Key concepts in social research / Geoff Payne and Judy Payne.

Includes bibliographical references.

Action research -- Association and causation -- Attitude scales -- Auto/biography and life histories -- Bias -- Case study -- Coding qualitative data -- Community profiles -- Community studies -- Content analysis -- Contingency tables -- Documentary methods -- Ethical practice -- Ethnography -- Ethnomethodology and conversational analysis -- Evaluation studies -- Experiments -- Feminist research -- Fieldwork -- Grounded theory -- Group discussions/Focus groups -- Hawthorne effect -- Hypothesis -- Indicators and operationalisations -- Internet and other searches -- Internet polling -- Interviewing -- Key informants -- Levels of measurement -- Longitudinal and cross-sectional studies -- Methods and methodologies -- Objectivity -- Observation -- Official statistics -- Participant observation -- Positivism and realism -- Qualitative methods -- Quantitative methods -- Questionnaires -- Reflexivity -- Reliability -- Sampling: estimates and size -- Sampling: questions of size -- Sampling: types -- Secondary analysis -- Social surveys -- Telephone and computer-assisted polling -- Unobtrusive methods and triangulation -- Validity -- Visual methods.