Series preface / Douglas Hartmann and Christopher Uggen
Introduction: how the sociological sausage in made / Kyle Green and Sarah Lageson
Part 1. Interpretive and qualitative methods
Interviews and telling a good story / featuring Amy Schalet
Getting focus groups right / featuring Audrey Kobayashi
Negotiating the ethnographic hallways / featuring C.J. Pascoe
Analyzing commercials / featuring Madison van Oort and Kyle Green
Comparative historical research / featuring David Fitzgerald and David Cook-Martín
Part 2. Explanatory and quantitative methods
Field effects in experimental audits / featuring Devah Pager
Counting things in new ways / featuring Christopher Wildeman
The cost and benefits of longitudinal studies / featuring Deborah Carr
Visual content analysis of urban space / featuring Keith Hampton
Real-time quantitative content analysis / featuring Andrew Billings
Collaborative research and question-driven methods / featuring Helen B. Marrow
Mixing methods to see bigger pictures / featuring Vincent Roscigno
Following the circuits of culture / featuring Matthew Hughey
Finding findings in big data / featuring Daniel Sui
Online surveys / featuring Justin Pickett
Online forums and deliberative storytelling / featuring Francesca Polletta
Understanding behavior through smartphones / featuring Naomi Sugie
Wearable technology and visual analysis / featuring Clifton Evers
Historical data and the spatial analysis of class / featuring Shamus Khan