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0 (hodnocen0 x )

BK

1st pub.

Los Angeles : Sage, 2008

xvi, 631 s. : il., grafy ; 25 cm

ISBN 978-1-84860-730-9 (brož.)

Obsahuje černobílé fotografie, tabulky

Bibliografie, rejstřík

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Advisory Board vii // Notes on Contributors ix // 1. Social Research in Changing Social Conditions 1 - Periti Alasuutari, Julia Brannen, Leonard Bickman // PART I: DIRECTIONS IN SOCIAL RESEARCH 9 // 2. The End of the Paradigm Wars? 13 - Alan Bryman // 3. The History of Social Research Methods 26 - Marja Alastalo // 4. Assessing Validity in Social Research 42 - Martyn Hammersley // 5. Ethnography and Audience 54 - Karen Armstrong // 6. Social Research and Social Practice in Post-Positivist Society 68 - Pekka Sulkunen // 7. From Questions of Methods to Epistemological Issues: The Case of Biographical Research 81 - Ann Nilsen // 8. Research Ethics in Social Science 95 - Celia B. Fisher and Andrea E. Anushko // PART II: RESEARCH DESIGNS 111 // 9. The Core Analytics of Randomized Experiments for Social Research 115 - Howard S. Bloom // 10. Better Quasi-Experimental Practice 134 - Thomas D. Cook and Vivian C. Wong // 11. Sample Size Planning with Applications to Multiple Regression: Power and Accuracy for Omnibus and Targeted Effects 166 - Ken Kelley and Scott E. Maxwell // 12. Re-conceptualizing Generalization: Old Issues in a New Frame 193 - Giampietro Cobo // 13. Case Study in Social Research 214 - Linda Mabry // 14. Longitudinal and Panel Studies 228 - Jane Elliott, Janet Holland, and Rachel Thomson // 15. Comparative and Cross-National Designs 249 - David de Vans //

PART III: DATA COLLECTION AND FIELDWORK 265 // 16. Modern Measurement in the Social Sciences 269 - James A. Bovaird and Susan E. Embretson // 17. Natural and Contrived Data 290 - Susan A. Speer // 18. Self-Administered Questionnaires and Standardized Interviews 313 - Edith de Leeuw // 19. Qualitative Interviewing and Feminist Research 328 - Andrea Doucet and Natasha Mauthner // 20. Biographical Methods 344 - Joanna Bornat // 21. Focus Groups 357 - Janet Smithson // PART IV: TYPES OF ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF EVIDENCE 371 // 22. An Introduction to the Multilevel Model for Change 377 - Suzanne E. Graham, Judith D. Singer and John B. Willett // 23. Latent Variable Models of Social Research Data 395 - Rick H. Hoyle // 24. Equating Groups 414 - Stephen G. West and Felix Thoemmes // 25. Discourse Analysis and Conversation Analysis 431 - Charles Antaki // 26. Analyzing Narratives and Story-Telling 447 - Matti Hyvärinen // 27. Reconstructing Grounded Theory 461 - Kathy Charmaz // 28. Documents and Action 479 - Lindsay Prior // 29. Video and the Analysis of Work and Interaction 493 - Christian Heath and Paul Luff // 30. Secondary Analysis of Qualitative Data 506 - Janet Heaton // 31. Secondary Analysis of Quantitative Data Sources 520 - Angela Dale, Jo Wathan and Vanessa Higgins // 32. Conducting a Meta-Analysis 536 - Erika A. Patall and Harris Cooper // 33. Synergy and Synthesis: Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Data 555 - Jane Fielding and Nigel Fielding // 34. The Analytic Integration of Qualitative Data Sources 572 - Ann Cronin, Victoria D. Alexander, Jane Fielding, Jo Moran-Ellis and Hilary Thomas // 35. Combining Different Types of Data for Quantitative Analysis 585 - Manfred Max Bergman // 36. Writing and Presenting Social Research 602 - Amir Marvasti // Index 617