Designing social research : the logic of anticipation / Norman Blaikie and Jan Priest.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- About the book -- Focusing research design -- Research questions and purposes -- Framing research design -- Logics for answering research questions -- Selecting research design -- Concepts, theories, hypotheses and models -- Types, forms, sources and selection of data -- Distilling research design -- Methods for answering research questions: data gathering, generation, reduction and analysis -- Researching networked worlds -- Design considerations -- Ethics considerations -- Illustrations -- Sample research designs -- Postscript -- Appendix I: Three research paradigms -- Appendix II: Examples of research topics, problems and questions -- Notes -- References -- Index.