06551cam a22004697a 4500 16703707 OSt 20210414114456.0 110323t20132010caua b 001 0 eng d 2011925964 GBB1C6403 bnb 015959526 Uk 1133049796 9781133049791 1133050093 (pbk.) 9781133050094 (pbk.) (OCoLC)ocn759584631 UKMGB eng UKMGB DEBBG UPM YDXCP BWX FER IXA A7U OCLCF OCLCQ OCLCO DLC lccopycat H62.B2 300.721 23 MR 2000 rvk SOZ 710f stub Babbie, Earl R. The practice of social research. / Earl Babbie. 13th ed. Australia: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2013. xxiii,584p. : ill.; 24cm Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: An introduction to inquiry: Science and social research: Introduction -- Looking for reality -- The foundations of social science -- The purposes of social research -- Some dialectics of social research -- The research proposal -- Social inquiry: Ethics and politics: Introduction -- Ethical issues in social research -- Two ethical controversies -- The politics of social research -- Inquiry, theory, and paradigms: Introduction -- Some social science paradigms -- Elements of social theory -- Two logical systems revisited -- Deductive theory construction -- Inductive theory construction -- The links between theory and research -- Research ethics and theory -- The structuring of inquiry: Quantitative and qualitative: Purpose and design of research projects: Introduction -- Three purposes of research -- Idiographic explanation -- Nomothetic explanation -- Necessary and sufficient causes -- Units of analysis -- The time dimension -- How to design a research project -- The research proposal -- Sampling logic: Introduction -- A brief history of sampling -- Nonprobability sampling -- The theory and logic of probability sampling -- Populations and sampling frames -- Types of sampling designs -- Multistage cluster sampling -- Probability sampling in review -- The ethics of sampling -- From concept to measurement: Introduction -- Measuring anything that exists -- Conceptualization -- Definitions in descriptive and explanatory studies -- Operationalization choices -- Criteria of measurement quality -- The ethics of measurement -- Typologies, Indexes, and scales: Introduction -- Indexes versus scales -- Index construction -- Scale construction -- Typologies -- Modes of observation: Quantitative and qualitative: Surveys: Introduction -- Topics appropriate for survey research -- Guidelines for asking questions -- Questionnaire construction -- Self-administered questionnaires -- Interview surveys -- Telephone surveys -- Online surveys -- Comparison of the different survey methods -- Strengths and weaknesses of survey research -- Secondary analysis -- Ethics and survey research -- Experiments and experimentation: Introduction -- Topics appropriate for experiments -- The classical experiment -- Selecting subjects -- Variations on experimental design -- An illustration of experimentation -- Alternative experimental settings -- Strengths and weaknesses of the experimental method -- Ethics and experiments -- Unobtrusive measures: Introduction -- Content analysis -- Analyzing existing statistics -- Comparative and historical research -- Ethics and unobtrusive measures -- Paradigms, methods, and ethics of qualitative field research: Introduction -- Topics appropriate for field research -- Special considerations in qualitative field research -- Some qualitative field research paradigms -- Conducting qualitative field research -- Strengths and weaknesses of qualitative field research -- Ethics and qualitative field research -- Evaluation research: Types, methods, and issues: Introduction -- Topics appropriate for evaluation research -- Formulating the problem: Issues of measurement -- Types of evaluation research designs -- The social context -- Social indicators research -- Ethics and evaluation research -- Analysis of data: Quantitative and qualitative: Analyzing qualitative data: Introduction -- Linking theory and analysis -- Qualitative data processing -- Computer software for qualitative data analysis -- The qualitative analysis of quantitative data -- Evaluating the quality of qualitative research -- Ethics and qualitative data analysis -- Analyzing quantitative data: Introduction -- Quantification of data -- Univariate analysis -- Subgroup comparisons -- Bivariatte analysis -- Introduction to multivariate analysis -- Sociological diagnostics -- Ethics and quantitative data analysis -- Origins and paradigm of the elaboration model: Introduction -- The origins of the elaboration model -- The elaboration paradigm -- Elaboration and ex post facto -- Hypothesizing -- Methods of statistical analysis: Introduction -- Descriptive statistics -- Inferential statistics -- Other multivariate techniques -- Consuming and creating social research: Introduction -- Reading social research -- Using the internet wisely -- Writing social research -- The ethics of reading and social research. - A straightforward, comprehensive, and approachable guide to research as practiced by social scientists, the Thirteenth Edition of Babbie's "gold-standard" text gives you the tools you need to apply research concepts practically, as both a researcher and a consumer. Babbie emphasizes the process by showing you how to design and construct projects, introducing the various observation modes in use today, and answering critical questions about research methods--such as how to conduct online surveys and analyze both qualitative and quantitative data -- Social sciences Research Methodology. Social sciences Research Methodology. Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1506/2011925964-t.html Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1506/2011925964-d.html Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1506/2011925964-b.html 7 cbc copycat 2 ncip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 5661 13161 0 0 lcc 0 0 WIUC-1 WIUC-1 REF 2015-07-22 0 H62.B2 8019/446/15 2015-07-22 00:00:00 2015-07-22 BK