Editorial Aims

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Editorial Aims

• To cover the range of qual and quant methods
• To chart evolving terrain of methods
• To go beyond methodological fashions
• To cover each aspect of the research process with
  attention to analysis
• To be transnational in terms of editors, authors
  and practice
• To address methodological rigour and present
  research in practice

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Editorial perspective

• Methods not a tool box
• Shaped by
• Nonlinear change, historical traditions, growth
  of cross-disciplinarity, growing markets in
  policy and practice-oriented research, the
  reliance of universities on such research

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Methodological pluralism

• Increased popularity of qualitative research
• Increased strategic role of social research in
  society bringing increased accountability and
  governance (e.g. ethical regulation)
• Challenges for the development of theory and the
  capacity to surprise

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Organisation of the Handbook

• Introduction
• Part I DIRECTIONS IN SOCIAL RESEARCH
• Part II RESEARCH DESIGNS
• Part III DATA COLLECTION AND FIELDWORK
• Part IV TYPES OF ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF
  EVIDENCE

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PART ONE DIRECTIONS IN SOCIAL RESEARCH

• Alan Bryman The End of the Paradigm Wars?
• Marja Alastalo The History of Social Research
  Methods
• Martyn Hammersley Assessing Validity in Social
  Research
• Karen Armstrong Ethnography and Audience
• Pekka Sulkunen Social Research and Social
  Practice in Post-Positivist Society
• Ann Nilsen From Questions of Methods to
  Epistemological Issues The Case of Biographical
  Research
• Celia B. Fisher and Andrea E. Anushko Research
  Ethics in Social Science

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Part IV

• TYPES OF ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF EVIDENCE

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Quantitative analysis

• John B. Willett An Introduction to the Multi
  Level Model for Change
• Rick H. Hoyle Latent Variable Models of Social
  research data
• Stephen West and Felix Thoemmes
• equating Groups

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Qualitative analysis

• Charles Antaki discourse Analysis and
• Conversation Analysis
• Matti Hyvärinen Analyzing Narratives and
• Story-Telling
• Kathy Charmaz reconstructing Grounded
• Theory
• Lindsay Prior documents and Action
• Christian Heath and Paul Luff Video and
• the Analysis of Work and Interaction

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Secondary analysis

• Janet Heaton Secondary Analyses of
• Qualitative data
• Angela Dale, Jo Wathan and Vanessa
• Wiggins Secondary Analysis of Archival and Survey
  data
• Erika A. Patall and Harris Cooper
• Conducting a Meta Analysis

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Mixing Methods

• Jane Fielding and Nigel Fielding Ways of
• Mixing Qualitative and Quantitative data
• Ann Cronin, Victoria D. Alexander, Jane
• Fielding, Jo Moran-Ellis and Hilary Thomas
• The Analytic Integration of Qualitative data
• Sources
• Max Bergman Combining different Types of
• Quantitative data

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Final Section

• Amir Marvasti Writing and Presenting
• Social research

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Experience of editing the Handbook

• Good editorial colleagues rewards of working
  across national borders and with different
  methodological bents
• A good publisher in methods texts good relations
  with publishing editor
• Ability to be tactful and firm with authors
  editorial experience in methods writing
• Reliable team of expert reviewers with
  constructive critical approach
• Authors versed in methodological principles but
  grounded in practice key and emergent figures in
  the field
• Editors opportunity to expand own methodological
  horizons belief in methodological rigour
  making book as good as its different
  disciplinary bases