TY - BOOK TI - Principles of Methodology: research design in social science SN - 9780857024732 U1 - 300.72 PY - 2012/// CY - Los Angeles PB - SAGE N1 - Part I Foundations: what methodology is and does 1 Inference and warrant in designing research 2 Methodology and social science knowledge 3 Testing, confirming and falsifying 4 Perspectives on findings from social research Part II Designs: the main types of research design 5 Types of research design 6 Variable-oriented research designs 7 Case-based research designs 8 Comparative and case-oriented research designs 9 Concept formation Part III Achievements: what research makes inferences to 10 Why ideas about explanation matter for methodology 11 Basic forms of explanation 12 Mechanisms, contexts and trajectories 13 Warranting explanations 14 Between-case and within-case strategies 15 Interpretation 16 Warranting interpretations Part IV Synthesis: combinations and trade-offs 17 Combining research designs 18 Trade-offs in research design ER -