WRITING THE RESEARCH REPORT

designing research and collecting data, he

takes students through the different st ages of analysis, from the first reading of transcripts, to presenting findings in a report or disserta tion. For each stage of the process there are demonstrations using real data and exercises for students to perform. He unpicks what happens behind the scenes in qualitative

data analysis – the bit that’s hard to learn without seeing it happen and trying it themselves. While acknowledging that there are many

different forms that qualitative data analysis can take, the book provides a series of ideas and examples that students will find invaluable when analysing their own data.

CONTENTS Beginning the Study / Collecting and Managing Interview and Focus Group

Data / First Stages of Analyzing Interview Data / Using Codes to Analyze

an Illustrative Issue / Identifying Conceptual Themes and Building Theory /   Alternative Approache s to Analyzin g Qualitative Data / Analyzin g Focus Group

Data / Writing about Research (1) / Writing about Research (2)

READERSHIP Upper-level undergraduate students, masters students, postgraduate students and anybody beginning a research project

READERSHIP Students across the social sciences February 2013 • 220 pages Cloth (978-0-8 5702-138-0) • £75.00 Paper (978-0- 85702-139-7) • £24.99

2009 • 240 pages Cloth (978-1-84787-006-3) • £80.00 Paper (978-1-84787-007-0) • £2 6.99

THE SAGE HANDBOOK  OF QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO USING PANEL DATA  Alita Nandi and Simonetta Longhi

Edited by Uwe Flick Alice-Salo mon University of Applied Sciences, Berlin

both at University of Essex 

This timely, thoughtful book provides a clear introduction to using panel data in

The wide range of approaches to data analysis in qualitative research can seem daunting even for experienced researchers. This handbook is the first

research. It describes the different types

of panel data sets commonly used for empirical analysis, and how to use them for cross-sectional, panel and event history

to provide a state-of-the art overview of the whole field of QDA; from general analytic strategies used in qualitative research, to approaches specific to particular types of

including the interpretation of the results and the preparation of the final output tables.

qualitative data, including talk, text, sounds, images and virtual data.

Using existing data sets and structured as hands-on exercises,

such as grounded theory, content analysis, hermeneutics,

analysis. The authors then guide the reader through the data management and estimation process,

The handbook includes chapters on traditional analytic strategies

each chapter engages with practical issues associated with using data in research.

phenomenology and narrative analysis, as well as coverage of newer

CONTENTS

writing and implementation are given close attention, as are theory and theorization, reflexivity, and ethics.

PART ONE: DATA PREPARATION IN MICRO PANEL SURVEYS / Why Panel Surveys / Different Types of Panel Surveys / A First Look at the Data Using Stata / Preparing the Data for Longitudinal Analysis / Combining Household-

Level and Individual-Level Data / Identifying Household Members and Matching Information of Spouses/Partners / PART TWO: ANALYSIS OF CROSS-SECTION AND PANEL DATA / Analysis of Cross-Section Data /   Analy sis of Pa nel Data for Conti nuous Depen dent Variabl es / Analy sis of Models of Discrete Dependent Variables / Do We Need to Use Weights? Does Sampling Design and Non-Response Matter? / PART THREE: EVENT

HISTORY: DATA PREPARATION AND ANALYSIS / Introduction to Event History/Duration/Survival Analysis / Structure of Retrospective Files /   Analysing Event Histor y Data / PART FOUR: PRESENTING YOUR RESULTS  / Presenting the Result s

trends like mixed methods, reanalysis and meta-analysis. Practical

aspects such as sampling, transcription, working collaboratively,

CONTENTS PART ONE: INTRODUCTION / PART TWO: CONCEPTS, CONTEXTS, BASICS

 / PART THREE: ANALYTIC STRATEGIES / PART FOUR: SORTS OF DATA   AND THEIR ANALYSIS / PART FIVE: USING AND ASSESSING QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS

READERSHIP Qualitative students and researchers across disciplines December 2013 • 650 pages Cloth (978-1-4462-0898-4) • £95.00

READERSHIP Students and researchers across the social sciences November 2013 • 200 pages Cloth (978-1-4462-1086-4) • £75.00 Paper (978-1-4462-1087-1) • £24.99

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Grounded Theory

REDISCOVERING GROUNDED THEORY

GROUNDED THEORY FOR QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

Barry Gibson University of Sheffield  and Jan Hartman Lund University 

 A Practical Guide

Rediscovering Grounded Theory 

is a bold re-evaluation of the origins of grounded theory, a philosophical clarification of its key ideas and a presentation of the most effective way to use its techniques in research.

It answers questions such as ‘What should grounded theor y look like?’, ‘How do I recognise grounded theor y?’

and ‘How do I produce good grounded theory?’ by returning to the original ideas as they were presented by Glaser and Strauss. Sharp, clear and thought-provoking, the book includes: detailed analysis of the current literature • •

exemplar sections filled with detailed, real world examples

•

and applications profiles of the main theorists a detailed glossary

•

It will provide students with a grasp of what a grounded theory should look like, take students through the process of building a grounded theory and then explain best practice for critically evaluating the quality of grounded theory research.

CONTENTS What Kind of Theory is a Grounded Theory? / Induction and Realism in Grounded Theory / Categorisation in Grounded Theory / Theoretical Coding and the Nature of Relations / Theoretical Sensitivity / Theoretical Sampling / Theoretical Pacing / Theoretical Coding / Theoretical Memos / 

Cathy Urquhart Manchester  Metropolitan University Business School 

Fresh, innovative and clear, this book traces the history and development of grounded theory method and examines how the method is evolving for new contexts today. It sets out the principles involved in using grounded theory method and explains

the process and theory associated with coding in grounded theory. The book introduces readers to the practicalities of research design,

theory-building, coding and writing up and provides the tools to

tackle key questions: what is grounded the ory? How do we code and

theorize using grounded theory? How do we write up a grounded theory study?

CONTENTS Introduction / Understanding Analysis / Grounded Theory Method (GTM) /  Research Design using GTM / Coding and Conceptualizing / Building the Theory / Scaling up the Theory / Writing up a Grounded Theory Study / The Contribution of Grounded Theory: Some Reflections

READERSHIP Students and researchers across the social sciences November 2012 • 224 pages Cloth (978-1-8478-7053-7) • £70.00 Paper (978-1-8478-7054-4) • £23.9 9

Theoretical Sorting / The Literature / Theoretical Writing / Generating Formal

Theory November 2013 • 256 pages Cloth (978-1-4462-4870-6) • £70.00 Paper (978-1-4462-4871-3) • £23.99

CONSTRUCTING GROUNDED THEORY Second Edition Kathy Charmaz Sonoma State University 

This Second Edition of Kathy Charmaz's groundbreaking and bestselling text retains the accessible and engaging style of the first

edition to present for readers a benchmark introduction to doing grounded theory from a constructivist perspective. The book: •

explores how to effectively focus on data collection and to think

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about it for theorizing adds two new chapters that guide the reader through conducting and analysing interviews in grounded theory studies

•

adds a new chapter on the relationship between symbolic

interactionism and grounded theory considers recent epistemological debates about the place of prior theory and the legacy of Anselm Strauss for grounded theory. This book is a must-have for any student or researcher serious about understanding and doing grounded theory research. •

CONTENTS  An Invitation to Grounded Theo ry / Gathering Rich Data / Conduc ting Interviews

for Grounded Theory Studies / Coding in Grounded Theory Practice / MemoWriting / Theoretical Sampling, Saturation and Sorting / Reconstructing Theor y in Grounded Theory Studies / Constructing Grounded Theory through Symbolic

Interactionism / Writing the Draft / Reflecting on the Research Process

READERSHIP Students and researchers across the social sciences

INTRODUCING QUALITATIVE METHODS SERIES November 2013 • 224 pages Cloth (978-0-85702-913-3) • £75.00 Paper (978-0-85702-914-0) • £24.99

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Grounded Theory / Ethnography

THE SAGE HANDBOOK  OF GROUNDED THEORY

DOING VISUAL ETHNOGRAPHY

Edited by Antony Bryant Leeds Metropolitan University and Kathy  Charmaz Sonoma State University 

Third Edition

This handbook gives a comprehensive overview of the theory and practice of

Essential reading for anyone wishing to engage with images, technologies and

Sarah Pink RMIT University, Melbourne

grounded theory, taking into account the many attempts to revise and refine Glaser

ways of seeing and experiencing society, Doing Visual Ethnography is a milestone

debates that have followed.

