Table of Contents

Action Research
Association and Causation
Attitude Scales
Auto/Biography and Life Histories
Bias
Case Study
Coding Qualitative Data
Community Profiles
Community Studies
Content Analysis
Contingency Tables
Documentary Methods
Ethical Practice
Ethnography
Ethnomethodology and Conversational Analysis
Evaluation Studies
Experiments
Feminist Research
Fieldwork
Grounded Theory
Group Discussions/Focus Groups
Hawthorne Effect
Hypothesis
Indicators and Operationalisations
Internet and Other Searches
Internet Polling
Interviewing
Key Informants
Levels of Measurement
Longitudinal and Cross-Sectional Studies
Methods and Methodologies
Objectivity
Observation
Official Statistics
Participant Observation
Positivism and Realism
Qualitative Methods
Quantitative Methods
Questionnaires
Reflexivity
Reliability
Sampling
Estimates and Size
Sampling
Questions of Size
Sampling
Types
Secondary Analysis
Social Surveys
Telephone and Computer-Assisted Polling
Unobstrusive Methods and Triangulation
Validity
Visual Methods

About the Author

Teaching Interests: Social Research Methods; Social Inequalities, Divisions and Mobilities Research Interests - current: Social Research Methods; Social Mobility; Social Processes in (small rural) Communities; 'Family History' Research Interests - recent: Class Identities; Literacy; Gender; Ethnicity; Poverty. Mrs. Judy Payne is Family and Consumer Sciences Teacher Educator in the department of Adolescent, Career, and Special Education. She is also the Career and Technical Education program coordinator. Mrs. Payne earned her B.S. in Home Economics Education (1962) and M.S. in Home Economics Education (1967) from Southern Illinois University - Carbondale. She has taken additional graduate courses at Southern Illinois University - Carbondale and through Oregon State University. Before coming to the College of Education (2000), Mrs. Payne was a faculty member in the department of Home Economics, later renamed the department of Family & Consumer Studies. Her other teaching experiences include 3 years of middle school in Maryland, 2 years of secondary school in Illinois, and 3 years of middle/secondary school teaching in Oregon.