Introducing research methodology : a beginner's guide to doing a research project / Uwe Flick.
Language: English Original language: German Publication details: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c2011.Description: xx, 271 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9781849207812
- 184920781X
- 1849207801
- 9781849207805
- Sozialforschung. English
- 001.42 22 UWE
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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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