The practice of social research - Babbie, Earl R. (Boston, USA: Cengage Learning, 2016)
An introduction to inquiry: Human inquiry and science ; Paradigms, theory, and social research ; The ethics and politics of social research -- The structuring of inquiry : quantitative and qualitative: Research design ; Conceptualization, operationalization, and measurement ; Indexes, scales, and typologies ; The logic of sampling -- Modes of operation : quantitative and qualitative: Experiments ; Survey research ; Qualitative field research ; Unobtrusive research ; Evaluation research -- Analysis of data : quantitative and qualitative: Qualitative data analysis ; Quantitative data analysis ; The logic of multivariate analysis ; Statistical analyses ; Reading and writing social research.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 535-548) and index.
Keywords: Social sciences -- Research; Social sciences -- Methodology; Social sciences -- Methodology; Social sciences -- Research