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Investigating the social world : the process and practice of research /

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The Tenth Edition of the bestselling Investigating the Social World provides students with the critical skills necessary to evaluate research. Each chapter integrates instruction in the various core research methods with investigation of interesting aspects of our social world. The book has always s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schutt, Russell K. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications, [2022].
Edition:Tenth edition.
Subjects:
Social problems > Research.
Social sciences > Research.
Table of Contents:
  • Science, society, and social research
  • The process and problems of social research
  • Research ethics and research proposals
  • Conceptualization and measurement
  • Sampling and generalizability
  • Research design and causation
  • Experiments
  • Survey research
  • Quantitative data analysis
  • Qualitative methods
  • Qualitative data analysis
  • Mixed methods
  • Evaluation and policy research
  • Research using secondary data and “big” data
  • Research using historical and comparative data and content analysis
  • Summarizing and reporting research.