Social Research Methods : Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches
ISBN: 9781412978545 | 1412978548
Edition: 2ndFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
Pub. Date: 3/2/2012
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This book explains and demonstrates to students when to use and how to apply the quantitative and qualitative techniques that they'll need to do their own social research. Using actual examples from psychology, sociology, anthropology, health and education, the book provides readers with both a conceptual understanding of each technique as well as showing them how to use it.
Using actual examples from across the social sciences the Second Edition provides readers with both a conceptual understanding of each method ... MORE
Using actual examples from across the social sciences the Second Edition provides readers with both a conceptual understanding of each method ... MORE
| About Social Science | |
| The Foundations of Social Research | |
| Preparing for Research | |
| Research Design: Experiments and Experimental Thinking | |
| Sampling: The Basics | |
| Sampling Theory | |
| Nonprobability Sampling | |
| Interviewing I: Unstructured and Semistructured | |
| Interviewing II: Questionnaires | |
| Interviewing III: Relation... MORE | |
| Scales and Scaling | |
| Participant Observation | |
| Field Notes and Database Management | |
| Direct and Indirect Observation | |
| Introduction to Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis | |
| Analyzing Cultural Domains and Proximity Matrices | |
| Analyzing Qualitative Data I: Applying Logic to Text | |
| Analyzing Qualitative Data II: Grammar Beyond the Sentence | |
| Analyzing Qualitative Data III: Grounded Theory and Content Analysis | |
| Univariate Analysis | |
| Bivariate Analysis: Testing Relations | |
| Multivariate Analysis | |
| Table of Areas under a Normal Curve | |
| StudentâÇÖs t Distribution | |
| Chi-Square Distribution Table | |
| F Table for the .05 Level of Significance | |
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