Third Edition of this classic text includes new chapters on web-based practices for visual ethnography

in ethnographic and visual research. The

and Strauss' original formulation and the 2010 • 656 pages Paper (978-1-84920-478-1) • £31.99

and the issues surrounding the representation, interpretation and authoring of knowledge with the rise of digital media.

Drawing upon her original research and the experiences of other ethnographers Sarah Pink once again challenges our understanding

of the world and sets new agendas for visual ethnography by: helpfully illustrating key concepts within real world contexts introducing examples from both analogue and digital media exploring material and electronic texts •

SITUATING EVERYDAY LIFE

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Practices and Places

•

Sarah Pink RMIT University, Melbourne

setting out the shift towards applied, participatory and public visual scholarship.

CONTENTS

The study of everyday life is fundamental

to our understanding of modern society. This agenda-setting book provides a

PART ONE: THINKING ABOUT VISUAL ETHNOGRAPHY: HISTORICAL, THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL PERSPECTIVES / Visual Ethnography Across Disciplines / Ways of Seeing, Knowing And Showing / Planning And Practising  Visua l Ethnograp hy / PART TWO: PRODUCI NG KNOWLEDG E / Photography

coherent, interdisciplinary way to engage with everyday activities and environments.

In Ethnographic Research / Video In Ethnographic Research / Doing Visual

 Arguing for an innovative, ethnographic

Ethnography With The Web / Making Meanings in Visual Ethnography / 

approach, it uses detailed examples, based

in real-world and digital research, to bring its theories to life. The book focuses on the sensory, embodied, mobile and mediated elements of practice and place as a route to understanding wider issues. By doing so, it convincingly outlines a robust theoretic al and methodological approach to understanding contemporary everyday

life and activism.

CONTENTS

PART THREE: REPRESENTING VISUAL ETHNOGRAPHY / Photography And Ethnographic Writing / Video In Ethnographic Representation / Making Visual

Ethnography Public Online/Digitally

READERSHIP Students and researchers across the social science September 2013 • 272 pages Cloth (978-1-4462-1116-8) • £75.00 Paper (978-1-4462-1117-5) • £24.99

Introduction: (Re)Thinking about Everyday Life and Activism / Theorizing the Familiar: Practices and Places / Researching Practices, Places and Representations: Methodologies and Methods / Beyond Doing the Dishes:

Putting Kitchen Practices in Place / Making the Sensory Home: Laundry Routes and Energy Flows / Tracing Neighbourhood Flows: Making a Garden

CRITICAL ETHNOGRAPHY

Representations / The Digital Places of Everyday Life: Thinking about Activism

Method, Ethics, and Performance

Everyday Life

Second Edition

Place / (Re)Making Towns: Sustainable Activist Places, Practices and and the Internet / Conclusions: Sustainable Places, Activist Practices and

READERSHIP Postgraduate students and researchers of cultural sociology, social theory and the sociology of everyday life

D Soyini Madison Northwestern University 

Presents a fresh new look at critical ethnography by emphasizing the

 Apri l 2012 • 176 page s Cloth (978-0-85702-056-7) • £65.00 Paper (978-0- 85702-057-4) • £21.99

significance of ethics and performance in the art and politics of fieldwork. 2011 • 304 pages Paper (978-1-4129-8024-1) • £33.99

BEING ETHNOGRAPHIC  A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Ethnography  Raymond Madden La Trobe University  Full of practical 'how to' tips for applying

theoretical methods, this book also provides advice for new and experienced

researchers on how to engage with their own participation in the field. There are lots of case studies and practical tools and study

aids for those doing ethnographic research. 2010 • 216 pages Cloth (978-1-4129-4696-4) • £74.00 Paper (978-1-4129-4697-1) • £24.99

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 Action Research / Interviewing

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ACTION RESEARCH

ACTION RESEARCH

Second Edition

This book serves as an invaluable guide to novice researchers and enables readers to understand how the research procedures work in real-life contexts. Its simple and engaging style makes it especially relevant to those working with children, young adults, or people in community contexts, and it is particularly relevant to those dealing with issues of diversity, and with marginalized and

Jean McNiff York St John University  and Jack Whitehead University of Bath  Action research is one of the most popular approaches to research in education, health and business, and in this Second Edition,

expert practitioners Jean McNiff and Jack Whitehead guide the reader through everything they need to know to plan and carry out a successful action research project. 2011 • 280 pages Cloth (978-0 -85702-582-1) • £77.00 Paper (978-0-85702-583-8) • £25.99

THE SAGE HANDBOOK  OF ACTION RESEARCH

Fourth Edition Ernest T Stringer Curtin University of Technology 

disenfranchised groups.  Augus t 2013 • 30 4 page s Paper (978-1-4522-0508-3) • £31.99

QUALITATIVE INTERVIEWING The Art of Hearing Data Third Edition

Participative Inquiry and Practice

Herbert J Rubin and Irene S Rubin Northern Illinois University 

Second Edition

 Assu ming no prior knowledge, this text takes readers through the entire process

Edited by Peter Reason University of  Bath and Hilary Bradbury University  of Southern California College Building on the strength of the seminal fir st edition, The SAGE Handbook of Action Research has been completely updated to bring

of qualitative interviewing in a reassuring and

accessible way. December 2011 • 288 pages Paper (978-1-4129-7837-8) • £39.99

chapters in line with the latest research approaches in this field of social inquiry. 2007 • 752 pages Cloth (978-1-4129-2029-2) • £95.0 0 Paper (978-1-4462-7114-8) • £39.99

INTERVIEWS Learning the Craft of Qualitative Research Interviewing Second Edition

DOING ACTION RESEARCH IN YOUR OWN ORGANIZATION Third Edition

Steinar Kvale University of   Aarhus and Svend Brinkmann  Aalborg Universit y, Denmark 

Continuing to focus on the practical, epistemological and ethical issues involved

with interviewing, this thoroughly revised bestseller prepares students for learning interviewing by doing interviews and by studying examples of best practice.

