A-Z of Social Research: A Dictionary of Key Social Science Research Book

	Acknowledgements	viii
	Contributors	ix
	Introduction	xiii
	Abduction and retroduction	1
	Action research: a case study	5
	Analysis of variance (ANOVA)	9
	Attitudes	12
	Autobiography see Biographical method	15
	Biographical method	15
	CAPI (Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing)	18
	Cartographic techniques see Geographic information systems	22
	Case study	22
	Causation	24
	Central tendency	28
	Child research	29
	Comparative analysis	32
	Computer simulation of social processes	35
	Confirmatory statistics see Hypothesis testing	41
	Constructionism, social	41
	Content analysis	43
	Contingency tables	45
	Conversation Analysis	48
	Correlation and regression	53
	Critical theory	57
	Crosstabulation see Contingency tables	61
	Cultural analysis	61
	Data archives	64
	Deduction	67
	Diaries, self-completion	69
	Discourse analysis	74
	Dispersion and the normal distribution	77
	Documentary sources	80
	Ecological fallacy	84
	e-mail as a research tool	86
	Empiricism, abstracted empiricism	91
	Epistemology	94
	Ethics	95
	Ethnography	99
	Ethnomethodology	102
	Exploratory data analysis	104
	Factor analysis	109
	Feminist epistemology	113
	Feminist methodology	117
	Focus groups	120
	Frankfurt School	123
	Gender identity dysphoria assessment	123
	Generalisation	126
	Geographic information systems (GIS)	129
	Grounded theory	132
	Hawthorne effect	135
	Hermeneutics	138
	Historical methods	139
	Hypothesis testing	144
	Ideal type	147
	Impact assessment	149
	Induction	154
	Intellectual property rights	156
	Internet	160
	Interpretation	164
	Interviewer effects see Interviews	165
	Interview schedule see Questionnaires and structured interview schedules	166
	Interviews	166
	Literature searching	171
	Loglinear analysis	176
	Longitudinal research	181
	Measurement, level of	187
	Meaning	190
	Methodology	192
	'Micro' sampling techniques	194
	Modernity	196
	Multilevel models	202
	Narrative approach	208
	Naturalism	210
	Observation, overt and covert	213
	Online methods	217
	Paradigm	220
	Participant observation	222
	Participatory action research	225
	Phenomenology	227
	Philosophy of social research	230
	Policy research	233
	Positivism	235
	Primary data see Secondary data analysis	238
	Post-modernism see Modernity	238
	Qualitative see Methodology	238
	Qualitative research	238
	Qualitative research data, archiving	241
	Quantitative see Methodology	246
	Queer research	246
	Questionnaire and structured interview schedule design	249
	Questionnaires and structured interview schedules	253
	Realism	256
	Reflexivity	259
	Research design	262
	Sampling, probability	268
	Sampling, quota	273
	Sampling, snowball: accessing hidden and hard-to-reach populations	274
	Scales, scaling see Attitudes	280
	Secondary analysis of qualitative data	280
	Secondary data analysis	285
	Sensitive research	288
	Sex surveys	291
	Social change see Historical methods	293
	Social fact	293
	Social indicators	296
	Social statistics	297
	Social surveys	301
	Spatial statistical analysis see Geographic information systems	304
	Standardisation	305
	Statistical interaction	306
	Statistical testing see Hypothesis testing	308
	Structuralism/post-structuralism	309
	Systematic review	312
	Telephone methods for social surveys	317
	Theory	324
	Transsexualism see Gender identity dysphoria assessment	326
	Triangulation	326
	Type I and Type II errors see Hypothesis testing	329
	Unobtrusive measures	330
	Verbal protocol analysis	333
	Verstehen	338
	Vignette	339
	Visual research methods	340
	World Wide Web see Internet	345