description: This collection brings together key articles and book chapters that provide an overview of research design for the social sciences, focusing on the purpose, nature, and types of research design - the architecture of research rather than the mechanics of running a research project. Emphasis is put on non-laboratory-based research designs that are typically encountered in the social sciences, those involving people rather than objects. The range of issues covered is impressive: the epististemology of social research design; the complex matters of causation and the logic of design; the importance of units of analsyis; the subjective elements of human behaviour and the role of qualitative and quantitative data.
language: English
title: Research Design
titlecomplete: Research Design (SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods)
genres: Sociology, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 27
publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd