Investigating the Social World
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Investigating the Social World

The Process and Practice of Research

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
No longer available

Investigating the Social World

The Process and Practice of Research

About this book

The Tenth Edition of the bestselling Investigating the Social World provides students with the critical skills necessary to evaluate research and to carry out their own research. Each chapter integrates instruction in the various core research methods with investigation of interesting aspects of the social world. The book has always sought to communicate the excitement of social research and the importance of carefully evaluating the methods we use in that research. This edition also includes updated coverage of each research method and features many new examples reflecting research on the key issues we have experienced since 2020: the COVID-19 pandemic, the rise of social justice movements, and threats to democracy. It also includes exercises based on the 2020 General Social Survey dataset. This textbook is also available in SAGE?s Vantage platform for the first time. This title is accompanied by a complete teaching and learning package in SAGE Vantage, an intuitive learning platform that integrates quality SAGE textbook content with assignable multimedia activities and auto-graded assessments to drive student engagement and ensure accountability.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Publisher Note
  5. Title Page
  6. Copyright Page
  7. Brief Contents
  8. Detailed Contents
  9. About the Author
  10. Preface
  11. Acknowledgments
  12. Section I Foundations for Social Research
  13. 1 Science, Society, and Social Research
  14. 2 The Process and Problems of Social Research
  15. 3 Research Ethics and Research Proposals
  16. Section II Fundamentals of Social Research
  17. 4 Conceptualization and Measurement
  18. 5 Sampling and Generalizability
  19. 6 Research Design and Causation
  20. Section III Basic Social Research Designs
  21. 7 Experiments
  22. 8 Survey Research
  23. 9 Quantitative Data Analysis
  24. 10 Qualitative Methods
  25. 11 Qualitative Data Analysis
  26. Section IV Complex Social Research Designs
  27. 12 Mixed Methods
  28. 13 Evaluation and Policy Research
  29. 14 Using Secondary Data and Big Data
  30. 15 Historical and Comparative Methods and Content Analysis
  31. 16 Summarizing and Reporting Research
  32. Appendix A: Questions to Ask About a Research Article*
  33. Appendix B: Table of Random Numbers
  34. Glossary
  35. Bibliography
  36. Index