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Doing Real Research: A Practical Guide to Social Research

by Eric Jensen and Charles Laurie

Student Resources

  1. Research design: planning for the unknowable, the unexpected and the undesirable
    • SAGE journal articles
  2. How to do a literature review: using existing evidence and ideas to build a foundation
    • SAGE journal articles
  3. How to be an ethical researcher
    • SAGE journal articles
    • Weblinks
  4. How to manage risk: protecting yourself and your equipment
    • SAGE journal articles
  5. How to find a representative sample
    • SAGE journal articles
  6. How to gain research participation
    • SAGE journal articles
  7. How to do survey research
    • Research and document templates
    • SAGE journal articles
    • Weblinks
  8. How to do interviews and focus groups
    • SAGE journal articles
  9. How to use existing data: challenges and opportunities
    • SAGE journal articles
    • Weblinks
  10. How to manage your data
    • Research and document templates
    • SAGE journal articles
    • Weblinks
  11. How to analyse qualitative data
    • SAGE journal articles
  12. How to do quantitative data analysis
    • SAGE journal articles
  13. How to write up your research
    • Weblinks
  • Flashcards
  • Study skills

SAGE journal articles

Select SAGE journal articles are available to give you more insight into chapter topics. These are also an ideal resource to help support your literature reviews, dissertations and assignments.

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Hoffmann, W. & Patel, P.V. (2015) SurveySignal: A convenient solution for experience sampling research using participants’ own smartphones. Social Science Computer Review, 33(2): 235–53.

Katz, J. (2001) From how to why: On luminous description and causal inference in ethnography (Part One). Ethnography, 2(4): 443–73.

Katz, J. (2002) From how to why: On luminous description and causal inference in ethnography (Part Two). Ethnography, 3(1): 63–90.

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