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Editorial AimsTo cover the range of qual and quant
methods To chart evolving terrain of methodsTo go beyond methodological ‘fashions’To cover each aspect of the research process
with attention to analysisTo be transnational in terms of editors,
authors and practiceTo address methodological rigour and
present research in practice
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
Methodological pluralismIncreased 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
Organisation of the Handbook
IntroductionPart I DIRECTIONS IN SOCIAL
RESEARCHPart II RESEARCH DESIGNSPart III DATA COLLECTION AND
FIELDWORKPart IV TYPES OF ANALYSIS AND
INTERPRETATION OF EVIDENCE
PART ONE: DIRECTIONS IN SOCIAL RESEARCH Alan Bryman The End of the Paradigm Wars?Marja Alastalo The History of Social Research
MethodsMartyn Hammersley Assessing Validity in Social
ResearchKaren Armstrong Ethnography and AudiencePekka Sulkunen Social Research and Social
Practice in Post-Positivist SocietyAnn 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
Part IV
TYPES OF ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF EVIDENCE
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 Thoemmesequating Groups
Qualitative analysis
Charles Antaki discourse Analysis andConversation AnalysisMatti Hyvärinen Analyzing Narratives andStory-TellingKathy Charmaz reconstructing GroundedTheoryLindsay Prior documents and ActionChristian Heath and Paul Luff Video andthe Analysis of Work and Interaction
Secondary analysis
Janet Heaton Secondary Analyses ofQualitative dataAngela Dale, Jo Wathan and VanessaWiggins Secondary Analysis of Archival and
Survey dataErika A. Patall and Harris CooperConducting a Meta Analysis
Mixing Methods
Jane Fielding and Nigel Fielding Ways ofMixing Qualitative and Quantitative dataAnn Cronin, Victoria D. Alexander, JaneFielding, Jo Moran-Ellis and Hilary
ThomasThe Analytic Integration of Qualitative dataSourcesMax Bergman Combining different Types ofQuantitative data
Final Section
Amir Marvasti Writing and PresentingSocial research
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