Sage Handbook of Innovation in Social Research Methods

Now available in paperback: This book brings together the most innovative contemporary ideas in method and methodology from global experts

List of contents

PART ONE: THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF RESEARCH
Introduction - Malcolm Williams and W Paul Vogt
Objectivity: A Reconceptualization - Martyn Hammersley
Setting Up Sociological Research - Geoff Payne
Feminist Methodology - Gayle Letherby
What Is an Effect? Coming at Causality Backwards - David Byrne
PART TWO: DESIGN AND DATA COLLECTION
Introduction - Malcolm Williams and W Paul Vogt
Narratives of the Future: Complexity, Time and Temporality - Emma Uprichard
Mapping Pathways - Wendy Dyer
Correspondence Analysis: A Case for Methodological Pluralism? - Ian Rees-Jones
Case-Oriented Theory-Building and Theory-Testing - Charles C Ragin and Garrett Andrew Schneider
Investigating Human Communication and Language from Traces Left on the Web - Mike Thelwall
Innovative Qualitative Data-Collection Techniques for Conducting Literature Reviews/Research Syntheses - Anthony J Onwuegbuzie, Nancy L Leech and Kathleen M T Collins
Grounded Theory - Antony Bryant and Kathy Charmaz
Back to Likert: Towards the Conversational Survey - Giampietro Gobo
Mixed Methods for Construct Validation - John H Hitchcock and Bonnie K Nastasi
Researching with Peer/Community Researchers: Ambivalences and Tensions - Rosalind Edwards and Claire Alexander
Innovations in Program Evaluation: Comparative Case Studies as an Alternative to RCTs - W Paul Vogt et al
PART THREE: INTEGRATING THE ANALYSIS OF NEW DATA TYPES
Introduction - W. Paul Vogt and Malcolm Williams
Advances in Combining Regression Results in Meta-Analysis - Ariel M Aloe and Betsy Jane Becker
Toward a New Era for Conducting Mixed Analyses: The Role of Quantitative Dominant and Qualitative Dominant Cross-Over Mixed Analyses - Anthony J Onwuegbuzie, Nancy L Leech and Kathleen M T Collins
Optimal Matching Analysis - Peter Martin and Richard D Wiggins
Quantitative Narrative Analysis - Roberto Franzosi
Lexicographic Index: A New Measurement of Resemblance among Sequences - Ivano Bison
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Spatial Analysis - Elizabeth Griffiths
PART FOUR: SAMPLING, INFERENCE AND MEASUREMENT
Introduction - W Paul Vogt and Malcolm Williams
Respondent-Driven Sampling: Operational Procedures, Evolution of Estimators and Topics for Future Research - Cyprian Wejnert and Douglas Heckathorn
Analyzing Longitudinal Studies with Non-Response: Issues and Statistical Methods - James Carpenter and Ian Plewis
Statistical Inference for Causal Effects, with Emphasis on Applications in Psychometrics and Education - Donald B Rubin
Automatic Item Generation: An Innovation for Developing Complex Cognitive Tests - Susan E Embretson and Heather H. McIntyre
Convergence of Structural Equation Modeling and Multilevel Modeling - Rex B Kline
Hierarchical Linear and Structural Equation Modeling Approaches to Mediation Analysis in Randomized Field Experiments - Keenan Pituch and Laura Stapleton

About the author

Malcolm Williams is Professor and Director of the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University. Prior to joining Cardiff in 2010, he was Professor of Social Research Methodology and Head of the School of Psychosocial Sciences at the University of Plymouth where he taught for 16 years.

Malcolm has designed and taught modules in the philosophy of social research for 18 years at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. In these he has introduced a number of innovative pedagogic techniques, such as Problem Based Learning and ‘Concept Speed Dating’, in which students take a key idea and move from table to table attempting to build conceptual links between ideas.Additionally he has taught many modules and short courses in social theory, research design, questionnaire design, scaling, sampling, scientific method and history of science.
Williams has an extensive publishing record in philosophy of social research, including: Introduction to Philosophy of Social Research (with Tim May, Routledge, 1996), Knowing the Social World (with Tim May, OUP, 1998), Science and Social Science (Routledge, 2000), Making Sense of Social Research (SAGE, 2003), Philosophical Foundations of Social Research (SAGE, 2006), Teaching Quantitative Methods (with Geoff Payne, SAGE, 2011) Objectivity and Subjectivity in Social Research (with Gayle Letherby and John Scott, SAGE, 2012) and The SAGE Handbook of Innovations in Social Research (with W Paul Voght, SAGE, 2014).
W. Paul Vogt is Emeritus Professor of Research Methods and Evaluation at Illinois State University where he won both teaching and research awards. He specializes in methodological choice and program evaluation and is particularly interested in ways to integrate multiple methods. His other books include: Tolerance & Education: Learning to Live with Diversity and Difference (Sage Publications, 1998); Quantitative Research Methods for Professionals (Allyn & Bacon, 2007); Education Programs for Improving Intergroup Relations (coedited with Walter Stephan, Teachers College Press, 2004). He is also editor of four 4-volume sets in the series, Sage Benchmarks in Social Research Methods: Selecting Research Methods (2008); Data Collection (2010); Quantitative Research Methods (2011); and, with Burke Johnson, Correlation and Regression Analysis (2012).His most recent publications include the coauthored When to Use What Research Design (2012) and Selecting the Right Analyses for Your Data: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches (2014).

Product details

• Authors: Malcolm Williams, Malcolm Williams & W Paul Vogt, Malcolm Vogt Williams, Matthew Vogt Williams
• Assisted by: Vogt (Editor), W. (William) Paul Vogt (Editor), W. Paul Vogt (Editor), Malcolm Williams (Editor), Matthew Williams (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.2014
• EAN: 9781446295830
• ISBN: 978-1-4462-9583-0
• No. of pages: 664
• Series: Sage Handbooks; Sage Handbooks
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)