num_pages: 672
description: In this edition of the most comprehensive, authoritative research methods text on the market, Earl Babbie offers the most cutting-edge and thorough revision ever. The new edition retains the strengths that made it the best-selling text in the market while seamlessly integrating qualitative material throughout and adding an additional chapter on Qualitative Data Analysis (13). The book is known for being straightforward, with a broad set of topics. It has great illustrations, comprehensive overviews, detailed discussions, brief outlines, and a concrete, well-defined chapter structure. Its reputation for being very readable continues through its use of minimum jargon and math, along with use of humor throughout.
language: English
title: The Practice of Social Research
titlecomplete: The Practice of Social Research (Sociology - Intro Level Ser.)
genres: Sociology, School, Science, Reference, Research Methods, Research, Academic, Social Science, Textbooks, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 550
publisher: Wadsworth Thomson Learning