Social Research Methods: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches

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SAGE, 2000 - Reference - 659 pages

At last, a social research methods text for students and future researchers who will need to use both words and numbers in their research. Using actual examples from psychology, sociology, anthropology, health, and education, the book provides readers with both a conceptual understanding of each technique as well as showing them how to use the technique.

H. Russell Bernard, author of the best-selling textbook "Research Methods in Anthropology" and a world figure in the social sciences, brings to the researcher and the student the excitement of the research act as never before.

 

Contents

About Social Science
3
The Norms of Science
10
The Vienna Circle
17
The Foundations of Social Research
29
Preparing for Research
65
Experiments and Experimental Thinking
103
Sampling
143
34
164
Direct and Indirect Observation
375
59
390
Introduction to Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis
417
Text Analysis
437
Models and Matrices
473
Univariate Analysis
501
63
506
65
513

46
172
PART III
187
Unstructured and Semistructured
189
Structured Interviewing
227
Scales and Scaling
285
Participant Observation
317
53
318
57
363
Testing Relations
545
Multivariate Analysis
613
Table of Random Numbers
A-1
Students t Distribution
A-7
Resources for Research
A-14
220
R-21
About the Author
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