Bryman, Alan.

Social Research Methods / Alan Bryman. - 3rd ed. - Oxford. ; New York. : Oxford University Press, c2008. - xxxix, 748 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.

Text accompanied by a companion web site.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [700]-725) and indexes.

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.

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Social sciences--Research.
Social sciences--Methodology.

H62 / .B787 2008

300.72