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 -- Comparitive 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.
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