Social research : a simple guide /
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| Author / Creator: | Glicken, Morley D. |
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| Imprint: | Boston, MA : Allyn and Bacon, c2003. |
| Description: | xx, 282 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4775856 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgement
- Dedication
- 1. Why Bother Learning Research?
- The Excitement of Discovery
- Knowledge: Is Some Knowledge Better Than Other Knowledge?
- Inductive Versus Deductive Reasoning
- The Scientific Method
- Is the Scientific Method the Only Approach?
- Creativity and Science
- The Three Ways of Doing Research
- Pure and Applied Research
- 2. A Way of Viewing the Research Process: Research Paradigms
- The Four Paradigms
- Explanation, Usage, Examples of Each, Methodologies Used, Types of Data to Collect, Pros and Cons of Each Paradigm
- Which Paradigm Should You Choose for Your Research Project?
- 3. What's the Beef?
- A Look at Problem Formulations
- An Example of a Problem Formulation: Why Do So Few Men Enter the Helping Professions?
- A Feminist Response to the Problem Formulation
- The Moral of the Story
- Choosing a Research Problem
- Walking You Through the Problem of Finding and Formulating a Suitable Problem to Study
- Have You Chosen the Correct Problem?
- 4. The Research Proposal
- The Purpose of the Proposal
- The Content of the Proposal
- Choosing a Topic
- Issues to Consider When Choosing a Topic
- A Suggested Outline for the Proposal
- Constructivist Proposals
- Critical Theory Studies
- Evaluation Protocol for Research Proposals
- 5. The Literature Review
- Steps in Doing a Serious Literature Review
- Good and Bad Sources
- Commonly-Used Sources and Their Relative Quality
- How to Judge Well-Done Literature Reviews
- Plagiarism
- Locating Documents on the Internet
- Full-Text Data Bases in the Social Sciences
- Citations and Abstracts
- 6. Using Instruments to Measure Behavior
- Creating Your Own Instrument
- Using an Instrument Created by Others
- Six Types of Validity
- Determining Reliability (Test-Retest, Split-Half Method)
- Common Ways of Using Instruments
- Guidelines for Surveys
- 7. Examples of Research Instruments
- Instrument 1: A Vague Likert Scale: The Dakota Measure of Spirituality (Scale and Discussion)
- Instrument 2: A Behaviorally Oriented Likert Scale: The CES-D Measure of Depression: (Scale and Discussion)
- Instrument 3: The Use of Vignettes: The Mt
- Pleasant Crisis Scale (Scale and Discussion)
- Instrument 4: An Open-Ended Instrument: Disclosure of AIDS in Latino Families (Scale and Discussion)
- Making Sense Out of Open-Ended Answers
- The Importance of Cover Letters with Examples
- Sending Results Out to Respondents with an Actual Example
- 8. Tough Research: Quantitative Designs
- The Characteristics of Quantitative Research (6 Characteristics Explained)
- Comparison Between Experiment and Control Group
- Solomon Four-Group Designs
- Time Series Studies
- Quasi-Experimental Designs
- Survey Research
- Threats to Experimental Design
- 9. Qualitative Designs
- Rules of Qualitative Research
- Types of Qualitative Studies
- Conclusions
- 10. Sampling
- Sampling Bias and Sampling Error
- Sampling Terms: Statistic, Universe, Parameter, Population and Sa