David Coghlan Trinity College Dublin and Teresa Brannick University College Dublin

2008 • 376 pages Paper (978-0-7619-2542-2) • £40.99

Revised and updated, this Third Edition contains an expanded discussion on the politics and ethics of insider action research; an expanded chapter on writing an action research dissertation; and

more case examples and reflective exercises taken from a wide variety of organizational settings. 2009 • 184 pages Cloth (978-1-84860-215-1) • £77.00 Paper (978-1-84860-216-8) • £24.99

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Interviewing / Focus Groups / Case Study

THE PROBLEM-CENTRED INTERVIEW

THE SAGE HANDBOOK OF INTERVIEW RESEARCH

 Andreas Witzel and Herwig Reiter

The Complexity of the Craft

both at University of Bremen

Second Edition

This book provides the first English language account of the interview method known as the problem-centred interview (PCI). Offering a way of collecting

knowledge by means of involving people actively in the research process, the interviewer takes the role of a wellinformed traveller. With ca reful preparation and planning, the interviewer sets out with priorities and expectations, but the story the interviewer tells about his journey depends on the people encountered along the road.

CONTENTS

Edited by Jaber F Gubrium University of Missouri  James A  Holstein Marquette University , Amir B Marvasti and Karyn D McKinney  Pennsylvania State University, Altoona The only comprehensive handbook on interviewing,

this text deals with conceptual and methodological challenges to interviewing, not just the 'nuts and bolts' of the interview process  Apri l 2012 • 624 pa ges Cloth (978-1-4129-8164-4) • £95.00

The Programme of the PCI / Preparing PCIs / Doing PCIs / Processing PCIs  / Examples of Working with PCIs / A Final Note on PCI Errors and Pit falls

READERSHIP Novice and experienced interview researchers across the social, educational

and health sciences

FOCUS GROUPS  A Practical Guide for  Applied Research

June 2012 • 216 pages Cloth (978-1-84920-099-8) • £75.00 Paper (978-1-84920-100-1) • £26.99

Fourth Edition Richard A Krueger University  of Minnesota and Mary Anne Casey Consultant 

DOING INTERVIEWS

This book cuts through the theory and gives hand-on advice to those who are seeking to actually conduct a focus group. It is most helpful for conducting focus groups for

Steinar Kvale University of Aarhus

Steinar Kvale provides coverage of both the theoretical background and the practical aspects of the interview process, incorporating discussion of the

research or evaluation with public, non-profit, educational, health, human service and religious organizations. 2008 • 240 pages Paper (978-1-4129-6947-5) • £47.99

wide variety of methods in interview based

research and the different approaches to reading the data. QUALITATIVE RESEARCH KIT 2008 • 160 pages Paper (978-0-7619-4977-0) • £22.99

CASE STUDY RESEARCH International Student Edition Design and Methods

HOW TO DO YOUR CASE STUDY

Fifth Edition Robert K Yin COSMOS Corporation Providing a complete portal to the world of case study research, the

 A Guide for Students and Researchers

Fifth Edition of Robert K. Yin’s bestselling Case Study Research offers comprehensive coverage of the design and use of the case study method as a valid research tool.

Gary Thomas University of Birmingham

This thoroughly revised text now includes expanded coverage of case study evaluation, mixed methods, and online case studies.

This lucid, accessible and often witty text, Gary Thomas introduces students and researchers to the basics of case

Links to appropriate websites have also been added at the end of relevant chapters. The book’s coverage of case study research and how it is applied in practice gives readers acces s to exemplary case studies drawn from a wide variety of academic and applied fields.

study research. 2010 • 248 pages Cloth (978-0-85702-562-3) • £74.00 Paper (978-0-85702-563-0) • £24.99

READERSHIP Researchers and students across education, business and management, nursing and public health, public administration, anthropology, sociology, and political science

 APPLIED SOCIAL RES EARCH METHODS May 2013 • 240 pages Paper (978-1-4522-7724-0) • £34.99

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Case Study Methods / Narrative Methods / Visual Methods

APPLICATIONS OF CASE STUDY RESEARCH

DOING NARRATIVE RESEARCH

Third Edition

Second Edition

Robert K Yin COSMOS Corporation

Edited by Molly Andrews , Corinne Squire and Maria Tamboukou all at University of East London

Now featuring a total of 21 case study applications and six completely new chapters, this Third Edition helps students and researchers to improve upon their own research techniques, and provides them with the basis to critique other case studies. 2011 • 264 pages Paper (978-1-4129-8916-9) • £33. 99

Written by an international team of experts in the field, the Second Edition of this

popular text considers both the theoretical

underpinnings and practical applications of narrative researc h. The authors take the reader from initial

decisions about forms of narrative analysis, through more complex issues of reflexivity, interpretation and the research context. Existing

chapters have been updated to reflect changes in the literature and new chapters from eminent narrative scholars in Europe, Australia

and the United States have been added on a variety of narrative modalities, including narratives and embodiment, visual narratives,

narratives and storyworlds, new media narratives and Deleuzian

USING NARRATIVE IN RESEARCH Christine Bold Liverpool 

perspectives in narrative analysis.

CONTENTS Introduction: What Is Narrative Research? / Narratives of Events: Labovian Narrative Analysis and its Limitations / Experience-Centred and Culturally-

Hope University 

Oriented Approaches to Narrative / Analysing Narrative Contexts / A  Foucauldian Approach to Narratives / A Rhizomatic Narrative Approach to

Giving both a theoretical and practical introduction to narrative approaches, this is a straightforward and accessible introduction ideal for those new to

Study Self Narratives in Context / Bodies, Embodiment and Stories / Seeing Narratives / New Media Narratives / Approaches to Narrative Worldmaking  / Looking Back on Narrative Rese arch: An Exchange / Never the Last Word: Revisiting Data / Narrating Sensitive Topics / The Public Life of Narratives: Ethics, Politics, Methods / Conclusion

narrative methods. October 2011 • 200 pages Cloth (978-1-8486-0718-7) • £67.00 Paper (978-1-8486-0719-4) • £23.99

READERSHIP Postgraduate students and researchers across the social sciences looking to use narrative methods in their own research June 2013 • 224 pages Cloth (978-1-4462-5265-9) • £75.00 Paper (978-1-4462-5266-6) • £24.99

NARRATIVE NETWORKS: STORIED APPROACHES IN A DIGITAL AGE Brian Alleyne Goldsmiths College This book responds to the dynamic and modern production and consumption of stories of all kinds in popular and academic cultures. It offers a complete discussion of the underlying philosophical

and methodological issues of narrative and personal narrative research as well as applying these to the current digital climate. It provides practical guidance on data management and use of software for the narrative researcher.

VARIETIES OF NARRATIVE ANALYSIS Edited by James A Holstein Marquette University , Jaber F Gubrium University of Missouri 

Provides a view of narrative analysis to include personal documents, interactive dimensions of storytelling and how circumstances shape narrative production. March 2012 • 328 pages Paper (978-1-4129-8755-4) • £44.99

Illustrated with examples from a range of fields and disciplines as well as the author's own work on hacking cultures and cultural

activism, this title is a must for anyone wanting to learn about narrative networks and how to conduct successf ul narrative research

in a modern age.

