Evaluating Social Science Research

Häftad, Engelska, 1996

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Beskrivning

New for the Second Edition: L The second edition includes a thorough updating of the text, the addition of new sample articles to replace the six original ones, and discussions of new quasi-experimantal research methods, mutivariate analysis, and meta-analysis. Evaluating Social Science Research addresses the perennial need of students and all citizens to develop critical thinking skills, training them to be intelligent consumers of social science research. The authors show how knowing how to make critical, independent judgements of scientific claims is an important skill of living in a world where scientific claims are used increasingly to influence personal and political behaviour. The changes in this second edition reflect developments in the last 15 years of social science research, both in methods and perspectives.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1996-04-04
Vikt:430 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:304
Upplaga:2
Förlag:Oxford University Press Inc
ISBN:9780195079708

Utforska kategorier

Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Recensioner i media

provides useful examples of unsubstantiated research findings ... Readers can work on exercises designed to establish rules for distinguishing between valid and invalid evidence and actual journal articles are reproduced for analysis. Aslib Book Guide, vol. 62, no. 1, January 1997

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction 1: Scientific and Nonscientific Statements of Fact 2: Methods of Gathering Scientific Evidence 3: Evaluating Scientific Evidence: What Conclusions Follow from the Evidence 4: Evaluating Scientific Evidence: in the Published Literature 5: Reviewing a Body of Literature: The Problem of Generalization Appendix: Asking Answerable Questions and Finding Scientific Evidence References Index