Payne, Geoff creator text bibliography enk Oxford New York Oxford University Press 2008 3rd ed. monographic eng

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xlii, 748 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm. Social research strategies -- Research designs -- Planning a research project and formulating research questions -- Getting started : reviewing the literature -- Ethics and politics in social research -- 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 -- Mixed methods research : combining quantitative and qualitative research -- E-research : using the internet as object and method of data collection -- Writing up social research. Text accompanied by a companion web site. Includes bibliographical references (p. [700]-725) and indexes. Social sciences Research Social sciences Methodology H62 .B787 2008 300.72 9780761965435 2008003361 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0907/2008003361-b.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0907/2008003361-d.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0907/2008003361-t.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0907/2008003361-b.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0907/2008003361-d.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0907/2008003361-t.html DLC 080123 20160831093133.0 15151405