Introducing social investigation: what is research and why do we do it? -- Planning and designing research: finding a framework -- Suitable samples: selecting, obtaining and profiting from them -- Observation: looking to learn -- Survey reseach: practicalities and potential -- InterviewingL listening and talking -- Documents, official statisticals and secondary analysis: mining existing data sources -- Making it count: approaches to qualitative data analysis -- Quantitative data analysis: knowledge from numbers -- Approaches to writing: the craft of communication -- Projects and dissertations-methods and methodology in a practical context

1. Social science -- Research -- Methodology