Making sense of the social world : methods of investigation

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Making sense of the social world : methods of investigation

Daniel F. Chambliss, Russell K. Schutt

Pine Forge Press, c2006

2nd ed

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-316) and index

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内容説明

This book provides an engaging, innovative, and accurate introduction to social research for students who need to understand how social research is done and appreciate the results, but may never do research themselves in the professional lives. Like the more comprehensive version of Russell Schutt's Investigating the Social World, it presents research methods as an integrated whole, with balanced treatment of qualitative and quantitative methods, integration of substantive examples and research techniques, and consistent attention to the goal of validity and the standards of ethical practice. Key Features and Updates to the Second Edition: A major re-organization of material from Investigating the Social World has resulted in a briefer, more accesible treatment appropriate for a lower division audience Expanded coverage of validity, causation, experimental and quasi-experimental design, and techniques of analysis in the Second Edition; these are the topics reviews cited as the most difficult for their students in their research methods classes Expanded Student Study Site with SAGE journal articles and online exercises New examples will be used in each chapter, many of them drawn from everyday experiences and current newsworthy issues Greater use and emphasis on using the Web for research

目次

Science, Society, and Social Research What Is the Problem? Can Social Scientists See the Social World More Clearly? How Well Have We Done Our Research? Are Our Answers Correct? Conclusion The Process and Problems of Social Research What Is the Question? What Is the Theory? What Is the Strategy? What Is the Design? But Is It Ethical? Conclusion Conceptualization and Measurement What Do We Have in Mind? How Will We Know When We've Found It? How Much Information Do We Really Have? Did We Measure What We Wanted To Measure? Conclusion Sampling What Sampling Method Should We Use? Conclusion Causation and Experimental Design Causal Explanation What Causes What? Why Experiment? What If a True Experiment Isn't Possible? What Are the Threats to Validity in Experiments? How Do Experimenters Protect Their Subjects? Conclusion Survey Research Why Is Survey Research So Popular? How Should We Write Survey Questions? How Should Questionnaires Be Designed? What Are the Alternatives for Administering Surveys? A Comparison of Survey Designs Ethical Issues in Survey Research Conclusion Qualitative Methods: Observing, Participating, Listening What Makes Methods "Qualitative"? How Does Participant Observation Become a Research Method? How Do You Conduct Intensive Interviews? How Do You Run Focus Groups? Ethical Issues in Qualitative Research Conclusion Qualitative Data Analysis What Is Distinctive About Qualitative Data Analysis? Techniques of Qualitative Data Analysis Alternatives in Qualitative Data Analysis Visual Sociology Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Ethics in Qualitative Data Analysis Conclusions Quantitative Data Analysis Why Do Statistics? How to Prepare Data for Analysis What Are the Options for Displaying Univariate Distributions? What Are the Options for Summarizing Distributions? How Can We Tell Whether Two Variables Are Related? Analyzing Data Ethically: How Not to Lie with Statistics Conclusion Reviewing, Proposing, and Reporting Research Comparing Research Designs Reviewing Research Proposing New Research Reporting Research Conclusion Appendix A: Finding Information Appendix B: HyperRESEARCH(TM): A Software Tool for Qualitative Data Analysis Appendix C: Secondary Data Sources Appendix D: How to Use a Statistical Package References Glossary/Index

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