The SAGE Handbook of Innovation in Social Research Methods

This Handbook, edited by internationally recognized scholars in the field, provides a comprehensive, pitch perfect critical assessment of the field. The main features of the Handbook are: Clear organization into 4 parts dealing with The Social Context of Research; Design and Data Collection; Integrating The Analysis of New Data Types; Sampling, Inference and Measurement Clear, cutting edge chapters on Objectivity; Effects; Organizing Social Research; Correspondence Analysis; Grounded Theory; Conversational Surveys; Mixed Methods; Regression Analysis; Optimal Matching Analysis; GIS Analysis; Quantitative Narrative Analysis; Longitudinal Studies; Equation Modeling Brings together a glittering assembly of the key figures working in the field of Methods today Demonstrates the continuities and productive tensions between classical traditions and real world research today

Williams Malcolm is Professor and Director of the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University. W. Paul Vogt is Professor of Research Methods and Evaluation at Illinois State University.