TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bryman,Alan
TI  - Social research methods
SN  - 9780199202959
AV  - H62 .B787 2008
U1  - 300.72 BRY 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Research
KW  - Methodology
N1  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0907/2008003361-b.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0907/2008003361-d.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0907/2008003361-t.html
ER  -