Social research methods
Bryman, Alan
Social research methods - 3rd ed. - Oxford Oxford University Press 2008 - xlii, 748 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm. (pbk)
9780199202959 (pbk.) : Formerly CIP. Text accompanied by a companion web site. Social research strategies -- Research designs -- Planning a research project and formulating research questions -- Getting started : reviewing the literature -- Ethics and politics in social research -- The nature of quantitative research -- Sampling -- Structured interviewing -- Self-completion questionnaires -- Asking questions -- Structured observation -- Content analysis -- Secondary analysis and official statistics -- Quantitative data analysis -- Using SPSS for windows -- The nature of qualitative research -- Ethnography and participant observation -- Interviewing in qualitative research -- Focus groups -- Language in qualitative research -- Documents as sources of data -- Qualitative data analysis -- Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis : using NVivo -- Breaking down the quantitative/qualitative divide -- Mixed methods research : combining quantitative and qualitative research -- E-research : using the internet as object and method of data collection -- Writing up social research.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [700]-725) and indexes.
0199202958 29.99
Research
Social sciences-Research
Social sciences-Methodology
Health Professions
W 20.5
Social research methods - 3rd ed. - Oxford Oxford University Press 2008 - xlii, 748 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm. (pbk)
9780199202959 (pbk.) : Formerly CIP. Text accompanied by a companion web site. Social research strategies -- Research designs -- Planning a research project and formulating research questions -- Getting started : reviewing the literature -- Ethics and politics in social research -- The nature of quantitative research -- Sampling -- Structured interviewing -- Self-completion questionnaires -- Asking questions -- Structured observation -- Content analysis -- Secondary analysis and official statistics -- Quantitative data analysis -- Using SPSS for windows -- The nature of qualitative research -- Ethnography and participant observation -- Interviewing in qualitative research -- Focus groups -- Language in qualitative research -- Documents as sources of data -- Qualitative data analysis -- Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis : using NVivo -- Breaking down the quantitative/qualitative divide -- Mixed methods research : combining quantitative and qualitative research -- E-research : using the internet as object and method of data collection -- Writing up social research.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [700]-725) and indexes.
0199202958 29.99
Research
Social sciences-Research
Social sciences-Methodology
Health Professions
W 20.5