Basics of Social Research, Pearson New International Edition, 3rd edition

Published by Pearson (August 27, 2013) © 2014

  • W Lawrence Neuman University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
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Preparing students to do research and understand what research can do.

Basics of Social Research helps students understand what research can and cannot do, become better consumers of research, and learn why properly conducted research is important.

This text teaches students to be better consumers of research results and understand how the research enterprise works, preparing them to conduct small research projects. Upon completing this text, students will gain an awareness of the capabilities and restrictions of research, and learn why properly conducted research is important. Using clear, accessible language and examples from real research, this text discusses both qualitative and quantitative approaches to social research, emphasizing the benefits of combining various approaches.

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  • Part I: Foundations
  • Chapter 1: Doing Social Research  
  • Chapter 2: Theory and Social Research  
  • Chapter 3: Ethics in Social Research  
  • Chapter 4: Reviewing the Scholarly Literature and Planning a Study  
  • Chapter 5: Qualitative and Quantitative Measurement  
  • Chapter 6: Qualitative and Quantitative Sampling  
  • Part II: Conducting Quantitative Research  
  • Chapter 7: Survey Research  
  • Chapter 8: Experimental Research  
  • Chapter 9: Nonreactive Research and Secondary Analysis   
  • Chapter 10: Analysis of Quantitative Data  
  • Part III: Conducting Qualitative Research
  • Chapter 11: Field Research and Focus Group Research  
  • Chapter 12: Historical-Comparative Research  
  • Chapter 13: Analysis of Qualitative Data  
  • Part IV: Research Reports
  • Chapter 14: Writing the Research Report  

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