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Introducing research methodology : a beginner's guide to doing a research project / Uwe Flick.

By: Language: English Original language: German Publication details: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c2011.Description: xx, 271 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781849207812
  • 184920781X
  • 1849207801
  • 9781849207805
Uniform titles:
  • Sozialforschung. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 001.42 22 UWE
Contents:
PART ONE: ORIENTATION -- Why Social Research? -- From Research Idea to Research Question -- Reading and Reviewing the Literature -- PART TWO: PLANNING AND DESIGN -- Planning Social Research: Steps of the Research Process -- Designing Social Research -- Deciding Your Methods -- PART THREE: WORKING WITH DATA -- Gathering Data: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches -- Analyzing Quantitative and Qualitative Data -- E-Research: Doing Social Research Online -- Integrated Social Research: Combination of Different Approaches -- PART FOUR: REFLECTION AND WRITING -- What Is Good Research? Evaluating Your Research Project -- Ethical Issues in Social Research -- Writing Research and Using Results
Summary: 'Introducing Research Methodology' gives readers the fundamental data collection and analysis skills that they need for their first project, as well as a good understanding of the research process as a whole.
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Contents
PART ONE: ORIENTATION
1. Why Social Research?
2. From Research Idea to Research Question
3. Reading and Reviewing the Literature

PART TWO: PLANNING AND DESIGN
4. Planning Social Research: Steps of the Research Process
5. Designing Social Research
6. Deciding Your Methods

PART THREE: WORKING WITH DATA
7. Gathering Data: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches
8. Analyzing Quantitative and Qualitative Data
9. E-Research: Doing Social Research Online
10. Integrated Social Research: Combination of Different Approaches

PART FOUR: REFLECTION AND WRITING
11. What Is Good Research? Evaluating Your Research Project
12. Ethical Issues in Social Research
13. Writing Research and Using Results

Includes bibliographical references (p. [256]-263) and index.

PART ONE: ORIENTATION -- Why Social Research? -- From Research Idea to Research Question -- Reading and Reviewing the Literature -- PART TWO: PLANNING AND DESIGN -- Planning Social Research: Steps of the Research Process -- Designing Social Research -- Deciding Your Methods -- PART THREE: WORKING WITH DATA -- Gathering Data: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches -- Analyzing Quantitative and Qualitative Data -- E-Research: Doing Social Research Online -- Integrated Social Research: Combination of Different Approaches -- PART FOUR: REFLECTION AND WRITING -- What Is Good Research? Evaluating Your Research Project -- Ethical Issues in Social Research -- Writing Research and Using Results

'Introducing Research Methodology' gives readers the fundamental data collection and analysis skills that they need for their first project, as well as a good understanding of the research process as a whole.

Originally published in German: Reinbek bei Hamburg : Rowohlt Verlag, c2009, under title: Sozialforschung : Methoden und Anwendungen.

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