RESEARCH DECISIONS >CANADIAN E

Name: RESEARCH DECISIONS >CANADIAN E
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ISBN: 9780176102951

ISBN-10: 0176102957

ISBN-13: 9780176102951

Edition: 4th 2007

Authors: PALYS

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Research Decisions offers a concise yet comprehensive overview of the approaches and methods involved in performing social research. It lays the foundations for good research by exploring what it means to be a member of the social sciences community. The book's thesis acknowledges the differences between the two main approaches to research (quantitative and qualitative), but offers that these differences should be interpreted as a source of strength rather than a field of conflict. This student-friendly work emphasizes practical issues and has been praised for its liberal use of Canadian examples from a variety of academic disciplines.A well-rounded presentation of the theory and philosophy…

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List price: $51.92
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: NELSON
Publication date: 2/19/2007
Weight: 2.178



Perspectives on Research


Getting Started


Ethics in Social Research


Sampling


Constructing a Research Proposal


Interactive Methods: surveys, interviews, and oral history techniques


Observation and Ethnography


Unobtrusive and Archival Methods


Manipulative Control and the Logic of Experimentation


Quasi-experimentation, Evaluation Research and the Move to Analytic Control


Analytic Control in Qualitative Case Study Analysis


A Conceptual Introduction to Quantitative Data Analysis


Writing your Research Report


Epilogue