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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: practice of social research
  name:
    name part: Babbie, Earl R.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2010
    edition: 12th ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxiv, 530 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: This is a comprehensive, straightforward introduction to the field of research as practiced by social scientists. This best-selling book emphasizes the research process by demonstrating how to design research studies, introducing the various observation modes in use today, and answering questions about research methods--such as how to conduct online surveys, and analyze both qualitative and quantitative data. The practice of social research provides all the tools researchers and consumers need to apply social research.
  table of contents: Pt. 1. Introduction to inquiry. Human inquiry and science ; Paradigms, theory, and social research ; The ethics and politics of social research -- Pt. 2. The structuring of inquiry : quantitative and qualitative. Research design ; Conceptualization, operationalization, and measurement ; Indexes, scales, and typologies ; The logic of sampling -- Pt. 3. Modes of operation : quantitative and qualitative. Experiments ; Survey research ; Qualitative field research ; Unobtrusive research ; Evaluation research -- Pt. 4. Analysis of data : quantitative and qualitative. Qualitative data analysis ; Quantitative data analysis ; The elaboration model ; Statistical analyses ; Reading and writing social research -- Appendixes. Using the library ; GSS household enumeration questionnaire ; Random numbers ; Distribution of chi square ; Normal curve areas ; Estimated sampling error ; Twenty questions a jounalist should ask about poll results.
  note: Earl Babbie.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
    topic: Research
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
    topic: Methodology
  classification: H62 .B2 2010
  classification: 300.72
  identifier: 9780495598411
  identifier: 0495598410
  identifier: 2008933881
  record info:
    record content source: CUI
    record creation date: 090325
    record change date: 20201027083253.0
    record identifier: in00002418663