Web-links
Here are some websites worth exploring. Each website covers many methods topics. Click on the following chapters for a comprehensive list.
1 Introduction and guide to using this book
2 Introduction to the philosophy of science
3 Research and theory
4 Research and policy
5 Ethics and social research
6 Doing a literature review
7 Research questions and proposals
8 Research design
9 Sampling
10 Doing a dissertation
11 Structured methods: interviews, questionnaires and observation
12 Qualitative interviewing
13 Focus groups
14 Doing ethnography
15 Doing historical and documentary research
16 Visual analysis
17 Secondary analysis and official statistics
18 Preparing data for statistical analysis
19 Statistical reasoning: from one to two variables
20 Statistical reasoning: causal arguments and multivariate analysis
21 Coding and analysing qualitative data
22 Generating grounded theory
23 Discourse analysis
24 Analysing conversation
25 Narrative analysis and interpretive phenomenological analysis
26 Content and comparative keyword analysis
27 Combining qualitative and quantitative methods
28 Writing a research report
29 Giving oral presentations
30 Validity, reliability and the quality of research
31 When things go wrong
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