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Informationen zum Autor John D. Brewer is President of the British Sociological Association and Sixth-Century Professor of Sociology and former Head of Department (2004-2007) at Aberdeen University, moving from Queen’s University Belfast in July 2004. He was Head of the School of Sociology and Social Policy at Queen’s between 1993-2002. He has held visiting appointments at Yale University (1989), St John’s College Oxford (1992), Corpus Christi College Cambridge (2002) and the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University (2003). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (elected 1998), an Academician in the Academy of Social Sciences (elected 2003), a Member of the Royal Irish Academy (elected 2004), then only the third sociologist to be elected in the Academy’s 217-year history, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (elected 2008). He was a member of the Training and Development Board of the ESRC (2005-2007) and has been Chair of the British Sociological Association (2004-2006), a member of the National Committee for Economics and Social Science of the Royal Irish Academy (1997-1999) and a member of the International Assessment Panel of the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (2002-07). He currently sits on the Council of the Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences and is a member of the ESRC's Research College. In 2001 he became a member of the Institute of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. In 2010 he became a member of the United Nations Roster of Global Experts. Klappentext This refreshing book on social research methods understands the pressures that modern students face in their work-load and supplies an authoritative study guide to the field. It will fulfil a long-standing need in undergraduate research methods courses for an unpatronising, reliable aid to making sense of research methods. Zusammenfassung This refreshing book on social research methods understands the pressures that modern students face in their work-load and supplies an authoritative study guide to the field. It will fulfil a long-standing need in undergraduate research methods courses for an unpatronising! reliable aid to making sense of research methods. Inhaltsverzeichnis Abduction and Retroduction Action Research A Case Study Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) Attitudes Biographical Method CAPI (Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing) Case Study Causation Central Tendency Child Research Comparative Analysis Computer Simulation of Social Processes Constructionism, Social Content Analysis Contingency Tables Conversation Analysis Correlation and Regression Critical Theory Cultural Analysis Data Archives Deduction Diaries, Self-Completion Discourse Analysis Dispersion and the Normal Distribution Documentary Sources Ecological Fallacy E-Mail as a Research Tool Empiricism, Abstracted Empiricism Epistemology Ethics Ethnography Ethnomethodology Exploratory Data Analysis Factor Analysis Feminist Epistemology Feminist Methodology Focus Groups Gender Identity Dysphoria Assessment Generalization Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Grounded Theory Hawthorne Effect Hermeneutics Historical Methods Hypothesis Testing Ideal Type Impact Assessment Induction Intellectual Property Rights Internet Interpretation Interviews Literature Searching Loglinear Analysis Longitudinal Research Measurement, Level of Meaning Methodology `Micrö Sampling Techniques Modernity Multilevel Models Narrative Approach Naturalism Observation, Overt and Covert Online Methods Paradigm Participant Observation Participatory Action Research Phenomenology Philosophy of Social Rese...
