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Social research methods / Alan Bryman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.Edition: 3rd edDescription: xlii, 748 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cmISBN:
  • 9780199202959
  • 0199202958
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 300.72 22
LOC classification:
  • H62 .B787 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
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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Books Books Main Campus Library University of Eastern Africa, Baraton Main Stack H 62 .B787 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 72474
Books Books Main Campus Library University of Eastern Africa, Baraton Main Stack H 62 .B787 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 2 Available 72475

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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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