Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índices y glosario
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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