Qualitative Methods Books

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11. The International Social Survey Programme 1984-2009

    Charting the Globe

    Edited by Max Haller, Roger Jowell, Tom W Smith

    Series: Social Research Today

    The social sciences rely more on the comparative method than on experimental data mainly because the latter is difficult to acquire amongst human populations. The International Social Survey Programme has played a pioneering role in creating and sustaining methodologically-sophisticated mass...

    Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
12. Research and Social Change

    A Relational Constructionist Approach

    By Sheila McNamee, Dian Marie Hosking

    Series: Routledge Advances in Research Methods

    This book bridges scholarly forms of inquiry and practitioners’ daily activities. It introduces inquiry as a process of relational construction, offering resources to practitioners who want to reflect on how their work generates practical effects. There are hundreds of books on research, but in...

    Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
13. Advancing Qualitative Methods in Criminology and Criminal Justice

    Edited by Heith Copes

    For several decades qualitative research has been under-represented in criminological and criminal justice research. This book is designed to promote the understanding of qualitative research designs and to encourage their use among those seeking answers to questions about crime and justice. To...

    Published September 15th 2011 by Routledge
14. Multi-Sited Ethnography

    Problems and Possibilities in the Translocation of Research Methods

    Edited by Simon Coleman, Pauline von Hellermann

    Series: Routledge Advances in Research Methods

    This collection of essays emerged out of intense conversations on multi-sited ethnography, prompted by a workshop held at the University of Sussex that brought together researchers from different institutional backgrounds and affiliations in Europe, the United States and Africa – including George...

    Published June 6th 2011 by Routledge
15. Ethnography in Social Science Practice

    Edited by Julie Scott-Jones, Sal Watt

    Ethnography in Social Science Practice explores ethnography’s increasing use across the social sciences, beyond its traditional bases in social anthropology and sociology. It explores the disciplinary roots of ethnographic research within social anthropology, and contextualizes it within both field...

    Published March 24th 2010 by Routledge
16. Complexity and Public Policy

    A New Approach to 21st Century Politics, Policy And Society

    By Robert Geyer, Samir Rihani

    This book provides a clear, concise and readable introduction to complexity thinking, its application to the social sciences and public policy, and the relevance of some of its various tools to those fields of politics, health, the international realm, development, planning and terrorism. The...

    Published March 18th 2010 by Routledge
17. Revitalizing Causality

    Realism about Causality in Philosophy and Social Science

    Edited by Ruth Groff

    Series: Routledge Studies in Critical Realism

    This cutting edge collection of new and previously published articles by philosophers and social scientists addresses just what it means to invoke causal mechanisms, or powers, in the context of offering a causal explanation. A unique collection, it offers the reader various disciplinary and...

    Published November 15th 2009 by Routledge
18. Ethnographies Revisited

    Constructing Theory in the Field

    Edited by Antony J. Puddephatt, William Shaffir, Steven W. Kleinknecht

    Ethnographies Revisited provides first-hand accounts of how leading qualitative researchers crafted key theoretical concepts found in their major book-length ethnographies. Great ethnographic research lies not in the rigid execution of prescribed methodological procedures, but on the unrelenting...

    Published June 29th 2009 by Routledge