The practice of social research
Earl R. Babbie (Author)
A straightforward, comprehensive, and approachable guide to research as practiced by social scientists, the Thirteenth Edition of Babbie's "gold-standard" text gives you the tools you need to apply research concepts practically, as both a researcher and a consumer. Babbie emphasizes the process by showing you 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
Print Book, English, 2013
Thirteenth edition View all formats and editions
Wadsworth Cengage Learning, Belmont, CA, 2013
xxiii, 584 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9781133049791, 9781408093153, 1133049796, 1408093154
774699583
An introduction to inquiry: Human inquiry and science ; Paradigms, theory, and social research ; The ethics and politics of social research
The structuring of inquiry : quantitative and qualitative: Research design ; Conceptualization, operationalization, and measurement ; Indexes, scales, and typologies ; The logic of sampling
Modes of operation : quantitative and qualitative: Experiments ; Survey research ; Qualitative field research ; Unobtrusive research ; Evaluation research
Analysis of data : quantitative and qualitative: Qualitative data analysis ; Quantitative data analysis ; The logic of multivariate analysis ; Statistical analyses ; Reading and writing social research
Appendixes: A: Using the library ; B: GSS household enumeration questionnaire ; C: Random numbers ; D: Distribution of Chi square ; E: Normal curve areas ; F: Estimated sampling error