Social research methods / Alan Bryman.
Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008Edition: 3rd edDescription: xlii, 748 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cmISBN: 9780199202959; 0199202958Subject(s): Social sciences -- Research | Social sciences -- MethodologyDDC classification: 300.72 BRY LOC classification: H62 | .B787 2008Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Publisher description | Table of contents onlyItem type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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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.
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