Understanding Research, 2nd edition

Published by Pearson (July 14, 2021) © 2022

  • W Lawrence Neuman University of Wisconsin, Whitewater

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Table of contents

1. Why Do Research?
2. Planning a Study
3. Becoming an Ethical Researcher
4. Sampling
5. Measuring Social Life
6. The Survey: Asking Questions
7. The Experiment
8. Research with Nonreactive Measures
9. Making Sense of the Numbers
10. Observing People in Natural Settings
11. Looking at the Past and Across Cultures
12. Writing a Research Report

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