The SAGE Handbook of Social Research Methods

Social Research in Changing Social Conditions/PART ONE: DIRECTIONS IN SOCIAL RESEARCH/The End of the Paradigm Wars? /The History of Social Research Methods /Assessing Validity in Social Research/Ethnography and Audience/Social Research and Social Practice in Post-Positivist Society/From Questions of Methods to Epistemological Issues/The Case of Biographical Research/Research Ethics in Social Science /PART TWO: RESEARCH DESIGNS /The Core Analytics of Randomized Experiments for Social Research/Better Quasi-Experimental Practice /Sample Size Planning with Applications to Multiple Regression/Power and Accuracy for Omnibus and Targeted Effects /Re-Conceptualizing Generalization in Qualitative Research/Old Issues in a New Frame/Case Study in Social Research/Longitudinal and Panel Studies /Comparative and Cross-National Designs /PART THREE: DATA COLLECTION AND FIELDWORK/Modern Measurement in the Social Sciences /Natural and Contrived Data /Self Administered Questionnaires and Standardized Interviews /Qualitative Interviewing and Feminist Research /Biographical Methods /Focus Groups /PART FOUR: TYPES OF ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF EVIDENCE/An Introduction to the Multi Level Model for Change /Latent Variable Models of Social Research Data /Equating Groups /Discourse Analysis and Conversation Analysis /Analyzing Narratives and Story-Telling /Reconstructing Grounded Theory /Documents and Action /Video and the Analysis of Work and Interaction /Secondary Analysis of Qualitative Data /Secondary Analysis of Quantitative Data Sources /Conducting a Meta Analysis/Synergy and Synthesis/Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Data /The Analytic Integration of Qualitative Data Sources /Combining Different Types for Quantitative Analysis /Writing and Presenting Social Research