Making sense of the social world : methods of investigation /
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| Author / Creator: | Chambliss, Daniel F. |
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Imprint: | Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Pine Forge Press, c2006. |
| Description: | xxv, 340 p. : ill. ; 24 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.). |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6245518 |
Table of Contents:
- Science, Society, and Social Research
- What Is the Problem?
- Can Social Scientists See the Social World More Clearly?
- How Well Have We Done Our Research? Are Our Answers Correct?
- Conclusion
- The Process and Problems of Social Research
- What Is the Question?
- What Is the Theory?
- What Is the Strategy?
- What Is the Design?
- But Is It Ethical?
- Conclusion
- Conceptualization and Measurement
- What Do We Have in Mind?
- How Will We Know When We've Found It?
- How Much Information Do We Really Have?
- Did We Measure What We Wanted To Measure?
- Conclusion
- Sampling
- What Sampling Method Should We Use?
- Conclusion
- Causation and Experimental Design
- Causal Explanation
- What Causes What?
- Why Experiment?
- What If a True Experiment Isn't Possible?
- What Are the Threats to Validity in Experiments?
- How Do Experimenters Protect Their Subjects?
- Conclusion
- Survey Research
- Why Is Survey Research So Popular?
- How Should We Write Survey Questions?
- How Should Questionnaires Be Designed?
- What Are the Alternatives for Administering Surveys?
- A Comparison of Survey Designs
- Ethical Issues in Survey Research
- Conclusion
- Qualitative Methods: Observing, Participating, Listening
- What Makes Methods "Qualitative"?
- How Does Participant Observation Become a Research Method?
- How Do You Conduct Intensive Interviews?
- How Do You Run Focus Groups?
- Ethical Issues in Qualitative Research
- Conclusion
- Qualitative Data Analysis
- What Is Distinctive About Qualitative Data Analysis?
- Techniques of Qualitative Data Analysis
- Alternatives in Qualitative Data Analysis
- Visual Sociology
- Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis
- Ethics in Qualitative Data Analysis
- Conclusions
- Quantitative Data Analysis
- Why Do Statistics?
- How to Prepare Data for Analysis
- What Are the Options for Displaying Univariate Distributions?
- What Are the Options for Summarizing Distributions?
- How Can We Tell Whether Two Variables Are Related?
- Analyzing Data Ethically: How Not to Lie with Statistics
- Conclusion
- Reviewing, Proposing, and Reporting Research
- Comparing Research Designs
- Reviewing Research
- Proposing New Research
- Reporting Research
- Conclusion
- Appendix A. Finding Information
- Appendix B. HyperRESEARCH(TM): A Software Tool for Qualitative Data Analysis
- Appendix C. Secondary Data Sources
- Appendix D. How to Use a Statistical Package
- References
- Glossary/Index
