Researching society and culture /
Contributor(s): Seale, Clive [editor.].
Publisher: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calfornia : Sage, 2018Edition: 4th edition.Description: xiii, 648 pages ; colour illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm.Content type: text | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9781473947160; 9781473947160:; 1473947162; 9781473947153; 1473947154.Subject(s): Sociology -- Methodology | Sociology -- Philosophy | Sociology -- Research | Social sciences -- Methodology | Social sciences -- Philosophy | Social sciences -- Research | Culture -- ResearchDDC classification: 300.721Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 300.721 SEA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 0063019 |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Introduction and guide to using this book -- Philosophy, politics and values -- Research and theory -- ethics and social research -- Doing a literature review -- Research questions and proposals -- Research design -- The dissertation -- Sampling -- Questionnaires and interviews -- Questions, measurements and structured observation -- Qualitative interviewing -- Focus groups -- Doing ethnography -- Grounded theory -- Doing historical and documentary research -- Combining qualitative and quantitative methods -- Digital social research -- Preparing data for statistical analysis -- Analysing single variables -- Bivariate analysis -- Causal arguments and multivariate analysis -- Secondary analysis -- Content and text analysis -- Finding themes in qualitative data -- Visual analysis -- Discourse analysis -- Analysing conversation -- Narrative analysis and interpretative phenomenological analysis -- Writing a research report -- Giving oral presentations -- research quality.
'Researching Society and Culture' provides an introduction to methods and methodology for students in the social sciences and cultural studies.The book concludes with a series of workshop and discussion exercises, tailored to each chapter.