OrientationObservationIn-depth interviewsDocument analysis and semiologyConversation and discourse analysisSecondary Data
SurveysExperimentsEthicsResearch outcomes
Conclusion
Researching the Real World is a Guide to research techniques and approaches used in sociology, psychology, health, medicine, business, economics and lingustics. It has 12 sections:
Basics sets out the key concepts from method and methodology, data and evidence, through epistemology and ontology to objectivity, reliability, validity, reflexivity and triangulation.
Orientation identifies three broad approaches to social enquiry: (1) positivism and scientific method (2) phenomenology and interpretitive approaches (3) critical social research inclusing feminism, Marxism, structuralism, anti-racism.
