Social research methods/
Alan Bryman
- 2nd ed.
- Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
- xiv, 592 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Social research strategies -- Research designs -- 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 SPSS for Windows -- The nature of qualitative research -- Ethnography and participant 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 -- Combining quantitative and qualitative research -- E-research : using the Internet as object and method of data collection -- Writing up social research -- Ethics and politics in social research -- Doing a research project.
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Social sciences--Research Social sciences--Methodology