'An excellent guidebook through different approaches to social science measurement, including the all-important route-maps that show us how to get there' - Roger Jowell, City University 'Over the last decade at least there has been an avalanche of social research methods books, almost all of which are concerned to unproblematically purvey methodological material to ever more particular market niches, often using purportedly new repackagings What is needed, instead, is the deepening of methodological knowledge and the widening of reflective discussions around social research. In this wide-ranging collection of chapters, written by acknowledged experts in their fields, Outhwaite and Turner have brought together material in one volume which will provide an extremely important platform for consideration of the full range of contemporary analytical and methodological issues' - Charles Crothers, Auckland University of Technology 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. The text is divided into 7 sections: - Overviews of methodological approaches in the social sciences; - Cases, comparisons and theory; - Quantification and experiment; - Rationality, complexity and collectivity; - Interpretation, critique and postmodernity; - Discourse construction; and - Engagement. Edited by two leading figures in the field, the Handbook is a landmark work in the field of research methods. More than just a 'cookbook' that teaches readers how to master techniques, it will give social scientists in all disciplines an appreciation for the full range of methodological debates today, from the quantitative to the qualitative, giving them deeper and sharpen insights into their own research questions. It will generate debate, solutions and a series of questions for researchers to exploit and develop in their research and teaching.
1 The Social Sciences Since World War II: The Rise and Fall of Scientism by Peter Manicas 7
2 Interdisciplinary Approaches in Social Science Research by Julie Thompson Klein 32
3 Ethnography by Jon P. Mitchell 55
4 Comparative Methods by Charles C. Ragin 67
5 Historicity and Sociohistorical Research by John R. Hall 82
6 Case Study by Jennifer Platt 100
7 Statistical Models for Causation by David A. Freedman 127
8 Fighting lo Understand the World Causally: Three Battles Connected to the Causal Implications of Structural Equation Models by Leslie Hayduk and Hannah Pazderka-Robinson 147
9 Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs in Behavioral Research: On Context, Crud, and Convergence by Sandra L. Schneider 172
10 Theory and Experimentation in the Social Sciences by Murray Webster, Jr. and Jane Sell 190
11 The Treatment of Missing Data by David C. Howell 208
12 Modeling Selection Effects by Thad Dunning and David A. Freedman 225
13 Methods for Census 2000 and Statistical Adjustments by David A. Freedman and Kenneth W. Wachter 232
14 Quantitative History by Margo Anderson 246
15 Rational Choice Theory by Donald P. Green and Justin Pox 269
16 Rationality and Rationalist Approaches in the Social Sciences by David Henderson 282
17 Individual and Collective Agency by Thomas Schwinn 302
18 Simulating Complexity by R. Keith Sawyer 316
19 Evolutionary Approaches in the Social Sciences by Maureen A. O'Malley 333
20 Understanding and Interpretation by Hans-Herbert Kogler 363
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