VOLUME 1
Section 1: What Counts as Relevant Data?
Reconceptualizing Knowledge Accumulation in Sociology - Andrew Abbott
The Elephant in the Living Room: Or extending the conversation about the politics of evidence - Norman Denzin
Comparative Perspectives and Competing Explanations: Taking on the newly configured reductionist challenge to sociology - Troy Duster
Neurological Imaging as Evidence in Political Science - Dustin Tingley
History of and in Sociology - Charles Tilly
What has Sociology to Contribute to the Study of Inequality Trends? A historical and comparative perspective - Thomas DiPrete
The Imagination and Social Life - Jacqueline Adams
Naturalistic Inquiry and the Saturation Concept - Glenn Bowen
Replication Standards for Quantitative Social Science - Jeremy Freese
Improving Data Quality: Actors, incentives, and capabilities - Yoshiko Herrera and Devesh Kapur
VOLUME 2
Section 2: Data Collection in Survey Research
Section 2a: Survey Sampling for Data Collection
Participatory Survey Research - Emilio Parrado et al
An Empirical Test of Respondent-Driven Sampling - Cyprain Wejnert
Longitudinal Research at the Turn of the Century - Vilma Ortiz and Estella Godinez Ballon
Nonresponse Rates and Nonresponse Bias in Household Surveys - Robert Groves
Section 2b: Measurement in Survey Data Collection
Limitations of Stranger-Interviewers in Rural Kenya - Alexander Weinreb
Measuring Induced Abortion in Mexico: A comparison of four methodologies - Diana Lara et al
Meta-Analysis of Randomized Response Research - Gerty Lensvelt-Mulders et al
Sample Surveys with Sensitive Questions: A nonrandomized response approach - Ming Tan et al
Section 3: Interview Methods for Collecting Data
Section 3a: Eliciting Useful Responses (Data) in Interview Research
What to do With 'I Don't Know:' Elicitation in ethnographic and survey interviews - Hilary Parsons Dick
The Great Interview: 25 strategies for studying people in bed - Joseph Hermanowicz
Collecting Data from Elites and Ultra Elites: Telephone and face-to-face interviews with macroeconomists - Neil Stephens
Section 3b: Multiple Formats for Interview Data Collection
Eliciting Managers' Personal Values: An adaptation of the laddering interview method - Humphrey Bourne and Mark Jenkins
Learning in Focus Groups: An analytical dimension for enhancing focus group research - Victoria Wibeck et al
Fieldworker or Foreigner? Ethnographic interviewing in nonnative languages - Michaela Winchatz
Condom Semiotics: Meaning and condom use in rural Malawi - Iddo Tavory and Ann Swidler
Section 3c: Coding Interview Data
Analyzing Interview Data: The development and evolution of a coding system - Cynthia Weston et al
Intercoder Reliability for Validating Conclusions Drawn From Open-Ended Interview Data - Karen Kurasaki
Problematics of Grounded Theory: Innovations for developing an increasingly rigorous qualitative method - Jason Adam Wasserman et al
VOLUME 3
Section 4: Experiments and Data Collection
Section 4a: Varieties of Experimental Data Gathering
'Economic Man' in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies - Joseph Henrich et al
The False Enforcement of Unpopular Norms - Robb Willer et al
Reasons and Inclusion: The foundation of deliberation - Erik Schneiderhan and Shamus Khan
Experimental Ethnography: The marriage of qualitative and quantitative research - Lawrence Sherman and Heather Strang
Section 4b: Collecting Data in Survey Experiments
An Experimental Comparison of Methods of Measuring Ethnicity - Tom Smith
Does Race Matter n Neighborhood Preferences? Results from a video experiment - Maria Krysan et al
Insiders, outsiders, and the editing inconsistent survey data - Mariano Sana and Alexander Weinreb
Section 4c: Alternatives to Randomized Control Trials for Gathering Data
Grades of evidence: Variability in quality of findings in effectiveness studies of complex field interventions - Madhabi Chatterji
Addressing self-selection bias in quasi-experimental evaluations of whole-school reform - Robert Bifulco
