The Basics of Social Research
The Basics of Social Research
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Author(s): Babbie, Earl
ISBN No.: 9781133607595
Pages: 576
Year: 201301
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 149.72
Status: Out Of Print

Part I: AN INTRODUCTION TO INQUIRY.1. Human Inquiry and Science.2. Paradigms, Theory, and Research.3. The Ethics and Politics of Social Research.Part II: THE STRUCTURING OF INQUIRY: QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE.


4. Research Design.5. Conceptualization, Operationalization, and Measurement.6. Indexes, Scales, and Typologies.7. The Logic of Sampling.


Part III: MODES OF OBSERVATION: QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE.8. Experiments.9. Survey Research.10. Qualitative Field Research.11.


Unobtrusive Research.12. Evaluation Research.Part IV: ANALYSIS OF DATA: QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE.13. Qualitative Data Analysis.14. Quantitative Data Analysis.


15. Reading and Writing Social Research.Appendix A: Using the Library.Appendix B: Random Numbers.Appendix C: Distribution of Chi Square.Appendix D: Normal Curve Areas.Appendix E: Estimated Sampling Error.


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