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
- https://guides.library.duke.edu/c.php?g=289688&p=1930772
- http://masscommtheory.com/2011/05/05/writing-good-qualitative-research-q...
Databases
- Sage Research Methods Online: http://srmo.sagepub.com
- Sage Encyclopedia of Qualitative research methods : http://knowledge.sagepub.com/view/socialscience/SAGE.xml
Statistics Tutorials
- LEMMA, university of Bristol: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cmm/learning/online-course/index.html
- Khan academy: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics-probability
