Bibliography for SO243: Practice of Quantitative Research BETA

Argyrous, G. (2011) Statistics for research: with a guide to SPSS. 3rd ed. London: SAGE.

Bulmer, M. (1980a) ‘Why Don’t Sociologists Make More Use of Official Statistics?’, Sociology, 14(4), pp. 505–523. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/003803858001400401.

Bulmer, M. (1980b) ‘Why Don’t Sociologists Make More Use of Official Statistics?’, Sociology: the journal of the British Sociological Association, 14(4), pp. 505–523.

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Dodds, P.S. et al. (2011) ‘Temporal Patterns of Happiness and Information in a Global Social Network: Hedonometrics and Twitter’, PLoS ONE, 6(12). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0026752.

Field, A. (2013) Discovering statistics using IBM SPSS statistics: (and sex and drugs and rock ‘n’ roll). 4th ed. Los Angeles: Sage.

Frank, M.R. et al. (2013) ‘Happiness and the Patterns of Life: A Study of Geolocated Tweets’, 3(2625), pp. 1–9. Available at: http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130911/srep02625/pdf/srep02625.pdf.

Frankfort-Nachmias, C. and Leon-Guerrero, A. (2011) Social statistics for a diverse society. 6th ed. Thousand Oaks, Calif: Pine Forge Press.

Gillham, B. (2008) Small-scale social survey methods. London: Continuum International Pub. Group.

Housley, W. et al. (2014) ‘Big and broad social data and the sociological imagination: A collaborative response’, Big Data & Society, 1(2). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951714545135.

Howell, D.C. (2011) Fundamental statistics for the behavioral sciences. 7th ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning.

Jensen, E. (no date) ‘‘Putting the methodological brakes on big data claims: (Mis)using social media analytics’. Available at: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/prospective/undergraduate/modules/so243/2014-15/week6/methodological_limitations_of_big_data_analysis_of_social_media_commentary-forplos1-handover.pdf.

Jensen, E. and Laurie, C. (no date a) ‘Doing Real Research’. Available at: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/prospective/undergraduate/modules/so243/2014-15/week3/chapter_8_-_surveys_-_doing_real_research.pdf.

Jensen, E. and Laurie, C. (no date b) ‘Doing Real Research’. Available at: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/prospective/undergraduate/modules/so243/2014-15/week5/chapter_6_-_10_-_ej_14_oct_2014-1sthandover.pdf.

Jensen, E. and Laurie, C. (no date c) ‘Doing Real Research’. Available at: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/prospective/undergraduate/modules/so243/2014-15/week4/chapter_11_-_using_existing_data_-_so243_reading.pdf.

Jensen, E. and Lister, T. (no date) ‘The Challenges of “Measuring Long-term Impacts of a Science Center on its Community”: A Methodological Review’. Available at: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/prospective/undergraduate/modules/so243/2014-15/week3/submission_proof-challenges_of_measuring_long-term_impacts.pdf.

Mitchell, L. et al. (2013) ‘The Geography of Happiness: Connecting Twitter Sentiment and Expression, Demographics, and Objective Characteristics of Place’, PLoS ONE, 8(5). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0064417.

Morgan, D.L. (1998) ‘Practical Strategies for Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods: Applications to Health Research’, Qualitative Health Research, 8(3), pp. 362–376. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/104973239800800307.

Morgan, D.L. (2007) ‘Paradigms Lost and Pragmatism Regained: Methodological Implications of Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods’, Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 1(1), pp. 48–76. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/2345678906292462.

Morgan, D.L. (2014) Integrating qualitative and quantitative methods: a pragmatic approach. Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications, Inc.

Public Engagement Surveys (no date). Available at: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/news/scd/publicengagement/surveys/.

Ruane, J.M. (2005) Essentials of research methods: a guide to social science research. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub.

Salkind, N.J. (2011) Statistics for people who (think they) hate statistics. 4th ed. Los Angeles: SAGE Publications.

Schaeffer, N.C. and Presser, S. (2003a) ‘The Science of Asking Questions’, Annual Review of Sociology, 29, pp. 65–88. Available at: http://0-www.jstor.org.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/stable/30036961?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents.

Schaeffer, N.C. and Presser, S. (2003b) ‘The Science of Asking Questions’, Annual review of sociology, 29, pp. 65–88.

The Basics of Social Research (no date a). Available at: http://ebabbie.net/resource/basics/07/prev.html.

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‘The Beast of Bias’ (no date). Available at: http://www.statisticshell.com/docs/exploringdata.pdf.