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  • ISBN-13: 9781473944220
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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.

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.

Packed full of examples from across the social sciencesResearching Social Life sets out all of the challenges and opportunities of interpreting and conducting research with qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods.

The book follows the chronology of a typical research project, from initial conception through to the collection, management and analysis of data; it also includes material on how best to write up and disseminate your research. This pragmatic approach mirrors the reality of conducting research and allows the handpicked, internationally renowned contributors to embed real case studies from their own research in each chapter.

The student orientated pedagogy is carefully woven throughout the book and further supported by a cutting-edge website. Key tools include:

· In-depth worked examples

· Case studies

· Discussion questions

· Checklists

· Annotated further reading

· Practical top tips for doing research

· Video

With unparalleled breadth and depth this trusted and respected textbook is an essential guide for anyone engaging with social research.



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.

 

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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 This is an excellent and easily accessible compendium of essential research techniques in the social sciences. It is a comprehensive introduction to the field of qualitative social research and a faithful companion during the first steps into empirical research. Tino Mietz, Faculty of Humanities, Eberhard Karls Universitat Tubingen, Germany. -- Tino Mietz Unlike other method texts, this one tells students in clear, readable language how to conduct research in the real world. Students will appreciate the global perspective and the intuitive organization of the book. Leeda Copley, Department of Sociology, Gerontology and Substance Abuse Studies, University of Central Oklahoma, US.  -- Leeda Copley

