Basics of Social Research, Canadian Edition, 5th edition

Basics of Social Research aims to make social research methodology easy to understand and accessible but it also aims to show students that proper research is a serious activity, and often how well a study was conducted can have real consequences. An underlying goal of this text is to show how social research has very real applications in real life.

Basics of Social Research introduces students to social research and presents “what researchers do and why” in a non-threatening manner that captures both the excitement and the importance of doing real research. A course in social research methodology differs from most other social science courses in that it prepares students to think more systematically about content and also reveals how content findings are created. That is, social research methods teaches students how the knowledge in social sciences comes into being.