Approaches to Social Research - Rilegato

Singleton, Royce

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 019504469X ISBN 13: 9780195044690

Casa editrice: Oxford Univ Pr, 1988

Riassunto

Striking a balance between specific techniques and the underlying logic of social scientific inquiry, this book provides a valuable introduction to social research methods. After an introductory section that places social research in the context of science and logical reasoning, the book follows the sequence of a typical research project, beginning with research design, proceeding to data collection, and then to data interpretation. The authors focus on four major approaches to research--experimentation, survey research, field research, and the use of available data--illustrating their discussion with numerous case studies and examples drawn from sociology, social psychology, demography, history, education, and political science. While advocating a multiple-methods strategy that treats the approaches as complementary, the authors provide a detailed account of the advantages and disadvantages, as well as the actual process, of carrying out research with each approach. Sophisticated enough to make social science students become intelligent consumers of research evidence, this lucidly written survey is also entirely accessible to those with very little knowledge of the field.

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Book by Singleton Royce etc Straits Bruce Straits Margaret

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• Editore: Oxford Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1988
• ISBN 10: 019504469X
• ISBN 13: 9780195044690
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 560