Research communities in the social sciences / Bridget Somekh ... [et al.] -- Ethnography / Juliet Goldbart and David Hustler -- Research diaries / Herbert Altrichter and Mary Louise Holly -- Case study / Sheila Stark and Harry Torrance -- Interviewing and focus groups / Rosaline S. Barbour and John Schostak -- Grounded theory / Juliet Corbin and Nicholas L. Holt -- Ethical responsibility in social research / Heather Piper and Helen Simons -- Feminist methodologies / Diane Burns and Melanie Walker -- Critical theories of race / Laurence Parker and Lorna Roberts -- Queer theory/lesbian and gay approaches / Gloria Filax ... [et al.] -- Action research / Susan Noffke and Bridget Somekh -- Researching policy / Jill Blackmore and Hugh Lauder -- The practice and politics of sponsored evaluations / Tineke Abma and Thomas A. Schwandt -- Philosophy and hermeneutics / David Heywood and Ian Stronach -- Phenomenology / Angie Titchen and Dawn Hobson -- Naturalistic inquiry / Nigel Norris and Rob Walker -- Observation / Liz Jones and Bridget Somekh -- Discourse analysis / Julia Gillen and Alan Petersen -- Life history and narrative approaches / Geoff Shacklock and Laurie Thorp -- Semiotic approaches to image-based research / Terry Carson ... [et al.] -- Social semiotics and multimodal texts / Gunther Kress and Diane Mavers -- Communities of practice / David Benzie ... [et al.] -- Activity theory / Ines Langemeyer and Morten Nissen -- The foundations of experimental/empirical research methods / Dean Garratt and Yaojun Li -- The positivist paradigm in contemporary social science research / Charles Crook and Dean Garratt -- Elementary quantitative methods / Cathy Lewin -- An introduction to inferential statistics: testing for differences and relationships / Sally Barnes and Cathy Lewin -- An introduction to statistical modelling / Kelvyn Jones -- Random reflections on modelling, geography and voting / Kelvyn Jones -- Methodological issues in international comparative assessments of educational progress / W. J. Pelgrum -- Capturing complexity through maturity modelling / Jean Underwood and Gayle Dillon -- Evaluating literacy advance in the early years of school / John Ainley -- Working backwards: the road less travelled in quantitative methodology / Brian Doig -- Combining qualitative and quantitative methods in social inquiry / Jennifer C. Greene, Holly Kreider and Ellen Mayer -- Deconstruction / Erica Burman and Maggie MacLure -- From hermeneutics to poststructuralism to psychoanalysis / Tony Brown and Daniel Heggs -- Postmodernist perspectives / Julianne Cheek and Noel Gough -- From structuralism to poststructuralism / Lee Miller, Joanne 'Bob' Whalley and Ian Stronach -- Feminism/poststructuralism / Bronwyn Davies and Susanne Gannon -- Social science research in virtual realities / Colin Lankshear and Kevin M. Leander -- Participating in the research community / Bridget Somekh ... [et al.].
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