Social researchers increasingly find themselves looking beyond conventional methods to address complex research questions. This is the first book to comprehensively examine emergent qualitative and quantitative theories and methods across the social and behavioral sciences. Providing scholars and students with a way to retool their research choices, the volume presents cutting-edge approaches to data collection, analysis, and representation. Leading researchers describe alternative uses of traditional quantitative and qualitative tools; innovative hybrid or mixed methods; and new techniques facilitated by technological advances. Consistently formatted chapters explore the strengths and limitations of each method for studying different types of research questions and offer practical, in-depth examples. This book will be invaluable to researchers and graduate students in a wide range of fields, including sociology, psychology, education, social work, communication, management, anthropology, nursing, and women's studies. It may also serve as a text in graduate-level research methods courses.
Introduction: Pushing on the Methodological Boundaries-The Growing Need for Emergent Methods within and across the Disciplines, Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber and Patricia Leavy I. Historical Context of Emergent Methods and Innovation in the Practice of Research Methods Introduction to Part I, Patricia Leavy and Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber History 1. History of Methods in Social Science Research, Karen M. Staller, Ellen Block, and Pilar S. Horner 2. Gender Inclusion, Contextual Values, and Strong Objectivity: Emergent Feminist Methods for Research in the Sciences, Sue V. Rosser 3. A Post-Newtonian, Postmodern Approach to Science: New Methods in Social Action Research, Lisa Cosgrove and Maureen McHugh 4. Emergence in and from Quasi-Experimental Design and Analysis, Melvin M. Mark Document Research 5. Researching Documents: Emergent Methods, Lindsay Prior 6. Emergent Qualitative Document Analysis, David Altheide, Michael Coyle, Katie DeVriese, and Christopher Schneider Grounded Theory 7. Grounded Theory as an Emergent Method, Kathy Charmaz Interviewing 8. New Frontiers in Standardized Survey Interviewing, Frederick G. Conrad and Michael F. Schober 9. Emergent Approaches to Focus Group Research, David Morgan, Collin Fellows, and Heather Guevara 10. Emergent Issues in International Focus Group Discussions, Monique M. Hennink 11. Three Dimensions and More: Oral History Beyond the Paradoxes of Method, Michael Frisch Ethnography 12. Narrative Ethnography, Jaber F. Gubrium and James A. Holstein 13. Public Ethnography, Carol A. Bailey 14. Emergent Methods in Autoethnographic Research: Autoethnographic Narrative and the Multiethnographic Turn, Christine S. Davis and Carolyn Ellis 15. New Critical Collaborative Ethnography, Himika Bhattacharya Arts-Based Practice 16. Visual Research Methods: Where Are We and Where Are We Going?, Gunilla Holm 17. Performance-Based Emergent Methods, Patricia Leavy II. Innovations in Research Methods Design and Analysis Introduction to Part II, Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber 18. Mixing Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches: An Introduction to Emergent Mixed Methods Research, Vicki L. Plano Clark, John W. Creswell, Denise O'Neil Green, and Ronald J. Shope 19. Emergent Techniques in the Gathering and Analysis of Mixed Methods Data, Charles Teddlie, Abbas Tashakkori, and Burke Johnson 20. Data Analysis and Interpretation: Emergent Issues in Linking Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence, Sarah Irwin 21. Longitudinal Research: An Emergent Method in the Social Sciences, Elisabetta Ruspini 22. Categorizing and Connecting Strategies in Qualitative Data Analysis, Joseph A. Maxwell and Barbara A. Miller 23. Metaphor Analysis, Zazie Todd and Simon J. Harrison 24. Hearing Voices: Listening for Multiplicity and Movement in Interview Data, Lynn Sorsoli and Deborah L. Tolman III. The Impact of Emergent Technologies on Research Methods Introduction to Part III, Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber 25. Internet Research as Emergent Practice, Christine Hine 26. Internet-Mediated Research as an Emergent Method and Its Potential Role in Facilitating Mixed Methods Research, Claire Hewson 27. Hypermedia Methods for Qualitative Research, Bella Dicks & Bruce Mason 28. Mixed Emotions, Mixed Methods: The Role of Emergent Technologies in Studying User Experience in Context, Ingrid Mulder and Joke Kort 29. Emergent Methods in Feminist Geography, Mei-Po Kwan 30. Neural Networks an Emergent Method in Quantitative Research: An Example of Self-Organizing Maps, Natalia Sarkisian 31. User-Centered Perspectives on Qualitative Data Analysis Software: The Impact of Emergent Technologies and Future Trends, Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber and Christine Crofts 32. The Role of Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis: Impact on Emergent Methods in Qualitative Research, Nigel Fielding