CONTENTS Realism, Reform, and the Rise of Narrative in Social Science / Narrative Ways

of Knowing / Analysing Narrative / Using Narrative: What People do with Stories / Constructing Narrative / Practical Matters: Tools and Techniques for the Narrative Researcher / In-depth Case Study: a Retrospective Assessment

of a Life History Account / Summary: Seven Theses on Narrative Networks

READERSHIP  Adva nce d u nde rgra dua tes and pos tgra duat e r ese arc h s tud ents acro ss the social sciences, practitioners in fields such as social work, education, community work and development studies September 2013 • 240 pages Cloth (978-0-8 5702-783-2) • £65.00 Paper (978-0-85702-784-9) • £22.99

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THE SAGE HANDBOOK  OF VISUAL RESEARCH METHODS Edited by Eric Margolis Arizona State University and Luc Pauwels University of Antwerp This handbook is not only 'about' research,

it is also an example of the way that the visual can be incorporated in data collection

and the presentation of research findings. 2011 • 776 pages Cloth (978-1-84787-556-3) • £95.00

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 Visual Methods

VISUAL METHODOLOGIES

ADVANCES IN VISUAL METHODOLOGY

 An Introduction to Researching with Visual Materials

Edited by Sarah Pink RMIT  University, Melbourne

Third Edition Gillian Rose The Open University 

'The book is unique in bridging a wide range of methodologies from the humanities and the social scie nces. Rose's

in-depth and systematic discussion of theories and methods, as well as masterful handling of case studies and examples, will provide the reader with a valuable overview' - Anneke Smelik, Radboud  University Nijmegen

The Third Edition of Gillian Rose's bestselling critical introduction has been fully revised and updated. Each chapter retains its rigorous examination and demonstration of an individual methodolog y, while

This innovative book examines and introduces cutting-edge visual methods in social research. It explores the development of visual methodology as a field of interdisciplinary and postdisciplinary practice spanning scholarly and

applied concerns. Positioned at the innovative edge of theory and practice in contemporary visual research, Sarah Pink's engaging book goes beyond the methods, ideas and fields of practice outlined in existing texts and handbooks. This book examines: •

changes in the way society consumes and creates its visual content,

new features include: a companion Website featuring additional examples of digital and social media, and moving images, see www.sagepub.co.uk/rose •

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full-colour images, extended further reading, and updated visual examples expanded coverage of social and new media an additional chapter on how to use visual materials for research and the presentation of research findings.

CONTENTS Researching with Visual Materials: A Brief Survey / Towards a Critical Visual Methodology / How to Use This Book / 'The Good Eye': Looking at Pictures

Using Compositional Interpretation / Content Analysis: Counting What You (Think You) See / Semiology: Laying Bare the Prejudices beneath the Smooth Surface of the Beautiful / Psychoanalysis: Visual Culture, Visual Pleasure, Visual Disruption / Discourse Analysis: Text, Intertextuality, Context  / Discours e Analysis II: Institution s and Ways of Seein g / To Audien ce Studies and beyond: Ethnographies of Television Audiences, Fans and Users / Making

Photographs as Part of a Research Project: Photo-Documentation, Photo

how new theoretical and methodological engagements are developing and emerging in research practice

continuing to be clear in structure and lucid in style. Reflecting

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the impact new approaches are having on the types of knowledge

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visual research produces and critiques the ways visual research intersects with new media

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the implications for social and cultural research, scholarship and intervention.

CONTENTS PART ONE: KEY DEVELOPMENTS AND ISSUES / Advances in Visual Methodology: An Introduction / Visual Ethics in a Contemporary Landscape  / PART TWO: VISUAL PRACTICES AND VISUAL ING PRACTICE / The Politics and Practices of Looking: CCTV Video and Domestic Kitchen Practice s / Video in Analytic Practice / Virtual/Visual Ethnography: Methodological Crossroads

at the Intersection of Visual and Internet Research / PART THREE: NEW

 VISUAL SPATIALITIES / Community Mapp ing as Auto-Ethn o-Carto graphy /   Visual Ethnography and the Internet: Visualit y, Virtuality and the Spatial Turn  / Geomedia-Based Methods and Visual Resear ch. Exploring the Theoretical Tenets of the Localization and Visualization of Mediated Social Relations with Direct Visualization Techniques / PART FOUR: PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP, ARTS  AND VISUAL INTERVENTION / Ethno-Mimesis and Participatory Arts / Healing

Mirrors: Body Arts and Ethnographic Methodologies / Digital Technologies,

Visual Research and the Non-Fiction Image / PART FIVE: TOWARDS AN

Elicitation and Photo-Essays / Ethics and Visual Research Methods / Visual Methodologies: A Review

INTERDISCIPLINARY VISUAL METHODOLOGY? / An Anthropologist in the

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RESEARCHING THE VISUAL Second Edition Michael Emmison University of Queensland , Philip Smith Yale University and Margery Mayall University of Queensland  This Second Edition provides an excellent overview of the field by covering the traditional themes and current trends in image centred photographic visual inquiry but extends this by demonstrating

the rich possibilities available through the analysis of everyday objects, places and interactions. The book includes chapters on researching 2D and 3D visual data, along with lived and living visual data, and also features a brand new chapter on rese arching the virtual world of the interne t. Drawing

on theoretical traditions as diverse as semiotics, ethnomethodology, symbolic interactionism and material culture studies, the Second Edition provides an invaluable guide for researchers interested

in conducting innovative visual inquiry. Packed with exercises and projects, the book makes it easy for students to undertake their own research with limited resources and budget.

CONTENTS  A Ver y Sh ort Intro ducti on: The Scope of V isual Rese arch / Et hics in Visua l R esea rch / V isual Resea rch: The Disciplinary Core / Two Dimensional Visual Data: Photographs and beyond / Three Dimensional Visual Data / Lived

 Visual Data / Living Forms of Vis ual Data / Virtual Vi sual Data

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DOING DISCOURSE RESEARCH  An Introduction for Social Scientists Reiner Keller University of Augsburg Bryan Jenner, Translator  This book provides an introduction to the basic principles of discourse research and provides practical research strategies for doing discourse analyses in the social sciences. The book includes guidance on developing a research question, selecting data and analysing it, and presenting results. The author has extensive practical experience in the field of discourse research and shows throughout how the methods suggested are compatible with numerous resear ch questions and problems in sociology, cultural, political and social studies and related disciplines.

CONTENTS The Current Relevance of Discourse Research / Approaches in Discourse Research / The Research Process / Doing Discourse Research / Step by Step: Detailed Analysis of Data / From Details to General Results / Final Remarks

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HOW TO DO CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS  A Multimodal Introduction David Machin Cardiff University and  Andrea Mayr Queen's University, Belfast 

This book shows readers exactly how language, power and ideology are negoti-

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landscape. With case studies and examples from a range of traditional and new media content, the book equips students to understand

the relationship between language, discourse and social practices.

CONTENT ANALYSIS  An Introduction to Its Methodology  Third Edition Klaus Krippendorff The Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania

The definitive sourcebook of the history and core principles of content analysis as well as an essential resource for present and future studies, this book introduces readers to ways of analyzing meaningful matter such as texts, images and voices. May 2012 • 456 pages Paper (978-1-4129-8315-0) • £34.99

CONTENTS Introduction: How Meaning Is Created / Making Active Choices: Lan guage as a Set of Resources / Analysing Semiotic Choices: Words and Images / Presenting

Speech and Speakers: Quoting Verbs / Representing People: Language and Identity / Representing Actions: Transitivity and Verb Processes / Concealing and Taking for Granted: Nominalization and Presupposition / Persuading with  Abstr action: Rhe toric and Metap hor / Committing and Evad ing: Truth, Modality and Hedging / Conclusion: Doing Critical Discourse Analysis and Its Discontents

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QUALITATIVE CONTENT ANALYSIS IN PRACTICE Margrit Schreier  Jacobs University Bremen

The first book to give step-by-step guidance to students on how to do qualitative content analysis. February 2012 • 280 pages Cloth (978-1-84920-592-4) • £75.00 Paper (978-1-84920-593-1) • £26.99

USING PHOTOGRAPHS IN SOCIAL AND HISTORICAL RESEARCH

CONTENTS

Penny Tinkler University of Manchester 

Photographic Practices / Archives and Digital Resources / Generating Photos: Researcher / 

Sophisticated, original and comprehensi ve, this book investigates photographic research practices and the conceptual and theoretical issu es

Generating Photos: Research Participants / Photo Interviews: Liste ning to Talk about Photos / Ethical

Getting Started: Using Photos in Research /  Image Work: 5 Lines of Enquiry / Studying Found Photos / Autobiographical Methods / Researching

that underpin them. Using international case studies and 'behind the

Issues and Legalities

methods and photographic sources.

