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The SAGE handbook of innovation in social research methods /

Title By: Williams, Malcolm [Edited by] | Vogt, W. Paul [Edited by]
Material type: BookPublisher: Los Angeles : SAGE, 2014.Description: xix, 638 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9781446295830Subject(s): Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology | Social sciences -- Methodology | Social sciences -- Essays | Social sciences -- Reference
Summary:
Social research is a bourgeoning field. Of course it has many traditions and approaches, but there is a high premium upon thinking differently and thinking anew because social life is never static or wholly predictable. This book provides a critical assessment of the field.
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Objectivity : a reconceptualisation / Martyn Hammersley -- Setting up sociological research / Geoff Payne -- Feminist methodology / Gayle Letherby -- What is an effect? Coming at causality backwards / David Byrne -- Narratives of the future : complexity, time and temporality / Emma Uprichard -- Mapping pathways / Wendy Dyer -- Correspondence analysis : a case for methodological pluralism? / Ian Rees-Jones -- Case-oriented theory building and theory testing / Charles C. Ragin and Garrett Andrew Schneider -- Investigating human communication and language from traces left on the Web / Mike Thelwall -- Innovative qualitative data collection techniques for conducting literature reviews/research syntheses / Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie, Nancy L. Leech and Kathleen M. T. Collins -- Groounded theory / Antony Bryant and Kathy Charmaz -- Back to Likert : towards the conversational survey / Giampietro Gobo.

Social research is a bourgeoning field. Of course it has many traditions and approaches, but there is a high premium upon thinking differently and thinking anew because social life is never static or wholly predictable. This book provides a critical assessment of the field.

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