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SOCIAL RESEARCH METHODS: The Essentials SECOND EDITION
Nicholas Walliman, Oxford Brookes University, U.K.
Nicholas Walliman is the supervisor in your students' pockets, making sure they understand all the essential methods
for successfully carrying out a research project and negotiating the challenges and pitfalls. He takes students step
by step through the research process; helps them formulate clear aims and objectives; explains all the vocabulary
to understand the A – Z of research methods; ends each chapter with a reading guide for taking learning further with
more resources to help get a deeper understanding of the issues discussed; improves research reports with practical
advice on presenting fi ndings in great tables, graphs and diagrams; opens his offi ce door with refl ective questions (and
answers); and delivers the confi dence to get started and get fi nished!
CONTENTS PART ONE: PLANNING AND DESIGNING YOUR RESEARCH / 1: Theoretical background / 2: Research basics / 3: Research strategies
and design / 4: The nature of data / 5: Doing a literature review / 6: Defi ning the research problem / 7: Ethics / 8: Writing a research proposal /
PART TWO: COLLECTING AND ANALYSING YOUR DATA / 9: Sampling / 10: Data collection methods / 11: Quantitative data analysis / 12: Qualitative
data analysis / PART THREE: WRITING UP YOUR RESEARCH / 13: Presenting Data Graphically / 14: Writing up a dissertation or research project /
PART FOUR: SUCCEEDING IN YOUR RESEARCH METHODS COURSE / 15: How to get the most out of your lectures and seminars / 16: How to Get the
Best out of Reading and Note Taking / 17: How to Write Great Essays
PAPERBACK ISBN: 978-1-4739-1620-3 • JANUARY 2016 • 264 PAGES •
DOING REAL RESEARCH: A Practical Guide to Social Research
Eric Jensen, University of Warwick, U.K. • Charles Laurie, Verisk Maplecroft
Challenging us to move beyond the formality and idealized settings of conventional methods teaching, this pragmatic
book offers frank advice designed to empower students and researchers working in the real world. Theoretically robust
and with an exhaustive coverage of key methodologies and methods, it sets out the cornerstones of social research
within a multidisciplinary, international context.
CONTENTS PART ONE: LAYING THE FOUNDATIONS / 1: Research design: Planning for the unknowable, the unexpected and the undesirable /
2: How to do a literature review: Using existing evidence and ideas to build a foundation / 3: How to be an ethical researcher / PART TWO: IN
THE FIELD / 4: How to manage risk: Protecting yourself and your equipment / 5: How to fi nd a representative sample / 6: How to gain research
participation / PART THREE: DATA COLLECTION METHODS / 7: How to do Survey Research / 8: How to do interviews and focus groups / 9: How to
use existing data: Challenges and opportunities / PART FOUR: MANAGING AND ANALYZING DATA / 10: How to manage your data / 11: How to do
qualitative data analysis / 12: How to do quantitative data analysis / PART FIVE: PRESENTING YOUR RESEARCH / 13: How to Write up your Research
/ Concluding Thoughts
PAPERBACK ISBN: 978-1-4462-7388-3 • MARCH 2016 • 400 PAGES• •
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100 QUESTIONS (AND ANSWERS) ABOUT RESEARCH METHODS
Neil J. Salkind, The University of Kansas
PAPERBACK ISBN: 978-1-4129-9203-9 • ©2012 • 192 PAGES •
SEE PAGE 17 FOR MORE INFORMATION ON TITLES IN THIS SERIES.
Research – General Interest
QUANTIFYING THE QUALITATIVE: Information Theory for Comparative Case
Analysis
Katya Drozdova, Seattle Pacifi c University • Kurt Taylor Gaubatz, Old Dominion University, Norfolk
Quantifying the Qualitative presents a systematic approach to comparative case analysis based on insights from
information theory. This new method, which requires minimal quantitative skills, helps students, policymakers,
professionals, and scholars to learn more from comparative cases. The approach avoids the limitations of traditional
statistics in the small-n context and allows analysts to systematically assess and compare the impact of a set of
factors on case outcomes with easy-to-use analytics. Rigorous tools reduce bias, improve the knowledge gained from
case studies, and provide straightforward metrics for effectively communicating results to a range of readers and
leaders.
CONTENTS 1: Enhancing Small-n Analysis: Information Theory and the Method of Structured-Focused Comparison / 2: The Information Revolution
/ 3: Case Selection / 4: The Information Method—If You Can Count, You Can Do It / 5: Information Metrics at Work—Three Examples / 6: Sensitivity
Analysis—Entropy, Inference, and Error / 7: The QCA Connection / 8: Conclusion / APPENDIX A: Using Excel for Information Metrics / APPENDIX B:
Using R for Information Metrics
PAPERBACK ISBN: 978-1-4833-9247-9 • JANUARY 2016 • 192 PAGES • •
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