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Author : Fred Reinhard Dallmayr,Thomas McCarthy
Publisher : Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036905037
Author : Fred Reinhard Dallmayr,Thomas A. McCarthy
Publisher : Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Knowledge, Sociology of
ISBN : 0268019134
Author : J. J. Snyman
Publisher : HSRC Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0796914176
Author : Gary King,Robert O. Keohane,Sidney Verba
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1994-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691034713
Designing Social Inquiry focuses on improving qualitative research, where numerical measurement is either impossible or undesirable. What are the right questions to ask? How should you define and make inferences about causal effects? How can you avoid bias? How many cases do you need, and how should they be selected? What are the consequences of unavoidable problems in qualitative research, such as measurement error, incomplete information, or omitted variables? What are proper ways to estimate and report the uncertainty of your conclusions?
Author : Norman Blaikie
Publisher : Polity
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780745634494
Since its initial publication, this highly respected text has provided students with a critical review of the major research paradigms in the social sciences and the logics or strategies of enquiry associated with them. This second edition has been revised and updated.
Author : Jennifer C. Greene
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780787983826
“This is an excellent addition to the literature of integrated methodology. The author has skillfully integrated diverse ways of thinking about mixed methods into a comprehensive and meaningful framework. By providing detailed examples, she makes it easy for both the students and the practitioners to understand the intricate details and complexities of doing mixed methods research. On the other hand, by comparing, contrasting, and bridging multiple perspectives about mixed methods, she has made this book very relevant and useful to seasoned scholars of mixed methodology.”--Abbas Tashakkori, Frost Professor and coordinator, educational research and evaluation methodology, Department of Educational and Psychological Studies, Florida International University, founding coeditor, Journal of Mixed Methods Research
Author : Henry E. Brady,David Collier
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442203457
With innovative new chapters on process tracing, regression analysis, and natural experiments, the second edition of Rethinking Social Inquiry further extends the reach of this path-breaking book. The original debate with King, Keohane, and Verba_now updated_remains central to the volume, and the new material illuminates evolving discussions of essential methodological tools. Thus, process tracing is often invoked as fundamental to qualitative analysis, but is rarely applied with precision. Pitfalls of regression analysis are sometimes noted, but often are inadequately examined. And the complex assumptions and trade-offs of natural experiments are poorly understood. The second edition extends the methodological horizon through exploring these critical tools. A distinctive feature of this edition is the online placement of four chapters from the prior edition, all focused on the dialogue with King, Keohane, and Verba. Also posted online are exercises for teaching process tracing and understanding process tracing.
Author : Linda Eberst Dorsten,Lawrence Hotchkiss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315510910
Provides a foundation for understanding research findings in social sciences. Designed to help students acquire basic skills in the methods of social science research, the second edition of Research Methods and Society contains numerous excerpts from professional journal articles, scholarly books, and popular press. The text uses a straightforward writing style to present essential information, without eliminating key concepts, tools, and their applications. Concrete, everyday examples and “hands-on” practice activities reinforce fundamental concepts that will be useful to students in their future careers and life. Topics are illustrated in ways that are student-centered, yet instructor-friendly. Features and updates to this 2nd edition include: Highlighted concepts and terms in each chapter -- In addition to a chapter-end list of key terms. These familiarize students with important content, and helps ensure they understand and retain it. Chapter summaries – Includes a section titled Your Review Sheet: Questions Discussed in This Chapter. Enables students to review the major themes presented in each chapter, and encourages them to reflect on the key points. Numerous “real-world” activities – Help students meet specific learning needs, such as evaluating excerpts from research articles, analyzing secondary data, and analyzing primary data from direct observation and other mini-projects Excerpts from professional journal articles and popular press readings – these are followed by questions, which guide learning on specific methods topics, and illustrates specific issues related to methodology typically employed by social scientists. Added and expanded discussion of Ethics, with special attention to chapters on direct methods of data collection, as well as new discussions about online research. New secondary data tables and their discussions/applications.
