The Social Science Jargon Buster

Zina O’Leary is an internationally recognized leader in research methodologies and has a keen interest in the application of research to evidence-based decision-making. Zina is an Adjunct Professor at the Joseph R. Biden Jr, School of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Delaware as well as a Senior ­Fellow at the Australia and New Zealand School of Government where she coordinates research and project units for their Executive Masters and Executive Education Programmes. Zina also has an extensive history as a consultant to both government and the private sector and was the research coordinator for the Centre for Environmental Health Development at the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre. She is the author of Researching Real World Problems, The Social Science Jargon Buster, Workplace Research and three books in Sage’s Little Quick Fix Series: Research Questions; Research Proposals; and Presenting Your Research.

• PrefaceAction ResearchAestheticsAgencyAlienationAnomieA posteriori / A priori AuthorityBehaviourism The BodyBureaucracy Capital CapitalismCausation Chaos theory ClassCognitive dissonance Collective Colonization CommodificationCommunism CommunityConflict theoryConservatism Critical / Radical Cultural Studies Culture DeconstructionDeductive/ Inductive reasoning DemocracyDeterminismDeveloped / Developing Countries Deviant behaviour Dialectic DichotomyDiscourse EgalitarianismEmpiricism EpistemologyEssentialism Ethics EthnocentricismEthnography EthnomethodologyExistentialism FascismFeminism Functionalism Fundamentalism Game theory GeneologyGlobalization Governance Grounded theory HegemonyHermeneuticsHistorical Materialism Historicism Human/social ecology Humanism Hybridity Hypothesis/ hypothetico-deductive method Id/ ego/ superego Idealism IdentityIdeology Imperialism Individualism Industrialisation Instrumentalism Justice Knowledge Labelling theoryLabourLeadership Liberalism MarginalizationMarxismMaterialismMcDonaldization Metanarrative MethodsMethodologyMicro/Macroeconmics Modernism/PostmodernismModernityMulticulturalism Nationalism NominalismNorms OntologyOther ParadigmPatriarchyPedagogy/Critical PedagogyPersonalityPhenomenologyPluralismPositivismPostmodernityPost Industrial Post PositivismPowerPragmatismPraxisPrejudice/DiscriminationProtestant ethic Qualitative/QuantitativeRationalismRealismReductionismReflexivityReificationRelativismResearch Credibility (positivist)Research Credibility (post-positivist)RevolutionRisk SocietyRole Scientific methodSecularisationSelfSemioticsSexualitySocial ChangeSocial ConstructionismSocial ControlSocial DarwinismSocial MobilitySocial MovementsSocial Science Research Social StratificationSocialismSocializationSocietySociobiologySocioeconomic status SociolinguisticsSolidarity(The) StateStructuralism/ Post-structuralism SubjectSubjectivismSymbolic InteractionismSystems theory TechnologyTeleology Theory/ Social TheoryTotalitarianismUrbanizationUtilitarianism BIBLIOGRAPHY/ READING LIST

`This book successfully addresses the central task for any teacher of social theory - how to make the material accessible without making it simplistic and banal′ - Dave Harris, Senior Lecturer in Social Science