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The SAGE handbook of social science methodology

This handbook brings together a formidable collection of international contributors to comment on every aspect of the various central issues, complications and controversies in the core methodological traditions
eBook, English, 2007
SAGE, Los Angeles [Calif.], 2007
1 online resource (xvi, 622 pages) : illustrations
9781848607958, 9781412901192, 9781446206454, 1848607954, 1412901197, 1446206459
738380438
Print version
General introduction / William Outhwaite and Stephen P. Turner
Section 1 : Overviews. Introduction / William Outhwaite
The social sciences since World War II: the rise and fall of Scientism / Peter Manicas
Interdisciplinary approaches in social science research / Julie Thompson Klein
Section 2 : Cases, comparisons, and theory. Introduction / William Outhwaite
Ethnography / Jon P. Mitchell
Comparative methods / Charles C. Ragin
Historicty and sociohistorical research / John R. Hall
Case Study / Jennifer Platt
Section 3 : Quantification and experiment. Introduction / Stephen P. Turner
Statistical Models for causation / David A. Freedman
Fighting to understand the world casually: three battles connected to the casual implications of structural equation models / Leslie Hayduk and Hannah Pazderka-Robinson
Experimental and quasi-experimental designs in behavioral research: on context, crud, and convergence / Sandra L. Schneider
Theory and experimentation in the social sciences / Murray Webster Jr. and Jane Sell
The treatment of missing data / David C. Howell
Modeling selection effects / Thad Dunning and David A. Freedman
Methods for census 2000 and statistical adjustments / David A. Freedman and Kenneth W. Wachter
Quantitative history / Margo Anderson
Section 4: Rationality, complexity, collectivity. Introduction/ William Outhwaite
Rational choice theory / Donald P. Green and Justin Fox
Rationality and rationalist approaches in the social sciences / David Henderson
Individual and collective agency / Thomas Schwinn
Simulating complexity / R. Keith Sawyer
Evolutionary approaches in the social sciences / Maureen A. O'Malley
Section 5. : Interpretation, critique, and postmodernity. Introduction / William Outhwaite
Understanding and interpretation / Hans-Herbert Kogler. New controversies in phenomenology: between ethnography and discourse / Mark J. Smith and Piya Pangsapa
Liberal humanism and the European critical tradition / Douglas Kellner and Tyson Lewis
Grounded theory: critiques, debates, and situational analysis / Adele E. Clarke
Does postmodernism make you mad? or, did you flunk statistics? / Ben Agger
Section 6 : Discourse construction. Introduction / Stephen P. Turner
Social construction and research methodology / Kenneth J. Gergen and Mary M. Gergen
Rhetorics of social science: sociality in writing and inquiry / Ricca Edmondson
Discourse analysis / Michael Lynch
Section 7 : Evaluation, engagement, and collaborative research. Introduction / Stephen P. Turner
Evaluation research / Michael Scriven
Feminist methodology / Susan Hekman
Feminist methodology and its discontents / Nancy A. Naples
Community-based research / Michael Root
Qualitative methodology (including focus groups) / Norma K. Denzin and Katherine E. Ryan
Making a mess with method / John Law