Research Catalog

Title

Research in practice : applied methods for the social sciences / edited by Martin Terre Blanche, Kevin Durrheim, and Desmond Painter.

Publication

Cape Town, South Africa : UCT Press, 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Terre Blanche, M. J. (Martin J.)
• Durrheim, Kevin
• Painter, Desmond.

Description

x, 594 p. : ill.; 25 cm. +

Summary

This text is accompanied by audiovisual material (CD-ROM).

Subject

• Social sciences > Research
• Social sciences > Methodology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 566-586) and index.

System Details (note)

• System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM (Moonstats): Windows 95 or higher.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Section 1: The research process. Histories of the present: social science research in context -- Doing an information search -- Research design -- Ethical issues in social research -- Putting design into practice: writing and evaluating research proposals -- Publish or perish: disseminating your research findings -- Section 2: Quantitative research techniques. Collecting quantitative data: sampling and measuring -- Evaluating research design -- Basic quantitative analysis -- Jumping to conclusions: an overview of inferential statistical methods -- Multivariate data analysis -- Section 3: Qualitative research techniques. Why qualitative research? -- From encounter to text: collecting data in qualitative research -- First steps in qualitative data analysis -- Lived experience and interpretation: the balancing act in qualitative analysis -- Calling it a day: reaching conclusions in qualitative research -- Section 4: Research in applied contexts. Jobs and careers in social research -- Programme evaluation -- Participatory action research: a practical guide for realistic radicals -- Researching public policy -- Research methods in clinical research -- Assessment research -- Standpoint methodologies: Maxist, feminist, and black scholarship perspectives -- Postmodernism: a critical practice? -- Postcolonial African methods and interpretation.

ISBN

• 9781919713694
• 1919713697

OCLC

• 66241468
• SCSB-10450292

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library