Methods That Matter
Integrating Mixed Methods for More Effective Social Science Research
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Acknowledgments
Part One Methods and Theory for More Holistic Human Sciences
1 Repairing the Fractured Social Sciences: An Introduction from a Historical Point of View
Robert A. LeVine
2 Ecocultural Theory: Foundations and Applications
Carol M. Worthman
Part Two Discovering Mixed Methods
3 Ethnography in Need of Numbers: Mixing Methods to Build Partnerships and Understand Tigers
M. Cameron Hay
4 Crunching Numbers, Listening to Voices, and Looking at the Brain to Understand Family Relationships among Immigrant Families
Andrew J. Fuligni
5 “It Depends”: The First Law of Education Research and Development
Ronald Gallimore
Part Three Mixed Methods to Explore Cultural Variability
6 The Soft Side of Hard Data in the Study of Cultural Values
Richard A. Shweder
7 Images of Infancy: The Interplay of Biological Predispositions and Cultural Philosophies as an Arena for Mixed Methods Research
Heidi Keller
8 Beyond the Randomized Control Trial: Mixed Methods That Matter for Children’s Healthy Development in Cultural Context
Sara Harkness and Charles M. Super
9 Methods to Inform Public Problems: Toward an Ecocultural Framing of Poverty
by Edward D. Lowe
Part Four Mixed Methods and Collaborative Research
10 Collaborative Research on Emergent Literacy: Capturing Complex Mixed Methods Data and Tools for Their Integration and Analysis
Eli Lieber
11 Lessons Learned from Parents of Adults with Autism in India
Tamara C. Daley
12 What Makes for the Best Clinical Care? Using Trigger Films to Explore Better Integration of Guidelines and Experience
M. Cameron Hay, Thomas S. Weisner, and Saskia K. Subramanian
Part Five Mixed Methods and the Insights of Longitudinal Research
13 How Siblings Matter in Zinacantec Maya Child Development
Ashley E. Maynard
14 Why Mixed Methods Matter in Understanding Neighborhood Context and Child Maltreatment: Anthropological Approaches and Mixed Methods
Jill E. Korbin
15 Multiple Marginality—A Comparative Framework for Understanding Gangs: Theory and Method
James Diego Vigil
16 “I Thought Delay Meant She Would Catch Up”: Using Mixed Methods to Study Children with Early Developmental Delays and Their Families
Lucinda P. Bernheimer, Ronald Gallimore, and Barbara K. Keogh
Part Six Mixed Methods for Intervention and Policy-Driven Research
17 Mixed Methods in the Science of Understanding Antipoverty Policies for Families with Children: Four Case Studies
Aletha C. Huston, Greg J. Duncan, and Hirokazu Yoshikawa
18 Styles of Mothering, Methods of Engagement: Bridging Anthropology, Psychology, and Education to Inform Policy
Carolyn Pope Edwards
19 Intervention Research with Clients of Transgender Sex Workers: Finding Methods That Work with a Virtual Community
Brian L. Wilcox
Part Seven Why Mixed Methods?
20 Findings That Matter: A Commentary
Thomas S. Weisner
Contributors
Index
Anthropology: Cultural and Social Anthropology
Education: Curriculum and Methodology
Psychology: Developmental Psychology | Psychometrics and Methodology
Sociology: Methodology, Statistics, and Mathematical Sociology
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