Research Methods for Social Work

Allen Rubin, Earl Babbie

• Publisher: Cengage Learning EMEA
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9780357764756
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

If you're intimidated by the thought of taking research methods, Rubin/Babbie's RESEARCH METHODS FOR SOCIAL WORK, 10th Edition, can help you overcome the fear associated with this course with its reader-friendly presentation of all aspects of the research endeavor. Students will appreciate the authors' clear and humorous writing style as well as the depth and breadth of coverage of current issues regarding social and racial justice. The text strikes a balance of quantitative and qualitative research techniques, illustrating how the two methods complement one another and can be integrated in the same study. Real-world examples highlight connections between research, social work practice and social justice. Comprehensive, friendly, accurate and integrating the best of technology, the text is widely considered the best for the research methods course -- and when you read it, you'll see why.

Table of contents

• Cover
• FM
• Copyright
• Contents in Brief
• Contents
• Preface
• Part 1: An Introduction to Scientific Inquiry in Social Work
• Part 2: The Ethical, Political, and Cultural Context of Social Work Research
• Part 3: Problem Formulation and Measurement
• Part 4: Designs for Evaluating Programs and Practice
• Part 5: Methods for Collecting and Analyzing Quantitative and Qualitative Data
• Part 6: Qualitative Research Methods
• Part 7: Analysis of Quantitative Data
• Part 8: Program Evaluation and Writing Research Proposals and Reports
• Appendix A Statistics for Estimating Sampling Error
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index
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