Title Doing your own research / Eileen Kane & Mary O'Reilly-de Brún

Edition [Revised and updated edition] Published New York : Marion Boyars, 2001

Table of Contents
	Acknowledgements					vi
Part I.	Before You Begin
	1	The Book, the People, the Places				3
			Who Should Use This Book			4
			About the Book			5
			About the People and the Places in the Book			7
	2	Social Research: the Big Debate				12
			How Do We Know About the World?			14
			Is Social Science a Science?			21
			Where Does Theory Fit In?			23
Part II.	Getting Ready to Do Research
	3	What Will You Study?				31
			Finding Your Research Idea			32
			Clarifying the Goals and Purpose of Your Research			33
			Choosing Your Perspective			35
	4	Do You Want to Describe Something?				44
			Etic Approach			44
			Developing a Rough Research Idea and Refining It			45
			Creating a Research Statement or Hypothesis			46
			Identifying the Sub-topics for Study			48
			Putting the Outline in Perspective			53
			Making Decisions About Sources of Information			57
			Making Decisions About Information-Gathering Techniques			59
			Emic Approach			60
	5	Do You Want to Explain or Predict Something?				68
			Cause and Effect Studies			69
			Experimental Designs			71
			Causation			79
			Choosing Your Experimental Design			87
			Analytical Survey Designs			88
	6	Who Will be in Your Study?				94
			Probability Sampling			95
			Non-probability Sampling			99
			Sample Size			102
			Sampling and Non-sampling Errors			103
Part III.	Techniques and Strategies
	7	Choosing your techniques and strategies				107
			Your Research Strategy			107
			Your Research Techniques			111
			Style			120
			Working With 'Insiders' and Learning From Their Knowledge			124
			Ethics			124
	8	Getting Help From the Library and the Internet				128
			The Library			130
			The Internet			132
	9	Giving a Survey				149
			Surveys and Questionnaires			150
			Mini Surveys			154
			Postal Surveys and Drop-off Surveys			176
			Telephone Surveys			179
			Special Considerations for Non-Western Cultural Groups			180
			Looking Back at Our Interview			180
	10	Using Measures, Scales, and Indices				183
			Using Scales and Indices			183
			Some Warnings			185
			Types of Scales			187
	11	Interviewing People				198
			Introduction to Qualitative Techniques			198
			Unstructured or Informal Interviewing			199
			Cultural Bias			208
	12	Using Case Studies and Participant Observation				215
			Case Studies			215
			Participant Observation			217
	13	Trying Some Other Qualitative Approaches				228
			Story Completion or Sentence Completion Devices			228
			Pictures			229
			Games			230
			Traditional Stories			231
			Drawing			231
			Role-play and Figures			232
			Content Analysis			232
	14	Doing Participatory Research				236
			Rapid Rural Appraisal and Participatory Learning and Action			237
			Uses of RRA and PLA			239
			Comparisons With Conventional Methods			239
			Stages in an RRA Project			240
			Stages in a PLA Project			243
			Analyzing RRA and PLA findings			243
			A Sample PLA Project			243
			Advantages, Disadvantages, and Dangers of RRA and PLA			265
			The Philosophical and Ideological Foundations of RRA and PLA			266
			How You Can Use RRA and PRA as Part of a Larger Study			267
			PLA Sources and Contacts			267
	15	Organizing Your Qualitative Information				270
			Written Notes			270
			Tape Recording			281
			Video Recording			281
			Conclusion			282
Part IV.	Making Sense of Your Results
	16	Analyzing Your Qualitative Information				287
			Ways to Look at Your Material			288
			Stages of Data Analysis			290
			Computer Programs for Qualitative Analysis			308
			What Next?			308
	17	Quantitative Analysis				311
			Univariate Analysis: Frequency Distributions			313
			Bivariate Analysis: Association and Correlation			323
			Using Descriptive Statistics			333
			Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Data			335
	18	Sharing Your Findings				338
			Report, Talk, or Workshop?			339
			Length			340
			Balancing the Emphases in the Report			340
			Format			344
			Circulating the Study			349
			Using the Results			351
Appendix	Grid for Assessing a Problem					354
	Index					359

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Description vi, 364 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm Contents Pt. I. Before you Begin -- 1. The Book, the People, the Places -- 2. Social Research: the Big Debate -- Pt. II. Getting Ready to do Research -- 3. What Will You Study? -- 4. Do You Want to Describe Something? -- 5. Do You Want to Explain or Predict Something? -- 6. Who Will be in Your Study? -- Pt. III. Techniques and Strategies -- 7. Choosing your techniques and strategies -- 8. Getting Help From the Library and the Internet -- 9. Giving a Survey -- 10. Using Measures, Scales, and Indices -- 11. Interviewing People -- 12. Using Case Studies and Participant Observation -- 13. Trying Some Other Qualitative Approaches -- 14. Doing Participatory Research -- 15. Organizing Your Qualitative Information -- Pt. IV. Making Sense of Your Results -- 16. Analyzing Your Qualitative Information -- 17. Quantitative Analysis -- 18. Sharing Your Findings Notes Previous ed.: 1997 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Humanities -- Research. Social sciences -- Research. Author Brún, Mary O'Reilly-de. LC no. 2001030574 ISBN 0714530433 paperback

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