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Virtual Research Methods
The new social contexts formed via the Internet, and the new forms of data made available by the increasing use of diverse forms of computer mediated communication, have challenged …
Categorical Data Analysis
These four volumes provide a collection of key publications on categorical data analysis, carefully put together so that the reader can easily navigate, understand and put in …
Social Statistics
Statistics and statistical analyses have become a key feature of contemporary social science. Social statistics is the use of statistical measurement systems to study human …
Using Documents and Records in Social Research
Using Documents and Records in Social Research collects together a body of papers that highlight the different ways in which documents and records have, and can be, approached and …
Ethnography in Context
Ethnography is an extremely broad church, and the range of methodological stances adopted by ethnographers extends across theoretical, political and technological divides. As a …
Consumer Research Methods
Ever since its conception some 40 years ago, consumer research has been the channel through which innovations in social science, social and cultural theory and the arts have …
Selecting Research Methods
Selecting Research Methods provides advice from prominent social scientists concerning the most crucial steps for planning and undertaking meaningful research: selecting the …
Textual Analysis
This four-volume Major Work mines the extensive research of the past few decades into textual analysis. The set’s esteemed team of editorshave collated seminal papers which …
Actor-Network Theory Research
Actor-Network Theory has grown into one of the most innovative and influential approaches for social science research. Originating in the field of science and technology studies …
Applications of Social Network Analysis
Since its appearance in the 1930s in the form of sociometry, social network analysis (SNA) has become a major paradigm for social research in such areas as communication, …
Data Inference in Observational Settings
Most social research is carried out in observational settings; that is, most social researchers collect information in the "real world" trying to do as little possible to alter the …
Ethnomethodology
Ethnomethodology is an approach to sociological research founded in the 1960s by Harold Garfinkel and developed by Harvey Sacks and many others. Early initiatives challenged the …