Essentials Research Methods
Autor Ruaneen Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 aug 2004
Written by an expert of research methods teaching, this book takes extraordinary care to focus the reader on experiences in his or her everyday life as a way of understanding and performing research methods.
- Introduces students to research methods with clear, concise, and accessible prose.
- Focuses the reader on everyday life as a way to understand research methods.
- Covers ethics, data gathering and analysis, and statistics.
- Includes further reading lists, graphs, exercises, study questions, a glossary, and an annotated list of web resources.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780631230496
ISBN-10: 0631230491
Pagini: 252
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Wiley
Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0631230491
Pagini: 252
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Wiley
Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom
Public țintă
undergraduate students taking general research methods courses primarily in departments of sociology, with additional interest to psychology, economics, nursing and health studies, criminology, social work and education departmentsNotă biografică
Janet M. Ruane is Associate Professor of Sociology at Montclair State University. She is co-author of Second Thoughts: Seeing Conventional Wisdom Through the Sociological Eye (with Karen Cerulo, third edition, 2004). She has taught research methods to undergraduates for more than fifteen years.
Cuprins
List of Figures and Tables.
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
1. When Should We Trust What We Know? Why Research Methods?.
2. Ethics: It's the Right Thing To Do.
3. Some Perfectly Valid Points: Measurement, Internal, and External Validity.
4. Measure By Measure-Making the Abstract Concrete.
5. If It Glitters Is It Gold? Assessing Measures.
6. One Thing Leads to Another: Causal Analysis.
7. Designing Ideas: Research Strategies.
8. An Informative Few:Sampling.
9. Our Inquisitive Nature: The Questionnaire.
10. Talking Heads: The Interview.
11. Watch and Learn: Field Research.
12. Getting Organized: Descriptive Statistics.
13. Beyond Description: Inferential Statistics.
References.
Web Resources.
Index
Acknowledgements.
1. When Should We Trust What We Know? Why Research Methods?.
2. Ethics: It's the Right Thing To Do.
3. Some Perfectly Valid Points: Measurement, Internal, and External Validity.
4. Measure By Measure-Making the Abstract Concrete.
5. If It Glitters Is It Gold? Assessing Measures.
6. One Thing Leads to Another: Causal Analysis.
7. Designing Ideas: Research Strategies.
8. An Informative Few:Sampling.
9. Our Inquisitive Nature: The Questionnaire.
10. Talking Heads: The Interview.
11. Watch and Learn: Field Research.
12. Getting Organized: Descriptive Statistics.
13. Beyond Description: Inferential Statistics.
References.
Web Resources.
Index