
Constructing Social Research
The Unity and Diversity of Method
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About this book
The updated Third Edition of this innovative text shows the unity within the diversity of activities called social research to help students understand how all social researchers construct representations of social life using theories, systematic data collection, and careful examination of that data. The book tackles questions like "What is social research?", "How does it differ from journalism, documentary film-making, or laboratory research in the natural sciences?", and "What is the researcher?s obligation to those he or she is studying?"
Updated throughout with new references and examples, this edition is designed to evoke challenging questions regarding the nature of representation and the ethical challenges facing social scientific researchers. The text moves beyond standard research challenges to push readers to see the complex relationships among ethics, ideas, evidence, and outcomes.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Publisher Note
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part One Elements of Social Research
- Chapter One What is (And is Not) Social Research?
- Chapter Two The Goals of Social Research
- Chapter Three The Process of Social Research Ideas and Evidence
- Chapter Four The Ethics of Social Research
- Part Two Strategies of Social Research
- Chapter Five Using Qualitative Methods to Study Commonalities
- Chapter Six Using Comparative Methods to Study Diversity
- Chapter Seven Using Quantitative Methods to Study Covariation
- Afterword: The Promise of Social Research
- Appendix: Computing Correlation Coefficients
- References
- Glossary/Index
- About the Authors