Acknowledgements

Author biographies

1 Introduction and guide to using this book
Clive Seale

Part I: STARTING OUT

2 Introduction to the philosophy of science
Miran Epstein
3 Research and theory
David Silverman
4 Research and policy
David Silverman
5 Ethics and social research
Suki Ali and Moira Kelly
6 Doing a literature review
Duncan Branley
7 Research questions and proposals
Moira Kelly
8 Research design
Clare Rutterford
9 Sampling
Clive Seale
10 Doing a dissertation
Chetan Bhatt

Part II: DOING RESEARCH

11 Structured methods: interviews, questionnaires and observation
Constantinos N Phellas, Alice Bloch, Clive Seale
12 Qualitative interviewing
Bridget Byrne
13 Focus groups
Fran Tonkiss
14 Doing ethnography
David Walsh
15 Doing historical and documentary research
Ben Gidley
16 Visual analysis
Suki Ali
17 Secondary analysis and official statistics
Clive Seale
18 Preparing data for statistical analysis
Clive Seale
19 Statistical reasoning: from one to two variables
Alice Bloch
20 Statistical reasoning: causal arguments and multivariate analysis
Clive Seale
21 Coding and analysing qualitative data
Carol Rivas
22 Generating grounded theory
Clive Seale
23 Discourse analysis
Fran Tonkiss
24 Analysing conversation
Tim Rapley
25 Narrative analysis and interpretive phenomenological analysis
Ann Griffin and Vanessa May
26 Content and comparative keyword analysis
Clive Seale and Fran Tonkiss
27 Combining qualitative and quantitative methods
Neil Spicer

Part III: WRITING, PRESENTING, REFLECTING

28 Writing a research report
Carol Rivas
29 Giving oral presentations
David Silverman
30 Validity, reliability and the quality of research
Clive Seale
31 When things go wrong
Mike Michael

Glossary
Compiled by Milind Arolker and Clive Seale

References

Index