Social research methods
By: Alan Bryman.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 748
ISBN-13: 9780199202959
Subjects: Social sciences -- Research; Social sciences -- Methodology
Notes: Text accompanied by a companion web site.
Table of contents: title: Social research strategies; title: Research designs; title: Planning a research project and formulating research questions; title: Getting started: reviewing the literature; title: Ethics and politics in social research; title: The nature of quantitative research; title: Sampling; title: Structured interviewing; title: Self-completion questionnaires; title: Asking questions; title: Structured observation; title: Content analysis; title: Secondary analysis and official statistics; title: Quantitative data analysis; title: Using SPSS for windows; title: The nature of qualitative research; title: Ethnography and participant observation; title: Interviewing in qualitative research; title: Focus groups; title: Language in qualitative research; title: Documents as sources of data; title: Qualitative data analysis; title: Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis: using NVivo; title: Breaking down the quantitative/qualitative divide; title: Mixed methods research: combining quantitative and qualitative research; title: E-research: using the internet as object and method of data collection; title: Writing up social research.