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Five contributions offer social workers, researchers, and graduate students methodologies and practical techniques for researching topics related to ethnic and racial minorities, elders, women, and gay and bisexual men. Simultaneously co-published as Journal of Social Service Research, v.23, nos.3/4 1998. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland

Learn the latest and most effective strategies and ideas so you can accurately research oppressed and minority populations!

Social Work with Minority and Oppressed Populations: Methodological Issues and Innovations provides social workers, social work researchers, and graduate students with new methodologies for researching topics related to minority and oppressed populations. You will learn how to conduct research with such special populations as ethnic and racial minorities, elders, women, and gay and bisexual men utilizing proven techniques that will yield more precise data and...

Social work researchers often conduct research with groups that are diverse in terms of gender, sexual orientation, race or ethnic background, or age. Consequently, social work researchers must take great care to establish research-design equivalence at all phases of the research process (e.g., problem formulation, research design, sampling, measurement selection, data collection, and data analysis); otherwise, the results might reflect methodological flaws rather than true group differences and therefore lead to erroneous conclusions. This book introduces the methodological precautions that...