Research Methods in the Social Sciences is a comprehensive yet compact A-Z for undergraduate and postgraduate students undertaking qualitative and quantitative research across the social sciences, featuring 71 entries that cover a wide range of concepts, methods, and theories.

0: Introduction 1: Chloé Brière: Archival Research 2: Yannis Panagis: Automated Text Analysis 3: Arnaud Dufays: Bayesian Inference 4: Olga Herzog: Behaviourism 5: Aysel Küçüksu and Stephanie Anne Shelton: Bias 6: Yannick Dufresne and Brittany Davidson: Big Data 7: Jasmin Hasic: Boolean Algebra 8: Laura Gelhaus and Dirk Leuffen: Case Selection 9: Jessica Luciano Gomes and Miriam Gomes Saraiva: Case Study 10: Vivien Sierens and Ramona Coman: Causation 11: Céline C. Cocq and Ora Szekely: Comparative Analysis 12: Louis Bélanger & Pierre-Marc Daigneault: Concept Construction 13: Holli A. Semetko: Content Analysis 14: Auke Willems: Contextual Analysis 15: Shunsuke Sato: Counterfactual Analysis 16: Virginie Van Ingelgom and Alban Versailles: Covariance 17: Dominik Giese and Jonathan Joseph: Critical Realism 18: Andrew Bell: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Studies 19: Dominik Giese and Kai-Uwe Schnapp: Deductive, Inductive, and Retroductive Reasoning 20: Louis Imbeau, Sule Tomkinson and Yasmina Malki: Descriptive, Explanatory, and Interpretive Approaches 21: François Depelteau: Determinism, Predictions, and Probabilism 22: Elisa Narminio and Caterina Carta: Discourse Analysis 23: Elena Avramovska: Endogeneity 24: Gianfranco Pellegrino: Epistemology 25: Laurence Marquis and Mark Daku: Ethics in Research 26: Chowra Makaremi: Ethnography 27: Damien Bol: Experiments 28: Ulf Liebe: Factor Analysis 29: Brian D. Earp: Falsification 30: Andrew Parker and Jonathan Tritter: Focus Groups 31: Érick Duchesne and Arthur Silve: Formal Modelling 32: Frederik Ponjaert: Grand Theory and Middle Range Theory 33: Mélanie Samson: Hermeneutics 34: Onna Van Den Broek and Adam William Chalmers: Hypotheses 35: Roberto Carrillo and Lidia Núñez: Interdisciplinary 36: Marta Matrakova: Interview Techniques 37: Mauro Caprioli and Claire Dupuy: Levels of Analysis 38: Mathieu Ouimet and Pierre-Olivier Bédard: Literature review 39: Noémie Laurens: Meta-Analysis 40: Suzan Gibril: Methodological Individualism and Holism 41: Manfredi Valeriani and Vicki L. Plano Clark: Mixed Methods 42: Johann Wolfschwenger and Kevin Lloyd Young: Multi-causality and Equifinality 43: Amal Tawfik and Stephan Davidshofer: Multiple Correspondence Analysis and Geometric Data Analysis 44: Nicky Hayes: Nomothetic and Idiographic Methods 45: Christian Olsson: Observational Methods 46: Eric Fabri: Ontology 47: Anne-Laure Mahé and Theodore Mclauchlin: Operationalization 48: Julien Pomarède: Oral History and Life History 49: Andreas Dimmelmeier and Sheila Dow: Paradigms and Research Programmes 50: Patrick Thaddeus Jackson and Lucas Dolan: Positivism, Post-positivism, and Social Science 51: Seda Gürkan and Jochem Rietveld: Process Tracing 52: Jacob A. Hasselbalch and Leonard Seabrooke: Prosopography 53: Kevin Kalomeni and Claudius Wagemann: Qualitative Comparative Analysis 54: Kamil Marcinkiewicz and Kai-Uwe Schnapp: Regression Analysis 55: Stefan Schmidt: Replication and Reproducibility 56: Irene Wieczorek and Piergiuseppe Parisi: Research Question 57: Emilie Van Haute: Sampling Techniques 58: Heikki Patomäki: Scientific Realism 59: Mathilde Gauquelin: Scope Conditions 60: Thomas Collas and Philippe Blanchard: Sequence Analysis 61: Nicholas Haagensen and Lasse Folke Henriksen: Social Network Analysis 62: Kenneth Bertrams and Anne Weyembergh: Source Criticism 63: Olesya Tkacheva: Statistical Significance 64: Lior Gideon and Kevin Barnes-Ceeney: Survey Research 65: Guillaume Beaumier and Didier Wernli: Systems Analysis 66: Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke: Thematic Analysis 67: Nina Baur and Jannis Hergesell: Time Series 68: Sabine Caillaud and Uwe Flick: Triangulation 69: Juraj Halas: Typology 70: Kimberly A. Neuendorf: Unit Analysis and Observation 71: Jean-Frédéric Morin and Alessandra Bonci: Variables

Covers quantitative and qualitative methods, with an emphasis on applying concepts to real-world examples. Over 70 entries covering well-established research methods concepts and emerging ideas. Concepts are defined and then discussed in terms of practical use, strengths and weaknesses, and current status in academic practice. Uses cross-references to help readers link related concepts together and build a comprehensive understanding of research methods. Also available as an e-book with functionality, navigation features, and links that offer extra learning support

Jean-Frédéric Morin is Full Professor at Université Laval (Canada) and chairholder of the Canada Research Chair in International Political Economy. His current research projects look at the design of environmental treaties, interactions between international institutions, and the governance of space debris. His most recent co-authored books include Global Environmental Politics (OUP, 2020) and Greening through Trade (MIT Press, 2020). Christian Olsson is Associate Professor at Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB, Belgium) and Director of its REPI Research Unit (Recherche et Etudes en Politique Internationale). His research concerns the transformations of warfare in the context of Western overseas military operations, the political dynamics of non-state armed groups and the privatization of security and military operations. Recent articles have been published in Millenium, Critical Military Studies and Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding. Ece Özlem Atikcan is an Associate Professor at the University of Warwick, and a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the European Institute of the University College London in the UK. Her research combines a theoretical focus on political campaigns, issue framing, politicisation of trade agreements, transnational social movements, and diffusion with a regional focus on the European Union. Her recent work has appeared in European Journal of Political Research, Journal of Elections Public Opinion and Parties, Journal of Public Policy, and as books with Cambridge University Press and McGill-Queen's University Press.

Covers quantitative and qualitative methods, with an emphasis on applying concepts to real-world examples. Over 70 entries covering well-established research methods concepts and emerging ideas. Concepts are defined and then discussed in terms of practical use, strengths and weaknesses, and current status in academic practice. Uses cross-references to help readers link related concepts together and build a comprehensive understanding of research methods. Also available as an e-book with functionality, navigation features, and links that offer extra learning support