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Researching Society and Culture
Fifth Edition
Edited by:
- Clive Seale - University of London, UK, Brunel University, UK
- Carol Rivas - University College London, UK
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March 2025 | 600 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
Just starting out with social research? With contributions from experts across the social sciences, this book equips you with the tools for successfully investigating society and culture.
It shows you how to prepare for research, generate and analyse data, and present your findings. Balancing theory with practice, it covers foundational concepts in methods and methodology alongside contemporary developments.
This radically updated new edition:
- Sees all chapters fully rewritten in a friendly, accessible style;
- Offers additional chapters on participatory research and online ‘big’ data;
- Includes multiple case studies of real-world research from across the globe in every chapter;
- Celebrates the dynamic, reflexive nature of research as engagement with the world.
Clive Seale
Chapter 1: Introduction and guide to using this book
Part 1: Starting out
Clive Seale
Chapter 2: Philosophy, politics and values
Clive Seale
Chapter 3: Research and theory
Suki Ali and Moira Kelly
Chapter 4: Ethics and social research
Clive Seale
Chapter 5: Participatory research
Clive Seale
Chapter 6: Doing a literature review
Moira Kelly
Chapter 7: Research questions and proposals
Clive Seale
Chapter 8: Research design
Part 2: Generating data
Clive Seale
Chapter 9: Sampling
Clive Seale
Chapter 10: Questionnaires and interviews
Clive Seale
Chapter 11: Designing questions
Bridget Byrne
Chapter 12: Qualitative interviewing
Clive Seale
Chapter 13: Focus groups
Clive Seale
Chapter 14: Doing ethnography
Clive Seale
Chapter 15: Grounded theory
Clive Seale
Chapter 16: Documents and archives
Natasha Howard and Neil Spicer
Chapter 17: Mixed methods
Clive Seale
Chapter 18: Online data
Part 3: Doing analysis
Clive Seale
Chapter 19: Preparing data for statistical analysis
Clive Seale
Chapter 20: Analysing single variables
Clive Seale
Chapter 21: Bivariate analysis
Clive Seale
Chapter 22: Causal arguments and multivariate analysis
Clive Seale
Chapter 23: Secondary analysis
Clive Seale
Chapter 24: Content and text analysis
Carol Rivas
Chapter 25: Thematic analysis
Suki Ali and Niamh Hayes
Chapter 26: Visual analysis
Clive Seale
Chapter 27: Analysing discourse and narratives
Tim Rapley
Chapter 28: Analysing conversation
Part 4: Writing, presenting, reflecting
Carol Rivas
Chapter 29: Writing a research report
Clive Seale
Chapter 30: Oral presentations
Clive Seale
Chapter 31: Research quality
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- Support your teaching with a detailed Lecturer’s guide, featuring real case studies, videos, teaching suggestions, transcripts and addition further reading resources for each chapter.
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