Ethics, data-dependent designs, and the strategy of clinical trials: time to start learning as we go? - C. R. Palmer
Observing the counterfactual? The search for political experiments in nature - Gregory Robinson et al
Section 5: Data Collection in Observational Research
Section 5a: Varieties of Observational Experience
People in Paces - Robert Zussman
Towards the Necessity of a New Interactive Approach Integrating Ethnology, Ecology, and Ethology in the Study of the Relationship between Kyrgyz Stockbreeders and Wolves - Nicolas Lescureux
Studying the New Media - Howard Becker
Section 5b: Collecting Data Using New Media
A Collective Ethnographer: Fieldwork experience in the Brazilian Northeast - Lygia Sigaud
Fieldnotes in Team Ethnography: Researching complementary schools - Angela Cresse et al
Ethnographic Approaches to the Internet and Computer-Mediated Communication - Angela Cora Garcia et al
Qualitative Research on Adolescents Risk Using E-Mail: A methodological assessment - Richard Hessler et al
Putting Social Context into Text: The semiotics of e-mail interaction - Daniel Menchik and Xiaoli Tian
Section 5c: Participant Observation for Collecting Data
Participant Observation in the Era of 'Ethnography' - Herbert Gans
Observer Behavior as a Source of Reactivity: Describing and quantifying observer effects in a large-scale observational study of police - Richard Spano
L'Intervention Sociologique after 25 Years: Can it translate into English? - Kevin McDonald
Bias as a Research Strategy in Participant Observation: The case of intergroup conflict - John Drury and Clifford Stott
VOLUME 4
Section 6: Collecting Data from Archival Sources
Section 6a: How to Evaluate Documents When Collecting Data
The File Drawer Problem in Reliability Generalization - Ryan Howell and Alan Shields
Repositioning Documents in Social Research - Lindsay Prior
Section 6b: Data Collection with Computerized Content Analysis
Lexical Cohesion Analysis of Political Speech - Beata Beigman Klebanov et al
On the State of Economic Content in Sociology - Richard Anderson-Connolly
Section 6c: Archival Sources for History of the Social Sciences
The Ethnographic Turn: Fact, fashion, or fiction? - Rebecca Culyba et al
Section 6d: Collecting Data Using Public Media
Finding Collective Events: Sources, searches, timing - Gregory Maney and Pamela Oliver
Characteristics of Medical Research News Reported on Front Pages of Newspapers - William Yuk Yeu Lai and Trevor Lane
'Entering the Blogosphere': Some strategies for using blogs in social research - Nicholas Hookway
Section 6e: Obtaining Data from Public Statistical Archives
The Official Statistics Olympic Challenge: Wider, deeper, quicker, better, cheaper - D. Tim Holt
America is Changing, and So is the Census: The American community survey - Nancy Torrieri
Tracking Official Development Assistance for Reproductive Health in Conflict-Affected Countries - Preeti Patel et al
Section 7: Collecting Data Ethically
Section 7a: General Overviews of Research Ethics
A Historical Interpretation of Deceptive Experiments in American Psychology - C.D. Herrera
Ethics and the Broader Rethinking/Reconceptualization of Research as a Construct - Yvonna Lincoln and Gaile Cannella
Section 7b: Governance and Ethics Review Boards
Ethics Creep: Governing social science research in the name of ethics - Kevin Haggerty
Research Ethics Review and the Sociological Research Relationship - Adam Hedgecoe
Section 7c: Ethics while Gathering Data with a Variety of Designs
The Art and Politics of Covert Research: Doing 'situated ethics' in the field - David Calvey
The Ethical Challenges of Field Research in Conflict Zones - Elisabeth Jean Wood
The Politics of Names: Rethinking the methodological and ethical significance of naming people, organizations, and places - Katja Guenthe
After the Interview - Carol Warren et al
Ethics in Qualitative Research and Evaluation - Ian Shaw
Random Assignment and Informed Consent: A case study of multiple perspectives - Robert Walker et al
