TY - BOOK AU - Bryman, Alan TI - Social research methods SN - 0199264465 U1 - 300.072 PY - 2004/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Social sciences--Research KW - Social sciences--Methodology N1 - 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 ER -