Generating Data

Cate Curtis is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of Waikato. She is a co-author of Generating Data (4 volume set, SAGE, 2016), co-author of Social Research: A Practical Introduction (SAGE, 2011); and co-author of The Social Psychology of Everyday Life (Palgrave. 2010). Her main research interest is the construction of 'risk' and 'resilience', especially with regard to young women, and she teaches a graduate paper in the social psychology of anti-social behaviour. She contributes to the teaching of research methods for psychology at undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as in the area of social psychology.

VOLUME ONE: NATURALISTIC RESEARCH - FIELDWORK, PARTICIPANT-OBSERVATION, ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH How I Learned What a Crock Was - Howard S. Becker Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight - Clifford Geertz On Being Sane in Insane Places - D.L. Rosenhan Among the Thugs: The 'New Ethnographies' of Football Supporting Subcultures - John Hughson Habitus as Topic and Tool: Reflections on Becoming a Prizefighter - Loic Wacquant 'Hidden Ethnography': Crossing Emotional Borders in Qualitative Accounts of Young People's Lives - Shane Blackman Into the Dark Heart of Ethnography: The Lived Ethics and Inequality of Intimate Field Relationships - Katherine Irwin Lumpen Abuse: The Human Cost of Righteous Neoliberalism - Philippe Bourgois Framing Photographic Ethnography: A Case Study - Douglas Harper Multimodal Ethnography - Bella Dicks, Bambo Soyinka and Amanda Coffey From Policy to Prisoners to People: A 'Soft Mixed Methods' Approach to Studying Transgender Prisoners - Valerie Jenness The Present of Things Past: Ethnography and Career Studies - John Van Maneen Ethnographic Case Study (ECS): Abductive Modeling of Ethnography and Improving the Relevance in Business Marketing Research - Luca Massimiliano Visconti VOLUME TWO: INTERROGATIVE RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH Part One: Interrogative Research - Grounded Theory, Focus Group, Survey Research Role Relationships and Conceptions of Neutrality in Interviewing - Lewis Anthony Dexter Introduction: Elite and Specialized Interviewing - Lewis Anthony Dexter Maori and Cross-Cultural Research: Criticality, Ethicality and Generosity - Tracey McIntosh Are There Two Methods of Grounded Theory? Demystifying the Methodological Debate - Cheri Ann Hernandez Choosing a Methodological Path: Reflections on the Constructivist Turn - Jenna Breckenridge, Derek Jones, Ian Elliott and Margaret Nicol Remodeling Grounded Theory - Barney Glaser and Judith Holton Crafting and Conducting Intensive Interviews - Kathy Charmaz The Focussed Interview and Focus Groups: Continuities and Discontinuities - Robert K. Merton Focus Groups - David L. Morgan Focus Group Research: Retrospect and Prospect - George Kamberelis and Greg Dimitriadis Thirty Years of Survey Methodology/Thirty Years of BMS - Edith de Leeuw Interviews, Surveys, and the Problem of Ecological Validity - Aaron V. Cicourel Overreporting of Prayer in Muslim Countries: Testing the Veracity of Self-Reported Religious Practice in the Muslim World - Philip Brenner Part Two: Experimental Research - Group Research, Remote Instrumentation Behavioral Study of Obedience - Stanley Milgram On the Ethics of Intervention in Human Psychological Research: With Special Reference to the Stanford Prison Experiment - Philip Zimbardo The Effect of Video Game Violence on Physiological Desensitization to Real-Life Violence - Nicholas L. Carnagey, Craig A. Anderson and Brad J. Bushman Cyberball: A Program for Use in Research on Interpersonal Ostracism and Acceptance - Kipling D. Williams and Blair Jarvis Consequences of Participating in a Longitudinal Study of Marriage - Joseph Veroff, Shirley Hatchett and Elizabeth Douvan Experimentation and Social Interventions: A Forgotten but Important History - Ann Oakley The Growth and Development of Experimental Research in Political Science - James N. Druckman, Donald P. Green, James H. Kulinski and Arthur Lupia The Lost Letter Technique: A Tool of Social Research - Stanley Milgram, Leon Mann and Susan Harter You've Got Mail: Using E-Mail to Examine the Effect of Prejudiced Attitudes on Discrimination against Arabs - Brad J. Bushman and Angelica M. Bonacci A Focus Theory of Normative Conduct: Recycling the Concept of Norms to Reduce Littering in Public Places - Robert B. Cialdini, Raymond R. Reno and Carl A. Kallgren How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Js: Implicit Egotism and Interpersonal Attraction - John T. Jones, Brett W. Pelham, Mauricio