| Description |
xxiii, 528 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Part One -- The Foundations of Social Research -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Varieties of Social Research -- Chapter 2 Science and Theory in Social Research -- Part Two -- The Design of Social Research -- Chapter 3 Defining, Designing, and Developing a Research Project -- Chapter 4 Operationalization and Measurement: From Concepts to Variables -- Chapter 5 Sampling -- Part Three -- The Methods of Social Research -- Chapter 6 Experimental Research -- Chapter 7 Survey Research, Interviewing Techniques and Focus Groups -- Chapter 8 Field Research and Observational Studies -- Chapter 9 Methods of Analyzing Available Data -- Chapter 10 Evaluation Research and Case Studies -- Part Four -- The Analysis of Social Research Data -- Chapter 11 Ways of Analyzing Quantitative Data -- Chapter 12 Univariate, Bivariate, Trivariate, and Multivariate Analyses -- Chapter 13 Statistics and Social Research -- Part Five -- Making Social Research Public -- Chapter 14 The Politics and Ethics of Social Research -- Chapter 15 Presenting the Research Results -- Appendix A: Using an Electronic Library for Social Research -- Appendix B: Table of Random Numbers and Chi-Square Distribution -- Appendix C: SPSS 95 for Windows: Generating the Tables for this Text -- References -- Glossary -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-494) and index |
| Subject |
Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology.
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| LC no. |
98003563 |
| ISBN |
0070060029 |
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0071160922 (paperbackInternational edition) |
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