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The Practice of Social Research
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A straightforward, comprehensive, and approachable guide to research as practiced by social scientists, the Fourteenth Edition of this "gold-standard" text gives you the tools you need to apply research concepts practically, as both a researcher and a consumer. Author Earl Babbie emphasizes the process by showing you how to design and construct projects, introducing the various observation modes in use today, and answering critical questions about research methods-such as how to conduct online surveys and analyze both qualitative and quantitative data.
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Human
Inquiry
and
Science
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1
Human
Inquiry
and
Science
All
of
us
try
to
understand
and
predict
the
social
world.
Scientific
inquiries—and
social
research
in
particular—are
designed
to
avoid
the
pitfalls
of
ordinary
human
inquiry.
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A
P
T
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R
O
V
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V
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W
Introduction
Looking
for
Reality
Knowledge
from
Agreement
Reality
Errors
in
Inquiry,
and
Some
Solutions
The
Foundations
of
Social
Science
Theory,
Not
Philosophy
or
Belief
Social
Regularities
Aggregates,
Not
Individuals
Concepts
and
Variables
The
Purposes
of
Social
Research
Some
Dialectics
of
Social
Research
Idiographic
and
Nomothetic
Explanation
Inductive
and
Deductive
Theory
Determinism
versus
Agency
Qualitative
and
Quantitative
Data
The
Research
Proposal
Copyright
2016
Cengage
Learning.
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Table of contents
- Dedication
- Contents in Brief
- Contents in Detail
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part 1: An Introduction to Inquiry
- Part 2: The Structuring of Inquiry: Quantitative and Qualitative
- Part 3: Modes of Observation: Quantitative and Qualitative
- Part 4: Analysis of Data: Quantitative and Qualitative
- Appendixes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index