TY - BOOK AU - Outhwaite,William,ed AU - Turner,Stephen P.,ed TI - The SAGE handbook of social science methodology SN - 978141290119 U1 - 300 PY - 2007/// CY - London PB - SAGE KW - Social sciences KW - Research KW - Methodology N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; PART ONE: OVERVIEWS Introduction - William Outhwaite The Social Sciences since World War II - Peter Manicas The Rise and Fall of Scientism Interdisciplinary Approaches in Social Science Research - Julie Thompson Klein PART TWO: CASES, COMPARISONS AND THEORY Introduction - William Outhwaite Ethnography - Jon Mitchell Comparative Methods - Charles C Ragin Historicity and Sociohistorical Research - John R Hall Case Study - Jennifer Platt PART THREE: QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIMENT Introduction - Stephen Turner Statistical Models for Causation - David Freedman Fighting to Understand the World Causally - Leslie Hayduk and Hannah Pazderka-Robinson Three Battles Connected to the Causal Implications of Structural Equation Models Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs in Behavioral Research - Sandra Schneider On Context, Crud and Convergence Theory and Experimentation in Social Sciences - Murray Webster Jr and Jane Sell The Treatment of Missing Data - David Howell Modeling Selection Effects - Thad Dunning and David Freedman Methods for Census 2000 and Statistical Adjustments - David Freedman and Ken Wachter Quantitative History - Margo Anderson PART FOUR: RATIONALITY, COMPLEXITY, COLLECTIVITY Introduction - William Outhwaite Rational Choice Theory - Donald P Green and Justin Fox Rationality and Rationalist Approaches in the Social Sciences - David Henderson Individual and Collective Agency - Thomas Schwinn Simulating Complexity - R Keith Sawyer Evolutionary Approaches in the Social Sciences - Maureen O'Malley PART FIVE: INTERPRETATION, CRITIQUE AND POSTMODERNITY Introduction - William Outhwaite Understanding and Interpretation - Hans-Herbert Kögler New Controversies in Phenomenology - Mark J Smith and Piya Pangsapa Between Ethnography and Discourse Liberal Humanism and the European Critical Tradition - Doug Kellner and Tyson Lewis Grounded Theory - Adele Clarke Critiques, Debates and Situational Analysis Does Postmodernism Make You Mad? Or, Did You Flunk Statistics? - Ben Agger PART SIX: DISCOURSE CONSTRUCTION Introduction - Stephen Turner Social Construction and Research Methodology - Ken Gergen and Mary Gergen Rhetorics of Social Science - Ricca Edmondson Sociality in Writing and Inquiry Discourse Analysis - Michael Lynch PART SEVEN: EVALUATION, ENGAGEMENT, AND COLLABRATIVE RESEARCH Introduction - Stephen Turner Evaluation Research - Michael Scriven Feminist Methodology - Susan Hekman Feminist Methodology and Its Discontents - Nancy Naples Community Based Research - Michael Root Qualitative Methodology (Including Focus Groups) - Norman Denzin and Kathryn E Ryan Making a Mess with Method - John Law ER -