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• Cover
• Half Title
• Publisher Note
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Author biographies
• Acknowledgements
• Online resources
• 1 Introduction and guide to using this book
• Part One Starting Out
• 2 Philosophy, politics and values
• 3 Research and theory
• 4 Ethics and social research
• 5 Doing a literature review
• 6 Research questions and proposals
• 7 Research design
• 8 The dissertation
• Part Two Generating Data
• 9 Sampling
• 10 Questionnaires and interviews
• 11 Questions, measurement and structured observation
• 12 Qualitative interviewing
• 13 Focus groups
• 14 Doing ethnography
• 15 Grounded theory
• 16 Doing historical and documentary research
• 17 Combining qualitative and quantitative methods
• 18 Digital social research
• Part Three Doing Analysis
• 19 Preparing data for statistical analysis
• 20 Analysing single variables
• 21 Bivariate analysis
• 22 Causal arguments and multivariate analysis
• 23 Secondary analysis
• 24 Content and text analysis
• 25 Finding themes in qualitative data
• 26 Visual analysis
• 27 Discourse analysis
• 28 Analysing conversation
• 29 Narrative analysis and interpretative phenomenological analysis
• Part Four Writing, Presenting, Reflecting
• 30 Writing a research report
• 31 Giving oral presentations
• 32 Research quality
• Glossary
• References
• Index