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Conducting Surveys: A Step-by-Step Guide to Getting the Information You Need
by Priscilla Salant  Publisher Comments Leading experts show people with little training or experience how to conduct a meaningful but inexpensive survey. Explains how to determine whether you need a survey, select the best one for your needs, word questionnaires, train interviewers, as well...
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Advanced Focus Group Research
by Edward F. Fern Publisher Comments Examines the focus group research process in depth developing advanced concepts and topics....
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Understanding Social Statistics
by Jane L. Fielding Publisher Comments 'In this important new book, Ray Pawson examines the recent spread of evidence-based policy making across the Western world. Few major public initiatives are mounted these days in the absence of a sustained attempt to evaluate them. Programmes are tried,...
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Measurement in the Social Sciences (Observations)
by H. M., Jr. Blalock Synopsis Among the frustrations constantly confronting the social scientist are those associated with the general process of measurement. The importance of good measurement has long been recognized in principle, but it has often been neglected in practice in many...
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Action Research for Health and Social Care: a Guide To Practice (UK Edition)
by Meg Bond Synopsis This text: traces the history of action research; explores different ways in which action research has been defined and proposes four different types; and provides help through the maze of methods and approaches with the use of self-assessment, mapping...
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Reflexivity: A Practical Guide for Researchers in Health and Social Sciences
by Barbara Ed. Finlay Publisher Comments Reflexivity is a popular tool used to analyse personal, intersubjective and social processes which shape research projects. It enables researchers, particularly within the qualitative tradition, to acknowledge their role and the situated nature of their...
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Theoretical Frameworks in Qualitative Research
by Vincent A. (edt) Anfara Publisher Comments In Theoretical Frameworks in Qualitative Research, the authors provide extensive and practical coverage of theory and its role in qualitative research, a review of the literature that currently exists on theoretical frameworks, a clear and concise...
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Analyzing Decision-Making: Metric Conjoint Analysis
by Jordan J. Louviere Publisher Comments This volume introduces the theory, method, and applications of one type of conjoint analysis technique. These techniques are used to study individual judgement and decision processes. Based upon Information Integration Theory, metric conjoint analysis...
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Turn to Biographical Methods in Social Science: Comparative Issues and Examples (Social Research Today)
by Joanna Bornat Publisher Comments Biographical research methods have become a useful and popular tool for contemporary social scientists. This book combines an exploration of the historical and philosophical origins of this important field of qualitative research with comparative...
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Methods of Life Course Research
by Janet Z. Giele Publisher Comments What are the most effective methods for doing life-course research? In this volume, the field's founders and leaders answer this question, giving readers tips on: the art and method of the appropriate research design; the collection of life-history data;...
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Designing Social Research
by Norman W. H. Blaikie Publisher Comments This accessible text presents a comprehensive and integrated scheme for preparing research designs and proposals....
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Doing Exemplary Research
by Peter J. Frost Publisher Comments This volume explores the doing of research - as a `journey' for those involved. It looks at the meanings of exemplary research practice. Authors' descriptions of the origins, experiences and outcomes of their own research are interwoven with commentaries...
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Progress in Communication Sciences, #16: Theory, Method, and Practice in Computer Content Analysis
by Mark D. West Publisher Comments In the new digital era, using computers to analyze the masses of textual primary material now available to researchers is an imperative rather than an interesting topic. Yet computer content analysis is a complex method, making unique theoretical...
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Ethnographic Research: A Reader
by Stephanie Taylor Publisher Comments Ethnographic Research: A Reader presents in a single volume a selection of ten recently published studies intended to illustrate the variety of social research which is currently being conducted within the ethnographic tradition. Together with an...
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Contemporary Social Theory #3: Critical Theory and Methodology
by Raymond Morrow Synopsis Recipient of Choice Magazine's 1996 Outstanding Academic Book Award Author Raymond Morrow outlines and recounts the development of the major tenets of critical theory, exemplifying them through the works of two of their most influential, recent adherents:...
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Poststructuralism : Very Short Intro (02 Edition)
by Catherine Belsey Publisher Comments Poststructuralism changes the way we understand the relations between human beings, their culture, and the world. Following a brief account of the historical relationship between structuralism and poststructuralism, this Very Short Introduction traces...
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Methodos Series #2: Methodology and Epistemology of Multilevel Analysis: Approaches from Different Social Sciences
by D. Courgeau Publisher Comments The possibility to analyse human behaviours taking account of the multiple contexts in which they occur, is opening a new research avenue in social sciences. This book considers, through examples drawn from different social sciences, the methodological...
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Using SPSS for Social Statistics and Research Methods (07 Edition)
by William Wagner Publisher Comments This supplementary text serves as a manual for SPSS use for social statistics and research methods classes. It is a useful guide for students working independently on a research proposal, project, or paper. Also, it is an excellent resource for...
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Fact and Method: Explanation, Confirmation and Reality in the Natural and the Social Sciences
by Richard W Miller Publisher Comments In this bold work of broad scope and rich erudition, Richard W. Miller sets out to reorient the philosophy of science. By questioning both positivism and its leading critics, he develops new solutions to the most urgent problems about justification...
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Evaluating Social Science Research (2ND 96 Edition)
by Paul C. Stern Publisher Comments We often decide what to believe and what to question on the basis of a simple rule of thumb like believe the trustworthy source or trust the expert. Sometimes, however, reliable and well-informed sources support both sides of the controversy. Whom are we...
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