TY - GEN AU - Blaikie, Norman AU - Priest, Jan TI - Designing social research : the logic of anticipation SN - 9781509517411 U1 - 745.4072 PY - 2019/// CY - Cambridge PB - Polity press KW - KW - Social sciences -- Methodology KW - Social sciences--Methodology KW - 70.03 methods, techniques and organization of social science research KW - 74.03 methods and techniques of (human) geography KW - Social sciences--Research--Methodology N1 - Contents Detailed Contents vii List of Figures and Tables xi Introduction 1 1 About the Book 3 2 Preparing Research Designs 15 3 Four Research Design Tasks 32 4 Research Ethics 50 Part I: Focusing Research Design 65 5 Research Questions and Purposes 67 Part 2: Framing Research Design 87 6 Logics for Answering Research Questions 89 Part 3: Selecting Research Design 119 7 Concepts, Theories, Hypotheses and Models 121 8 Types, Forms, Sources and Selection of Data 154 Part 4: Distilling Research Design 193 9 Methods for Answering Research Questions: Data Gathering, Generation, Reduction and Analysis 195 Part 5: Researching Networked Worlds 225 10 Design Considerations 227 11 Ethics Considerations 247 Part 6: Illustrations 257 12 Sample Research Designs 259 Appendix I: Three Research Paradigms 286 Appendix II: Examples of Research Topics, Problems and Questions 293 Notes 300 References 307 Index 335 ER -