Designing Social Research: The Logic of Anticipation

ISBN-13: 9781509517404 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 312 str.

Norman Blaikie; Jan Priest

Opis

Designing Social Research is a uniquely comprehensive, systematic and student–friendly guide to the core knowledge and types of skills required for planning social research.

Recenzje

'A masterclass in the logic of anticipation when designing social research. Blaikie and Priest explain the choices to be made - and, oh so important, why those decisions need thoughtful planning in advance. I can't recommend it enough.'Rosalind Edwards, University of Southampton, Co-director of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods'This book reviews the key principles of research design and strategy in ways that blend theoretical sophistication with practical strategic advice: a winning formula. If you produce your research design using this book, and if you really engage with the key issues that Blaikie and Priest write so authoritatively about, you can't go wrong.'Jennifer Mason, University of Manchester

Spis treści

• Introduction
• 1 About the book
• 2 Preparing Research Designs
• 3 Four Research Design Tasks
• 4 Research Ethics
• Part 1: Focussing
• 5 Research Questions and Purposes
• Part 2: Framing
• 6 Logics for Answering Research Questions
• Part 3: Selecting
• 7 Concepts, Theories, Hypotheses and Models
• 8 Types, Forms, Sources and Selection of Data
• Part 4: Distilling
• 9 Methods for Answering Research Questions: Data Gathering, Generation, Reduction and Analysis
• Researching Networked Worlds
• 10 Design Considerations
• 11 Ethics Considerations
• Illustrations
• 12 Sample Research Designs
• Postscript

O autorze

Norman Blaikie is former Professor of Sociology at RMIT University Melbourne, and University of Science, Malaysia.Jan Priest is former Adjunct Professor at RMIT University Melbourne, and a past Director of research and performance services at InfoServ Pty Ltd.