Social research methods /
Bryman, Alan. 2008
Social research methods / Alan Bryman. - 3rd ed. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008. - xlii, 748 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Text accompanied by a companion web site.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [700]-725) and indexes.
Social research strategies -- Research designs -- Planning a research project and formulating research questions -- Getting started : reviewing the literature -- Ethics and politics in social research -- The nature of quantitative research -- Sampling -- Structured interviewing -- Self-completion questionnaires -- Asking questions -- Structured observation -- Content analysis -- Secondary analysis and official statistics -- Quantitative data analysis -- Using SPSS for windows -- The nature of qualitative research -- Ethnography and participant observation -- Interviewing in qualitative research -- Focus groups -- Language in qualitative research -- Documents as sources of data -- Qualitative data analysis -- Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis : using NVivo -- Breaking down the quantitative/qualitative divide -- Mixed methods research : combining quantitative and qualitative research -- E-research : using the internet as object and method of data collection -- Writing up social research.
9780199202959 0199202958
2008003361
GBA804041 bnb
014487263 Uk
Social sciences--Research.
Social sciences--Methodology.
H62 / .B787 2008
300.72 BRY / 1
Social research methods / Alan Bryman. - 3rd ed. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008. - xlii, 748 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Text accompanied by a companion web site.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [700]-725) and indexes.
Social research strategies -- Research designs -- Planning a research project and formulating research questions -- Getting started : reviewing the literature -- Ethics and politics in social research -- The nature of quantitative research -- Sampling -- Structured interviewing -- Self-completion questionnaires -- Asking questions -- Structured observation -- Content analysis -- Secondary analysis and official statistics -- Quantitative data analysis -- Using SPSS for windows -- The nature of qualitative research -- Ethnography and participant observation -- Interviewing in qualitative research -- Focus groups -- Language in qualitative research -- Documents as sources of data -- Qualitative data analysis -- Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis : using NVivo -- Breaking down the quantitative/qualitative divide -- Mixed methods research : combining quantitative and qualitative research -- E-research : using the internet as object and method of data collection -- Writing up social research.
9780199202959 0199202958
2008003361
GBA804041 bnb
014487263 Uk
Social sciences--Research.
Social sciences--Methodology.
H62 / .B787 2008
300.72 BRY / 1