Social Research Methods - Bryman Alan

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Résumé :
Now in its fourth edition, this market-leading textbook continues to provide students with an excellent explanation and demonstration of the main theories and techniques in social research methods.

Biographie:
Alan Bryman is Professor of Organisational and Social Research at the University of Leicester

Sommaire:
Part One; 1 The nature and process of social research; 2 Social research strategies; 3 Research designs; 4 Planning a research project and formulating research questions; 5 Getting started: Reviewing the literature; 6 Ethics and politics in social research; Part Two; 7 The nature of quantitative research; 8 Sampling; 9 Structured interviewing; 10 Self-completion questionnaires; 11 Asking questions; 12 Structured observation; 13 Content analysis; 14 Secondary analysis and official statistics; 15 Quantitative data analysis; 16 Using SPSS for Windows; Part Three; 17 The nature of qualitative research; 18 Sampling in qualitative research; 19 Ethnography and participant observation; 20 Interviewing in qualitative research; 21 Focus groups; 22 Language in qualitative research; 23 Documents as sources of data; 24 Qualitative data analysis; 25 Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis: using NVivo; Part Four; 26 Breaking down the quantitative/qualitative divide; 27 Mixed methods research: combining quantitative and qualitative research; 28 E-research: Internet research methods; 29 Writing up social research