BIBLIOGRAPHY
Research Design

Design Overviews

• Dean, J. S., G. J. Gummerman, J. M. Epstein, R. L. Axtell, A. C. Swedlund, M. T. Parker, and S. McCarroll. 2000. "Understanding Anasazi culture change through agent-based modeling," in Dynamics in human and primate societies: Agent-based modeling of social and spatial processes. Edited by T. A. Kohler and G. J. Gummerman, pp. 179-205. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Brim, J. A., and D. H. Spain. 1974. Research design in anthropology: Paradigms and pragmatics in the testing of hypotheses. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
• Marianne W. Lewis and Andrew J. Grimes. Metatriangulation: Building Theory from Multiple Paradigms.  The Academy of Management Review, Vol. 24, No. 4 (Oct., 1999), pp. 672-690 [^pdf]
• Johnson, J. C. 1998. "Research design and research strategies," in Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology. Edited by H. R. Bernard, pp. 131-171. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira.

Experiments

• Shadish, W. R., T. D. Cook, and D. T. Campbell. 2002. Ch. 1 (p. 1-32), "Experiments and generalized causal inference," Experimental and quasi-experimental designs for generalized causal inference. New York: Houghton Mifflin Co.
• Campbell, D. T., and J. C. Stanley. 1966. Experimental and quasi-experimental designs for research. Chicago: Rand McNally College Publishing Company.

Simulation

• http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=12169&page=R1
• Richard M. Burton, “Computational Laboratories for Organization Science: Questions, Validity and Docking,” Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 2003, Volume 9, No. 2, pp. 91 - 108.

Alternative

• Aunger, R. 2004. Chapter 5 (p. 94-115), "Reflexive realism: A new way of doing ethnography,"Reflexive ethnographic science. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.

Classics

• Emile Durkheim. Suicide.

Questionable Research

• Reynolds, P.C. (1991). Stealing Fire:  The Atomic Bomb as Symbolic Body. Palo Alto, CA: Iconic  Anthropology Press.
  • chapter: "Galileo" [pdf]
  • chapter: "Bloody Stumps" [pdf]

Ethics

• Borgatti, S.P. and Molina, J-L. 2003. Ethical and strategic issues in organizational network analysis. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science. 39(3): 337-350. [pdf]

Exemplars of four kinds of studies (courtesy of Martina Morris)

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