Includes bibliographical references and index.

Creative tensions in social research : questions of method / Jennifer Mason and Angela Dale -- Experimenting with qualitative methods : researching family resemblance / Jennifer Mason and Katherine Davies -- Using psychoanalytic methodology in psychosocial research : researching brothers / Stephen Frosh and Lisa Saville Young -- Using biographical and longitudinal methods : researching mothering / Rachel Thomson -- Using social network analysis : researching relational structure / Nick Crossley -- Using survey data : researching families and households / Angela Dale -- Ethnographies of place : researching the road / Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox -- Using sociotechnical methods : researching human-technological dynamics in the city / Simon Guy and Andrew Karvonen -- Using participatory, observational and "Rapid Appraisal" methods : researching health and illness / Sarah Salway, Kaveri Harriss and Punita Chowbey -- Innovative ways of mapping data about places / Danny Dorling and Dimitris Ballas -- Using archived qualitative data : researching socio-cultural change / Mike Savage -- What's history got to do with it? : researching sexual histories / Jeffrey Weeks -- Using qualitative methods to complement randomized controlled trials : researching mental health interventions / Anne Rogers -- Exploring the narrative potential of cohort data and event history analysis / Jane Elliott -- Using longitudinal survey data : researching changing health in later life / James Nazroo.