Research Methods in the Social Sciences: An A-Z of key concepts by Jean-Fr?d?ric

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Research Methods in the Social Sciences is a comprehensive yet compact A-Z for undergraduate and postgraduate students undertaking qualitative and quantitative research across the social sciences, featuring 71 entries that cover a wide range of concepts, methods, and theories.

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Research Methods in the Social Sciences is a comprehensive yet compact A-Z for undergraduate and postgraduate students undertaking research across the social sciences, featuring 71 entries that cover a wide range of concepts, methods, and theories.Each entry begins with an accessible introduction to a method, using real-world examples from a wide range of academic disciplines, before discussing the benefits and limitations of theapproach, its current status in academic practice, and finally providing tips and advice for readers on when and how to apply the method in their own research. Wide ranging and interdisciplinary, the text coversboth well-established concepts and emerging ideas, such as big data and network analysis, for qualitative and quantitative research methods.All entries feature extensive cross-referencing, providing ease of navigation and, pointing readers to related concepts, and to help build their overall understanding of research methods.

Author Biography

Jean-Frédéric Morin is Full Professor at Université Laval (Canada) and chairholder of the Canada Research Chair in International Political Economy. His current research projects look at the design of environmental treaties, interactions between international institutions, and the governance of space debris. His most recent co-authored books include Global Environmental Politics (OUP, 2020) and Greening through Trade (MITPress, 2020). Christian Olsson is Associate Professor at Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB, Belgium) and Director of its REPI Research Unit (Recherche et Etudes en Politique Internationale). His research concerns the transformations of warfarein the context of Western overseas military operations, the political dynamics of non-state armed groups and the privatization of security and military operations. Recent articles have been published in Millenium, Critical Military Studies and Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding. Ece Özlem Atikcan is an Associate Professor at the University of Warwick, and a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the European Institute of the University College London in theUK. Her research combines a theoretical focus on political campaigns, issue framing, politicisation of trade agreements, transnational social movements, and diffusion with a regional focus on the European Union. Her recent work hasappeared in European Journal of Political Research, Journal of Elections Public Opinion and Parties, Journal of Public Policy, and as books with Cambridge University Press and McGill-Queen's University Press.

