Babbie, Earl R.

The Practice of Social Research / Earl Babbie - 13th Ed - Belmont, CA : Cengage Learning India Pvt, Ltd c2013 - xxiii, 584 p. : ill. ; 24 cm - Windy Dryden (Editor) .

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Part I: An introduction to inquiry. Human inquiry and science ; Paradigms, theory, and social research ; The ethics and politics of social research -- Part II: The structuring of inquiry : quantitative and qualitative. Research design ; Conceptualization, operationalization, and measurement ; Indexes, scales, and typologies ; The logic of sampling -- Part III: Modes of operation : quantitative and qualitative. Experiments ; Survey research ; Qualitative field research ; Unobtrusive research ; Evaluation research -- Part IV: Analysis of data : quantitative and qualitative. Qualitative data analysis ; Quantitative data analysis ; The logic of multivariate analysis ; Statistical analyses ; Reading and writing social research -- Appendixes: A: Using the library ; B: GSS household enumeration questionnaire ; C: Random numbers ; D: Distribution of Chi square ; E: Normal curve areas ; F: Estimated sampling error

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Social Science - Research Methodology--Social Science - Methodology
Methodology - Social Science
Research Methology - Social Science
Social Sciences

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