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The practice of social research

Author: Earl R Babbie
Publisher: Belmont, CA : Wadsworth Cengage Learning, ©2013.
Edition/Format:  Print book : English : 13th edView all editions and formats
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A straightforward, comprehensive, and approachable guide to research as practiced by social scientists, the Thirteenth Edition of Babbie's "gold-standard" text gives you the tools you need to apply research concepts practically, as both a researcher and a consumer. Babbie emphasizes the process by showing you how to design and construct projects, introducing the various observation modes in use today, and answering  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Earl R Babbie
ISBN: 9781133049791 1133049796
OCLC Number: 774699583
Description: xxiii, 584 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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 --
Appendixes: A: Using the library ; B: GSS household enumeration questionnaire ; C: Random numbers ; D: Distribution of Chi square ; E: Normal curve areas ; F: Estimated sampling error.
Other Titles: Social research
Responsibility: Earl Babbie.
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A guide to research as practiced by social scientists. It gives you the tools you need to apply research concepts practically, as both a researcher and a consumer. It emphasizes the process by  Read more...

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PART I: AN INTRODUCTION TO INQUIRY. 1. Science and Social Research. 2. Social Inquiry: Ethics and Politics. 3. Inquiry, Theory, and Paradigms. PART II: THE STRUCTURING OF INQUIRY: QUANTITATIVE AND Read more...

 
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