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scenes' interviews, Penny Tinkler sets out research practices and explores the possibilities, and challenges, of working with different

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QUALITATIVE CONTENT ANALYSIS

THE CONTENT ANALYSIS GUIDEBOOK 

Udo Kuckartz

Second Edition

Philipps-Universitat Marburg

Kimberly A Neuendorf

How can you analyse narratives, interviews,

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field notes, or focus group data? Qualitative Content Analysis

Content analysis is one of the most important but complex research methodologies in the social sciences. In this thoroughly updated Second Edition

is ideal

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how to present results and use qualitative data analysis software packages, which are highly recommended for use in combination

with qualitative content analysis since they allow a fast, reliable, and more accurate analysis. The book shows in detail how to use software, from transcribing the verbal data to presenting and

Kimberly A Neuendorf provides an accessible core text

for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students across the social sciences. Comprising step-by-step instructions and practical advice, this text unravels the complicated aspects of content analysis. October 2013 • 302 pages Paper (978-1-4129-7947-4) • £40.99

visualizing the results.

CONTENTS  Analy zing Qualita tive Data - But How? / From Class ical to Qualitative Content

 Anal ysis / Ba sic Conce pts and Proce ss of Qu alitat ive Conten t A nalysi s /  Three Basic Methods of Qualitative Data Analysis / Qualitative Data Analysis

Using Computer Assistance / Quality Standards, Research Report and Documentation / Concluding Remarks

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INTERNET RESEARCH SKILLS Third Edition Niall Ó Dochartaigh National 

with the systematic analysis of text of any kind

University of Ireland 

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Internet Research Skills

is a clear,

concise guide to effective online research

for social science and humanities students. The first half of the book deals with publications online, devoting separate chapters to academic articles, books, official publications and news sources, which form the core secondar y sources for social

INTERNET RESEARCH METHODS

science research. The second half of the book deals with the open Web, a vast and confusing realm of materials, many of which have

no direct print counterpart. This Third Edition has been updated throughout and now includes:

Second Edition

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Claire Hewson The Open University , Carl Vogel Trinity College, University  of Dublin and Dianna Laurent

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Southeastern Louisiana University 

This book presents a comprehensive, state-of-the-art review of the Internet as

coverage of cutting-edge online services as well as newly developed approaches to using online materials additional material on the use of social networks for research illustrations, examples and short exercises to help students put what they learn into practice.

CONTENTS Into the Cloud: New Research Skills for the Information Age / The Rise of

a tool for conducting research in the social and behavioural science s. Building on the first edition, the

authors provide extensive updates to reflect current developments

the Search Engines / Summary of Chapters / Who This Book Is Aimed at /  Books / Print Publications Online / Library Catalogues / Online Bookshops

and trends in Internet research, focusing on what has been achieved

 / Full-Text Books O nline / Book Reviews / Publish ers / Exercises / Ar ticles  / Un ders tandi ng Acade mic Art icle s / Annu al Review s / Googl e S chola r / 

explored, and practical advice and guidance on the tools, methods

Indexing and Abstracting Databases / Specialized Subject Databases / FullText Articles Online / Publishers / Open Access / Other Article Databases /  Theses and Dissertations / Exercises / Subject Guides / Searching the Open

so far, and identifying opportunities and possibilities in the new 'era' of Internet research. Key theoretical debates and issues are

and techniques available offered, using illustrative examples and case studies throughout. The authors cover both obtrusive and unobtrusive methods in primary research, including quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods approaches, across a broad range of disciplines. A section on secondary research is also included.

CONTENTS The Internet / Internet-Me diated Resea rch: State of the Art / Tools for Internet-

Mediated Research / Ethics in Internet-Mediated Research / Designing and Implementing an IMR Study / What Can Go Wrong? / Compendium of Resources

Web / Academic Subject Guides / Universal Subject Guides / Under standing

Web Addresses / Understanding Websites / Exercises / Searching the Keyword Search Engines / Introduction / The Big Three / Advanced Searching  / Meta Search Engines / Comparing Search Engines with Meta Search Engines  / Boolean Search ing / How Search Engin es Search / Devising Searc h Queries

 / Look before You Leap / Technical D ifficul ties / Exerc ises / Social Media, News and Multimedia / Social Media / Email Lists / Discussion Groups  / N ews / Mu ltime dia / E xerci ses / G overn ments , A rchi ves and Stati stic s (Niall Ó Dochartaigh and Patricia Sleeman) / Introduction / Governments  / Ar chives / St atisti cs / E xercise s / Evaluat ion and Citati on / Introdu ction  / C las sifica tio n / E valu atio n / Cit ati on / E xerc ise s / Beyo nd Sea rchi ng: Networks, Research Management and Online Research / Research Networks and Research Suppo rt / Social Networks / Organizing Your Research / Internet

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Research Methods

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THE SAGE HANDBOOK OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH Edited by Sara Price Institute of Education, Carey Jewitt Institute of Education and Barry Brown Mobile Life Centre

This timely, authoritative handbook explores the issues of rapid technological

development, social change and the ubiquity of computing technologies which have become an integral part of people's everyday lives This is a comprehensive, up-to-date resource for th e 21st century. It addresses the key aspects of research within the digital technology field and provides a clear framework for readers wanting to navigate the changeable current s of digital innovation. The main themes include: •

introduction to the field of contemporary digital technology research

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new digital technologies: key characteristics and considerations

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research perspectives for digital technologies: theory and analysis

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environments and tools for digital research research challenges.

INNOVATIONS IN DIGITAL RESEARCH METHODS Edited by Peter J Halfpenny  and Robert Procter both at the University of Manchester 

Vast amounts of data are generated by people as they go about their dail y lives yet social researchers are struggling to exploit

them. At the same time, the challenges faced by society in the 21st Century are growing ever more complex, and demand research that is bigger in scale, more collaborative and multi-

disciplinary than ever before. This cutting-edge title provides an accessible introduction to digital social research tools and methods

that harness this ‘data deluge’ and successfully tackle key societal

challenges. Contributions from leading international researchers cover topics such as: qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods research data management social network analysis survey methods visualising social data • • • • •

CONTENTS PART ONE: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE FIELD OF CONTEMPORARY DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH / PART T WO: NEW DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES: KEY

CHARACTERISTICS AND CONSIDERATIONS / PART THREE: RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES FOR DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES: THEORY AND ANALYSIS /  PART FOUR: ENVIRONMENTS AND TOOLS FOR DIGITAL RESEA RCH / PART

FIVE: RESEARCH CHALLENGES

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CASES IN ONLINE INTERVIEW RESEARCH Edited by Janet Salmons Vision2Lead, Inc. and Capella University School  of Business and Technology  This casebook on online interview research

