Essentials of Research Methods: A Guide to Social Science Research

Ruane, Janet M.

ISBN 10: 0631230483 / ISBN 13: 9780631230489

Editore: Wiley-Blackwell, 2004

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Riassunto:

Essentials of Research Methods is a concise and accessible introduction to research methods in the social sciences.

Written by an expert of research methods teaching, this book takes extraordinary care to focus the reader on experiences in his or her everyday life as a way of understanding and performing research methods.

• Introduces students to research methods with clear, concise, and accessible prose.
• Focuses the reader on everyday life as a way to understand research methods.
• Covers ethics, data gathering and analysis, and statistics.
• Includes further reading lists, graphs, exercises, study questions, a glossary, and an annotated list of web resources.

Informazioni sull?autore: Janet M. Ruane is Associate Professor of Sociology at Montclair State University. She is co-author of Second Thoughts: Seeing Conventional Wisdom Through the Sociological Eye (with Karen Cerulo, third edition, 2004). She has taught research methods to undergraduates for more than fifteen years.

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Titolo: Essentials of Research Methods: A Guide to ...
Casa editrice: Wiley-Blackwell
Data di pubblicazione: 2004
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