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Babbie, Earl R.

The practice of social research / Social research Earl Babbie, Chapman University. - Fourteenth edition. - Boston, MA : Cengage Learning, [2016] - xxiv, 566 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.

Previous edition: 2013.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 535-548) and index.

An introduction to inquiry: Human inquiry and science ; Paradigms, theory, and social research ; The ethics and politics of social research -- The structuring of inquiry : quantitative and qualitative: Research design ; Conceptualization, operationalization, and measurement ; Indexes, scales, and typologies ; The logic of sampling -- Modes of operation : quantitative and qualitative: Experiments ; Survey research ; Qualitative field research ; Unobtrusive research ; Evaluation research -- Analysis of data : quantitative and qualitative: Qualitative data analysis ; Quantitative data analysis ; The logic of multivariate analysis ; Statistical analyses ; Reading and writing social research.

ISBN: 1305104943 (hardcover) 9781305104945 (hardcover)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Social sciences--Research.
Social sciences--Methodology.

LC Class. No.: H62 / B22 2016