CONTENTS e-Infrastructure for the Social Sciences / The Changing Social Data Landscape / Exploiting New Sources of Data / Managing Social Data /  Modeling and Simulation / Quantitative Methods / Qualitative Methods /  Mixed Methods / Social Network Analysis / Survey Methods / Visualising Social Data / Collaborative Research Environments / Ethics and e-Research  / Getting Started with e-Resear ch / The Future for Social Research Methods

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NETNOGRAPHY Doing Ethnographic Research Online Robert V Kozinets York University, Canada

Full procedural guidelines for the accurate

and ethical conduct of ethnographic

contains multidisciplinary cases from researchers who have done structured

research online are set out in this volume,

or unstructured online interviews using a variety of qualitative methods and mixed methods approaches in data collection.

thoroughly introduce, explain and illustrate

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THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO USING THE WEB FOR RESEARCH Nigel Ford Sheffield University 

Nigel Ford provides readers with the strategies they need when using the internet as part of their research, and guides them through the necessary skills

needed to independently conduct and evaluate research. 2011 • 256 pages Cloth (978-0-85702-364-3) • £62.00 Paper (978-0-85702-365-0) • £20.99

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CONDUCTING ONLINE SURVEYS Second Edition  Valerie M Su e and Lois A Ritter California State University, East Bay  This book provides a useful, straightforward,

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THE SAGE HANDBOOK OF MIXED METHODS IN SOCIAL & BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH Second Edition  Abbas Tashakkori Tasha kkori University  of North Texas, Charles Teddlie Louisiana State University 

Surveying the differing viewpoints and disciplinary approaches to using mixed methods, this volume helps the reader explore the answers to a wide range of key questions in the field. 2010 • 912 pages Cloth (978-1-4129-7266-6) (978-1-4129-7266-6) • £95.00

FLASH PROGRAMMING FOR THE SOCIAL & BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES  A Simple Simp le Guide Guid e to Sophistica Sop histicated ted Online Surveys and Experiments

MIXED METHODS APPLICATIONS APPLICATIONS IN ACTION RESEARCH

 Yana Weinstei n Washington

From Methods to Community Action

University, St. Louis

Nataliya V Ivankova University of Alabama, Birmingham

This book is a step-by-step guide to using

This book outlines and explains in detail the necessary steps in designing, conducting, implementing and reporting an action

 Adobe Flash to develop d evelop experiments experim ents and other research tools; each chapter presents a set of techniques required for one aspect of programming an experiment.

research study with a solid mixed methods foundation. Illustrative examples, featured articles, scripts, templates and outlines will serve

as helpful practical tools. Questions and exercises in each chapter will help inspire reflective student practices.

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DESIGNING AND CONDUCTING MIXED METHODS RESEARCH Second Edition John W Creswell University of  Pla no Nebraska, Lincoln and Vicki L Plano Clark University of Cincinnati  Combining the latest thinking about mixed

methods research designs with practical, step-by-step guidance, the Second Edition of this text now covers six major mixed methods designs. 2010 • 488 pages Paper (978-1-4129-7517-9) • £38.99

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Evaluation

THE SCIENCE OF EVALUATION

CONDUCTING NEEDS ASSESSMENTS

 A Realist Manifesto

 A Multidiscipli Multi disciplinary nary Approach

Ray Pawson University of Leeds

Second Edition

Evaluation researchers are tasked with providing the evidence to guide programme-building and to assess its outcomes. As such, they labour under the highest expectations - bringing independence and objectivity to policy

Fernando I Soriano California

making. They face huge challenges, given the complexity

of modern interventions and the politicised backdrop to all of their

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science? This is the question addressed by Ray Pawson in this sequel to Realistic Evaluation (SAGE, 1997) and Evidence-Based

Policy (SAGE, 2006). In answer, he provides a detailed blueprint for an evaluation science based on realist principles.

CONTENTS PART ONE: PRECURSORS AND PRINCIPLES / Precursors / First Principle s:

 A Rea list Diagnos tic Wor kshop / PART TWO: WRESTING COMPLEXI TY -

State University, San Marcos

This book demystifies the process of planning a community intervention, using clear and simple language to aid students'

understanding. New to this Second Edition: updated case examples that reflect current issues a new section dealing with HIPPA regulations • • •

a new section covering the importance of evidence based practice

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increased sensitivity to multicultural issues.

CONTENTS Preface / Introduction / Conceptual, Theoretical and Practical Considerations

When Undertaking Needs Assessments / Sociopolitical and Economic Considerations / Social, Gender and Cultural Considerations / Quantitative  Asses sment Method s / Quantita tive Data Preparation and Statis tical Analys is  / Qualitative Meth ods / Qualitativ e Data Preparati on and Statistic al Analys is / 

Recruiting and Collecting Data from Participants / Reporting and Presenting Study Findings / Appendix

LOSERS AND WINNERS / A Complexity Checklist / Contested Complexity  / Informe d Guesswork / PART THREE: TOWARDS EVALUATION SCIENCE:  / Invisibl e Mechani sms I: The Long Road to Be havioural Change / Invisible Mechanisms II: Clinical Interventions Are Social Interventions / Synthesis as

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management, marketing and public administration

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EVALUATION

CONSULTING START S TART-UP -UP AND MANAGEMENT

 A Systematic Syste matic Approach A pproach

 A Guide for Evaluators Evaluato rs and  Applied Researcher Researcherss

Seventh Edition

Gail V Barrington Barrington

Peter H Rossi University of  Massachusetts, Mark W Lipsey  Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy  Studies and Howard E Freeman UCLA

This text includes the latest techniques and approaches to evaluation as well as guidelines for how evaluations should be tailored to fit programs and social contexts.

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EVALUATION ROOTS ESSENTIALS OF UTILIZATION-FOCUSED EVALUATION Michael Quinn Patton UtilizationFocused Evaluation, Saint Paul 

Incorporating both theory and practice, this text provides students with an essential resource on how to do useful and effective evaluations. November 2011 • 488 pages Paper (978-1-4129-7741-8) • £37.99

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 A Wider Perspect Perspective ive of Theorists’ The orists’  Views and Influen Influences ces Second Edition Edited by Marvin C Alkin University  of California, Los Angeles

This book provides an updated examination of current evaluation theories

and traces their evolution; the author shows how theories build upon theories and, therefore, evaluation theories are related to each other. May 2012 • 440 pages Paper (978-1-4129-9574-0) (978-1-4129-9574-0) • £38.99

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PROGRAM EVALUATION EVALUATION AND PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT

QUALITA QUALITATIVE RESEARCH RE SEARCH & EVALUATION METHODS

 An Introduct Int roduction ion to Practice Pr actice

Michael Quinn Patton Utilization-

Third Edition Focused Evaluation, Saint Paul 

Second Edition

This revised and updated edition of a methodological classic continues to provide practical, comprehensive and strategic guidance on: qualitative design; purposeful sampling; interviewing;

James C McDavid University  of Victoria, Canada, Irene Huse and Laura R L Hawthorn Program Evaluation and Performance Measurement offers readers both a conceptual

and practical

introduction to program evaluation and per formance measurement for public and non-profit organizations. Although it is an introductory text, the work discusses topics in a detailed fashion. The conceptual

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framework for the text is the performance management cycle in organizations, which includes strategic planning, program and policy design, implementation, evaluation, reporting and utilization of results to adjust strategic objectives.

