(eBook PDF) Research Decisions Quantitative Qualitative and Mixed-Method Approaches 5th Edition – Digital Ebook – Instant Delivery Download
Product details:
- ISBN-10 : 0176509372
- ISBN-13 : 978-0176509378
- Author: Ted Palys, Chris Atchison
Written in an engaging and accessible narrative style, Research Decisions: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed-Method Approaches shows students how they can effectively integrate qualitative methods, such as surveys, and statistical methods, such as data collection and manipulation in SPSS and other software, to undertake deeper and more nuanced social research and analyses. The text is truly multidisciplinary and features a rich diversity of examples for sociology, criminology, political science, health studies, education, and anthropology students.
Table of contents:
1. Perspectives on research
2. Getting started
3. Ethics in social research
4. Sampling and recruitment
5. Constructing a research proposal
6. Survey, interview, and oral history techniques
7. Observation and ethnography
8. Unobtrusive and archival methods
9. Eliminating rival plausible explanations: the experiment
10. From manipulative to analytic control: quasi-experimentation and case study analysis
11. Text, image, audio, and video: making sense of non-numeric data
12. A conceptual introduction to qualitative data analysis
13. Writing your research report
14. Mixed methods research
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