How do you conduct a small-scale research project? And how do you make it excellent?
In this inspiring and engaging book, readers are presented with the key principles and practices of small-scale research. In addition, the book provides a peerless introduction to the key features involved in the process of research design and practice. Written in a clear, accessible way and drawing on exciting up-to-date examples, this book makes for a crucial companion on the way to research excellence.
Based on Layder′s solid background as a researcher, supervisor and teacher, Doing Excellent Small-Scale Research:
– Leads the researcher through the actual process of doing a research project from start to finish
– Offers a comprehensive outline of general areas and issues such as preparation and planning, developing research questions, interviewing and sampling
– Reflects upon research as a social and human process
– Provides systematic guidelines and advice above and beyond technical essentials.
This book will be invaluable to both students and researchers interested in social interaction – informing, guiding and inspiring them towards excellent small-scale research.
Tabella dei contenuti
Overview of the Adaptive Approach
Finding a Research Topic and a Research Problem
Developing Questions from Research Problems
Preparation and Project Design
Qualitative Data and Mixed Strategies
Quantitative Data and Mixed Strategies
Imaginative Sampling
Data Analysis: Concepts and Coding
Writing the Research Report: Arguments and Explanations
Guidelines and Checklist for Adaptive Research
Circa l’autore
Derek Layder is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Leicester and Honorary Professor of Health and Life Sciences and De Montfort University. He was awarded a doctorate by the London School of Economics in 1976. Appointed Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leicester in 1974 and promoted to Reader in 1995, he became Professor in 1997 and Emeritus Professor from 2002. He has held several visiting academic positions and has also held honorary visiting appointments at The Australian National University (as a Humanities Research Fellow) and the University of Western Sydney (as Eminent Research Visitor). He taught in areas of social theory, social psychology, social research methods and the philosophy of social sciences. He has published numerous academic articles and 12 books. Among his books, in the area of the philosophy of social science, he is the author of The Realist Image in Social Science (1990); in social theory, he has written Understanding Social Theory (second edition, 2006), as well as Modern Social Theory (1997). On research strategies and methods, he has authored New Strategies in Social Research (1993), Sociological Practice (1998), and Doing Excellent Small-Scale Research (2013). He has also written on intimacy, emotion and self-identity, including Emotion in Social Life (2004), Social & Personal Identity (2004) and Intimacy & Power (2009).
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