REALWORLD EVALUATION

CONTENTS Dedication / Acknowledgments / Preface / Key Concepts and Issues in Program Evaluation and Performance Measurement / Understanding and  Apply ing Program Logic Mode ls / Research Desig ns for Program Evaluation s

Working Under Budget, Time, Data, and Political Constraints

 Applying Quali tative Evaluation Methods / Needs Ass essments for Program

Second Edition

 / Mea sur eme nt for Pro gra m Eval uat ion and Per for man ce Mon ito rin g /  Development and Adjustment / Concepts and Iss ues in Economic Evaluation

 / Pe rfor mance Measu rement as a n A pproa ch t o Eva luati on / Desi gn a nd Implementation of Performance Measurement Systems / Using Performance

Measurement for Accountability and Performance Improvement / Program

Evaluation and Program Management: Joining Theory and Practice / The Nature and Practice of Professional Judgment in Program Evaluation / 

Michael Bamberger Independent  Consultant, Jim Rugh Independent  Consultant and Linda Mabry  Washington State University, Vancouver  Using a tried, tested and refined approach

Glossary / Index / About the Authors December 2012 • 536 pages Paper (978-1-4129-7831-6) • £51.00

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PRACTICAL PROGRAM PROGRA M EVALUATION EVALUATION  Assessi ng and Improving  Assessing I mproving Planning, Implem Implementati entation, on, and Effectiveness Second Edition Huey-Tsyh Chen Center for Disease Control and Prevention Practical Program Evaluation , Second Edition

introduces students to the real world of evaluation, focusing on issues that arise in professional practice. The text concentrates on the steps vital to program evaluation: systematically identifying stakeholder

INTERACTIVE EVALUATION EVALUATION PRACTICE Mastering the Interpersonal Dynamics of Program Evaluation Jean A King University of Minnesota and Laurie Stevahn Seattle University 

needs; selecting evaluation options best suited to particular needs and reconciling any necessary tradeoffs; and turning the decisions

This book helps bridge the gap between

into action. Using illustrative examples from the field, the book details

giving students the specific skills they need

the methods and procedures involved in analyzing and identifying stakeholder expectations and selecting an evaluation strategy. The principles and strategies presented are reinforced with theoretical

 justificat  justi fication. ion. This provides students stude nts and professional profes sional evaluators evaluat ors

the theory of evaluation and its practice, to use in different evaluation settings. May 2012 • 456 pages Paper (978-0 -7619-2673-3) -7619-2673-3) • £27.00

with the knowledge and flexibility to desig n suitable evaluations and

follow them through from start to finish. November 2013 • 296 pages Paper (978-1-4129-9230-5) (978-1-4129-9230-5) • £35.9 9

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Quantitative Methods / Survey Methods

DOING Q METHODOLOGICAL RESEARCH

QUANTITATIVE TOOLS FOR MACRO-COMPARATIVE RESEARCH

Theory, Method & Interpretation

September 2013 • 420 pages Cloth (978-1-4129-7495-0) • £44.99

Simon Watts Nottingham Trent  University and Paul Stenner

Salvatore J Babones University of Sydney, Australia

The Open University 

This book is a simple yet thorough introduction to Q methodology, a research technique designed to capture the subjective or first-person viewpoints of its participants. Simon Watts and Paul Stenner outline the key theoretical concepts developed by William Stephenson, the founder of Q methodology, including subjectivity, concourse theor y and abduction. They then turn to the practicalities of delivering high-quality Q methodological research. Using worked examples throughout, the reader is guided through: important design issues the conduct of fieldwork • • •

all the analytic processes of Q methodology, including factor extraction, factor rotation and factor interpretation.

CONTENTS

SURVEY RESEARCH METHODS Fourth Edition Floyd J Fowler, Jr University  of Massachusetts, Boston

Floyd J Fowler Jr provides students and researchers who want to collect, analyze

or read about survey data with a sound basis for evaluating how each aspect of a survey can affect its precision, accuracy and credibility.

PART ONE: THEORY / Introducing Q Methodology: The Inverted Factor Technique / Theory and Q Methodology: From Stephenson to Constructionism  / PART TWO: METHOD / Basic Design Issues: Research Questions and Q Sets  / Doing the Fieldwork: Participa nts, Materials and Proce dure / Understan ding

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the Analytic Process (1): Factor Extraction / Understanding the Analytic Process (2): Factor Rotation and the Preparation of Factor Arrays / PART THREE: INTERPRETATION / Factor Interpretation / Writing and Publishing Q Methodological Papers

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A PRIMER ON PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING (PLS-SEM) Joseph F Hair, Jr Kennesaw State University , G Tomas M Hult Michigan State University, East Lansing, Christian Ringle Technical University of HamburgHarburg and Marko Sarstedt Ottovon-Guericke University, Magdeburg  A Pr im er on Pa rt ia l Le as t Sq ua re s St ru ct ur al Eq ua ti on

Modeling (PLS-SEM) provides a concise yet very practical guide

to understanding and using PLS path modelling. This text includes extensive examples on SmartPLS software and is accompanied by multiple data sets that the user can download from the accompanying

website. Professors are supported with PowerPoint and instructor guides that can be posted to their websites.

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Structural Equation Modeling / Specifying the Path Model and Collecting Data

 / Path Model Estimation / Assessing PLS-SEM Result s Part One: Evaluation of Reflective Measurement Models / Assessing PLS-SEM Results Part Two:

Evaluation of the Formative Measurement Models / Assessing PLS-SEM Results Part Three: Evaluation of the Structural Model / Advanced Topics in PLS Path Modeling / Modeling Heterogeneous Data

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Survey Methods

HOW TO CONDUCT SURVEYS

WEB SURVEY METHODOLOGY

 A Step-by-Step Guide

Mario Callegaro Google, Katja Lozar Manfreda and Vasja Vehovar

Fifth Edition

both at University of Ljubljana

 Arlene Fink University of 

Web Survey Methodology  guides the reader through the past 15 years of resea rch

California at Los Angeles

in web survey methodology. It provides

The Fifth Edition of this book shares the same goals as the previous editions: to guide readers in developing their own

practical guidance on the latest techniques

rigorous surveys and in evaluating the credibility and usefulness of surveys created by others. This edition, like the

for collecting valid and reliable data and is the first book that provides comprehensive overview of all related web research methodology issues.

others, also gives practical step- by-step guidance on how to achieve these goals. The guidance centres on choosing the appropriate type

testing to analysis and survey soft ware are all covered in a systematic

Core topics from preparation to questionnaire design, recruitment

survey, deciding on the characteristics and numbers of respondents

and insightful way. The reader will be exposed to key concepts and key findings in the literature, covering measurement, non-response, adjustments, paradata, and cost issues. The book also discusses

and reporting the results.

the hottest research topics in survey rese arch today, such as internet

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with passive measurements, e-social sciences, mixed modes and business intelligence.

of survey, writing survey questions and responses, formatting the

to include and how often they should be surveyed, and analyzing

panels, virtual interviewing, mobile surveys and the integration

Conducting Surveys: Everyone Is Doing It / The Survey Form: Questions, Scales, and Appearance / Getting It Together: Some Practical Concerns /  Sampling / Survey Design: Environmental Control / Analyzing and Organizing

CONTENTS

Data from Surveys / Presenting the Survey Results

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION / PART TWO: CORE PROCESS / PART THREE:

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 ASPECTS / PART FIVE: RELATED ISSUES / PART SIX: CONCLUSION

SELECTED METHODOLOGICAL TOPICS / PART FOUR: TECHNOLOGY

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DESIGNING SURVEYS  A Guide to Decisions and Procedures

CONSTRUCTING SURVEY DATA

Third Edition Johnny Blair Abt Associates Inc , Ronald F Czaja North Carolina State University and Edward A  Blair University of Houston

 A Critical Approach

This new edition accounts for the latest developments in telephone, Internet and email surveying, and provides a more comprehensive treatment on questionnaire testing.

