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Informationen zum Autor W. Paul Vogt is Professor Emeritus of Research Methods and Evaluation at Illinois State University where he has won both teaching and research awards. His books include: Dictionary of Statistics and Methodology (3rd edition, Sage, 2005); Tolerance & Education: Learning to Live with Diversity and Difference (Sage, 1997); Education Programs for Improving Intergroup Relations (co-edited with Walter Stephan, Teachers College Press, 2004); Quantitative Research Methods for Professionals (Allyn & Bacon, 2006). His forthcoming books on themes related to Selecting Research Methods include: When to Use What: Guidelines for Choosing Research Methods in the Social Sciences (Guilford Press); SAGE Handbook on Methodological Innovation (co-edited with Malcolm Williams, Sage, U.K.); Designing Research: Planning Inquiry in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (Sage, U.S.). Klappentext Selecting Research Methods provides advice from prominent social scientists concerning the most crucial steps for planning and undertaking meaningful research: selecting the methods to be used. Contributors to the collection address methodological choices in four stages: design, sampling, coding and measurement, and analysis. The volumes provide an integrated approach to methodological choice in two ways. First, the contributions range from the early decisions about design options through the concluding choices about analyzing, interpreting, and presenting results. Second, the collection is integrated because it addresses the needs of projects that collect qualitative evidence, quantitative data, or both. Volume 1 concerns design choice; the articles focus on selecting designs that are effective for answering research questions and achieving the goals of the researcher. Volume 2 is on sampling and includes, in addition to sampling from populations, advice on choosing methods for recruiting informants for interviews, selecting sites for participant observation, and assigning subjects to control and experimental groups. Volume 3 reviews options for coding and measurement; it emphasizes methodological choices that enable researchers to study concepts in ways that enhance the reliability and validity of the research. Finally, the articles included in Volume 4 review the range of choices available among methods to analyze results and interpret the meanings of evidence. Zusammenfassung These volumes advise on planning and undertaking meaningful research and provide an integrated approach to methodological choice. Inhaltsverzeichnis VOLUME 1: SELECTING DESIGNS FOR GATHERING EVIDENCE Epistemological Diversity and Education Research: Much ado about nothing much? The Poverty of Deductivism: A Constructive Realist Model Of Sociological Explanation - H. Siegel A Tale Of Two Cultures: Contrasting Quantitative And Qualitative Research - P.S. Gorski What Good is Polarizing Research into Qualitative and Quantitative? - J. Mahoney and G. Goertz Integrating Survey and Ethnographic Methods for Systematic Anomalous Case Analysis - K. Ercikan and W.M. Roth What Works and Why: Combining quantitative and qualitative approaches in large-scale evaluations - L.D. Pearce Fieldwork, Economic Theory, and Research on Institutions in Developing Countries - I. Plewis and P. Mason The Benefits of Being There: Evidence from the literature on work - C. Udry Mapping the Process: An exemplar of process and challenge in grounded theory analysis - D. Tope, L.J. Chamberlain, M. Crowley and R. Hodson Identity in Focus: The use of focus groups to study the construction of collective identity - B. Harry, K.M. Sturges and J.K. Klinger Rational Choice, Structural Context, and Increasing Returns: A strategy for analytic narrative in historical sociology - J. Munday The Growth and Development of Experimental Research in Political Science - N. Pedriana
