The practice of social research /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Babbie, Earl R.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boston : Cengage Learning, [2016].
Edition:	Fourteenth edition.
Subjects:	Social sciences > Research. Social sciences > Methodology.

Table of Contents:

An introduction to inquiry: Human inquiry and science ; Paradigms, theory, and social research ; The ethics and politics of social research
The structuring of inquiry : quantitative and qualitative: Research design ; Conceptualization, operationalization, and measurement ; Indexes, scales, and typologies ; The logic of sampling
Modes of operation : quantitative and qualitative: Experiments ; Survey research ; Qualitative field research ; Unobtrusive research ; Evaluation research
Analysis of data : quantitative and qualitative: Qualitative data analysis ; Quantitative data analysis ; The logic of multivariate analysis ; Statistical analyses ; Reading and writing social research.