Researching Society and Culture

Höfundur: Clive Seale (Útgáfa: 5)
Researching Society and Culture

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Just starting out with social research? With contributions from experts across the social sciences, this book equips you with the tools for successfully investigating society and culture. It shows you how to prepare for research, generate and analyse data, and present your findings. Balancing theory with practice, it covers foundational concepts in methods and methodology alongside contemporary developments.

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Útgefandi
SAGE Publications, Ltd. (UK)
ISBN
9781529678901
Print ISBN
9781529628982
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
5
Höfundar
Clive Seale
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2025-02-07
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
100
Prent takmörkun
30
Afritunar takmörkun
30

Kaflar

  • Author biographies
  • Acknowledgements
  • Online resources
  • 1 Introduction and guide to using this book
  • Organisation of the book
  • Part I Starting out
  • 2 Philosophy, politics, and values
  • Philosophy
  • Epistemology
  • Ontology
  • Questioning the validity of science
  • Values and politics in social research
  • 3 Research and theory
  • Grand and middle-range theories
  • Inductive and abductive approaches
  • Intersectionality as a theoretical framework
  • Connecting theory and research
  • 4 Ethics and social research
  • Are procedures enough?
  • Politics and situated knowledge
  • Moral philosophy and research ethics
  • Ethical scandals and medical research
  • Relationships with research participants
  • Data analysis
  • Publication ethics
  • Guidelines, codes, and committees
  • 5 Participatory research
  • History
  • Common types of participatory research
  • Stimulating participation
  • The quality of participatory research
  • Sharing news about your study
  • 6 Doing a literature review
  • The literature review as a process
  • The functions of a literature review
  • Getting started
  • Writing your literature review
  • Systematic review
  • 7 Research questions and proposals
  • Research questions
  • Research proposals
  • Writing and revising the proposal
  • Managing your research project
  • 8 Research design
  • Non-experimental studies
  • Study designs to establish causality
  • Experimental studies
  • Part II Generating data
  • 9 Sampling
  • Representative and purposive sampling
  • Probability sampling
  • Response rates
  • Non-probability and purposive sampling
  • Sample size
  • 10 Questionnaires and interviews
  • Why choose structured methods?
  • Interviews or self-completion questionnaires?
  • Implementation
  • Layout and design
  • 11 Designing questions
  • Concepts and indicators
  • Measurement
  • What to include
  • Question wording
  • Asking sensitive questions
  • Layout and question order
  • Measuring attitudes
  • Using existing questions
  • Vignettes
  • Piloting
  • 12 Qualitative interviewing
  • What are qualitative interviews?
  • What the qualitative interview offers
  • The epistemological status of interviews
  • Questions of power and difference
  • The ethics of interviewing
  • Doing qualitative interviews
  • 13 Focus groups
  • Focus groups: a group chat?
  • What are they useful for?
  • Doing focus group research
  • Running focus groups
  • 14 Doing ethnography
  • Theoretical foundations
  • Doing ethnography
  • Ethnographic authority
  • Online ethnography
  • Visual ethnography
  • 15 Grounded theory
  • The discovery of grounded theory
  • Coding
  • Limitations of grounded theory
  • 16 Documents and archives
  • A personal story
  • Evaluating documents
  • Archives
  • 17 Mixed methods
  • Combining qualitative and quantitative methods
  • Using mixed methods
  • 18 Online data
  • Online ethnography revisited
  • Capturing online data
  • The walkthrough method
  • Analysing online data
  • Methods exclusive to online data
  • Ethics and legality
  • Part III Doing analysis
  • 19 Preparing data for statistical analysis
  • The data matrix
  • Different question formats
  • Cleaning data
  • Coding meaning
  • Recoding variables
  • Weighting cases
  • A note about statistical software
  • 20 Analysing single variables
  • Univariate statistics
  • 21 Bivariate analysis
  • Contingency tables
  • Statistical significance
  • Measures of association
  • Using interval variables
  • Strength and significance
  • Comparing the means of two groups
  • 22 Causal arguments and multivariate analysis
  • The elaboration paradigm
  • Other methods for multivariate analysis
  • 23 Secondary analysis
  • Data archives
  • Using archived data
  • Official statistics
  • 24 Content and text analysis
  • Content analysis
  • Text mining
  • Using dictionaries
  • 25 Thematic analysis
  • Preparation for thematic coding
  • Developing categories and then themes
  • Presenting your findings
  • Member checking and inter-rater reliability
  • Using computers to manage qualitative data
  • 26 Visual analysis
  • Visual materials for research
  • Methods for analysing visual materials
  • Making images
  • Ethics
  • 27 Analysing discourse and narratives
  • Discourse analysis
  • Critical discourse analysis
  • How to analyse discourse
  • Choosing texts
  • Analysis
  • Narrative analysis
  • 28 Analysing conversation
  • Some background to conversation analysis
  • Recording social life
  • Building a case
  • Making sense of evidence in courtrooms
  • Part IV Writing, presenting, reflecting
  • 29 Writing a research report
  • Writing as a tool
  • Structuring the sections
  • Citing other people‚Äôs work
  • The final draft
  • 30 Oral presentations
  • Getting ready
  • Designing a presentation
  • Delivery
  • 31 Research quality
  • The scientific tradition
  • The interpretivist tradition
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Index