Research Design
Subtitle: the Logic of Social Inquiry
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9781315128498
Subjects: Social sciences; Methodology; Research; Sciences sociales; Recherche
Description: "Research Design: The Logic of Social Inquiry is a collection of critical writings on different aspects of social research. They have been carefully selected for the variety of approaches they display in relation to three broad styles of research: experimental, survey, and ethnographic. All are classic contributions to the development of methodology and excellent expositions of particular procedures. The book is organized in sections that detail the methods of a typical experimental research program design, data collection, and data analysis. These five sections include The Language of Social Research, Research Design, Data Collection, Measurement, and Data Analysis and Report. Each is preceded by an introduction stressing the unique strengths of the different viewpoints represented and reconciling them in one coherent approach to research. The volume includes displays of philosophical underpinnings of different methodological styles and important issues in research design. Data collection methods, particularly the problem of systematic bias in the data collected, and ways in which researchers may attempt to reduce it, are discussed. There is also a discussion on measurement in which the central issues of reliability, validity, and scale construction are detailed. This kind of synthesis, between such diverse schools of research as the experimentalists and the ethnographers, is of particular concern to social researchers. The book will be of great value to planners and researchers in local government and education departments and to all others engaged in social science or educational research."--Provided by publisher
Table of contents: title: Part Section 1: The language of social research --; title: chapter Introduction --; title: chapter 1 An Overview of Elements in the Scientific Process Walter Wallace --; title: chapter 2 Two traditions G.H. Von Wright --; title: chapter 3 The unity of method K.R. Popper --; title: chapter 4 Concept and Theory Formation in the Social Sciences --; title: chapter 5 The logic of naturalistic inquiry Norman K. Denzin --; title: part Section 2: Research Design --; title: chapter Introduction --; title: chapter 6 On the selection of problems Scott Greer --; title: chapter 7 A note on the Uses of Official Statistics --; title: chapter 8 Some Statistical Problems in Research Design --; title: chapter 9 Reforms as experiments Donald T. Campbell --; title: chapter 10 The research web Jacqueline P. Wiseman --; title: chapter 11 Some methodological problems of field studies --; title: part Section 3: Data collection --; title: chapter Introduction --; title: chapter 12 Question wording C.A. Moser and G. Kalton --; title: chapter 13 A comparison of the Check-List and the Open Response questioning systems  -- Judith A. Duncan; title: chapter 14 Interviewer bias once more revisited Harper W  -- Boyd Jr. and Ralph Westfall; title: chapter 15 How do you know jf the informant is telling the  -- truth? John P. Dean and William Foote Whyte; title: chapter 16 Human use of human subjects: the problem of deception in social psychological experiments Herbert C. Kelman --; title: part Section 4: Measurement --; title: chapter Introduction --; title: chapter 17 The Quantification of questionnaire data A.N  -- Oppenheim; title: chapter 18 Construct validity in psychological tests Lee J  -- Cronbach and Paul E. Meehl; title: chapter 19 Attitude measurement: use of coefficient alpha with cluster or factor analysis Aubrey McKennell --; title: part Section 5: Data analysis and report --; title: chapter Introduction --; title: chapter 20 Extraneous variables Morris Rosenberg --; title: chapter 21 Data-dreding procedures in survey analysis --; title: chapter 22 Generalized regression analysis --; title: chapter 23 Problems of inference and proof in participant observation --; title: chapter 24 Problems in the publication of field studies