Social research: theory, methods and techniques
Offering students an understanding of social research practice through appreciation of its foundations and methods, this text stretches from the philosophy of science to detailed descriptions of both qualitative and quantitative techniques.
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- Full title :Social research : theory, methods and techniques / Piergiorgio Corbetta ; translated from the Italian by Bernard Patrick.
Summary
Offering students an understanding of social research practice through appreciation of its foundations and methods, this text stretches from the philosophy of science to detailed descriptions of both qualitative and quantitative techniques.
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- Publication Date:2003.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):SAGE Publications
- Place of Publication:Thousand Oaks, Calif
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2003.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (vii, 328 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781847871169, 184787116X, 9780761972525, 0761972528
- oclc:ocn290532622
- LC Classification:H62
- Dewey Decimal:300.72
Table of Contents
pt. 1. The Logic of Social Research -- 1. Paradigms of Social Research -- 2. Quantitative and Qualitative Research -- pt. 2. Quantitative Techniques -- 3. From Theory to Empirical Research -- 4. Causality and Experimentation -- 5. The Survey -- 6. Scaling -- 7. Official Statistics -- 8. Sampling -- pt. 3. Qualitative Techniques -- 9. Participant Observation -- 10. The Qualitative Interview -- 11. The Use of Documents.
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