Social Research Methods

Now in its fourth edition, this market-leading textbook continues to provide students with an excellent explanation and demonstration of the main theories and techniques in social research methods.

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PART ONE; 1. The nature and process of social research; 2. Social research strategies; 3. Research designs; 4. Planning a research project and formulating research questions; 5. Getting started: Reviewing the literature; 6. Ethics and politics in social research; PART TWO; 7. The nature of quantitative research; 8. Sampling; 9. Structured interviewing; 10. Self-completion questionnaires; 11. Asking questions; 12. Structured observation; 13. Content analysis; 14. Secondary analysis and official statistics; 15. Quantitative data analysis; 16. Using SPSS for Windows; PART THREE; 17. The nature of qualitative research; 18. Sampling in qualitative research; 19. Ethnography and participant observation; 20. Interviewing in qualitative research; 21. Focus groups; 22. Language in qualitative research; 23. Documents as sources of data; 24. Qualitative data analysis; 25. Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis: using NVivo; PART FOUR; 26. Breaking down the quantitative/qualitative divide; 27. Mixed methods research: combining quantitative and qualitative research; 28. E-research: Internet research methods; 29. Writing up social research

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