Data Analysis: (Sage Benchmarks in Social Research Methods)

'What is data analysis' is a key question in social research, defined by the foundations of various research models. This four-volume set presents the leading directions in data analysis and published in the 'classic' articles in the field. It brings together the most outstanding 'vintage' and contemporary work that have helped define and demarcate data analysis. It covers both quantitative and qualitative aspects, as centred around realism, positivism and empiricism on the one hand, and relativism and interpretivism on the other. Volume One: covers qualitative data analysis: choosing and processing data, approaches to analysis and analytic techniques. Volume Two: focuses on mixed methods: mixed method approaches and techniques, and the integration of findings. Volume Three: moves to quantitative data analysis: analysing survey data, text, structure and sequences, testing and multivariate analysis. Volume Four: concludes with issues surrounding the quality of research outcomes.

Table of Contents:
Volume One PART ONE: INTRODUCTION Epistemology and Sociohistorical Inquiry - John R Hall PART TWO: QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS Methods of Data Collection and Analysis Participant Observation and the Collection and Interpretation of Data - Arthur J Vidich Using and Analyzing Focus Groups - Janet Smithson Limitations and Possibilities Three Approaches to Qualitative Content Analysis - Hsiu-Fang Hsieh and Sarah E Shannon Analyzing Interview Data - Cynthia Weston et al The Development and Evolution of a Coding System Approaches to Data Analysis Grounded Theory Research - Juliet Corbin and Anselm Straus Procedures, Canons and Evaluative Criteria Conversation Analysis - Charles Goodwin and John Heritage Discourse Analysis - Teun A van Dijk Its Development and Application to the Structure of News Discourse and Text - Norman Fairclough Linguistic and Intertextual Analysis within Discourse Analysis Narrative Analysis - or Why (and How) Sociologists Should Be Interested in Narrative - Roberto Franzosi The Contest over Meaning - Anshuman Prasad Hermeneutics as an Interpretive Methodology for Understanding Texts Hermeneutic Interpretation in Qualitative Research - Manfred Lueger and J[um]urgen H P Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik Between Arts and Rules Semiotics and the Study of Occupational and Organizational Cultures - Stephan R Barley Doing Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis - Jonathan A Smith, Maria Jarman and Mike Osborn Tracking Discourse and Document Analysis - David L Altheide Strategies of Data Analysis The Logical Structure of Analytic Induction - W S Robinson A Purposeful Approach to Constant Comparative Method in the Analysis of Qualitative Interviews - Hennie Boeije Political Talk - Michael H Agar Thematic Analysis of a Policy Argument Conversational Code-Switching in a Chinese Community in Britain - Li Wei and Lesley Milroy A Sequential Analysis Volume Two Strategies of Data Analysis Analyzing Silences, Images and Films Reading between the Lines - Blake Poland and Ann Pederson Interpreting Silences in Qualitative Research Photographs as Data - George W Dowdall and Janet Golden An Analysis of Images from a Mental Hospital Reading Tender Mercies - Norman K Denzin Two Interpretations PART THREE: MIXED METHODS AND BEYOND Mixing, Integrating, Bridging and Beyond Some Observations on Formal Methods of Qualitative Research - Larry Griffin and Charles C Ragin Boolean Comparative Analysis of Qualitative Data - A Georges and L Romme A Methodological Note Measuring Meaning Structures - John W Mohr Bridging the Positivist and Interpretivist Approaches to Qualitative Methods - Ann Chih Lin Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Techniques in Network Analysis - Nicole E Coviello Mixed-Method Analytical Techniques Structured, Qualitative Comparisons - Karl Henrik Sivesind Between Singularity and Single-Dimensionality Introduction to Qualitative Comparative Analysis - Charles C Ragin Modeling Event Structures - David Heise Sequence Analysis - Andrew Abbott New Methods for Old Ideas Contextual Content Analysis - Donald G McTavish and Ellen B Pirro A Frame Analysis of Favour-Seeking in the Renaissance - Paul D McLean Agency, Networks and Political Culture Componential Analysis and the Study of Meaning - Ward