(eBook PDF) The Practice of Social Research 14th Edition

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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1305104943
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1305104945
• Author: Earl R. Babbie

A straightforward, comprehensive, and approachable guide to research as practiced by social scientists, the Fourteenth Edition of this \”gold-standard\” book gives readers the tools they need to apply research concepts practically, as both a researcher and a consumer. The author emphasizes the process by showing readers 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.

Table of contents:

Part 1: An Introduction to Inquiry

Ch 1: Human Inquiry and Science

Ch 2: Paradigms, Theory, and Social Research

Ch 3: The Ethics and Politics of Social Research

Part 2: The Structuring of Inquiry: Quantitative and Qualitative

Ch 4: Research Design

Ch 5: Conceptualization, Operationalization, and Measurement

Ch 6: Indexes, Scales, and Typologies

Ch 7: The Logic of Sampling

Part 3: Modes of Observation: Quantitative and Qualitative

Ch 8: Experiments

Ch 9: Survey Research

Ch 10: Qualitative Field Research

Ch 11: Unobtrusive Research

Ch 12: Evaluation Research

Part 4: Analysis of Data: Quantitative and Qualitative

Ch 13: Qualitative Data Analysis

Ch 14: Quantitative Data Analysis

Ch 15: The Logic of Multivariate Analysis

Ch 16: Statistical Analyses

Ch 17: Reading and Writing Social Research

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