Studying cities and city life

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- Part One: Initial Considerations -- The limitations of personal experience -- Scientific research methods -- Theory and research -- Research designs: An overview and preview -- Part Two: Research Ethics -- Ethical constraints -- Subject protections -- Neutrality -- Giving back to the community -- Notes -- Glossary -- 2. Ethnographic field studies -- Part One: Historical and Theoretical Background -- Historical field studies -- The place of theory -- Part Two Conducting Field Studies -- Reflexivity -- The participant-observer continuum -- Gaining access -- Sampling -- Writing field notes -- Terminating a field study -- Assessing data quality -- Analyzing ethnographic data -- Notes -- Glossary -- 3 Experimental design -- Experiments introduced -- Contrasting experiments and ethnographic studies -- Experimentation in social science -- Causal inference -- Experimental designs -- Assigning subjects to experimental conditions -- Internal and external validity -- Notes -- Glossary -- 4 Sample surveys -- History of urban sampling studies -- Sampling: Basic terms -- Sample accuracy -- Determining sample size -- Types of samples -- Reaching respondents -- Nonresponse bias -- Notes -- Glossary -- 5 Obtaining data, Part One: Interviews, questionnaires and observation -- Interviews -- Questionnaires -- Observation -- Notes -- Glossary -- 6 Obtaining data, Part Two: Multi-/mixed-methods and secondary sources -- Multi-methods -- Mixed-methods -- Secondary sources -- Special analyses -- Notes -- Glossary -- Appendix -- 7 Measurement, reliability and validity -- Concepts and indicators -- Reliability -- Validity -- Notes -- Glossary -- 8 The research report -- Section headings -- Writing style -- Notes -- Index