Quantitative methods
Pedazur, E.J. & Schmelkin, L.P.: Measurement, Design and Analysis: An Integrated Approach, 1991. Hillsdale, New Jersey: Erlbaum. (Main textbook).
Shadish, W.R., Cook, T.D. & Campbell, D. T.: Experimental and quasi-experimental designs for generalized causal inference, 2002. (Recommended reading).
Qualitative methods
It is taken for granted that the students know the content discussed in the chapters 1-15 in Flick, U. (2002) from earlier studies or other activities. The chapters 16-22 are obligatory reading for this course. In addition the students should choose literature from the other sources here given to a total of 500 pages.
Flick, U.: An introduction to qualitative research. , 2002. London: Sage (main textbook).
Richardson, J.T. (Ed.).: Handbook of qualitative research methods for psychology and the social sciences, 1996. Oxford: British Psychological Society and Blackwell.
Camic, P.M., Rhodes, J.E. & Yardley, L. (Eds.): Qualitative research in psychology: Expanding perspectives in methodology and design, 2003. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Nafstad, H.E.: Assumptions and values in the production of knowledge: Towards an area ethics in of psychology and the social sciences, (2005). In Robinson and Kataluski (eds.): Values in higher education. Leeds University Press.
Kvale, Steinar: InterViews, 1996. Sage Publications. Chapter 7 "The interview situation" & Chapter 11 "Methods of Analysis".
Kvale, Steinar: The psychoanalytic interview as inspiration for qualitative research, In Camic, P.M., Rhodes, J.E. & Yardley, L. (Eds.): Qualitative research in psychology: Expanding perspectives in methodology and design, 2003. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
N.K.Denzin and Y.S. Lincoln (eds.): Strategies of qualitative inquiry 2nd ed., 2003. Thousand Oaks, Sage Publications. Chapter 8, pp.249-291 K. Charmaz: Grounded Theory: Objectivist and constructivist methods.