H Goodenough Computer Software and Qualitative Analysis - Raymond M Lee and Lea Esterhuizen Trends, Issues and Resources Integrating Research Findings Synthesis through Meta-Ethnography - Lynn H Doyle Paradoxes, Enhancements and Possibilities ′Meta Interpretation′ - Mike Weed A Method for the Interpretive Synthesis of Qualitative Research PART FOUR: QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS Analyzing Survey Data Analysis of Survey Data - D A Dargatz and G W Hill The Analysis of Factorial Surveys - Joop J Fox, Ita G G Kreft and Piet L J Hermkens The Exploratory Analysis of Survey Data Usin Log-Linear Models - Graham J G Upton Volume Three Quantitative Analysis Analyzing Text A Conceptual Framework for Quantitative Text Analysis - Carl W Roberts On Joining Probabilities and Substantive Inferences about Texts The Analysis of Literary Style - D I Holmes A Review Analyzing Structures and Sequences Social Network Analyses - Caroline Haythornthwaite An Approach and Technique for the Study of Information Exchange The Statistical Evaluation of Social Network Dynamics - Tom A B Snijders Sequential Analyses in Coercive Mother-Child Interaction - M Angeles Cerezo and Ana D′Ocon The Predictability Hypothesis in Abusive versus Nonabusive Dyads Methods for Temporal Analysis - Michael T Hannan and Nancy Brandon Tuma The Geometric Interpretation of Correspondence Analysis - Michael Greenacre and Trevor Hastie Dealing with Missing Data The Analysis of Social Science Data with Missing Values - Roderick J A Little and Donald B Rubin Describing Distributions Comparing the Mean and the Median as Measures of Centrality - Gordon R Stavig and Jean D Gibbons Methods of Estimating from Samples the Population Standard Deviation - O L Davies and E S Pearson Testing Association and Prediction Criteria for Measures of Association - Herbert L Costner Correlations Genuine and Spurious in Pearson and Yule - John Aldrich Simple Models for the Analysis of Association in Cross-Classifications Having Ordered Categories - Leo A Goodman Regression Analysis Using Survey Data - D Holt and A J Scott Testing Significance On the Logic and Purpose of Significance Testing - Jose M Cortina and William P Dunlap The Assumptions Underlying the Analysis of Variance - Churchill Eisenhart Chi-Squared Tests with Survey Data - D Holt, A J Scott and P D Ewings Multivariate Analysis Multilevel Models - Thomas A DiPrete and Jerry D Forristal Methods and Substance Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) - H Smith, R Gnanadesikan and J B Hughes Covariance Analysis in Sociological Research - Karl Schuessler Some Questions about Factor Analysis - A S C Ehrenberg Factor Analysis as a Statistical Method - D N Lawley and A E Maxwell Volume Four Quantitative Analysis Multivariate Analysis Multiple and Logistic Regression Computation and Interpretation of Multiple Regressions - Barnet Woolf Path Analysis - Otis Dudley Duncan Sociological Examples Logistic Regression - S Philip Morgan and Jan D Teachman Descriptions, Examples and Comparisons Dealing with Multiple Sets of Data/Objects The Analysis of Repeated Measures - B S Everitt A Practical Review with Examples A Review of Hierarchical Classification - A D Gordon Hierarchical Clustering Schemes - Stephen C Johnson Three Applications of Methods of Cluster-Analysis - Byron J T Morgan Review of the Development of Multidimensional Scaling Methods - A Mead Principal Component Analysis of Designed Experiment - J N R Jeffers Integrating Research Findings A Comparison of Statistical Methods for Meta-Analysis - Sarah E Brockwell and Ian R Gordon PART FIVE: QUALITY OF RESEARCH OUTCOMES Research and Theory Theory and Evidence in Qualitative Research - Martyn Hammersley Explanation and Causation - Jeffrey W Lucas Social Scientific Explanations? On Quine′s Legacy and Contextual Fallacies - Jan Faber and Willem J Scheper Narrative Explanation - Peter Abel An Alternative to Variable-Centred Explanation? Causation in Sociology Today - David M Klein A Revised View An Introduction to Causal Inference - Michael E Sobel Quality Control Quality Control in Qualitative Research - William B Stiles On the Use and Utility of the Reliability Coefficient in Social and Behavioural Research - Tenko Raykov Assessing the Reliability of Statistical Software, Part Two - B D McCullough Theory-Testing, Generalization and the Problem of External Validity