Editors xvii
Contributors xix
Acknowledgements xxv
How to use this Book and its Online Resources xxvii
Introduction 1(6)
Part I Foundations And First Steps 7(70)
1 Conceptualising Social Life
9(16)
1.1 Introduction
10(1)
1.2 Theories, concepts, frameworks - clarifying our focus
11(1)
1.3 Different understandings of the social world
12(4)
1.4 Conceptualising common objects: an example
16(2)
1.5 Connections between theory, research and society
18(2)
1.6 Questioning ourselves: reflexive sociology
20(1)
1.7 Summary
21(4)
2 Research, Theory And Method
25(18)
2.1 Introduction
26(1)
2.2 Three ingredients of social research
26(2)
2.3 Constructing theories
28(4)
2.4 Concepts and relationships
32(2)
2.5 Testing theories
34(2)
2.6 Social research as a social process
36(1)
2.7 Choosing a research design
36(3)
2.8 Summary
39(4)
3 Formulating And Refining A Research Question
43(18)
3.1 Introduction
44(1)
3.2 'Deep thought'
44(2)
3.3 The characteristics of social research questions
46(3)
3.4 Formulating and refining a research question
49(6)
3.5 The literature review
55(3)
3.6 Summary
58(3)
4 Conducting Systematic Reviews In The Social Sciences
61(16)
4.1 Introduction
62(1)
4.2 What are systematic reviews and why are they used in the social sciences?
62(1)
4.3 Comparing narrative literature reviews with systematic reviews
63(1)
4.4 Basic principles in conducting systematic reviews
64(5)
4.5 Advantages and disadvantages of systematic reviews
69(3)
4.6 Summary
72(5)
Part II Choosing Your Research Strategy 77(146)
5 Quantitative Research
79(18)
5.1 Introduction
80(2)
5.2 Intellectual origins
82(1)
5.3 Quantitative social research today
83(3)
5.4 When to use quantitative research
86(2)
5.5 Organising your research design
88(2)
5.6 Finding data
90(3)
5.7 Summary
93(4)
6 Grounded Theory And Inductive Research
97(22)
6.1 Introduction
98(1)
6.2 Integrating theory and research
98(2)
6.3 Grounded theory
100(7)
6.4 Criticisms of grounded theory
107(3)
6.5 Flexibility in the development of theory through research
110(2)
6.6 Summary
112(7)
7 Mixed Methods
119(20)
7.1 Introduction
120(1)
7.2 What are mixed methods?
120(1)
7.3 Why researchers use multiple methods
121(2)
7.4 How researchers have mixed methods
123(6)
7.5 Different paradigms, different data
129(3)
7.6 Practical issues in mixed methods
132(1)
7.7 Summary
133(6)
8 Participatory Approaches To Social Research
139(22)
8.1 Introduction
140(1)
8.2 Historical roots of participatory approaches to social research
140(3)
8.3 A spectrum of participatory approaches to social research
143(8)
8.4 Methodological and ethical considerations
151(3)
8.5 Impacts of technological developments on participatory approaches
154(3)
8.6 Summary
157(4)
9 Evaluation Research
161(20)
9.1 Introduction
162(1)
9.2 What is evaluation research?
162(2)
9.3 Background and origins to evaluation research
164(10)
9.4 Problems and challenges for evaluation research
174(2)
9.5 Summary
176(5)
10 International Comparisons
181(22)
10.1 Introduction
182(1)
10.2 Characterising international comparative research
183(3)
10.3 International comparative research designs
186(4)
10.4 Concepts, meaning and measurement in international comparisons
190(3)
10.5 Mixed method approaches within international comparative research
193(2)
10.6 Summary
195(8)
11 The Ethics Of Social Research
203(20)
11.1 Introduction
204(1)
11.2 Learning from unethical practice (and not just from history)
204(1)
11.3 Approaches to ethical research practice
205(4)
11.4 Who's in and who's out? Sampling and recruitment
209(3)
11.5 Consent: act or process?
212(4)
11.6 Summary
216(7)
Part III Collecting Data 223(134)
12 Designing And Collecting Survey Samples
225(14)
12.1 Introduction
226(1)
12.2 Statistical inference: from sample to population
226(5)
12.3 Nonresponse
231(1)
12.4 Drawing samples
232(4)
12.5 Summary
236(3)
13 Questionnaire Design
239(20)
13.1 Introduction
240(2)
13.2 What are questionnaires and what are they for?
242(1)
13.3 Questionnaire mode
243(2)
13.4 Beginning our project
245(2)
13.5 Choosing types of question
247(2)
13.6 Question wording
249(3)
13.7 Presenting your questionnaire
252(2)
13.8 Developing and piloting your questionnaire
254(1)
13.9 Summary
255(4)
14 Measuring Attitudes
259(22)
14.1 Introduction
260(1)
14.2 The social scientific measurement of attitudes
261(5)
14.3 The challenge of measuring attitudes
266(5)
14.4 A substantive example: three foreign policy attitudes
271(5)
14.5 Summary
276(5)
15 Qualitative Interviewing
281(20)
15.1 Introduction
282(1)
15.2 Varieties of research interviews
282(1)
15.3 Uses of interview data
283(1)
15.4 Communication in interviews
284(4)
15.5 How to design an interview guide
288(1)
15.6 Interviewer effects
289(1)
15.7 Transcription
290(2)
15.8 Practicalities of analysing interview data
292(1)
15.9 Issues in interview analysis
293(2)
15.10 The status of interview data
295(2)
15.11 Summary
297(4)
16 Focus Groups
301(18)
16.1 Introduction
302(1)
16.2 What is a focus group?
302(5)
16.3 Preparing to use focus groups
307(3)
16.4 Running a focus group
310(3)
16.5 Analysis of focus group data
313(1)
16.6 Summary
314(5)
17 Ethnography
319(20)
17.1 Introduction
320(1)
17.2 Ethnographic practice
321(1)
17.3 The meaning of ethnographic research
321(2)
17.4 Front management and finding a role
323(3)
17.5 Recording the action: fieldnotes
326(1)
17.6 Comes the crunch: analysis
327(1)
17.7 Validation
328(3)
17.8 Sequential analysis
331(1)
17.9 Ethical issues
332(2)
17.10 Summary
334(5)
18 The Internet And Research Methods
339(18)
18.1 Introduction
340(1)
18.2 The internet sample
340(8)
18.3 Making research outputs available
348(1)
18.4 The ethics of online research
349(2)
18.5 Summary
351(6)
Part IV Analysing Data 357(178)
19 Coding And Managing Data
359(30)
19.1 Introduction
360(1)
19.2 Why code the data?
360(1)
19.3 Quantitative coding
361(8)
19.4 Qualitative coding
369(4)
19.5 Creation of the code book
373(4)
19.6 Coding the data using a computer
377(7)
19.7 Summary
384(5)
20 Analysing Survey Data
389(22)
20.1 Introduction
390(1)
20.2 First steps in statistics
390(11)
20.3 Describing variables and relationships
401(3)
20.4 Hypothesis testing
404(3)
20.5 Summary
407(4)
21 Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software (CAQDAS)
411(32)
21.1 Introduction
412(1)
21.2 What is meant by CAQDAS?
412(1)
21.3 What types of qualitative data and analysis?
413(1)
21.4 The development of CAQDAS
414(6)
21.5 Data processing and platforms
420(1)
21.6 How 'code-based theory-building' software can help
421(7)
21.7 Analytic paradigms using qualitative data
428(1)
21.8 Examples: how the software helped
429(8)
21.9 Limitations and constraints
437(2)
21.10 Summary
439(4)
22 Thematic Analysis
443(18)
22.1 Introduction
444(1)
22.2 Coding qualitative data
445(5)
22.3 Discovering themes in qualitative data
450(5)
22.4 Summary
455(6)
23 Narrative Analysis
461(24)
23.1 Introduction
462(1)
23.2 What is narrative analysis?
462(4)
23.3 The social production of the story
466(3)
23.4 Using a narrative approach
469(5)
23.5 Analysing data as narrative
474(5)
23.6 Summary
479(6)
24 Applying Conversation Analysis And Membership Categorisation Analysis To Qualitative Data
485(16)
24.1 Introduction
486(1)
24.2 The ethnomethodological shift in social research
487(1)
24.3 Conversation analysis
488(2)
24.4 Membership categorisation analysis (MCA)
490(2)
24.5 Doing EM/CA/MCA: a worked example of an interview
492(3)
24.6 Summary
495(6)
25 Analysing Visual Materials
501(18)
25.1 Introduction
502(1)
25.2 Analysing existing visual materials
502(5)
25.3 Generating data with visual materials
507(1)
25.4 Creating visual data
508(1)
25.5 Presenting results with a visual component
509(2)
25.6 Some problems in using visual materials
511(3)
25.7 Summary
514(5)
26 Digital Social Research
519(16)
26.1 Introduction
520(1)
26.2 Big data and social research
521(1)
26.3 Capturing large-scale digital data
522(2)
26.4 Content analysis
524(1)
26.5 Data mining
525(1)
26.6 Social network analysis and visualisation
526(2)
26.7 Prospects, limitations and ethical concerns
528(1)
26.8 Summary
529(6)
Part V Writing About Social Research And Its Impact 535(32)
27 Writing About Social Research
537(18)
27.1 Introduction
538(1)
27.2 Truth and persuasion
538(1)
27.3 The research literature
539(3)
27.4 Organising writing about research
542(1)
27.5 Examining the structure of a journal article
543(7)
27.6 Breaking the rules
550(1)
27.7 Summary
551(4)
28 The Impact Of Social Research
555(12)
28.1 Introduction
556(1)
28.2 Personal impact
556(4)
28.3 The need for public social science
560(2)
28.4 Impact and engaging with stakeholders
562(1)
28.5 Making an impact
563(1)
28.6 Summary
564(3)
Glossary 567(14)
Index 581
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. 
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