Research Catalog

Title

Social research methods / Alan Bryman.

Author

Bryman, Alan.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

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Details

Description

xiv, 540 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

The book covers a wide range of research methods, approaches to research and ways of carrying out data analysis and provides practical advice on doing social research and explores the nature of social research.

Subject

• Social sciences > Research
• Social sciences > Methodology
• Social sciences
• Research
• Social Sciences
• Research
• social sciences
• research (function)
• 70.03 methods, techniques and organization of social science research
• Social sciences
• Social sciences > Methodology
• Social sciences > Research
• Sociaal-wetenschappelijk onderzoek
• Methodologie

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [511]-527) and indexes.

Contents

Part One : Social research strategies -- Research designs -- Part Two : 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 -- Part Three : The nature of qualitative research -- Ethnography and participant observation -- Interviewing in qualitative research -- Focus groups -- Language in qualitative research -- Focus groups -- Language in qualitative research -- Documents as sources of data -- Qualitative data analysis -- Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis: Using NVivo -- Part Four : Breaking down the quantitative/qualitative divide -- Combining quantitative and qualitative research -- Writing up social research -- Ethics in social research -- Conducting a small-scale project.

ISBN

• 019924698X
• 9780199246984
• 0198742045
• 9780198742043

LCCN

2001021259

OCLC

• ocm45736781
• 45736781
• SCSB-1219413

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library