Introducing research methodology : a beginner's guide a research project - Flick, Uwe, 1956- (Los Angeles : Sage, 2015)
Part I: Orientation -- Why Social Research? -- Worldviews in Social Research -- Ethical Issues in Social Research -- From Research Idea to Research Question -- Part II: Planning and design -- Reading and Reviewing the Literature -- Planning Social Research: Steps in the Research Process -- Designing Social Research -- Deciding on Your Methods -- Part III: Working with data -- Collecting Quantitative and Qualitative Data -- Analyzing Quantitative and Qualitative Data -- E-Research: Doing Social Research Online -- Triangulation and Mixed Methods -- Part IV: Reflection and writing -- What is Good Research? Evaluating Your Research Project -- Writing up Research and Using Results.
Previous edition: 2011. Originally published in German: Reinbek bei Hamburg : Rowohlt Verlag, 2009.
Translated from the German.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-284) and indexes.
Keywords: Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology; Social sciences -- Methodology; Social sciences -- Research; Research -- Methodology