Methods: Doing Social Research, 4th edition
ISBN-13: 9780131879256
4th edition
Published byPearson Canada (October 2nd 2006) - Copyright © 2007
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Overview
In this thoroughly updated new edition of one of the few Canadian research methods texts published for undergraduate courses, sufficient information is provided to give students an inclusive, generous view of the full range of social science approaches and research designs, both quantitative and qualitative.
Table of contents
CONTENTS
Part One: Preliminaries
Chapter 1 Approaches to Methods
Chapter 2 Explaining
Part Two: Alternate Research Design
Chapter 3 Experiments, Quasi-Experiments, and Field Observations
Chapter 4 Survey Designs
Chapter 5 Non-Reactive and Comparative Research
Chapter 6 Qualitative Research Methods
Chapter 7 Critical Approaches to Research: Action and Feminist Research
Part Three: Statistics
Chapter 8 A Statistics Primer
Chapter 9 Three Tests of Significance
Part Four: Beginning the Project
Chapter 10 Bias
Chapter 11 Ethical Issues
Chapter 12 Getting the Project Started
Chapter 13 Measurement
Chapter 14 Questionnaire Development
Chapter 15 Sampling and Sample Size
Part Five: Data Analysis
Chapter 16 Starting the Data Analysis
Chapter 17 Basic Multivariate Techniques
Chapter 18 The Research Report
Part Six: Appendices
Appendix A Using SPSS for Windows
Appendix B Pineo and Porter’s Canadian Occupational Prestige Index
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