Author : Charles C. Ragin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226702797
For over twenty years Charles C. Ragin has been at the forefront of the development of innovative methods for social scientists. In Redesigning Social Inquiry, he continues his campaign to revitalize the field, challenging major aspects of the conventional template for social science research while offering a clear alternative. Redesigning Social Inquiry provides a substantive critique of the standard approach to social research—namely, assessing the relative importance of causal variables drawn from competing theories. Instead, Ragin proposes the use of set-theoretic methods to find a middle path between quantitative and qualitative research. Through a series of contrasts between fuzzy-set analysis and conventional quantitative research, Ragin demonstrates the capacity for set-theoretic methods to strengthen connections between qualitative researchers’ deep knowledge of their cases and quantitative researchers’ elaboration of cross-case patterns. Packed with useful examples, Redesigning Social Inquiry will be indispensable to experienced professionals and to budding scholars about to embark on their first project.
Author : R. Biernacki
Publisher : Springer
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137007285
Revisiting the dominant scientific method, 'coding,' with which investigators from sociology to literary criticism have sampled texts and catalogued their cultural messages, the author demonstrates that the celebrated hard outputs rest on misleading samples and on unfeasible classifying of the texts' meanings.
Author : John G. Gunnell
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231538343
A distinctive feature of Ludwig Wittgenstein's work after 1930 was his turn to a conception of philosophy as a form of social inquiry, John G. Gunnell argues, and Thomas Kuhn's approach to the philosophy of science exemplified this conception. In this book, Gunnell shows how these philosophers address foundational issues in the social and human sciences, particularly the vision of social inquiry as an interpretive endeavor and the distinctive cognitive and practical relationship between social inquiry and its subject matter. Gunnell speaks directly to philosophers and practitioners of the social and human sciences. He tackles the demarcation between natural and social science; the nature of social phenomena; the concept and method of interpretation; the relationship between language and thought; the problem of knowledge of other minds; and the character of descriptive and normative judgments about practices that are the object of inquiry. Though Wittgenstein and Kuhn are often criticized as initiating a modern descent into relativism, this book shows that the true effect of their work was to undermine the basic assumptions of contemporary social and human science practice. It also problematized the authority of philosophy and other forms of social inquiry to specify the criteria for judging such matters as truth and justice. When Wittgenstein stated that "philosophy leaves everything as it is," he did not mean that philosophy would be left as it was or that philosophy would have no impact on what it studied, but rather that the activity of inquiry did not, simply by virtue of its performance, transform the object of inquiry.
Author : Charles C. Ragin,Howard Saul Becker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1992-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521421888
The concept of the case is a basic feature of social science research and yet many questions about how a case should be defined, selected, and judged are far from settled. The contributors to this volume probe the nature of the case and the ways in which different understandings of the concept affect the conduct and the results of research. The contributions demonstrate that the work of any given researcher is often characterised by some hybrid of these basic approaches, and it is important to understand that most research involves multiple definitions and uses of cases, as both specific empirical phenomena and as general theoretical categories.
Author : Bent Flyvbjerg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 052177568X
New approach demonstrating how social science can be successful, focusing on context, values, and power.
Author : Richard Jessor,Anne Colby,Richard A. Shweder
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1996-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0226399028
Studies of human development have taken an ethnographic turn in the 1990s. In this volume, leading anthropologists, psychologists, and sociologists discuss how qualitative methodologies have strengthened our understanding of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral development, and of the difficulties of growing up in contemporary society. Part 1, informed by a post-positivist philosophy of science, argues for the validity of ethnographic knowledge. Part 2 examines a range of qualitative methods, from participant observation to the hermeneutic elaboration of texts. In Part 3, ethnographic methods are applied to issues of human development across the life span and to social problems including poverty, racial and ethnic marginality, and crime. Restoring ethnographic methods to a central place in social inquiry, these twenty-two lively essays will interest everyone concerned with the epistemological problems of context, meaning, and subjectivity in the behavioral sciences.
Author : Denis Charles Phillips
Publisher : Pergamon
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015011696799