The Limitations of Social Research

ISBN-13: 9780582311039 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 184 str.

M. D. Shipman; Marten Shipman

Opis

This series examines the history, aims, techniques and limitations of social research, providing guidelines on how to assess what affects our daily lives. Revised to take account of developments in research methodology and applications, this edition includes a chapter on designing research.

Spis treści

Introduction. Part One: Approaches to Social Research
1. Social research
Controversy 1: Can there be Objectivity in Social Research?
2. Scientific social research
Controversy 2: Macho, Mourner, Freedom-Fighter or Thug?
3. Interpretative social research Part Two: Techniques for Collecting Information
Controversy 3: The Choices within Research Design
4. Samples, cases and response
Controversy 4: What Really went on under the Banyan Trees?
5. Observation
Controversy 5: The Never-ending Nature-Nurture Debate
6. Questions
Controversy 6: Class Size in Primary Schools
7. Variations on the experiment
Controversy 7: Burt Rumbles on
8. Reinforcing the evidence; Part Three: Personal, Professional and Political Influences
Controversy 8: Suffer the Little Children
9. The author in time and place
Controversy 9: The Publication of Piaget
10. The publication of research
Controversy 10: The Effectiveness of Schools
11. The limitations and scope of social research; References.
Index.

O autorze

M. D. Shipman