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Introducing research methodology : a beginner's guide to doing a research project / Uwe Flick.

By: Flick, Uwe, 1956-.
London : Sage Publications, ©2011Description: xx, 271 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9781849207812; 184920781X; 1849207801; 9781849207805.Uniform titles: Sozialforschung. English Subject(s): Social sciences -- Research | Research -- MethodologyDDC classification: 001.42/F64
Contents:
PART ONE: ORIENTATION -- Why Social Research? -- From Research Idea to Research Question -- Reading and Reviewing the Literature -- PART TWO: PLANNING AND DESIGN -- Planning Social Research: Steps of the Research Process -- Designing Social Research -- Deciding Your Methods -- PART THREE: WORKING WITH DATA -- Gathering Data: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches -- Analyzing Quantitative and Qualitative Data -- E-Research: Doing Social Research Online -- Integrated Social Research: Combination of Different Approaches -- PART FOUR: REFLECTION AND WRITING -- What Is Good Research? Evaluating Your Research Project -- Ethical Issues in Social Research -- Writing Research and Using Results
Summary: 'Introducing Research Methodology' gives readers the fundamental data collection and analysis skills that they need for their first project, as well as a good understanding of the research process as a whole.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [256]-263) and index.

PART ONE: ORIENTATION -- Why Social Research? -- From Research Idea to Research Question -- Reading and Reviewing the Literature -- PART TWO: PLANNING AND DESIGN -- Planning Social Research: Steps of the Research Process -- Designing Social Research -- Deciding Your Methods -- PART THREE: WORKING WITH DATA -- Gathering Data: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches -- Analyzing Quantitative and Qualitative Data -- E-Research: Doing Social Research Online -- Integrated Social Research: Combination of Different Approaches -- PART FOUR: REFLECTION AND WRITING -- What Is Good Research? Evaluating Your Research Project -- Ethical Issues in Social Research -- Writing Research and Using Results

'Introducing Research Methodology' gives readers the fundamental data collection and analysis skills that they need for their first project, as well as a good understanding of the research process as a whole.

College of Arts and Sciences

Originally published in German: Reinbek bei Hamburg : Rowohlt Verlag, c2009, under title: Sozialforschung : Methoden und Anwendungen.

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