Constructing Social Research
The Unity and Diversity of Method
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11062018 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert D Benford (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 127 |
| Publication date | 1996-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Constructing social research: The Unity and Diversity of Method, Charles C Ragin, 1994 |
| Venue | Teaching Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0092-055X • E-ISSN: 1939-862X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1318911 |
| OpenAlex | W2000271125 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Foreword Preface PART I Elements of Social Research 1 What is Social Research? Introduction Some Conventional Views of Social Research Social Research and Other Ways of Representing Social Life Social Research Defined Journalism and Social Research: The Similarities How Social Research Differs 2 The Goals of Social Research Introduction The Seven Main Goals The Link between Goals and Strategies The Social Nature of Social Research 3 The Process of Social Research: Ideas and Evidence Introduction The Interpretive Model of Social Research Processes and Strategies of Social Research The Challenge of Social Research 4 The Ethics of Social Research Introduction Ethical Dilemmas and Failures The Troublesome History of Ethical Research The Current Ethical Standards and Institutional Oversight Ethical and Professional Dilemmas Facing Social Researchers PART II Strategies of Social Research 5 Using Qualitative Methods to Study Commonalities Introduction The Goals of Qualitative Research The Process of Qualitative Research Using Qualitative Methods The Study of a Single Case 6 Using Comparative Methods to Study Diversity Introduction Contrasts with Other Research Strategies The Goals of Comparative Research The Process of Comparative Research Using Comparative Methods 7 Using Quantitative Methods to Study Covariation Introduction Contrasts with Other Research Strategies The Goals of Quantitative Research The Process of Quantitative Research Using Quantitative Methods AFTERWORD: The Promise of Social Research with Mary Driscoll APPENDIX: Computing Correlation Coefficients References Glossary/Index
Diversity (politics · Epistemology · Higher education · Pedagogy · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender, Education, and Development Issues · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Law · Philosophy
Tradeoffs all the way down
Crisp-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (csQCA), Contradictions and Consistency Benchmarks for Model Specification
Sport and Tourism
Good parents’ strive to raise ‘innocent daughters’
English and Spanish ‘para un futuro’ – or just English? Immigrant family perspectives on two-way immersion
Local Organizing for Environmental Conflict
Effects of a community resilience intervention program on victims of forced displacement
Case-Oriented Research
Phenomenology in Sociology
Limits and Alternatives to Multiple Regression in Comparative Research
A set-theoretic approach to organizational configurations
Building Sustainable Hybrid Organizations
The Promises of Comparative Research
Reflections on Identity in Four African Cities
Whose streets? Our streets
Entre la tradición y la modernidad
Trans Enough
Routine politics of production in post-Fordist manufacturing
A critical juncture in universal healthcare
Técnicos-Administrativos Em Educação Como Sujeitos Políticos
Complement or competition in water governance? Analysing two collaborative water management arrangements in one river basin
Environmental orientations at work
Attuned HRM Systems for Social Enterprises
DIY Laboratories and business innovation ecosystems
University-School Divide
Accomplishing Coherence in Talk Shows
Religion and Conflict Attribution
Labour-Market Flexibility and Individual Careers
Qualitative Comparative Analysis Using R
Comparative Methods
De-standardising ageing? Shifting regimes of age measurement
Nos embates com a morte, os médicos não estão sozinhos
Exploring climate change effects in Euro-Mediterranean protected coastal wetlands
Study Design in Qualitative Research2
Embodied versus Disembodied Information
Competing Logics of Commemoration
Countering Trump
A market of distrust
The Constraints of Culture
Accounting for Cosmetic Surgery in the USA and Great Britain
Getting Off and Getting Intimate
Anticipatory governance for newcomers
Coordinated ethnographic peace research
Living without buffers—illustrating climate vulnerability in the Lake Victoria basin
Women’s Advantage in Higher Education
Limits to non‐state market regulation
The role of time in the creation of a collective spiritual essence in a sailing school
The More Things Change, the More They Remain the Same? Evaluating Strategic Leadership in Organizational Transformations
The Impact of the EU on Turkey
What did I leave out? Omitted variables in regression and qualitative comparative analysis
State capitalism and the rent-seeking conjecture
Sophisticated Practitioners
Ruralphilia and urbophobia versus urbophilia and ruralphobia? Lessons from immigrant integration processes in small towns and rural areas in Spain
Representações sociais, instituições e conflitos na gestão de águas em territórios rurais
Inter-Asian perceptions of studying ‘abroad’ in Asia
Time, space and body in adolescent residential services
Elite executives in issues management
Foreign Policy Analysis and Globalization
Foreign Policy Analysis in the Twenty-First Century
Science, Empiricism, and Tolerance in the Study of Foreign Policymaking
Foreign Policy Analysis and Globalization
Crisis Studies and Foreign Policy Analysis
Foreign Policymaking and Group Dynamics
Setting the Agenda on Environmental News in Norway
Gender Inequalities and the Role of Money in Spanish Dual-Income Couples
Explaining Dutch Fertility Rates in a Comparative European Perspective
Beyond public artopia
Klassiske klassekonflikter? Grensedragningeri den norske arbeiderklassen
The Whitehall Programme and After
Theory, Stylized Heuristic or Self‐Fulfilling Prophecy? The Status of Rational Choice Theory in Public Administration
Measuring and Modeling Cohabitation
Talent management, identity construction and the burden of elitism
Going back to get ahead? Privilege and generational housing wealth
Deconstructing public artopia
The Life Course and Sense-Making
Rethinking Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to the Study of African Development
The familiarization study in qualitative research
Beyond diffusion
Finding Testable Causal Mechanisms to Address Critical Public Management Issues
Realistic Evaluation and QCA
Behind the negotiations
Exploring the squeezed middle
Exploring the Necessary Conditions for Evaluation Use in Program Change
Women’s Bigger Burden
How Satisfaction Is Achieved in the Implementation Phase of Large Transportation Infrastructure Projects
Web-Based Memorializing After September 11
The Determinants of the Success of Transitions to Democracy
What is driving rates of social policy preliminary references to the CJEU? Evidence from the United Kingdom and France
Contesting the deviant other
Computational Social Science for Nonprofit Studies
Public, For-Profit, and Nonprofit Welfare Institutions in Norway
Home Alone
Compliance
Risk, Property Rights, and Antidiscrimination Law in Rental Housing
Institutional Vulnerablity and Opportunity
No more lock-step retirement
Intimate Partner Stalking among College Students
Keywords and Cultural Change
Challenges in achieving sustainability in Iberian rural areas and small towns
Big Freaky-Looking Women”
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |