A Handbook for Social Science Field Research
Subtitle: Essays & Bibliographic Sources on Research Design and Methods
By: Edited by Ellen Perecman and Sara R. Curran
Contributors: Ellen Perecman (Editor); Sara R. Curran (Editor)
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Published: January 24, 2006
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, California, USA; London, United Kingdom; New Delhi, India
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781412916813
Copyright date: 2006
Subjects: Social research & statistics; Sociology; Research; Social Science; Social Science / Research; Methodology; Field work; Social sciences
First sentence: The basic point of this chapter is a simple one.
Table of contents: label: Acknowledgements
pagenum: ix; label: About the Authors
pagenum: xi; label: Foreword
pagenum: xvii; label: Introduction
pagenum: xxi; label: Part I
title: Selecting the Right Tools
pagenum: 1; label: 1.
title: Archives
pagenum: 5; title: The Past Is Another Country
pagenum: 5; title: Bibliography on Archives
pagenum: 18; title: 1. General References
pagenum: 18; title: 2. Missionary Archives
pagenum: 19; title: 3. Law Cases, Commissions, and Inquiries
pagenum: 19; title: 4. Medical Reports
pagenum: 19; title: 5. Personal Papers and Private Correspondence
pagenum: 19; title: 6. National and Regional Archives
pagenum: 20; title: 7. Urban Archives
pagenum: 20; title: 8. Newspapers
pagenum: 20; label: 2.
title: Case Studies
pagenum: 21; title: Case-Based Research
pagenum: 21; title: Bibliography on Case Studies
pagenum: 39; title: 1. Overviews: Case Studies, Critics, and Rejoinders
pagenum: 39; title: 2. The "One Shot" Case Study Revisited
pagenum: 40; title: 3. Comparative Case Approaches
pagenum: 41; title: 4. Subnational Approaches
pagenum: 43; title: 5. "Doing" Case Studies
pagenum: 43; title: 6. Counterfactuals
pagenum: 43; title: 7. The "Negative Case" Approach
pagenum: 44; title: 8. Concept Formation
pagenum: 44; label: 3.
title: Ethnographic Methods
pagenum: 47; title: Ethnography: Theory and Methods
pagenum: 47; title: Bibliography on Ethnography
pagenum: 69; title: 1. Theory and Methods
pagenum: 69; title: 2. Case Studies
pagenum: 78; label: 4.
title: Oral Histories
pagenum: 85; title: Oral Histories as Methods and Sources
pagenum: 85; title: Bibliography on Oral History
pagenum: 96; title: 1. Oral Traditions
pagenum: 96; title: 2. Oral History
pagenum: 98; label: 5.
title: Focus Groups
pagenum: 103; title: Focus Group Interviews
pagenum: 103; title: Bibliography on Focus Groups
pagenum: 116; label: 6.
title: Surveys and Secondary Data Sources
pagenum: 117; title: Using Survey Data in Social Science Research in Developing Countries
pagenum: 117; title: Bibliography on Surveys and Secondary Data Sources
pagenum: 135; title: 1. Overview and Essentials
pagenum: 135; title: 2. Planning, Proposing, and Sampling for Survey Data
pagenum: 136; title: 3. Qualitative Inquiry in and Beyond the Design Process
pagenum: 137; title: 4. Developing Good Questions: Fundamental Concepts
pagenum: 137; title: 5. Pretesting: Rationale and Overview of Field Techniques
pagenum: 138; title: 6. Data Precoding, Coding, Cleaning, and Management
pagenum: 138; title: 7. Administration
pagenum: 138; title: 8. Fieldwork in Principle and Practice
pagenum: 139; title: 9. Analysis of Survey Data
pagenum: 140; title: 10. Secondary Data Sources
pagenum: 140; label: 7.
title: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Tools
pagenum: 143; title: Qualitative Research: Doe It Fit in Economics?
pagenum: 143; title: Bibliography on Study Design and Quantitative Methods
pagenum: 158; title: 1. General Issues in Study Design
pagenum: 158; title: 2. General Texts for Statistics and Econometrics
pagenum: 158; title: 3. Specific Quantitative Methods and Concerns
pagenum: 159; label: Part II
title: Essentials for the Conduct of Research
pagenum: 161; label: 8.
title: Essentials for Ethnography
pagenum: 163; title: Ethnographic Methods
pagenum: 163; label: 9.
title: Essentials for the Case Study Method
pagenum: 169; title: The Case Study and Causal Inference
pagenum: 169; label: 10.
title: Essentials for Research Design
pagenum: 175; title: In Search of the Holy Grail: Projects, Proposals, and Research Design, but Mostly About Why Writing a Dissertation Proposal Is So Difficult
pagenum: 175; label: 11.
title: Research Ethics are Essential
pagenum: 197; title: Ethical Considerations for Research in Cross-Cultural Settings
pagenum: 197; label: 12.
title: Maintaining Perspective Is Essential
pagenum: 217; title: Bringing It All Back Home: Personal Reflections on Friends, Findings, and Fieldwork
pagenum: 217; title: Bibliography on Research Ethics and Other Essential Reading
pagenum: 226; title: 1. Research Ethics
pagenum: 226; title: 2. Other Essential Reading
pagenum: 231; label: Author Index
pagenum: 237; label: Subject Index
pagenum: 249