The Research Craft: An Introduction to Social Science Methods
This book evaluates the increasingly wide variety of intellectual resources for research methods and methodologies and investigates what constitutes good educational research.
... social science research: policy sciences and futures research. Praeger, New York Birks S (2002) Submission to the ... introduction to Roy Bhaskar's philosophy. Verso, London Davis JB, Hands DW (eds) (2011) The Elgar companion to recent ...
They include Jill Dolan, Chris Eisgruber, Dave Lee, Nolan McCarty, Debbie Prentice, and Val Smith. ... I also thank Neal Beck, Andy Hall, Ryan Moore, and Marc Ratkovic for their comments on earlier versions of the manuscript.
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This is an invaluable beginner's guide to students in geography, political science, sociology, social policy, management, social psychology and related disciplines.
`The clarity, simplicity and use of many practical examples makes this book very useful, primarily for under- and postgraduate students′ - Journal of Biosocial Science With an emphasis on description, examples, graphs and displays rather ...
This text serves as a core or supplementary textbook for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in research methods for communication and social sciences and fills a gap for a methods text that is responsive to the desire of scholars ...
Quantitative Social Science is a practical introduction to data analysis and statistics written especially for undergraduates and beginning graduate students in the social sciences and allied fields, including business, economics, education ...
This clever scheme builds on Gorard's previous book, Quantitative Methods in Educational Research (June 2001). He has revised the original book in the light of experience and feedback, and then...