TY  - BOOK
AU  - Babbie,Earl
TI  - The Practice of Social Research
SN  - 9788131520116
U1  - 001.42 
PY  - 2013///.
CY  - Belmont, CA : 
PB  - Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 
KW  - Social sciences -- Research
KW  - Social sciences -- Methodology
KW  - Research Design
N1  - Part 1: An Introduction to Inquiry
1. Science and Social Research
2. Social Inquiry: Ethics and Politics
3. Inquiry, Theory, and Paradigms; Part 2: The Structuring of Inquiry: Quantitative and Qualitative
4. Purpose and Design of Research Projects
5. Sampling Logic
6. From Concept of Measurement
7. Typologies, Indexes, and Scales; Part 3: Modes of Observation: Quantitative and Qualitative
8. Surveys
9. Experiments and Experimentation
10. Unobtrusive Measures
11. Paradigms, Methods, and Ethics of Qualitative Field Research
12. Evaluation Research: Types, Methods, and Issues; Part 4: Analysis of Data: Quantitative and Qualitative
13. Analyzing Qualitative Data
14. Analyzing Quantitative Data
15. Origins and Paradigm of the Elaboration Model
16. Methods of Statistical Analysis
17. Consuming and Creating Social Research
N2  - 	
A straightforward, comprehensive, and approachable guide to research as practiced by social scientists, the Thirteenth Edition of Babbie's "gold-standard" text gives you the tools you need to apply research concepts practically, as both a researcher and a consumer. Babbie emphasizes the process by showing you how to design and construct projects, introducing the various observation modes in use today, and answering critical questions about research methods--such as how to conduct online surveys and analyze both qualitative and quantitative data
ER  -