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Social research methods / Alan Bryman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.Edition: 4th edDescription: xli, 766 p. : ill. ; 27 cmISBN:
  • 9780199588053 (pbk.)
  • 0199588058 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • H62 .B787 2012
Contents:
The nature and process of social research -- Social research strategies -- Research designs -- Planning a research project and formulating research questions -- getting started:review of 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 IBM SPSS for Windows -- The nature of qualitative research -- Sampling in qualitative research -- Ethnography and particular 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 qualitative and qualitative research -- E-research:internet research methods -- Writing up social research.
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Books Books Zetech Library - Ruiru Campus Reference Non-fiction H62 .B787 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) C1 Not For Loan Z003638

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [718]-743) and indexes.

The nature and process of social research -- Social research strategies -- Research designs -- Planning a research project and formulating research questions -- getting started:review of 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 IBM SPSS for Windows -- The nature of qualitative research -- Sampling in qualitative research -- Ethnography and particular 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 qualitative and qualitative research -- E-research:internet research methods -- Writing up social research.

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