Introducing Research Methodology

Höfundur: Uwe Flick (Útgáfa: 4)
Introducing Research Methodology

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New to research? This book helps you understand, think about and interpret each stage of the research process before you dive in. The holistic coverage helps you 'think through' each step, from formulating questions and selecting methods to collecting data and analyzing results. With new content on the ethics of digital research, online interviews and data protection, you will also find:10 new Student Research Spotlights that demonstrate how you can foster a reflexive mindset;A strong emphasis on social justice, including principles for culturally-responsive research and methodologies that challenge colonial perspectives;34 case studies of real-world research that apply theory to global contexts, from Portugal to Germany to Canada.

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Útgefandi
SAGE Publications, Ltd. (UK)
ISBN
9781036202170
Print ISBN
9781529680577
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
4
Höfundar
Uwe Flick
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2025-02-07
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
100
Prent takmörkun
30
Afritunar takmörkun
30

Kaflar

  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • About the Author
  • Preface to the Fourth Edition
  • Online Resources
  • Part I Orientation
  • 1 Why Social Research?
  • What is Social Research?
  • Basic Concepts in Social Research
  • The Tasks of Social Research
  • What Can You Achieve with Social Research?
  • Quantitative and Qualitative Research
  • Doing Research on Site, Doing it Online or Combining the Two
  • New Challenges: Diversity and Decolonizing Social Research
  • Transparency in Research
  • Why and How Research Can Be Fun
  • 2 Worldviews in Social Research
  • Positivism
  • Critical Rationalism
  • Interpretative Paradigm
  • Pragmatism
  • Constructionism
  • Critical Approaches
  • Social Research between Fundamentalism and Pragmatism
  • Transparency of Worldviews
  • 3 Ethical Issues in Social Research
  • Principles of Ethically Acceptable Research
  • Informed Consent
  • Confidentiality, Anonymity and Data Protection
  • How to Avoid Causing Harm to Participants
  • Codes of Ethics
  • Ethics Committees
  • Rules of Good Scientific Practice
  • Research Ethics: Cases and Mass Research
  • Research Ethics in Digital and Online Research
  • Data Protection: Regulations in the European Union
  • Research Ethics in Decolonizing and Indigenous Research
  • Transparency of Ethics in a Study
  • Conclusion
  • 4 From Research Idea to Research Question
  • Starting Points for Research
  • Origins of Research Questions
  • Characteristics of Research Questions
  • Good Research Questions, Bad Research Questions
  • The Use of Hypotheses
  • Transparency of Research Interests and Questions
  • Part II Planning and Design
  • 5 Reading and Reviewing the Literature
  • The Scope of a Literature Review
  • What Do We Mean by ‘Literature’?
  • Finding Literature
  • Areas of Literature
  • Reading Empirical Studies
  • How to Construct and Write a Literature Review
  • Referencing the Literature
  • Plagiarism and How to Avoid it
  • Systematic and Scoping Reviews
  • Critical Literature Reviews
  • Transparency of Literature Use in a Study
  • 6 Steps in the Research Process
  • Overview of the Research Process
  • The Research Process in Quantitative Research
  • The Research Process in Qualitative Research
  • Comparing the Processes of Quantitative and Qualitative Research
  • Transparency in the Research Process and How it Was Constructed
  • 7 Designing Social Research
  • Writing a Proposal for a Research Project
  • Developing a Timescale
  • Designing a Study
  • Research Designs in Quantitative Research
  • Qualitative Research Designs
  • Sampling
  • Sampling Strategies in Quantitative Research
  • Sampling Strategies in Qualitative Research
  • Sampling and Access in Online Research
  • Designing Indigenous Research
  • Transparency of Research Design, Sampling, and Access
  • Part III Method Selection
  • 8 Deciding on Your Methods
  • Decisions in the Research Process
  • Planning a Quantitative Study
  • Planning a Qualitative Study
  • Decisions within Quantitative and Qualitative Research
  • Deciding Between Qualitative And Quantitative Research
  • Deciding Whether to do Research on Site or Online
  • Deciding on Critical or Indigenous Approaches for Research
  • Deciding on Specific Approaches to Research
  • Transparency: Reflection Halfway through the Process
  • 9 Triangulation and Mixed Methods
  • Combining Different Approaches
  • Mixed Methods
  • Triangulation
  • Digital Research as a Complementary Strategy
  • Pragmatism and the Issue as Points of Reference
  • Pluralist and Multimodal Research
  • Transparency in Combining Multiple Methods
  • Part IV Working with Data
  • 10 Using Existing Data
  • What Does Existing Data Mean?
  • Why Use Existing Data?
  • Information and Data
  • Secondary Analysis
  • Working with Documents
  • Visual Data as Documents: Photo and Film
  • Analyzing Internet Documents and Interactions
  • Social Media for Doing Research
  • Problems with Using Digital Data
  • Big Data
  • Using Existing Data in Indigenous Research
  • Transparency in Working with Existing Data and Documents
  • 11 Collecting New Data
  • Questionnaires and Interviews
  • Quantitative Surveys Using Questionnaires
  • Qualitative Inquiries: Interviews and Focus Groups
  • Online Surveys, Interviews and Focus Groups
  • Observation
  • Obtaining and Documenting Information
  • Data Collection in Indigenous Research
  • Transparency in Collecting New Data
  • 12 Analyzing Data
  • Quantitative Data Analysis
  • Quantitative Content Analysis
  • Quantitative Analysis
  • Rethinking Quantitative Analysis in Indigenous Research
  • Qualitative Analysis
  • Transcription of Interview Data
  • Qualitative Content Analysis
  • Grounded Theory Coding
  • Thematic Coding
  • Thematic Analysis
  • Interpretative Methods: Analyzing Narratives
  • Formal Approaches: Talk in (Inter-) Action
  • Interpretative Methods of Analyzing Qualitative Data
  • Case Studies and Typologies
  • Qualitative Analysis in Indigenous Studies
  • Using Artificial Intelligence in Qualitative Analysis
  • Data Analysis in Mixed Methods and Triangulation Research
  • Transparency in Analyzing Data
  • Part V Reflection and Writing
  • 13 What is Good Research? Evaluating Your Research Project
  • Evaluating Empirical Studies
  • Quality and Evaluation of Quantitative Research
  • Reliability
  • Validity
  • Objectivity
  • Representativeness
  • Transparency and the Replication Crisis
  • Quality and Evaluation of Qualitative Research
  • Reformulation of Traditional Criteria
  • Method-Appropriate Criteria
  • Generalization
  • Credibility and Transparency in Qualitative Research
  • Standards and Quality in Digital Research
  • Research Quality in Indigenous Methodologies
  • Limitations of Research Approaches
  • Limitations of Quantitative Research
  • Limitations of Qualitative Research
  • Limitations of Triangulation and Mixed Methods in Social Research
  • 14 Writing up Research and Using Results
  • Goals of Writing Up Social Research
  • Writing Up Quantitative Research
  • Writing Up Qualitative Research
  • Writing Issues
  • Outlets for Writing
  • Transparency, Publication and Open Access
  • Feeding Back Results to Participants
  • Using Data in Debate
  • Presenting Research and Results in Indigenous Research
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index