Evaluating social science research
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Evaluating social science research
Oxford University Press, 1996
2nd ed
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 267-272
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
New for the Second Edition: L The second edition includes a thorough updating of the text, the addition of new sample articles to replace the six original ones, and discussions of new quasi-experimantal research methods, mutivariate analysis, and meta-analysis. Evaluating Social Science Research addresses the perennial need of students and all citizens to develop critical thinking skills, training them to be intelligent consumers of social science research. The authors show how knowing how to make critical, independent judgements of scientific claims is an important skill of living in a world where scientific claims are used increasingly to influence personal and political behaviour. The changes in this second edition reflect developments in the last 15 years of social science research, both in methods and perspectives.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1: Scientific and Nonscientific Statements of Fact
2: Methods of Gathering Scientific Evidence
3: Evaluating Scientific Evidence: What Conclusions Follow from the Evidence
4: Evaluating Scientific Evidence: in the Published Literature
5: Reviewing a Body of Literature: The Problem of Generalization
Appendix: Asking Answerable Questions and Finding Scientific Evidence
References
Index
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