Carvallo and Matthew C. Mirenberg Colliding Human-Animal Trajectories (Road Kill!) on a Tasmanian Journey - Claudia Bell VOLUME THREE: MATERIAL RESEARCH AND DE-CENTRED RESEARCH Part One: Material Research - Artefacts, Trace Analysis, Visual Analysis and Content Analysis Physical Traces: Erosion and Accretion - Eugene Webb, Donald T. Campbell, Richard D. Schwartz and Lee Sechrest Unobtrusive Measures in Organizational Theory: A Reminder - Eugene Webb and Karl E. Weick Unobtrusive Measurement: Using Police Information for Forensic Research - Laurence J. Alison, Brent Snook and Kristin L. Stein Smile Intensity in Photographs Predicts Longevity - Ernest L. Abel and Michael L. Kruger The Social Archeology of a Juvenile Facility: Unobtrusive Methods in the Study of Institutional Cultures - John M. Klofas and Charles R. Cutshall Visual Sociology Reframed: An Analytical Synthesis and Discussion of Visual Methods in Social and Cultural Research - Luc Pauwels Content Analysis - A Methodological Primer for Gender Research - Kimberly A. Neuendorf Types of Humor in Television and Magazine Advertising - Codruta Catanescu and Gail Tom Hoes and Hashtags: Constructions of Gender and Race in Trending Topics - Jodi L. Rightler-McDaniels and Elizabeth M. Hendrickson Part Two: De-centred Research - Semiotics, Discourse Analysis and Psychoanalysis Myth Today - Roland Barthes Letter to a Japanese Friend. (Prof. Izutsu) - Jacques Derrida The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in the Psychoanalytical Experience - Jacques Lacan Decoding Advertisements: Conclusions - Judith Williamson Unfreezing the Truth: Knowledge and Denial in Climate Change Imagery - Judith Williamson Mediated Intimacy and Postfeminism: A Discourse Analytic Examination of Sex and Relationships Advice in a Women's Magazine - Rosalind Gill The Codes of the Dead: The Semiotics of Funeral Work - Stephen R. Barley The Narcissism of Minor Differences: The Status Anxiety and Disciplinary Intolerance between Sociology and Psychoanalysis - Siamak Movahedi Politics and the Impossible: Beyond Psychoanalysis and Deconstruction - Glyn Daly Never Employable Enough: The (Im)Possibility of Satisfying the Boss's Desire - Colin Cremin The Couch and the Chador - Siamak Movahedi and Gohar Homayounpour VOLUME FOUR: BIOGRAPHIC RESEARCH AND SECONDARY RESEARCH Part One: Biographic Research - Auto/Biographic Writing, Narrative Analysis, and Auto-Ethnography Nomothetic and Idiographic Uses - Gordon Allport 'Entering the Blogosphere': Some Strategies for Using Blogs in Social Research - Nicholas Hookway Narrative Configuration in Qualitative Analysis - Donald E. Polkinghorne Positioning between Structure and Performance - Michael Bamberg Blank Check for Biography? Openness and Ingenuity in the Management of the 'Who-Am-I-Question' and What Life Stories Actually May Not Be Good For - Michael Bamberg Narrating Oneself: Reflections on the Use of Solicited Diaries with Diary Interviews - Charlotte Kenten Another String to Our Bow: Participant Writing as Research Method - Vivienne Elizabeth Autoethnography: An Overview - Carolyn Ellis, Tony E. Adams and Arthur P. Bochner Analytic Autoethnography - Leon Anderson An Autoethnography on Learning about Autoethnography - Sarah Wall Becoming Smaller: Autobiographical Spaces of Weight Loss - Robyn Longhurst Part Two: Secondary Research - Secondary Analysis, Documentary Research, Meta-Analysis Secondary Analysis of Qualitative Data: An Overview - Janet Heaton Conceptualizing Young People's Strategies of Resistance to Offending as 'Active Resilience' - Cathy Murray Evidence and Proof in Documentary Research: 1: Some Specific Problems of Documentary Research - Jennifer Platt Evidence and Proof in Documentary Research: 2: Some Shared Problems of Documentary Research - Jennifer Platt Analysing Documentary Realities - Paul Atkinson and Amanda Coffey Documenting the UK "Black Fish Scandal" as a Case Study of Criminal Entrepreneurship - Robert Smith Developing Qualitative Research Streams Relating to Illegal Rural Enterprise: Reflections on Researching Qualitatively at the Margins of Entrepreneurship Research - Robert Smith and Gerard McElwee Meta-Analysis: Recent Developments in Quantitative Methods for Literature Reviews - R. Rosenthal and M.R. Di Matteo Meta-Analysis in Criminal Justice and Criminology: What It Is, When It's Useful, and What to Watch Out For - Travis C. Pratt How Can Systematic Reviews Incorporate Qualitative Research? A Critical Perspective - Mary Dixon-Woods, Sheila Bonas, Andrew Booth, David R. Jones, Tina Miller, Alex J. Sutton, Rachel L. Shaw, Jonathan A. Smith and Bridget Young