| Description |
xv, 345 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Abduction and Retroduction -- Action Research -- A Case Study -- Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) -- Attitudes -- Biographical Method -- CAPI (Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing) -- Case Study -- Causation -- Central Tendency -- Child Research -- Comparative Analysis -- Computer Simulation of Social Processes -- Constructionism, Social -- Content Analysis -- Contingency Tables -- Conversation Analysis -- Correlation and Regression -- Critical Theory -- Cultural Analysis -- Data Archives -- Deduction -- Diaries, Self-Completion -- Discourse Analysis -- Dispersion and the Normal Distribution -- Documentary Sources -- Ecological Fallacy -- E-Mail as a Research Tool -- Empiricism, Abstracted Empiricism -- Epistemology -- Ethics -- Ethnography -- Ethnomethodology -- Exploratory Data Analysis -- Factor Analysis -- Feminist Epistemology -- Feminist Methodology -- Focus Groups -- Gender Identity Dysphoria Assessment -- Generalization -- Geographic Information Systems (GIS) -- Grounded Theory -- Hawthorne Effect -- Hermeneutics -- Historical Methods -- Hypothesis Testing -- Ideal Type -- Impact Assessment -- Induction -- Intellectual Property Rights -- Internet -- Interpretation -- Interviews -- Literature Searching -- Loglinear Analysis -- Longitudinal Research -- Measurement, Level of -- Meaning -- Methodology -- ̀Micro' Sampling Techniques -- Modernity -- Multilevel Models -- Narrative Approach -- Naturalism -- Observation, Overt and Covert -- Online Methods -- Paradigm -- Participant Observation -- Participatory Action Research -- Phenomenology -- Philosophy of Social Research -- Policy Research -- Positivism -- Qualitative Research -- Qualitative Research Data, Archiving -- Queer Research -- Questionnaire and Structured Interview Schedule Design -- Questionnaires and Structured Interview Schedules -- Realism -- Reflexivity -- Research Design -- Sampling, Probability -- Sampling, Quota -- Sampling, Snowball -- Assessing Hidden and Hard-to-Reach Populations -- Secondary Analysis Qualitative -- Secondary Data Analysis -- Sensitive Research -- Sex Surveys -- Social Fact -- Social Indicators -- Social Statistics -- Social Survey -- Standardisation -- Statistical Interaction -- Structuralism//Poststructuralism -- Systematic Review -- Telephone Methods for Social Surveys -- Theory -- Triangulation -- Unobtrusive Measures -- Verbal Protocol Analysis -- /f003Verstehen -- Vignette -- Visual Research Methods |
| Summary |
"The A-Z is a collection of 94 entries ranging from qualitative research techniques to statistical testing and the practicalities of using the Internet as a research tool. Alphabetically arranged in accessible, reader-friendly formats, the shortest entries are 800 words long and the longest are 3000. Most entries are approximately 1500 words in length and are supported by suggestions for further reading."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Also available online |
| Subject |
Sociology -- Methodology -- Dictionaries.
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Sociology -- Philosophy -- Dictionaries.
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Sociology -- Research -- Dictionaries.
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Social sciences -- Research -- Dictionaries.
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Social sciences -- Research.
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Research -- methods [MESH]
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Social Sciences [MESH]
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Social Sciences.
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Research.
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| Genre/Form |
Dictionary.
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| Author |
Brewer, John D.
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Miller, Robert L.
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| LC no. |
2002116681 |
| ISBN |
0761971327 |
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0761971335 paperback |
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