Research Methods in the Social Sciences Book

Pt. I	Research communities in the social sciences	1
Pt. II	Listening, exploring the case and theorizing	15
1	Ethnography	16
2	Research diaries	24
3	Case study	33
4	Interviewing and focus groups	41
5	Grounded theory	49
6	Ethical responsibility in social research	56
Pt. III	Researching for impact	65
7	Feminist methodologies	66
8	Critical theories of race	74
9	Queer theory/lesbian and gay approaches	81
10	Action research	89
11	Researching policy	97
12	The practice and politics of sponsored evaluations	105
Pt. IV	Observing, querying interpreting	113
13	Philosophy and hermeneutics	114
14	Phenomenology	121
15	Naturalistic Inquiry	131
16	Observation	138
17	Discourse analysis	146
Pt. V	Reading and representing socio-cultural meanings	155
18	Life history and narrative approaches	156
19	Semiotic approaches to image-based research	164
20	Social semiotics and multimodal texts	172
21	Communities of practice	180
22	Activity theory	188
Pt. VI	Sampling, classifying and quantifying	197
23	The foundations of experimental/empirical research methods	198
24	The positivist paradigm in contemporary social science research	207
25	Elementary quantitative methods	215
26	An introduction to inferential statistics : testing for differences and relationships	226
27	An introduction to statistical modelling	236
Pt. VII	Quantitative methods in action	251
28	Random reflections on modelling, geography and voting	252
29	Methodological issues in international comparative assessments of educational progress	256
30	Capturing complexity through maturity modelling	260
31	Evaluating literacy advance in the early years of school	265
32	Working backwards : the road less travelled in quantitative methodology	269
33	Combining qualitative and quantitative methods in social inquiry	274
Pt. VIII	Researching in postmodern contexts	283
34	Deconstruction [actual symbol not reproducible]	284
35	From hermeneutics to poststructuralism to psychoanalysis	293
36	Postmodernist perspectives	302
37	From structuralism to poststructuralism	310
38	Feminism/poststructuralism	318
39	Social science research in virtual realities	326
Pt. IX	Participating in the research community	335