TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bryman,Alan
TI  - Social research methods
SN  - 9780199202959 (pbk.) :
AV  - H62 
U1  - 300.72 BRY 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Research
KW  - Society
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Social research & statistics
KW  - thema
N1  - Previous ed.: 2004; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - Now in its third edition, this textbook continues to provide students with explanation and demonstration of the main approaches and techniques in social research methods. It shows students how to assess the contexts within which different research methods may be used, and how they should be implemented
ER  -