Table of Contents

0: Introduction1: Chloé Brière: Archival Research2: Yannis Panagis: Automated Text Analysis3: Arnaud Dufays: Bayesian Inference4: Olga Herzog: Behaviourism5: Aysel Küçüksu and Stephanie Anne Shelton: Bias6: Yannick Dufresne and Brittany Davidson: Big Data7: Jasmin Hasic: Boolean Algebra8: Laura Gelhaus and Dirk Leuffen: Case Selection9: Jessica Luciano Gomes and Miriam Gomes Saraiva: Case Study10: Vivien Sierens and Ramona Coman: Causation11: Céline C. Cocq and Ora Szekely: Comparative Analysis12: Louis Bélanger & Pierre-Marc Daigneault: Concept Construction13: Holli A. Semetko: Content Analysis14: Auke Willems: Contextual Analysis15: Shunsuke Sato: Counterfactual Analysis16: Virginie Van Ingelgom and Alban Versailles: Covariance17: Dominik Giese and Jonathan Joseph: Critical Realism18: Andrew Bell: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Studies19: Dominik Giese and Kai-Uwe Schnapp: Deductive, Inductive, and Retroductive Reasoning20: Louis Imbeau, Sule Tomkinson and Yasmina Malki: Descriptive, Explanatory, and Interpretive Approaches21: François Depelteau: Determinism, Predictions, and Probabilism22: Elisa Narminio and Caterina Carta: Discourse Analysis23: Elena Avramovska: Endogeneity24: Gianfranco Pellegrino: Epistemology25: Laurence Marquis and Mark Daku: Ethics in Research26: Chowra Makaremi: Ethnography27: Damien Bol: Experiments28: Ulf Liebe: Factor Analysis29: Brian D. Earp: Falsification30: Andrew Parker and Jonathan Tritter: Focus Groups31: Érick Duchesne and Arthur Silve: Formal Modelling32: Frederik Ponjaert: Grand Theory and Middle Range Theory33: Mélanie Samson: Hermeneutics34: Onna Van Den Broek and Adam William Chalmers: Hypotheses35: Roberto Carrillo and Lidia Núñez: Interdisciplinary36: Marta Matrakova: Interview Techniques37: Mauro Caprioli and Claire Dupuy: Levels of Analysis38: Mathieu Ouimet and Pierre-Olivier Bédard: Literature review39: Noémie Laurens: Meta-Analysis40: Suzan Gibril: Methodological Individualism and Holism41: Manfredi Valeriani and Vicki L. Plano Clark: Mixed Methods42: Johann Wolfschwenger and Kevin Lloyd Young: Multi-causality and Equifinality43: Amal Tawfik and Stephan Davidshofer: Multiple Correspondence Analysis and Geometric Data Analysis44: Nicky Hayes: Nomothetic and Idiographic Methods45: Christian Olsson: Observational Methods46: Eric Fabri: Ontology47: Anne-Laure Mahé and Theodore Mclauchlin: Operationalization48: Julien Pomarède: Oral History and Life History49: Andreas Dimmelmeier and Sheila Dow: Paradigms and Research Programmes50: Patrick Thaddeus Jackson and Lucas Dolan: Positivism, Post-positivism, and Social Science51: Seda Gürkan and Jochem Rietveld: Process Tracing52: Jacob A. Hasselbalch and Leonard Seabrooke: Prosopography53: Kevin Kalomeni and Claudius Wagemann: Qualitative Comparative Analysis54: Kamil Marcinkiewicz and Kai-Uwe Schnapp: Regression Analysis55: Stefan Schmidt: Replication and Reproducibility56: Irene Wieczorek and Piergiuseppe Parisi: Research Question57: Emilie Van Haute: Sampling Techniques58: Heikki Patomäki: Scientific Realism59: Mathilde Gauquelin: Scope Conditions60: Thomas Collas and Philippe Blanchard: Sequence Analysis61: Nicholas Haagensen and Lasse Folke Henriksen: Social Network Analysis62: Kenneth Bertrams and Anne Weyembergh: Source Criticism63: Olesya Tkacheva: Statistical Significance64: Lior Gideon and Kevin Barnes-Ceeney: Survey Research65: Guillaume Beaumier and Didier Wernli: Systems Analysis66: Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke: Thematic Analysis67: Nina Baur and Jannis Hergesell: Time Series68: Sabine Caillaud and Uwe Flick: Triangulation69: Juraj Halas: Typology70: Kimberly A. Neuendorf: Unit Analysis and Observation71: Jean-Frédéric Morin and Alessandra Bonci: Variables

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Research Methods in the Social Sciences is a comprehensive yet compact A-Z for undergraduate and postgraduate students undertaking research across the social sciences, featuring 71 entries that cover a wide range of concepts, methods, and theories.Each entry begins with an accessible introduction to a method, using real-world examples from a wide range of academic disciplines, before discussing the benefits and limitations of theapproach, its current status in academic practice, and finally providing tips and advice for readers on when and how to apply the method in their own research. Wide ranging and interdisciplinary, the text coversboth well-established concepts and emerging ideas, such as big data and network analysis, for qualitative and quantitative research methods.All entries feature extensive cross-referencing, providing ease of navigation and, pointing readers to related concepts, and to help build their overall understanding of research methods.

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Covers quantitative and qualitative methods, with an emphasis on applying concepts to real-world examples.Over 70 entries covering well-established research methods concepts and emerging ideas.Concepts are defined and then discussed in terms of practical use, strengths and weaknesses, and current status in academic practice.Uses cross-references to help readers link related concepts together and build a comprehensive understanding of research methods.Also available as an e-book with functionality, navigation features, and links that offer extra learning support

