TY - BOOK AU - Alasuutari Pertti AU - Bickman Leonard AU - Brannen Julia TI - The SAGE handbook of social research methods SN - 9781412919920 AV - H62.S24 2008 PY - 2008/// CY - London PB - SAGE, KW - Social sciences Research Methodology KW - Social research methodology Handbook KW - Social Sciences methods KW - Research methodology social sciences KW - Research Design N1 - Includes Bibliographical references and Index; CONTENTS 1. Social research in changing social conditions-- Part 1: Directions in social research: 2. The end of the paradigm wars?-- 3. The history of social research methods-- 4. Assessing validity in social research-- 5. Ethnography and audience-- 6. Social research and social practice in post-positivist society-- 7. From questions of methods to epistemological issues: the case of biographical research-- 8. Research ethics in social science-- Part 2: Research designs:. 9. The core analytics of ramdomized experiments for social research-- 10. Better quasi-experimental practice-- 11. Sample size planning with applications to multiple regression: power and accuracy for omnibus and targeted effects-- 12. Re-conceptualizing generalization: old issues in a new frame-- 13. Case study in social research-- 14. Longitudinal and panel studies-- 15. Comparative and cross-national designs-- Part 3: Data collection and fieldwork: 16. Modern measurement in the social sciences-- 17. Natural and contrived data. 18. Self-administered questionnaires and standardized interviews-- 19. Qualitative interviewing and feminist research-- 20. Biographical methods-- 21. Focus groups-- Part 4: Types of analysis and interpretation of evidence: 22. An introduction to the multilevel model for change-- 23. Latent variable models of social research data-- 24. Equating groups-- 25. Discourse analysis and conversation analysis-- 26. Analyzing narratives and story-telling-- 27. Reconstructing grounded theory-- 28. Documents and action-- 29. Video and the analysis of work and interaction-- 30. Secondary analysis of qualitative data-- 31. Secondary analysis of quantitative data sources-- 32. Conducting a meta-analysis-- 33. Synergy and synthesis: integrating qualitative and quantitative data-- 34. The analytic integration of qualitative data sources-- 35. Combining different types of data for quantitative analysis-- 36. Writing and presenting social research N2 - his handbook is a must for every social science researcher. It charts the new and evolving terrain of social research methodology, covering qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods in one volume ER -