This innovative research design text will help you make informed choices when carrying out your research project. Covering both qualitative and quantitative approaches, and with examples drawn from a wide range of social science disciplines, the authors explain what is at stake when choosing a research design, and discuss the trade-offs that researchers have to make when considering issues such as: causality; categories and classification; heterogeneity; interdependence; time

This book will appeal to students and researchers looking for an in-depth understanding of research design issues to help them design their projects in a thoughtful and responsible way.

Interdependence

Introduction

Interdependence is one of the defining features of the social world and is apparent in many social science sub-fields and research questions. Methods textbooks often treat it as a difficulty for empirical analyses under the label ‘Galton's problem’ because of Sir Francis Galton's famous comment at ...

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