00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773861907166 Buklod 20250618155359.0 g||| | || || ta 250618s2012 njua r |||1 u|eng d 9780205234967 205234968 (iLib)UPBAG-00009830487 BC-63162 Php4,585.00 DLC BAG rda eng H 61 B46 2012 Berg, Bruce L. (Bruce Lawrence) 1954- author. Qualitative research methods for the social sciences Bruce L. Berg, Howard Lune. Eigth edition. Upper Saddle, N.J. Pearson ©2012. xvi, 432 pages illustrations 23 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Chapter 1 -- Quantitative versus qualitative of thought -- Use of triangulation in research methodology -- Qualitative strategies: defining an orientation -- From a symbolic interactionist perspective -- Why use qualitative methods -- A plan of presentation. Chapter 2 -- Designing research -- Theory and concepts -- Ideas and theory -- Reviewing the literature -- Theory,reality, and the social world -- Framing research problems -- Operationalization and conceptualization -- Designing projects -- Data collection and organization -- Data storage, retrieval, and analysis -- Dissemination. Chapter 3 -- Ethical issues -- Research ethics in historical perspective -- From guidelines to law: regulations on the research process -- Institutional review boards (IRBs) -- Ethical codes -- Some common ethical concerns in behavioral research -- New areas for ethical concern: cyberspace -- informed consent and implied consent -- Confidentiality and anonymity -- Securing data -- Objectivity and careful research design. Chapter 4 -- A dramaturgical look at interviewing -- Dramaturgy and interviewing -- Types of interviews -- The data collection instrument -- Guideline development -- Communicating effectively -- A few common problems in question formulation -- Pretesting the schedule -- Long versus short interviews -- Telephone interviews -- Computer assisted interviewing -- Conducting an interview: a natural or an unnatural communication -- The dramaturgical interview -- The interviewr's repertoire -- Know your audience -- Analyzing data obtained from the dramaturgical -- Interview. Chapter 5 -- Focus group interviewing -- What are focus group? -- Working with a group -- The evolution of focus group interviews -- Facilitating focus group dynamics: How focus groups work -- The moderator's guide -- Basic ingredients in focus groups -- Analyzing focus group data -- Confidentiality and focus group interviews -- Recent tends in focus groups: online focus groups. Chapter 6 -- Ethnographic field strategies -- Accessing a field setting:getting in -- Reflectivity and ethnography -- Critical ethnography -- Becoming invisible -- Dangers of invisibility -- Other dangers during ethnographic research -- Trying it out -- Watching, listening, and learning -- Computers and ethnography -- Online ethnography -- Analyzing ethnographic data -- Other analysis strategies: Typologies, sociograms, and metaphors -- Disengaging: getting out. Chapter 7 -- Action research -- The basis of action research -- Identifying the research question(s) -- Gathering the information to answer the question(s) -- Analyzing and interpreting the information -- Sharing the results with the participants -- When to use and when not to use action research -- The action research's role -- Types of action research -- Photovoice and action research -- Action research: a reiteration. Chapter 8 -- Unobtrusive measures in research -- Archival strategies -- Physical erosion and accretion: Human traces as data sources. Chapter 9 -- Social historical research and oral traditions -- What is historical research -- Life histories and social history -- What are the sources of data for historical researchers? -- Doing historiography: Tracing written history as data -- What are oral histories. Chapter 10 -- Case studies -- The nature of case studies -- Theory and case studies -- The individual case study -- Intrinsic, Instrumental, and collective case studies -- Case study design types -- The scientific benefit of case studies -- Case studies of organizations -- Case studies of communities. Chapter 11 -- An introduction to content analysis -- What is content analysis? -- Analysis of qualitative data -- Content analysis as a technique -- Content analysis: quantitative or qualitative -- Communication components -- What to count: Levels and units of analysis -- Category development: building grounded theory -- Discourse analysis and content analysis -- Open coding -- Coding frames -- Stages in the content analysis process -- Strengths and weaknesses of content analysis process -- Computers and qualitative analysis -- qualitative research at the speed of light. Chapter 12 -- Writing research papers: Sorting the noodles from the soup -- Plagiarism: what it is, why its bad, and how to avoid it -- Identifying the purpose of the writing: arranging for the reader -- Terms and conditions -- Presenting research material -- A world about the content of papers and articles -- Write it, rewrite it, then write it again -- A few writing hints. Social sciences Research Methodology. 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