Understanding and Doing Successful Research: Data Collection and Analysis for the Social Sciences

ISBN-13: 9781408229224 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 344 str.

Shaun Best

Opis

'Research Methods' is a guide to carrying out a research project. Each of the focused chapters introduces and explains an aspect of social research to readers who may have no experience or knowledge of this subject.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Getting Started
Chapter 2: The Ethics of Social Research
Chapter 3: Searching and reviewing the literature
Chapter 4: Secondary Analysis - research using other people’s data  
Chapter 5: Interviews
Chapter 6: The Case Study
Chapter 7: Ethnographic Approaches
Chapter 8: Observation, Participant Observation and Observational Inference
Chapter 9: Biographical and Auto-Biographical Research
Chapter 10: Documentary and Narrative Analysis
Chapter 11: Measurement and Statistical Inference
Chapter 12: What is a sample survey?
Chapter 13: Mixed Methods Research
Chapter 14: Evaluation Research and Experiments
Chapter 15: Successfully completing the project

O autorze

Shaun Best