The Practice Of Social Research
ISBN: 9780495093251 | 0495093254
Edition: 11thFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 2/1/2006
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This thorough revision of Babbie's standard-setting book for the course (known as the "Bible of social research methods") offers students a comprehensive, straightforward introduction to the field of research methods as practiced by sociologists and other social scientists. Emphasizing the importance of the research process, the book shows students how social scientists design research studies, introduces the variety of observation modes used by sociologists, and covers the "how-to's" and "whys" of social research methods. Students learn how to... MORE
| An Introduction To Inquiry | |
| Human Inquiry and Science | |
| Paradigms, Theory and Social Research | |
| The Ethics and Politics of Social Research | |
| The Structuring of Inquiry | |
| Research Design | |
| Conceptualization, Operationalization and Measurement | |
| Indexes, Scales, and Typologies | |
| The Logic of Sampling | |
| Modes of Observa... MORE | |
| Experiments | |
| Survey Research | |
| Qualitative Field Research | |
| Unobtrusive Research | |
| Evaluation Research | |
| Analysis of Data | |
| Qualitative Data Analysis | |
| Quantitative Data Analysis | |
| The Elaboration Model | |
| Statistical Analyses | |
| Reading and Writing Social Research | |
| Using the Library | |
| GSS Household Enumeration Questionnaire | |
| Random Numbers | |
| Distribution of Chi Square | |
| Normal Curve Areas | |
| Estimated Sampling Error | |
| Twenty Questions a Journalist Should Ask about Poll Results | |
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