Researching Social Life

by Gilbert, G. Nigel; Gilbert, Nigel

• ISBN13: 9780803986817
• ISBN10: 0803986815
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-12-01
• Publisher: Sage Pubns Ltd

Summary

This comprehensive and authoritative introductory student textbook covers the most widely used methods of social research, both quantitative and qualitative, emphasizing the connections between these forms of research and their theoretical underpinnings. The contributors draw from their own extensive research experience to illustrate the practical advice offered. A number of research projects are described in detail to illustrate methodological issues covered in the book.Researching Social Life outlines the main ways in which data are gathered, collated, managed and analyzed. It describes a range of ways to analyze data, such as survey methods, ethnography, documentary research, the secondary analysis of survey data

Table of Contents

Introduction

Social Research and Sociology

Research, Theory and Method

The Research Process

Beginnings

Gaining Access

Designing Samples

Into The Field

Questionnaires

Measuring Attitudes

Qualitative Interviewing

Ethnography

Exemplar A

Becoming a Carer

Using Documents

Exemplar B

Building Respectability

Back Home

Coding and Managing Data

Analyzing Survey Data

Analyzing Other Researchers' Data

Exemplar C

No Jam Tomorrow

Why Women are Disadvantaged in Occupational Pensions

Analyzing Accounts

Explicating Face-to-Face Interaction

Endings

Writing About Social Research

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