Part 1: The research process 1: The nature and process of social
research 2: Social research strategies: quantitative research and
qualitative research 3: Research designs 4: Planning a research
project and formulating research questions 5: Reviewing the
literature 6: Ethics and politics in social research
Part 2: Quantitative research 7: The nature of quantitative
research 8: Sampling in quantitative research
9: Structured interviewing 10: Self-completion
questionnaires 11: Asking questions 12: Structured observation 13:
Content analysis 14: Using existing data 15: Quantitative data
analysis
Part 3: Qualitative research 16: The nature of qualitative research
17: Sampling in qualitative research 18: Ethnography and
participant observation 19: Interviewing in qualitative research
20: Focus groups 21: Language in qualitative research 22: Documents
as sources of data 23: Qualitative data analysis
Part 4: Mixed methods research and writing up 24: Combining
quantitative and qualitative research 25: Writing up social
research
Dr Tom Clark is a Lecturer in Research Methods at the University of
Sheffield, UK. He is interested in all aspects of methods and
methodology, particularly with respect to learning and teaching.
His other interests have variously focussed on the sociology of
evil, student experiences of higher education, and football fandom.
Tom's work has been published in a wide variety of journals,
including Sociology, Qualitative Research, Social Policy and
Administration,
Teaching in Higher Education, the Journal of Education and Work,
and Qualitative Social Work. Dr Liam Foster is a Senior Lecturer in
Social Policy and Social Work at the University of Sheffield, UK,
who
specializes in pensions and theories of ageing. Liam also has a
longstanding interest in methods and has published widely in this
area, including Beginning Statistics for Social Scientists (with
Sir Ian Diamond and Dr Julie Jefferies). He has been an invited
speaker at the Department for Education, Department for Work and
Pensions, the European Parliament in Brussels, the House of Lords,
and the UN in New York, as a world leading expert on ageing. Liam
is a member of the UK Social Policy
Association Executive Committee. He is also the Managing Editor of
Social Policy and Society. Dr Luke Sloan is a Reader, Deputy
Director of the Social Data Science Lab, and Co-Director of Cardiff
Q-Step at
the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University, UK. Luke's
internationally recognised work focuses on exploring how social
media data, specifically from Twitter, can be used for social
scientific research. He is co-editor of the SAGE Handbook of Social
Media Research Methods and has published widely on how Twitter can
help us understand social phenomena and the ethics of using this
data for research. His work has appeared in journals including
Sociology, Social Media + Society, the British
Journal of Criminology, Electoral Studies, PLoS ONE, and the
Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics. Alan Bryman
was Professor of Organizational and Social Research at the
University
of Leicester from 2005 to 2017. Prior to this he was Professor of
Social Research at Loughborough University for 31 years. His main
research interests were in leadership, especially in higher
education, research methods (particularly mixed methods research),
and the 'Disneyization' and 'McDonaldization' of modern society.
Alan also co-authored Business Research Methods (Oxford University
Press, 2018), helped conceive of How to do your Social Research
Project or Dissertation (Oxford University
Press, 2019), and contributed to a range of leading journals: he
was an extraordinarily well-cited and internationally renowned
social scientist.
The importance of evidence to inform decisions on social phenomena
has never been greater; or more widely accepted. This book, which I
have loved throughout its successive editions, remains a model of
clarity and of balance in choice of research method and strategy to
undertake the research. The authors deserve huge credit for
modernising this excellent book while losing none of its
insight.
*Professor Sir Ian Diamond, UK National Statistician, formerly
Principal and Vice Chancellor, University of Aberdeen, and Chief
Executive of the Economic and Social Research Council*
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