Researching society and culture / edited by Clive Seale.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This is the second and comprehensively revised and greatly expanded edition of the best selling book on methods and methodology written by members or associates of the Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London. All of the acknowledged strengths of the first edition have been retained and improved. There are completely new chapters covering audio recordings, the Internet, visual materials, focus groups, grounded theory, combining qualitative and quantitative methods, using data archives for statistical analysis, doing a dissertation, ethics, doing a literature review and more. A brand new section 3 provides case studies.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Introduction
• Part 1 Philosophy, Methodology and History
• Selected Issues in the Philosophy of Social Science
• Developments in Social Theory
• Feminist Methodology
• Gender, Ethnicity and Fieldwork
• A Case Study
• The History of the Social Survey
• Historical and Comparative Research
• Part 2 Beginning Research
• Research and Social Policy
• Research and Social Theory
• Writing a Research Proposal
• Part 3 Doing Research
• Doing Social Surveys
• Coding and Analyzing Data
• Statistical Reasoning
• From One to Two Variables
• Statistical Reasoning
• Causal Arguments and Multivariate Analysis
• Using Official Statistics
• Qualitative Interviewing
• Doing Ethnography
• Analyzing Cultural Objects
• Content Analysis and Semiotics
• Analyzing Discourse
• Analyzing Conversation
• Analyzing Literary Texts
• Reading and Writing Research
• Part 4 Workshop and Discussion Exercises