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The Resource Strategies of social research : the methodological imagination, H.W. Smith

Strategies of social research : the methodological imagination, H.W. Smith

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xx, 423 pages
Note
Includes indexes
Contents
  • Ethics of research --Ethical commitments in social and behavioral research
  • Formulating a research problem
  • Relations of theory to research
  • Generating testable theory
  • Improving data quality
  • Basic considerations
  • Reliability, validity, and operationalization
  • Experimental principles, variations, and approximations
  • Sampling: the search for typicality
  • On measurement and scaling
  • The production of data
  • Surveys: use and misuse of the interview and questionnaire
  • Structured observation
  • Strategies of field research
  • Simulation and gaming
  • Triangulation: the necessity for multimethod approaches
  • Evaluation research
  • Analysis and presentation of data
  • Strategies and logic of data analysis
Isbn
9780138511470
Instance
Label
Strategies of social research : the methodological imagination
Title
Strategies of social research
Title remainder
the methodological imagination
Statement of responsibility
H.W. Smith
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Subject
Language
eng
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DLC
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1943-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Smith, H. W.
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
HM48
LC item number
.S55
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
Series statement
Prentice-Hall methods of social science series.
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Sociology
  • Sociology
  • Sociologie
  • Sociologie
  • Sociology
  • Sociology
  • Sociaal-wetenschappelijk onderzoek
  • Methodologie
  • Empirische Sozialforschung
  • Forschungsmethode
  • Theoriebildung
Label
Strategies of social research : the methodological imagination, H.W. Smith
Instantiates
Publication
Note
Includes indexes
Bibliography note
Bibliography: p. 389-410
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volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Ethics of research --Ethical commitments in social and behavioral research -- Formulating a research problem -- Relations of theory to research -- Generating testable theory -- Improving data quality -- Basic considerations -- Reliability, validity, and operationalization -- Experimental principles, variations, and approximations -- Sampling: the search for typicality -- On measurement and scaling -- The production of data -- Surveys: use and misuse of the interview and questionnaire -- Structured observation -- Strategies of field research -- Simulation and gaming -- Triangulation: the necessity for multimethod approaches -- Evaluation research -- Analysis and presentation of data -- Strategies and logic of data analysis
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
xx, 423 pages
Isbn
9780138511470
Lccn
74034280
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • (OCoLC)01174642
  • (OCoLC)ocm01174642
Label
Strategies of social research : the methodological imagination, H.W. Smith
Publication
Note
Includes indexes
Bibliography note
Bibliography: p. 389-410
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Ethics of research --Ethical commitments in social and behavioral research -- Formulating a research problem -- Relations of theory to research -- Generating testable theory -- Improving data quality -- Basic considerations -- Reliability, validity, and operationalization -- Experimental principles, variations, and approximations -- Sampling: the search for typicality -- On measurement and scaling -- The production of data -- Surveys: use and misuse of the interview and questionnaire -- Structured observation -- Strategies of field research -- Simulation and gaming -- Triangulation: the necessity for multimethod approaches -- Evaluation research -- Analysis and presentation of data -- Strategies and logic of data analysis
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
xx, 423 pages
Isbn
9780138511470
Lccn
74034280
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • (OCoLC)01174642
  • (OCoLC)ocm01174642

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