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The practice of social research /

by Babbie, Earl R [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Boston, MA : Cengage Learning, [2016]Edition: Fourteenth edition.Description: xxiv, 566 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.ISBN: 1305104943 (hardcover); 9781305104945 (hardcover).Other title: Social research.Subject(s): Social sciences -- Research | Social sciences -- Methodology
Contents:
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.
List(s) this item appears in: SWBC206 - Social Research Methods
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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.

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