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Acknowledgments -- Preface -- An invitation to feminist research / Sharlene Hesse-Biber -- Feminist empiricism and standpoint theory : approaches to understanding the social world / Nancy A. Naples and Barbara Gurr -- Feminist postmodernism, poststructuralism and critical theory / Nollaig Frost and Frauke Elichaoff -- Ethics and feminist research / Linda Bell -- What is feminist ethnography? / Elana D. Buch and Karen M. Staller -- Feminist practice of action and community research / M. Brinton Lykes and Alison Crosby -- Feminist approaches to in-depth interviewing / Sharlene Hesse-Biber -- The practice of feminist focus groups / Jennie Munday -- Feminist media research / Heather McIntosh and Lisa Cuklanz -- Feminist survey research / Kathi Miner and Toby Jayaratne -- The feminist practice of program evaluation / Donna M. Mertens and Nichole Stewart -- Feminist approaches to mixed methods research / Sharlene Hesse-Biber -- Conclusion: putting together your research project / Sharlene Hesse-Biber

Emergent technologies are pushing the boundaries of how both qualitative and quantitative researchers practice their craft, and it has become clear these changes are dramatically altering research design, from the questions researchers ask and the ways they collect data, to what they even consider data. Gathering a broad range of new developments in one place, The Handbook of Emergent Technologies in Social Research offers comprehensive, up-to-date thinking on technological innovations. In addition to addressing how to effectively apply new technologies-such as the internet, mobile technologie

This accessibly written book is ideal for use in graduate courses or by practicing researchers and evaluators. The author puts the research problem at center stage, showing how mixed methods designs can fruitfully address different types of research questions. She illustrates the discussion with examples of mixed methods studies from a variety of disciplines and qualitative approaches (interpretative, feminist, and postmodern). The text demonstrates how to navigate ethical issues; gather, analyze, and interpret data; and write up the results, including an in-depth example with step-by-step com.

Social researchers increasingly find themselves looking beyond conventional methods to address complex research questions. This is the first book to comprehensively examine emergent qualitative and quantitative theories and methods across the social and behavioral sciences. Providing scholars and students with a way to retool their research choices, the volume presents cutting-edge approaches to data collection, analysis, and representation. Leading researchers describe alternative uses of traditional quantitative and qualitative tools; innovative hybrid or mixed methods; and new techniques fa

Introduction: emergent methods in social research within and across disciplines -- Skirting a pleated text: de-disciplining an academic life / Laurel Richardson -- Getting connected: how sociologists can access the high tech élite / Trond Arne Undheim -- A sociologist among economists: some thoughts on methods, positionality, and subjectivity / Sarah Babb -- Ethnography and conversation analysis: what is the context of an utterance? / Douglas W. Maynard -- Creativity within qualitative research on families: new ideas for old methods / Sharon A. Deacon -- Sampling human experience in naturalistic settings / Tamlin Conner and Eliza Bliss-Moreau -- Feminist visualization: re-envisioning GIS as method in feminist geographic research / Mei-Po Kwan -- Practical strategies for combining qualitative and quantitative methods: applications to health research / David L. Morgan -- Performing autoethnography: an embodied methodological praxis / Tami Spry -- Exposed methodology: the body as a deconstructive practice / Wanda S. Pillow -- Ethnodrama: performed research--limitations and potential / Jim Mienczakowski -- On the listening guide: a voice-centered relational method / Carol Gilligan, Renée Spencer, M. Katherine Weinberg, and Tatiana Bertsch -- Friendship as method / Lisa M. Tillmann-Healy -- Gender imago / Niza Yanay and Nitza Berkovitch -- The personal is political: using daily diaries to examine everyday prejudice-related experiences / Lauri L. Hyers, Janet K. Swim, and Robyn K. Mallett -- Feminist media ethnography in India: exploring power, gender, and culture in the field / Radhika Parameswaran -- Conclusion: "Coming at things differently": the need for emergent methods

Offering a variety of innovative methods and tools, The Oxford Handbook of Multimethod and Mixed Methods Research Inquiry provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date presentation on multi- and mixed-methods research available. Written in clear and concise language by leading scholars in the field, it enhances and disrupts traditional ways of asking and addressing complex research questions. Topics include an overview of theory, paradigms, and scientific inquiry; a guide to conducting a multi- and mixed-methods research study from start to finish; current uses of multi- and mixed-methods res