Anthropology and the social sciences The foundations of social research Preparing for research The literature search Research design : experiments and experimental thinking Sampling Sampling theory Nonprobability sampling and choosing informants Interviewing : unstructured and semistructured Structured interviewing I : questionnaires Structured interviewing II : cultural domain analysis Scales and scaling Participant observation Field notes : how to take them, code them, manage them Direct and indirect observation Introduction to qualitative and quantitative analysis Qualitative data analysis I : text analysis Qualitative data analysis II : models and matrices Univariate analysis Bivariate analysis : testing relations Multivariate analysis