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It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide in  \nOxford New York  \nAuckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto  \nWith offices in  \nArgentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries  \nPublished in the United States by Oxford University Press Inc., New York © Alan Bryman 2012  \nThe moral rights of the author have been asserted Database right Oxford University Press (maker)  \nFirst edition 2001  \nSecond edition 2004  \nThird edition 2008  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press,  \nor as expressly permitted by law, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above  \nYou must not circulate this book in any other binding or cover and you must impose the same condition on any acquirer  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Library of Congress Control Number: 2011938966 Typeset by Graphicraft Limited, Hong Kong Printed and bound in China  \nby C&C Offset Printing Co. Ltd ISBN 978–0–19–958805–3  \n10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1  \nFor Sophie and Daniel  \nThis page intentionally left blank  \nAcknowledgements  \nMany people have helped me with this book, many of them unwittingly. Generations of research methods students at Loughborough University and the University of Leicester have plied me with ideas through their questioning of what I have said to them. I wish to thank several people at or connected with OUP: Tim Barton for suggesting to me in the first place that I might like to think about writing a book like this; Angela Griffin for her editorial help during the passage of the first edition of this book; Patrick Brindle and Katie Allan for their help and suggestions during the preparation of this revised edition; Angela Adams for her constant support and encouragement with the revised and third edition; Kirsty Reade for copious support and suggestions in the course of preparing the fourth edition; Hilary Walford for her attention to detail when copy-editing the typescript; Philippa Hendry for steering the production of the book; and Sarah Brett and Lucy Hyde for help with earlier editions. I also wish to thank Alan Beardsworth for his helpful and always constructive comments on drafts of the first edition of the book and Michael Billig for valuable comments on part of the first edition. I would like to say a big thankyou to Emma Bell who worked with me on the first, revised, and third editions ofthe business school adaptation of this book, Business Research Methods. Many of the changes that have been incorporated in the present  \nedition were developed in conjunction with her. I also wish to thank Alan Radley, Darrin Hodgetts, and Andrea Cullen for their permission to include two photographs from their study of images of homelessness and to Sarah Pink for her permission to use an image from her research on women and bullfighting. I also wish to thank the Nottingham Evening Post for their kind permission to reproduce two newspaper articles in Chapter 13. 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