Social research methods / Alan Bryman.
Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2008.Edition: 3rd editionDescription: xlii, 748 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cmISBN:- 9780199202959
- 0199202958
- 300.72 22 BRY.
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Detailed contents
About the author
Introducing the students
Guide to the book
Guided tour of textbook features
Guided tour of the ORC: lecture resources
Online resource centre authors
Abbreviations
Part One
Chapter1 Social research strategies
Introduction
Theory and research
Epistemological considerations, etc
Chapter 2 Research designs
Introductions
Criteria in social research, etc
Chapter 3 Planning a research project and formulating research questions
introduction
getting to know what is expected
Thinking about your research area, etc
Chapter 4 Getting started: reviewing the literature
reviewing the existing literature
searching the existing literature, etc
Chapter 5 Ethics and politics in social resarch
introduction
ethical principles, etc
Part Two
Chapter 6 The nature of quantitative research
the main steps in quantitative research
concepts and their measurements, etc
Chapter 7 Sampling
introduction to survey research
introducing to sampling, etc
Chapter 8 Structured interviewing
the structured interview
the interview contexts, etc
Chapter 9 Self-completion questionnaires
self-completion questionnaire or postal questionnaire?. etc
Chapter 10 Asking questions
Open or closed question?
types of questions
Chapter 11 Structured observation
introduction
problems with survey research on social behaviour, etc
Chapter 12 Content analysis
what are the research questions?
selecting a sample, etc
Chapter 13 Secondary analysis and official statistics
other researcher's data
official statistics, etc
Chapter 14 Quantitative data analysis
a small research project
types of Variable, etc
Chapter 15 Using SPSS for windows
getting started in SPSS
data analysis with SPSS, etc
Part Three
Chapter 16 The nature of quantitative research
the main steps in quantitative research
theory and research, etc
Chapter 17 Ethnography and participant observation
Access
Roles for ethnographers, etc
Chapter 18 Interviewing in qualitative research
Introduction
Differences between the structured interview and the qualitative interview, etc
Chapter 19 Focus groups
Uses of focus groups
Conducting focus groups, etc
Chapter 20 Language in qualitative research
Conversation analysis
Discourse analysis, etc
Chapter 21 Documents as sources of data
Personal documents
The reality of documents
Chapter 22 Qualitative data analysis
General strategies of qualitative data analysis
Basic operations in qualitative data analysis, etc
Chapter 23 Compute5r-assisted qualitative data analysis: using NVivo
Is CAQDAS like qualitative data analysis software?
Learning NVivo, etc
Part Four
Chapter 24 Breaking down the qualitative/ qualitative divide
The natural science model and qualitative research
Qualitative research and interpretivism, etc
Chapter 25 Mixed methods research: combining quantitative and qualitative research
The argument against mixed methods research
Two versions of the debate about quantitative and qualitative research, etc
Chapter 26 E-research: using the internet as object and method of data collection
The internet as object of analysis
Using the internet to collect data from individuals, etc
Chapter 27 Writing up social research
Writing up your research
Writing up qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods of research, etc
Includes Glossary : p.691-700 . _ References : p.701-725 . _ Index : p.727-748
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