Giampietro Gobo University of  Milan and Sergio Mauceri RisMes

Engaging and informative, Giampietro Gobo and Sergio Mauceri's new book offers students and researchers a practical

introduction to the process of collecting

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survey data. By proposing a post-positivist,

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Lesley Andres University of 

maximize the quality of survey data by emphasizing the interaction between interviewer and interviewee. The following key areas are explored in detail: an historical overview of the field the survey within global and local contexts the process of preparing the survey and designing data collection the methods of detecting bias and improving data quality.

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This concise, accessible book on designing

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DESIGNING AND DOING SURVEY RESEARCH

• • • •

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need to start out a survey research project. With a focus on the impact of new technologies, this book provides a cutting-edge look at how survey research

Concept / PART THREE: DESIGNING THE DATA COLLECTION / Steps in the

'Answering Process' / The Cognitive Part of the 'Answering Process' / The Communicative Part of the 'Answering Process' / The Living Questionnaire

 / PART FOUR: MAKING I T WORK: THE QUALITATIVE CONTRIBU TION TO

SURVEY / Improving (ex ante) the Questionnaire: The Pretesting / Improving (in itinere) Data Quality by Broadening the Interviewer's Tasks / Improving (a posteriori) the Collected Data: The Deviant Case Analysis

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Survey Methods / Social Network Analysis

ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF SURVEY DATA

BRITISH SOCIAL ATTITUDES 28

Jörg Blasius University of Bonn, Germany , and Victo r Thiessen

Edited by Alison Park , Elizabeth Clery NatCen Social Research, John Curtice ScotCen Social Research and  University of Strathclyde , Miranda Phillips NatCen Social Research and David Utting Independent writer,  researche r and policy consultant 

Dalhousie University  This book, for all researchers using survey

data, presents new ways to assess the data's quality and reliability. It introduces the latest methods of assessing the quality

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The acclaimed British Social Attitudes survey is the essential guide to the topical issues and debates facing British society today. The 28th Report looks at both life under Labour an d the prospect of life under

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A COMPANION TO SURVEY RESEARCH

WEB SOCIAL SCIENCE

Michael Ornstein York 

Robert Ackland Australian

University, Canada  A Co mp an io n to Su rv ey Re se ar ch

provides a critical overview and guide to survey methods. Rather than a set of formulas, survey design is understood as

a craft where the translation of research questions into a questionnaire, sample design and data collection strategy is based on understanding how respondents answer questions and their willingness to complete a survey. Following an account of the invention of survey research in th e 1930s, a synthesis of research on question design is followed by a practical

guide to designing a questionnaire. Chapters on sampling, which

deal with the statistical basis of survey sampling and practical design

issues, are followed by extensive discussions of survey pretesting and data collection. The book concludes with a discussion of the extent and implications of falling response rates.

CONTENTS The Invention of Survey Research / Writing Survey Questions / Designing a Questionnaire / Fundamentals of Probability Sampling for Surveys / Applied Sample Design / Survey Pretesting / Survey Data Collection / The Future of Survey Research

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This book provides readers with a comprehensive guide to the theory and research of Web social science. It traces

and critically evaluates the rise of Web social science, demonstrates how the Web

is used as a resource for social research,

illuminates how Web social science promotes social and political connections and the ways in which it has been used for the purposes of commerce and business.

Situating social sciences in the light of our current e-society, this book gives the reader the opportunity to: •

gain an understanding of the fundamental changes to society, politics and the economy that have resulted from new information

and communication technologies such as the Web •

learn about relevant data, tools and research methods for conducting research using Web data

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learn how Internet data are providing new insights into longstanding social science research questions

•

understand how social science can facilitate an understanding of life in the Internet.

CONTENTS Online Research Methods / Social Media Networks / Hyperlink Networks  / Fr ien dshi p F orma tion and Soc ial Infl uen ce / O rgan isat iona l C olle ctiv e Behaviour / Politics and Participation / Government and Public Policy /  Production and Collaboration / Commerce and Marketing

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FEMINIST MEASURES IN SURVEY RESEARCH

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This text shows readers how to combine

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Social Network Analysis

INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS

SOCIAL NETWORK  ANALYSIS

Malcolm Alexander Griffith University 

Third Edition

Social networks are a hot topic. The Internet and social networking Websites

John Scott University of Plymouth

The Third Edition of this bestselling text has been fully revised and updated to include coverage of the many developments in social network analysis

place a global web of human connectivity

at our fingertips. The expanding circles of our 'social' networks offer new possibilities of connection and collective action. Introduction to Social Network  Analysis is a hands-on introduction to social

over the last decade. Written in a clear and

network analysis (SNA), which provides readers with the tools

needed to apply SNA techniques to their own work. The book: introduces the variety of research traditions and practices within the SNA community •

•

outlines simple, accessible procedures for data collection and

•

analysis beginning with the reader's own personal network data shows how to manipulate network data sets of any size

•

provides exercises and examples to demonstrate the practical applications of SNA .

accessible style, the book introduces these topics to newcomers and non-specialists and gives sufficient detail for more advanced users of social network analysis.

Throughout the book, key ideas are discussed in relation to the principal software programs available for social network analysis. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the field, outlining both its theoretical basis and its key techniques. Building upon the core ideas of points, lines and paths, John Scott builds a framework of network analysis that covers such measures as density, centrality, clustering, centralization and spatialization. He identifies the various

types of clique, component and circle into which networks are formed, and outlines an approach to socially structured positions

CONTENTS

within networks.

The Excitement of Social Network Analysis / PART ONE: MAPPING 'WHOLE'

CONTENTS

SOCIAL NETWORKS / Network Diagrams: The Power of Visualization / 

Networks and Relations / The Development of Social Network Analysis / 

Managing Complex Network Data / Structural Analysis of Whole Networks /  2-Mode Network Data: An Additional Dimension of Network Analysis / PART

 Analysing Rela tional Data / Lin es, Neighbour hood, and Densit y / Centralit y,

TWO: EGONET APPROACHES IN SNA AND LOGICS OF SOCIAL NET WORK  ANALYSIS / Egonet Resea rch: Name Generators and Social Capital Rese arch

Positions, Sets, and Clusters / Network Dynamics and Change Over Time /  Dimensions and Displays

 / N etwor k-Relev ant Surv ey D ata and Whole Netwo rk Models / R esea rch Designs for Social Network Ana lysis / PART THREE: EMERGING DIRECTIONS

IN NETWORK ANALYSIS, SOCIAL THEORY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH /  Network Modeling and Social Research Needs / Social Network Concepts and Social Theory / Putting Network Analysis to Work

Peripherality, and Centralization / Components, Cores, and Cliques / 

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SOCIAL NETWORK  ANALYSIS

THE SAGE HANDBOOK OF SOCIAL NETWORK  ANALYSIS

History, Theory and Methodology  Christina Prell University of  Maryland, College Park 

Providing practical advice, statistical models and relevant examples of application, this book is the complete

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introduction students need.

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