TY  - BOOK
AU  - Babbie,Earl R.
TI  - The basics of social research.
SN  - 9780495094685 (pbk.)
AV  - H62.B18  
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Belmont, CA
PB  - Thomson Wadsworth
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Research
KW  - Methodology
N1  - Includes glossary, references and index; Contents: An introduction to inquiry: Human inquiry and science -- Paradigms, theory, and research -- The ethics and politics of social research -- The structuring of inquiry: Quantitative and qualitative: Research design -- Conceptualization, operationalization, and measurement -- Indexes, scales, and typologies -- The logic of sampling -- Modes of observation: Quantitative and qualitative: Experiments -- Survey research -- Qualitative field research -- Unobtrusive research -- Evaluation research -- Analysis of data: Quantitative and qualitative: Qualitative data analysis -- Quantitative data analysis -- Reading and writing social research -- Appendixes: Using the library -- Random numbers -- Distribution of chi square -- Normal curve areas -- Estimated sampling error.
ER  -