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Textbook Details
By Amy Blackstone
- Published
- February 2019
- Discipline
- Sociology Textbooks
- ISBN (Digital)
- 978-1-4533-9520-2
Brief Table of Contents
- Chapter 1: Sociological Inquiry
- Chapter 2: Linking Methods With Theory
- Chapter 3: Ethics in Research
- Chapter 4: Getting Started
- Chapter 5: Research Design
- Chapter 6: Defining and Measuring Concepts
- Chapter 7: Making Claims: Samples and Sampling
- Chapter 8: Survey Research: A Quantitative Technique
- Chapter 9: Interviews: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches
- Chapter 10: Field Research: A Qualitative Technique
- Chapter 11: Unobtrusive Research: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches
- Chapter 12: Additional Methods of Data Collection and Analysis
- Chapter 13: Sharing Your Work
- Chapter 14: Reading and Understanding Social Research
- Chapter 15: Research Methods in the Real World