Bibliograph

An end to the crisis of empirical sociology?, trends and challenges in social research, edited by Linda McKie and Louise Ryan

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Label

An end to the crisis of empirical sociology?, trends and challenges in social research, edited by Linda McKie and Louise Ryan

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

An end to the crisis of empirical sociology?

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

912508020

Responsibility statement

edited by Linda McKie and Louise Ryan

Series statement

Sociological futures

Sub title

trends and challenges in social research

Table Of Contents

Introduction / Linda McKie and Louise Ryan -- Big data economies and ecologies / Evelyn Ruppert -- Minority communities in Britain: pathways to success as revealed by big data / Richard Webber and Trevor Phillips -- Digging deeper: big data, elites and investigative research / David Miller and William Dinan -- 'Studying up' in the era of big data / Roger Burrows -- Critically engaging with social media research methods / Dhiraj Murthy -- Explanation and empirical social research: getting beyond description while still making it interesting! / David Byrne -- Towards a qualitative feminist sociology: the possibilities of a methodological oxymoron / Rachel Lara Cohen -- Beyond the interview: ethnicity/'race' in sociological research / Annabel Tremlett and Roxy Harris -- Social network analysis: a mixed method approach / Alessio D'Angelo and Louise Ryan -- Making sociology count: some evidence and context in the teaching of quantitative methods in the UK / Mike Savage

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