Methods That Matter: Integrating Mixed Methods for More Effective Social Science Research

456 Pages·2016·2.76 MB·English

by  M. Cameron Hay (Editor)

Methods
That Matter
Beyond N by Robert Mullenix.
Methods
That Matter
Integrating Mixed Methods for More
Effective Social Science Research
EDITED BY M. CAMERON HAY
The University of Chicago Press Chicago and London
M. CAMERON HAY is associate professor of anthropology,
coordinator of Global Health Studies, and director of the Global
Health Research Innovation Center at Miami University, as well
as associate research anthropologist in the Center for Culture and
Health at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author
of Remembering to Live.
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637
The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London
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DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226328836.001.0001
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Hay, M. Cameron, 1965–
Title: Methods that matter : integrating mixed methods for more
effective social science research / edited by M. Cameron Hay.
Description: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press,
2016. | Includes index.
Identifi ers: LCCN 2015036868 | ISBN 9780226328522
(cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780226328669 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
ISBN 9780226328836 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Social sciences—Methodology.
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For Tom,
mentor, friend, and
champion of mixed methods

Contents
Preface: Applying Methods That Matter xi
Acknowledgments xvii
PART ONE Methods and Theory for More Holistic 1
Human Sciences
1 Repairing the Fractured Social Sciences: An Introduction from
a Historical Point of View 3
ROBERT A. LEVINE
2 Ecocultural Theory: Foundations and Applications 13
CAROL M. WORTHMAN
PART TWO Discovering Mixed Methods 39
3 Ethnography in Need of Numbers: Mixing Methods to
Build Partnerships and Understand Tigers 41
M. CAMERON HAY
4 Crunching Numbers, Listening to Voices, and Looking
at the Brain to Understand Family Relationships among
Immigrant Families 49
ANDREW J. FULIGNI
5 “It Depends”: The First Law of Education Research
and Development 64
RONALD GALLIMORE
PART THREE Mixed Methods to Explore 79
Cultural Variability
6 The Soft Side of Hard Data in the Study of Cultural Values 81
RICHARD A. SHWEDER
7 Images of Infancy: The Interplay of Biological Predispositions
and Cultural Philosophies as an Arena for Mixed Methods
Research 106
HEIDI KELLER
8 Beyond the Randomized Control Trial: Mixed Methods
That Matter for Children’s Healthy Development in
Cultural Context 130
SARA HARKNESS AND CHARLES M. SUPER
9 Methods to Inform Public Problems: Toward an Ecocultural
Framing of Poverty 157
EDWARD D. LOWE
PART FOUR Mixed Methods and Collaborative Research 183
10 Collaborative Research on Emergent Literacy: Capturing
Complex Mixed Methods Data and Tools for Their
Integration and Analysis 185
ELI LIEBER
11 Lessons Learned from Parents of Adults with Autism in India 210
TAMARA C. DALEY
12 What Makes for the Best Clinical Care? Using Trigger Films to
Explore Better Integration of Guidelines and Experience 230
M. CAMERON HAY, THOMAS S. WEISNER,
AND SASKIA K. SUBRAMANIAN
PART FIVE Mixed Methods and the Insights of 247
Longitudinal Research
13 How Siblings Matter in Zinacantec Maya Child Development 249
ASHLEY E. MAYNARD
14 Why Mixed Methods Matter in Understanding Neighborhood
Context and Child Maltreatment 268
JILL E. KORBIN
15 Multiple Marginality: A Comparative Framework for
Understanding Gangs 284
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 306
LUCINDA P. BERNHEIMER, RONALD GALLIMORE,
AND BARBARA K. KEOGH
PART SIX Mixed Methods for Intervention and 327
Policy-D riven Research
17 Mixed Methods in the Science of Understanding Antipoverty
Policies for Families with Children: Four Case Studies 329
ALETHA C. HUSTON, GREG J. DUNCAN,
AND HIROKAZU YOSHIKAWA
18 Styles of Mothering, Methods of Engagement: Bridging
Anthropology, Psychology, and Education to Inform Policy 353
CAROLYN POPE EDWARDS
19 Intervention Research with Clients of Transgender Sex Workers:
Finding Methods That Work with a Virtual Community 374
BRIAN L. WILCOX
PART SEVEN Why Mixed Methods? 391
20 Findings That Matter: A Commentary 393
THOMAS S. WEISNER
Contributors 409 Index 421