A handbook for social science field research : essays & bibliographic sources on research design and methods /
This text contains a collection of essays and bibliographies providing both novice and experienced scholars with invaluable and accessible insights, as well as references to a select list of critical texts pertaining to a wide array of social science methods and practices useful when doing fieldwork...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Thousand Oaks, Calif. :
Sage Publications,
©2006.
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Colección: | Online access: SAGE SAGE Research Methods Core.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Archives
- past is another country / Robert Vitalis
- Bibliography on archives / Ellen Perecman / Sara R. Curran
- 2. Case studies
- Case-based research / Andrew Schrank
- Bibliography on case studies / Sara R. Curran / Ellen Perecman
- 3. Ethnographic methods
- Ethnography : theory and methods / Alma Gottlieb
- Bibliography on ethnography / Sara R. Curran / Ellen Perecman
- 4. Oral histories
- Oral histories as methods and sources / Tamara Giles-Vernick
- Bibliography on oral history / Ellen Perecman / Sara R. Curran
- 5. Focus groups
- Focus group interviews / Susan E. Short
- Bibliography on focus groups / Ellen Perecman / Sara R. Curran
- 6. Surveys and secondary data sources
- Using survey data in social science research in developing countries / Albert Park
- Bibliography on surveys and secondary data sources / Ellen Perecman / Sara R. Curran
- 7. Combining qualitative and quantitative tools
- Qualitative research : does it fit in economics? / Michael J. Piore
- Bibliography on study design and quantitative methods / Ellen Perecman / Sara R. Curran
- 8. Essentials for ethnography
- Ethnographic methods / Stevan Harrell
- 9. Essentials for the case study method
- case study and causal inference / Andrew Schrank
- 10. Essentials for research design
- In search of the Holy Grail : projects, proposals, and research design, but mostly about why writing a dissertation proposal is so difficult / Michael Watts
- 11. Research ethics are essential
- Ethical considerations for research in cross-cultural settings / Sara R. Curran
- 12. Maintaining perspective is essential
- Bringing it all back home : personal reflections on friends, findings, and fieldwork / Andrew Schrank.