Known as the gold standard for research methods, Babbie's THE PRACTICE OF SOCIAL RESEARCH gives you a definitive guide to research as practiced by social scientists. Combining a straightforward approach with the author's renowned sense of humor, this student-friendly text equips you with the tools and knowledge to apply research concepts as both researcher and consumer. The author emphasizes the process by showing you how to design and construct projects, introducing today's various observation modes and answering critical questions about research methods, such as how to conduct online surveys and analyze both qualitative and quantitative data. The 15th Edition includes the latest General Social Survey findings along with new coverage of the global use of social research, the emerging role of big data, demographic analysis and more. Also available: MindTap digital learning solution.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- A Note from the Author
- Dedication
- Contents in Brief
- Contens in Detail
- Boxed Features
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- A Letter to Students from This Book
- Chapter 1: Human Inquiry and Science
- Chapter 2: Paradigms, Theory, and Research
- Chapter 3: The Ethics and Politics of Social Research
- Chapter 4: Research Design
- Chapter 5: Conceptualization, Operationalization, and Measurement
- Chapter 6: Index, Scales, and Typologies
- Chapter 7: The Logic of Sampling
- Chapter 8: Experiments
- Chapter 9: Survey Research
- Chapter 10: Qualitative Field Research
- Chapter 11: Unobtrusive Research
- Chapter 12: Evaluation Research
- Chapter 13: Qualitative Data Analysis
- Chapter 14: Quantitative Data Analysis
- Chapter 15: The Logic of Multivariate Analysis
- Chapter 16: Social Statistics
- Chapter 17: Reading and Writing Social Research
- Appendixe A: Using the Library
- Appendixe B: Random Numbers
- Appendixe C: Distribution of Chi Square
- Appendixe D: Normal Curve Areas
- Appendixe E: Estimated Sampling Error
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
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