 Essentials of Research Methods: A Guide to Social Science Research
ISBN: 978-0-631-23048-9
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256 pages
September 2004, Wiley-Blackwell
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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
