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Methods Resources for Thesis Writing

texbooks, databases, tutorials, and more

Overview

Qualitative Research

  • Burawoy, Michael. Ethnography Unbound: Power and Resistance in the Modern Metropolis. University of California Press, 1991.
  • Hammersley, M., and Atkinson, P. (2007) Ethnography: Principles and Practice, 3rd Edition. London: Routledge.
  • Hogan, Susan (2013) ‘Understanding Discourse Analysis?’at https://www.academia.edu/3709348/Understanding_Discourse_Analysis
  • Holstein, J. & Gubrium, J. (1995) The Active Interview. Thousand Oaks: SAGE. 85 sidor.
  • O’Reilly, Karen (2009) Key Concepts in Ethnography. London: Sage.
  • Patton, Michael Quinn (1990). Qualitative Evaluation and Research Methods (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1990).
  • Prior, Lindsay (2011) Using Documents in Social Research. London: Sage.
  • Saldana, J. (2013) The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers, 2nd Edition. London: SAGE.
     

Quantitative Research

  • Field, Andy (2013). Discovering statistics using SPSS : (and sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll). Sage: London.
  • Muijs, Daniel (2011) Doing Quantitative Research in Education with SPSS. London: Sage.
  • Pallant, Julie. (2010) SPSS Survival Manual, 4th Edition. Berkshire: Open University Press.
     

Mixed Methods

  • Julia Brannen (2005) Mixing Methods: The Entry of Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches into the Research Process, International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 8:3, 173-184.
  • Creswell, John W., och Vicki L. Plano Clark. Designing and Conducting Mixed Methods Research. SAGE, 2011.
     

Theory and Philosophy of Science

  • della Porta, Donatella and Keating, Michael ((2008) Eds.) Sections from Approaches and Methodologies in the Social Sciences: A Pluralist Perpective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 
  • Haraway, Donna. (1988). Situated knowledges: The science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective. Feminist studies 14 (3), 575-599.
  • Luckmann, Thomas. (2008). On social interaction and the communicative construction of personal identity, knowledge and reality. Organization Studies 29:277-290.
  • Jackson, Patrick T. (2010). The conduct of inquiry in international relations: philosophy of science and its implications for the study of world politics. New York, Routledge.
     

Research Design and Methodology

  • Becker, Howard Saul. Tricks of the trade: how to think about your research while you’re doing it. Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing. Chicago, Ill: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
  • Stinchcombe, Arthur L. (2005) The Logic of Social Research, University of Chicago Press, Chicago. Chapter 1. 21 sidor.
     

Writing a Thesis

  • Eco, Umberto. How to Write a Thesis. MIT Press, 2015.
     

Writing Research Questions

Databases

 

Statistics Tutorials

SPSS Support

Research ethics

The enterance of the Social Sciences Faculty Library

Social Sciences Faculty Library

Sambib can help you with most of your study needs.
Bookshelf in the library

LUP Student Papers

Lund University Publications

Subject guides

Welcome to the subject guide for the Master´s Programmes in Social Sciences! Here you will find useful subject resources as well as tips on searching for and managing information and literature.
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