Research methods in the social sciences
Somekh, Bridget, ed.
Research methods in the social sciences - New Delhi Vistaar Pub. 2005 - xiv,: 368p.
Introduction PART ONE: RESEARCH COMMUNITIES IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES - Bridget Somekh PART TWO: LISTENING, EXPLORING THE CASE AND THE ORIZING Introduction Ethnography - Juliet Gold bart and David HustlerResearch Diaries - Herbert Altrichter and Mary Louise HollyCase Study - Sheila Stark and Harry TorranceInterviewing and Focus Groups - Rosaline S Barbour and John Schostak Grounded Theory - Juliet Corbin and Nicholas L Holt Ethical Responsibility in Social Research - Heather Piper and Helen Simons PART THREE: RESEARCHING FOR IMPACT Feminist Methodologies - Diane Burns and Melanie WalkerCritical Theories of Race - Laurence Parker and Lorna RobertsQueer Theory/Lesbian and Gay Approaches - Gloria Filax et alAction Research - Susan Noffke and Bridget Somekh Researching Policy - Jill Blackmore and Hugh LauderThe Practice and Politics of Sponsored Evaluations - Tineke Abma and Thomas A Schwandt PART FOUR: OBSERVING, QUERYING, INTERPRETING Philosophy and Hermeneutics - Dave Heyward and Ian Stronach Phenomenology - Angie Titchen and Dawn Hobson Naturalistic Enquiry - Nigel Norris and Rob Walker Observation - Liz Jones and Bridget Somekh Discourse Analysis - Julia Gillen and Alan Petersen PART FIVE: READING AND REPRESENTING SOCIO-CULTURAL MEANINGSLife History and Narrative Approaches - Geoff Shacklock and Laurie ThorpSemiotic Approaches to Image-Based Research - Terry Carson et alSocial Semiotics and Multimodal Texts - Gunther Kress and Diane MaversCommunities of Practice - David Benzie et alActivity Theory - Ines Langemeyer and Morten NissenPART SIX: SAMPLING, CLASSIFYING AND QUANTIFYINGThe Foundations of Experimental/Empirical Research Methods - Dean Garratt and Yaojun LiThe Positivist Paradigm in Contemporary Social Science Research - Charles Crook and Dean GarrattElementary Quantitative Methods - Cathy LewinAn Introduction to Inferential Statistics - Sally Barnes and Cathy Lewin Testing for Differences and RelationshipsAn Introduction to Statistical Modelling - Kelvyn JonesPART SEVEN: QUANTITATIVE METHODS IN ACTIONRandom Reflections on Modelling, Geography and Voting - Kelvyn JonesMethodological Issues in International Comparative Assessments of Educational - W J PelgrumCapturing Complexity through Maturity Modelling - Jean Underwood and Gayle DillonEvaluating Literacy Advance in the Early Years of School - John AinleyWorking Backwards - Brian Doig The Road Less Travelled in Quantitative MethodologyCombining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Social Inquiry - Jennifer C Greene, Holly Kreider and Ellen MayerPART EIGHT: RESEARCHING IN POSTMODERN CONTEXTSDeconstruction - Erica Burman and Maggie MaclureFrom Hermeneutics to Post-Structuralism to Psychoanalysis - Tony Brown and Daniel HeggsPostmodernist Perspectives - Julianne Cheek and Noel GoughFrom Structuralism to Post-Structuralism - Lee Miller, Joanne 'Bob' Whalley and Ian StronachFeminism/Post-Structuralism - Bronwyn Davies and Susanne GannonSocial Science Research in Virtual Realities - Colin Lankshear and Kevin M LeanderPART NINE: PARTICIPATING IN THE RESEARCH COMMUNITY - Bridget Somekh et al
In this book the contributors introduce all the key qualitative and quantitative research methodologies and methods and draw readers into a community of researchers engaged in reflection on the research process
9788178294933
REA
Social sciences -- Methodology.