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0. Introduction 1. Archival Research, ChloBrire 2. Automated Text Analysis, Yannis Panagis 3. Bayesian Inference, Arnaud Dufays 4. Behaviourism, Olga Herzog 5. Bias, Stephanie Anne Shelton and Aysel Kksu 6. Big Data, Yannick Dufresne and Brittany Davidson 7. Boolean Algebra, Jasmin Hasic 8. Case Selection, Laura Gelhaus and Dirk Leuffen 9. Case Study, Jessica Luciano Gomes and Miriam Gomes Saraiva 10. Causation, Vivien Sierens and Ramona Coman 11. Comparative Analysis, Cline C. Cocq and Ora Szekely 12. Concept Construction, Louis Blanger & Pierre-Marc Daigneault 13. Content Analysis, Holli A. Semetko 14. Contextual Analysis, Auke Willems 15. Counterfactual Analysis, Shunsuke Sato 16. Covariance, Virginie Van Ingelgom and Alban Versailles 17. Critical Realism, Dominik Giese and Jonathan Joseph 18. Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Studies, Andrew Bell 19. Deductive, Inductive, and Retroductive Reasoning, Dominik Giese and Kai-Uwe Schnapp 20. Descriptive, Explanatory, and Interpretive Approaches, Louis Imbeau, Sule Tomkinson and Yasmina Malki 21. Determinism, Predictions, and Probabilism, Franois Depelteau 22. Discourse Analysis, Elisa Narminio and Caterina Carta 23. Endogeneity, Elena Avramovska 24. Epistemology, Gianfranco Pellegrino 25. Ethics in Research, Mark Daku and Laurence Marquis 26. Ethnography, Chowra Makaremi 27. Experiments, Damien Bol 28. Factor Analysis, Ulf Liebe 29. Falsification, Brian D. Earp 30. Focus Groups, Andrew Parker and Jonathan Tritter 31. Formal Modelling, rick Duchesne and Arthur Silve 32. Grand Theory and Middle Range Theory, Frederik Ponjaert 33. Hermeneutics, Mlanie Samson 34. Hypotheses, Onna Van Den Broek and Adam William Chalmers 35. Interdisciplinary, Roberto Carrillo and Lidia Nez 36. Interview Techniques, Marta Matrakova 37. Levels of Analysis, Mauro Caprioli and Claire Dupuy 38. Literature review, Mathieu Ouimet and Pierre-Olivier Bdard 39. Meta-Analysis, Nomie Laurens 40. Methodological Individualism and Holism, Suzan Gibril 41. Mixed Methods, Manfredi Valeriani and Vicki L. Plano Clark 42. Multi-causality and Equifinality, Johann Wolfschwenger and Kevin Lloyd Young 43. Multiple Correspondence Analysis and Geometric Data Analysis, Stephan Davidshofer and Amal Tawfik 44. Nomothetic and Idiographic Methods, Nicky Hayes 45. Observational Methods, Christian Olsson 46. Ontology, Eric Fabri 47. Operationalization, Anne-Laure Mahand Theodore Mclauchlin 48. Oral History and Life History, Julien Pomarde 49. Paradigms and Research Programmes, Sheila Dow and Andreas Dimmelmeier 50. Positivism, Post-positivism, and Social Science, Patrick Thaddeus Jackson and Lucas Dolan 51. Process Tracing, Seda Grkan and Jochem Rietveld 52. Prosopography, Jacob A. Hasselbalch and Leonard Seabrook 53. Qualitative Comparative Analysis, Kevin Kalomeni and Claudius Wagemann 54. Regression Analysis, Kamil Marcinkiewicz and Kai-Uwe Schnapp 55. Replication and Reproducibility, Stefan Schmidt 56. Research Question, Irene Wieczorek and Piergiuseppe Parisi 57. Sampling Techniques, Emilie Van Haute 58. Scientific Realism, Heikki Patomki 59. Scope Conditions, Mathilde Gauquelin 60. Sequence Analysis, Thomas Collas and Philippe Blanchard 61. Social Network Analysis, Nicholas Haagensen and Lasse Folke Henriksen 62. Source Criticism, Kenneth Bertrams and Anne Weyembergh 63. Statistical Significance, Olesya Tkacheva 64. Survey Research, Lior Gideon and Kevin Barnes-Ceeney 65. Systems Analysis, Guillaume Beaumier and Didier Wernli 66. Thematic Analysis, Victoria Clarke and Virginia Braun 67. Time Series, Nina Baur and Jannis Hergesell 68. Triangulation, Sabine Caillaud and Uwe Flick 69. Typology, Juraj Halas 70. Unit Analysis and Observation, Kimberly A. Neuendorf 71. Variables, Jean-Frdric Morin and Alessandra Bonci

Details ISBN0198850298 Language English ISBN-10 0198850298 ISBN-13 9780198850298 Format Paperback Publisher Oxford University Press Pages 336 Year 2021 DEWEY 300.72 Publication Date 2021-01-29 UK Release Date 2021-01-29 Imprint Oxford University Press Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2021-01-29 Author Ece Özlem Atikcan Edited by Ece Özlem Atikcan Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2020-12-28 We've got this

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