Understanding social research : thinking creatively about method / edited by Jennifer Mason and Angela Dale. - 1st ed. - London ; New Delhi SAGE Publications Ltd., 2011. - x, 247 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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Social sciences--Research--Methodology.

300.72 / MAS