TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baker,Therese L.
TI  - Doing social research
SN  - 0071160922
AV  - H62 B286 1999
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Boston, MA
PB  - McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Research
KW  - Methodology
N1  - pt. 1. Introduction: subjects for social research. Varieties of social research -- Science and theory in social research -- pt. 2. The design of social research. Defining, designing, and developing a research project -- Operationalization and measurement: from concepts to variables -- Sampling -- pt. 3. The methods of social research. Experimental research -- Survey research, interviewing techniques and focus groups -- Qualitative research -- Methods of analyzing available data -- Evaluation research, case studies, and other forms of applied research -- pt. 4. The analysis of social research data. Ways of analyzing qualitative and quantitative data -- Univariate, bivariate, and trivariate analyses -- Elementary statistics for social research -- The ethics of social research -- Presenting the research results
ER  -