Series editor's preface | p. ix |
Acknowledgements | p. xi |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Finding out and making sense | p. 3 |
Observation | p. 6 |
Asking questions | p. 10 |
Controlled trials | p. 14 |
Research ethics and Research Ethics Committees | p. 17 |
The research imagination | p. 20 |
Summary | p. 22 |
Further reading | p. 23 |
Assessing research | p. 25 |
Reading research reports | p. 27 |
The structure of research reports | p. 28 |
Assessing research reports | p. 29 |
Ethical and political questions | p. 31 |
Summary | p. 32 |
Reading open interview research | p. 33 |
The research paper: Abbott and Sapsford (1987b) | p. 33 |
Discussion | p. 37 |
Summary: points for evaluation | p. 41 |
Further reading | p. 42 |
Reading observation research | p. 44 |
Kirkham (1983) | p. 44 |
Cayne (1995) | p. 46 |
James (1984) | p. 48 |
Summary: points for evaluation | p. 50 |
Further reading | p. 51 |
Reading about controlled trials | p. 53 |
Gordon (1986) | p. 54 |
Doll and Hill (1954) | p. 56 |
Summary: points for evaluation | p. 61 |
Further reading | p. 62 |
Reading survey research | p. 63 |
Abbott (1997) | p. 64 |
Abbott and Sapsford (1993) | p. 67 |
Discussion | p. 69 |
Summary: points for evaluation | p. 71 |
Further reading | p. 72 |
Reading secondary sources | p. 73 |
Using secondary sources | p. 73 |
Research paper: Abbott and Tyler (1995) | p. 75 |
Standardization and comparison | p. 78 |
Summary: points for evaluation | p. 80 |
Further reading | p. 81 |
Doing research | p. 83 |
Using secondary sources | p. 85 |
Using libraries - review of literature | p. 85 |
Finding statistics | p. 87 |
Population and vital statistics | p. 88 |
Health and the National Health Service | p. 88 |
Social services statistics | p. 89 |
Problems with published statistics | p. 90 |
'Qualitative' sources | p. 91 |
Summary | p. 92 |
Further reading | p. 92 |
Survey research: design and sampling | p. 94 |
Selecting respondents | p. 96 |
Random sampling | p. 97 |
Cluster sampling | p. 98 |
Quota sampling | p. 99 |
Devising the questions | p. 100 |
Measuring attitudes | p. 101 |
Anticipating problems | p. 103 |
Non-response | p. 103 |
Reactivity | p. 104 |
Alternative explanations | p. 104 |
Doing the research | p. 105 |
Summary | p. 106 |
Further reading | p. 107 |
Experimental practice | p. 109 |
Uncontrolled trials | p. 109 |
Towards the controlled trial | p. 111 |
Single-case experimental designs | p. 114 |
Quasi-experimental logic | p. 117 |
Summary | p. 118 |
Further reading | p. 118 |
Answer to Exercise 32 | p. 119 |
Open interviewing | p. 120 |
Life-history interviews and comparative interviewing | p. 121 |
The nature of the data | p. 123 |
Doing the interviews | p. 124 |
Selecting informants | p. 127 |
Gaining access | p. 127 |
Summary | p. 128 |
Further reading | p. 129 |
Answer to Exercises | p. 129 |
Analysing text | p. 132 |
Qualitative description | p. 133 |
Case analysis | p. 134 |
Content analysis | p. 135 |
Meta-analysis | p. 137 |
Ideology and discourse | p. 139 |
Summary | p. 142 |
Further reading | p. 143 |
Specimen answer to Exercise 35 | p. 143 |
Participant observation | p. 145 |
Covert participant observation | p. 145 |
Overt observation | p. 148 |
Observation in the workplace | p. 150 |
Summary | p. 152 |
Further reading | p. 153 |
In conclusion | p. 155 |
Writing up | p. 157 |
Formal reports: quantitative research | p. 158 |
Formal reports: qualitative research | p. 160 |
Other modes of presentation | p. 161 |
Summary | p. 162 |
Further reading | p. 163 |
In conclusion: research into practice | p. 164 |
Research-based practice | p. 165 |
Evaluating practice | p. 167 |
The reflective researcher | p. 173 |
Research and theory | p. 176 |
In conclusion | p. 180 |
Summary | p. 181 |
Further reading | p. 182 |
Glossary | p. 183 |
References | p. 189 |
Author index | p. 196 |
Subject index | p. 198 |
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