Methods of Social Research

By T. J. Sullivan. 2000

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What's language got to do with it?: A case study of academic language instruction in a high school “English Learner Science” class (2007, methodology): “Drawing on these teacher interview and classroom observation data, we developed a ‘‘case’’ (Goode & Hatt, 1952; Strauss, 1987) that describes the teacher’s practice of academic language instruction and captures the effect of those beliefs on student language and content learning.”
Cross-Validation of Abbreviated Perceived Residential Environment Quality (PREQ) and Neighborhood Attachment (NA) Indicators (2010, background): “Thus, these short versions of the instruments include positive- and negative-worded items, which help to minimize possible response set biases (Bailey, 1978).”
Information quality work organization in wikipedia (2008, methodology): “Resultant codes were iteratively clustered, compared and revised against similar typologies found in the literature (Gasser & Stvilia, 2001) to develop operational typologies or classifications (Bailey, 1994).”
Open-ended vs. close-ended questions in Web questionnaires (2003, background): “In addition, for traditional questionnaires larger item non-response was also found for open-in comparison to close-ended questions, owing to the larger response burden in the first case (Bailey, 1987: 117-122).”
Enhancing the sample diversity of snowball samples: Recommendations from a research project on anti-dam movements in Southeast Asia (2018, unknown): “Similarly, qualitative research textbooks often lack substantive discussion of snowball sampling (e.g., [8, 14–19]).”
Green Entrepreneurship: A Method for Managing Natural Resources? (2008, background): “We see this study as not only descriptive but explanatory: descriptive in the sense that we are attempting to describe the phenomena of green entrepreneurs, and explanatory in that we are attempting to explain the relationship between the values, motivations, and beliefs of green entrepreneurs as th”
Molecular differentiation, diversity, and folk classification of “sweet” and “bitter” cassava (Manihot esculenta) in Caiçara and Caboclo management systems (Brazil) (2007, methodology): “The farmers were chosen for interviews through stratified sampling and snowball methods (Bailey 1978).”