Clive Seale 
Researching Society and Culture [EPUB ebook] 

Written by internationally renowned experts, each chapter provides a full introduction to a key aspect of research methodology. From starting out to generating, analysing, and presenting data, this new edition covers foundational concepts in social research while also keeping students on the pulse of topics like digital social research, social surveys, and big data. Packed with international examples from across the social sciences, it shows how to interpret and work with data generated from real-world research.

It gives you the tools to:

-          Design the right research question for your project

-          Access, understand, and use existing data

-          Effectively write up projects and assignments

-          Be confident in the A to Z of the research process

Supported by an interactive website with videos, datasets, templates, and additional exercises, this book is the perfect hand-holder for any social science student starting a methods course or project.

Cuprins

Chapter 1: Introduction and guide to using this book – Clive Seale

Part 1: Starting out

Chapter 2: Philosophy, politics and values – Clive Seale

Chapter 3: Research and theory – David Silverman

Chapter 4: Ethics and social research – Suki Ali and Moira Kelly

Chapter 5: Doing a literature review – Duncan Branley, Clive Seale and Thomas Zacharias

Chapter 6: Research questions and proposals – Moira Kelly

Chapter 7: Research design – Clare Robinson and Clive Seale

Chapter 8: The dissertation – Chetan Bhatt

Part 2: Generating data

Chapter 9: Sampling – Clive Seale

Chapter 10: Questionnaires and interviews – Clive Seale

Chapter 11: Questions, measurements and structured observation – Clive Seale

Chapter 12: Qualitative interviewing – Bridget Byrne

Chapter 13: Focus groups – Fran Tonkiss

Chapter 14: Doing ethnography – David Walsh and Clive Seale

Chapter 15: Grounded theory – Clive Seale

Chapter 16: Doing historical and documentary research – Ben Gidley

Chapter 17: Combining qualitative and quantitative methods – Neil Spicer

Chapter 18: Digital Social Research – Clive Seale

Part 3: Doing Analysis

Chapter 19: Preparing data for statistical analysis – Clive Seale

Chapter 20: Analysing single variables – Clive Seale

Chapter 21: Bivariate analysis – Clive Seale

Chapter 22: Causal arguments and multivariate analysis – Clive Seale

Chapter 23: Secondary analysis – Clive Seale

Chapter 24: Content and text analysis – Clive Seale and Fran Tonkiss

Chapter 25: Finding themes in qualitative data – Carol Rivas

Chapter 26: Visual analysis – Suki Ali

Chapter 27: Discourse analysis – Fran Tonkiss

Chapter 28: Analysing conversation – Tim Rapley

Chapter 29: Narrative analysis and interpretative phenomenological analysis – Ann Griffin and Vanessa May

Part 4: Writing, Presenting, Reflecting

Chapter 30: Writing a research report – Carol Rivas

Chapter 31: Giving oral presentations – David Silverman

Chapter 32: Research quality – Clive Seale

Despre autor

Clive Seale has been Professor of Sociology (or Medical Sociology) at Goldsmiths and Queen Mary’s (both University of London) and Brunel University. His work has concerned communication in health care and death in modern society. He has published extensively on research methods. His books include Constructing Death: the sociology of dying and bereavement (Cambridge University Press, 1998), The Quality of Qualitative Research (Sage, 1999), Media and Health (Sage, 2003) and Gender and the Language of Illness (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2010, with Jonathan Charteris-Black). Recently, he has turned to fiction, publishing a novel, Interrogating Ellie (Cloiff Books, 2015) using the pen name Julian Gray. He is currently writing another novel.