From the monthly archives:

May 2009

Improving participation rates: research recruitment best practices

by Sam Ladner on May 23, 2009 · 0 comments

in Research Methods, methods, qualitative research, quantitative research, sample size, survey, surveys

Those of you out there who’ve tried it know: recruiting research participants is HARD. Here are a few insights from the research to help you with better recuitment.

Personalized contact with respondents, followed by pre-contact and aggressive follow-up phone calls *: Don’t count on a form letter, email or random tweet to do the job. Capitalize [...]

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The evolution of qualitative sociology

by Sam Ladner on May 8, 2009 · 0 comments

in qualitative research, sociology

The blog Economic Sociology has a great post on the “evolution” of qualitative sociology. They note, quite rightly, that the notion of “evolution” is implicit in much of social science, even if it has no bearing on the subject matter at hand. Many sociologists place quantitative research “on top” of the research “evolutionary ladder,” even [...]