Researching Social Life

Informationen zum Autor Nigel Gilbert is Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey, Guildford, England. He is the author or editor of 34 books and many academic papers and was the founding editor of the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. His current research focuses on the application of agent-based models to understanding social and economic phenomena, especially the emergence of norms, culture, and innovation. He obtained a doctorate in the sociology of scientific knowledge in 1974 from the University of Cambridge and has subsequently taught at the universities of York and Surrey in England. He is one of the pioneers in the field of social simulation and is past president of the European Social Simulation Association. He is a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences and of the Royal Academy of Engineering. Paul Stoneman is Lecturer in Sociology, University of Surrey.  Klappentext Paul Stoneman and Nigel Gilbert breathe new energy into this classic bestselling textbook providing clear, relevant advice and extensive coverage of all the research methods you need to understand today's society. Zusammenfassung Paul Stoneman and Nigel Gilbert breathe new energy into this classic bestselling textbook providing clear, relevant advice and extensive coverage of all the research methods you need to understand today’s society. Inhaltsverzeichnis FOUNDATIONS AND FIRST STEPS Conceptualising Social Life - Geoff Cooper and Robert Meadows Research, Theory and Method - Nigel Gilbert Formulating and Refining a Research Question - Nicola Green and Paul Stoneman Conducting Systematic Reviews in the Social Sciences - Karen Bullock and Daniel McCarthy CHOOSING YOUR RESEARCH STRATEGY Quantitative Research - Paul Stoneman and Ian Brunton-Smith Grounded Theory and Inductive Research - Paul Hodkinson Mixed Methods - Victoria D. Alexander, Hilary Thomas, Ann Cronin, Jane Fielding and Jo Moran-Ellis Participatory Approaches to Social Research - Christina Silver Evaluation Research - Mike McGuire International Comparative Research - Linda Hantrais The Ethics of Social Research - Janet Boddy COLLECTING DATA Designing and Collecting Survey Samples - Patrick Sturgis Questionnaire Design - Charles Leddy-Owen Measuring Attitudes - Thomas J. Scotto Qualitative Interviewing - Nigel Fielding and Hilary Thomas Focus Groups - Ann Cronin Ethnography - Nigel Fielding The Internet and Research Methods - Christine Hine ANALYSING DATA Coding and Managing Data - Jane Fielding Analysing Survey Data - Paul Stoneman Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis (CAQDAS) - Ann Lewins Thematic Analysis - Alexander Seal Narrative Analysis - Sarah Earthy, Alexandra Cuncev and Ann Cronin Applying Conversation Analysis and Membership Categorisation Analysis to Qualitative Data - Andrew King and Lorraine Locke Analysing Visual Materials - Victoria D. Alexander Digital Social Research - Christine Hine WRITING ABOUT SOCIAL RESEARCH AND ITS IMPACT Writing about Social Research - Nigel Gilbert The Impact of Social Research - Paul Stoneman and Nigel Gilbert ...

List of contents

FOUNDATIONS AND FIRST STEPS
Conceptualising Social Life - Geoff Cooper and Robert Meadows
Research, Theory and Method - Nigel Gilbert
Formulating and Refining a Research Question - Nicola Green and Paul Stoneman
Conducting Systematic Reviews in the Social Sciences - Karen Bullock and Daniel McCarthy
CHOOSING YOUR RESEARCH STRATEGY
Quantitative Research - Paul Stoneman and Ian Brunton-Smith
Grounded Theory and Inductive Research - Paul Hodkinson
Mixed Methods - Victoria D. Alexander, Hilary Thomas, Ann Cronin, Jane Fielding and Jo Moran-Ellis
Participatory Approaches to Social Research - Christina Silver
Evaluation Research - Mike McGuire
International Comparative Research - Linda Hantrais
The Ethics of Social Research - Janet Boddy
COLLECTING DATA
Designing and Collecting Survey Samples - Patrick Sturgis
Questionnaire Design - Charles Leddy-Owen
Measuring Attitudes - Thomas J. Scotto
Qualitative Interviewing - Nigel Fielding and Hilary Thomas
Focus Groups - Ann Cronin
Ethnography - Nigel Fielding
The Internet and Research Methods - Christine Hine
ANALYSING DATA
Coding and Managing Data - Jane Fielding
Analysing Survey Data - Paul Stoneman
Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis (CAQDAS) - Ann Lewins
Thematic Analysis - Alexander Seal
Narrative Analysis - Sarah Earthy, Alexandra Cuncev and Ann Cronin
Applying Conversation Analysis and Membership Categorisation Analysis to Qualitative Data - Andrew King and Lorraine Locke
Analysing Visual Materials - Victoria D. Alexander
Digital Social Research - Christine Hine
WRITING ABOUT SOCIAL RESEARCH AND ITS IMPACT
Writing about Social Research - Nigel Gilbert
The Impact of Social Research - Paul Stoneman and Nigel Gilbert

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'Researching Social Life remains the classic, essential guide to social research methods with updated and innovative chapters brought together by a superb team of editors and contributors'. Lisa Dikomitis, Department of Social Sciences, University of Hull, UK. Lisa Dikomitis

Product details

• Authors: Nigel Gilbert, Nigel Stoneman Gilbert, Paul Stoneman, Paul Gilbert Stoneman
• Assisted by: Nigel Gilbert (Editor), Paul Stoneman (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.12.2015
• EAN: 9781446295441
• ISBN: 978-1-4462-9544-1
• No. of pages: 624
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Statistics, REFERENCE / Research, Social research & statistics, Social research and statistics, Research methods / methodology