The Sage Handbook of Social Science Methodology

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ISBN: 9781412901192 | 1412901197
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 11/8/2007

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This is a jewel among methods handbooks, bringing together a formidable collection of international contributors to comment on every aspect of the various central issues, complications, and controversies in the core methodological traditions. It is designed to meet the needs of those disciplinary and nondisciplinary problem-oriented social inquirers for a comprehensive overview of the methodological literature.

Notes on Contributors	p. viii
General Introduction	p. 1
Overviews	p. 3
Introduction	p. 5
The Social Sciences Since World War II: The Rise and Fall of Scientism	p. 7
Interdisciplinary Approaches in Social Science Research	p. 32
Cases, Comparisons, and Theory	p. 51
Introduction	p. 53
Ethnography	p. 55
Comparative Methods	p. 67
Historicity and Sociohistorical Research	p. 82
Case Study	p. 100
Quantification and Experiment	p. 119
Introduction	p. 121
Statistical Models for Causation	p. 127
Fighting to Understand the World Causally: Three Battles Connected to the Causal Implications of Structural Equation Models	p. 147
Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs in Behavioral Research: On Context, Crud, and Convergence	p. 172
Theory and Experimentation in the Social Sciences	p. 190
The Treatment of Missing Data	p. 208
Modeling Selection Effects	p. 225
Methods for Census 2000 and Statistical Adjustments	p. 232
Quantitative History	p. 246
Rationality, Complexity, Collectivity	p. 265
Introduction	p. 267
Rational Choice Theory	p. 269
Rationality and Rationalist Approaches in the Social Sciences	p. 282
Individual and Collective Agency	p. 302
Simulating Complexity	p. 316
Evolutionary Approaches in the Social Sciences	p. 333
Interpretation, Critique, and Postmodernity	p. 359
Introduction	p. 361
Understanding and Interpretation	p. 363
New Controversies in Phenomenology: Between Ethnography and Discourse	p. 384
Liberal Humanism and the European Critical Tradition	p. 405
Grounded Theory: Critiques, Debates, and Situational Analysis	p. 423
Does Postmodernism Make You Mad? or, Did You Flunk Statistics?	p. 443
Discourse Construction	p. 457
Introduction	p. 459
Social Construction and Research Methodology	p. 461
Rhetorics of Social Science: Sociality in Writing and Inquiry	p. 479
Discourse Analysis	p. 499
Evaluation, Engagement, and Collaborative Research	p. 517
Introduction	p. 519
Evaluation Research	p. 523
Feminist Methodology	p. 534
Feminist Methodology and Its Discontents	p. 547
Community-Based Research	p. 565
Qualitative Methodology (Including Focus Groups)	p. 578
Making a Mess with Method	p. 595
Index	p. 607
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