Selecting Research Methods

Four-Volume Set Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-84787-180-0
Verlag: Sage Publications

Buch, Englisch, 1640 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 2977 g

Reihe: SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods

Selecting Research Methods provides advice from prominent social scientists concerning the most crucial steps for planning and undertaking meaningful research: selecting the methods to be used. Contributors to the collection address methodological choices in four stages: design, sampling, coding and measurement, and analysis. The volumes provide an integrated approach to methodological choice in two ways. First, the contributions range from the early decisions about design options through the concluding choices about analyzing, interpreting, and presenting results. Second, the collection is integrated because it addresses the needs of projects that collect qualitative evidence, quantitative data, or both. Volume 1 concerns design choice; the articles focus on selecting designs that are effective for answering research questions and achieving the goals of the researcher. Volume 2 is on sampling and includes, in addition to sampling from populations, advice on choosing methods for recruiting informants for interviews, selecting sites for participant observation, and assigning subjects to control and experimental groups. Volume 3 reviews options for coding and measurement; it emphasizes methodological choices that enable researchers to study concepts in ways that enhance the reliability and validity of the research. Finally, the articles included in Volume 4 review the range of choices available among methods to analyze results and interpret the meanings of evidence.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vogt

Vogt, W. (William) Paul

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

VOLUME 1: SELECTING DESIGNS FOR GATHERING EVIDENCE
Epistemological Diversity and Education Research: Much ado about nothing much?
The Poverty of Deductivism: A Constructive Realist Model Of Sociological Explanation - H. Siegel
A Tale Of Two Cultures: Contrasting Quantitative And Qualitative Research - P.S. Gorski
What Good is Polarizing Research into Qualitative and Quantitative? - J. Mahoney and G. Goertz
Integrating Survey and Ethnographic Methods for Systematic Anomalous Case Analysis - K. Ercikan and W.M. Roth
What Works and Why: Combining quantitative and qualitative approaches in large-scale evaluations - L.D. Pearce
Fieldwork, Economic Theory, and Research on Institutions in Developing Countries - I. Plewis and P. Mason
The Benefits of Being There: Evidence from the literature on work - C. Udry
Mapping the Process: An exemplar of process and challenge in grounded theory analysis - D. Tope, L.J. Chamberlain, M. Crowley and R. Hodson
Identity in Focus: The use of focus groups to study the construction of collective identity - B. Harry, K.M. Sturges and J.K. Klinger
Rational Choice, Structural Context, and Increasing Returns: A strategy for analytic narrative in historical sociology - J. Munday
The Growth and Development of Experimental Research in Political Science - N. Pedriana
The Logic of The Survey Experiment Reexamined - J.N. Druckman, Donald P. Green, J.H. Kuklinski and A. Lupia
The Role of Randomized Field Trials in Social Science Research - B.J. Gaines, J.H. Kuklinski, and P.J. Quirk
Naturally Occurring Preferences and Exogenous Laboratory Experiments: A case study of risk aversion - R.A. Moffitt
Understanding Interaction Models: Improving empirical analysis - G.W. Harrison, J.A. List and C. Towe
A Potential Outcomes View of Value-Added Assessment in Education - T. Brambor, W.R. Clark and M. Golder
What are Value-Added Models Estimating and what does this Imply for Statistical Practice? - D.B. Rubin, E.A. Stuart and E.L. Zanutto
VOLUME 2: METHODS TO SAMPLE, RECRUIT, AND ASSIGN CASES - S.W. Raudenbush
Recruitment for a Panel Study of Australian Retirees
The Difficulty of Identifying Rare Samples to Study: The case of schools divided into schools within schools - Y. Wells, W. Petralia, D. Devaus and H. Kendig
In Search of Homo Economicus: Behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies - V.E. Lee, D.D. Ready and D.J. Johnson
Population Estimation without Censuses or Surveys: A discussion of mark-recapture methods - J. Henrich, R. Boyd, S. Bowles, C. Camerer, E. Fehr, H. Gintis and R. Mcelreath
A Different Kind of Snowball: Identifying Key Policymakers - M. Bloor
Sampling and Estimation in Hidden Populations Using Respondent-Driven Sampling - K. Farquharson
Sample Size: More than calculations - M.J. Salganik and D.D. Heckathorn
Sample Size Planning for the Standardized Mean Difference: Accuracy in parameter estimation via narrow confidence intervals - R.A. Parker and N.G. Bergman
Sufficient Sample Sizes for Multilevel Modeling - K. Kelley and J.R. Rausch
Two-Step Hierarchical Estimation: Beyond regression analysis - C.J.M. Maas and J.J. Hox
Nested Analysis as a Mixed-Method Strategy for Comparative Research - C.H. Achen
When Can History Be Our Guide? The pitfalls of counterfactual inference - E.S. Lieberman
The Possibility Principle: Choosing negative cases in comparative research - G. King and L. Zeng
Use of Extreme Groups Approach: A critical reexamination and new recommendations - J. Mahoney and G. Goertz
The Intervention Selection Bias: An underrecognized confound in intervention research - K.J. Preacher, R.C. Maccallum, D. Rucker and W.A. Nicewander
Getting the Most from Archived Qualitative Data: Epistemological, practical, and professional obstacles - R.E. Larzelere, B.R. Kuhn and B. Johnson
Whose Data are they Anyway? Practical, legal and ethical issues in archivi

Über Autor(innen)

Vogt, W. (William) Paul
W. Paul Vogt is Emeritus Professor of Research Methods and Evaluation at Illinois State University where he won both teaching and research awards. He specializes in methodological choice and program evaluation and is particularly interested in ways to integrate multiple methods. His other books include: Tolerance & Education: Learning to Live with Diversity and Difference (Sage Publications, 1998); Quantitative Research Methods for Professionals (Allyn & Bacon, 2007); Education Programs for Improving Intergroup Relations (coedited with Walter Stephan, Teachers College Press, 2004). He is also editor of four 4-volume sets in the series, Sage Benchmarks in Social Research Methods: Selecting Research Methods (2008); Data Collection (2010); Quantitative Research Methods (2011); and, with Burke Johnson, Correlation and Regression Analysis (2012).His most recent publications include the coauthored When to Use What Research Design (2012) and Selecting the Right Analyses for Your Data: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches (2014).