300.72 / RES
Research methods in the social sciences - New Delhi Vistaar Pub. 2005 - xiv,: 368p.
Introduction PART ONE: RESEARCH COMMUNITIES IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES - Bridget Somekh PART TWO: LISTENING, EXPLORING THE CASE AND THE ORIZING Introduction Ethnography - Juliet Gold bart and David HustlerResearch Diaries - Herbert Altrichter and Mary Louise HollyCase Study - Sheila Stark and Harry TorranceInterviewing and Focus Groups - Rosaline S Barbour and John Schostak Grounded Theory - Juliet Corbin and Nicholas L Holt Ethical Responsibility in Social Research - Heather Piper and Helen Simons PART THREE: RESEARCHING FOR IMPACT Feminist Methodologies - Diane Burns and Melanie WalkerCritical Theories of Race - Laurence Parker and Lorna RobertsQueer Theory/Lesbian and Gay Approaches - Gloria Filax et alAction Research - Susan Noffke and Bridget Somekh Researching Policy - Jill Blackmore and Hugh LauderThe Practice and Politics of Sponsored Evaluations - Tineke Abma and Thomas A Schwandt PART FOUR: OBSERVING, QUERYING, INTERPRETING Philosophy and Hermeneutics - Dave Heyward and Ian Stronach Phenomenology - Angie Titchen and Dawn Hobson Naturalistic Enquiry - Nigel Norris and Rob Walker Observation - Liz Jones and Bridget Somekh Discourse Analysis - Julia Gillen and Alan Petersen PART FIVE: READING AND REPRESENTING SOCIO-CULTURAL MEANINGSLife History and Narrative Approaches - Geoff Shacklock and Laurie ThorpSemiotic Approaches to Image-Based Research - Terry Carson et alSocial Semiotics and Multimodal Texts - Gunther Kress and Diane MaversCommunities of Practice - David Benzie et alActivity Theory - Ines Langemeyer and Morten NissenPART SIX: SAMPLING, CLASSIFYING AND QUANTIFYINGThe Foundations of Experimental/Empirical Research Methods - Dean Garratt and Yaojun LiThe Positivist Paradigm in Contemporary Social Science Research - Charles Crook and Dean GarrattElementary Quantitative Methods - Cathy LewinAn Introduction to Inferential Statistics - Sally Barnes and Cathy Lewin Testing for Differences and RelationshipsAn Introduction to Statistical Modelling - Kelvyn JonesPART SEVEN: QUANTITATIVE METHODS IN ACTIONRandom Reflections on Modelling, Geography and Voting - Kelvyn JonesMethodological Issues in International Comparative Assessments of Educational - W J PelgrumCapturing Complexity through Maturity Modelling - Jean Underwood and Gayle DillonEvaluating Literacy Advance in the Early Years of School - John AinleyWorking Backwards - Brian Doig The Road Less Travelled in Quantitative MethodologyCombining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Social Inquiry - Jennifer C Greene, Holly Kreider and Ellen MayerPART EIGHT: RESEARCHING IN POSTMODERN CONTEXTSDeconstruction - Erica Burman and Maggie MaclureFrom Hermeneutics to Post-Structuralism to Psychoanalysis - Tony Brown and Daniel HeggsPostmodernist Perspectives - Julianne Cheek and Noel GoughFrom Structuralism to Post-Structuralism - Lee Miller, Joanne 'Bob' Whalley and Ian StronachFeminism/Post-Structuralism - Bronwyn Davies and Susanne GannonSocial Science Research in Virtual Realities - Colin Lankshear and Kevin M LeanderPART NINE: PARTICIPATING IN THE RESEARCH COMMUNITY - Bridget Somekh et al
In this book the contributors introduce all the key qualitative and quantitative research methodologies and methods and draw readers into a community of researchers engaged in reflection on the research process
9788178294933
REA
Social sciences -- Methodology.
300.72 / RES