Need to Know: Social Science Research MethodsThis accessible, alternative approach to mainstream Research Methods titles is written for students who will need to interpret social research in their careers and, more than likely, have opportunities to do research. The book’s focus is on equipping students with the tools both to evaluate research done by others and to do their own research. Exercises in the text help students develop skills and strategies for research, including Internet assignments for finding and evaluating sources. The text provides students with a solid grounding in the relevant aspects of the philosophy of science and thoroughly explains the differences between quantitative and qualitative research methods. |
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An Introduction | 1 |
How You Know Is Crucial | 2 |
Why You Need to Know | 9 |
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aggressive impulses agree or disagree answer categories attitudes behavior called cause Chapter Review closed-ended questions confidentiality control group create dependent variable describe dorm effect ethical example experiment experimental explain fact fallacy Figure gender grade human Humphreys hypothesis important income informed consent Institutional Review Boards internal validity interview KEY CONCEPTS level of measurement Maria McIntyre mean measure Multistage Sampling nonprobability sampling nonqualitative Nuremberg Code observe occupation operationalized participate people's person police population pre-test problem professional Project Camelot qualitative research questionnaire randomly relationship research methods research subjects respondents REVIEW EXERCISE sample statistics sampling frame sampling technique scientific Simple Random Sampling social research social scientists sociologists sociology sort specific statistics STOP AND REVIEW strategy stratified Suppose survey Table TEST YOUR UNDERSTANDING theory thing unobtrusive women words write