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PrefaceAcknowledgementsCHAPTER 1: SCIENCE, SOCIETY, AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Learning About the Social World Avoiding Errors in Reasoning About the Social World Science and Social Science Alternative Research Orientations Strengths and Limitations of Social Research ConclusionsCHAPTER 2: THE PROCESS AND PROBLEMS OF SOCIAL RESEARCH Social Research Questions Social Research Foundations Theoretical Perspectives for Social Research Social Research Strategies Social Research Goals Social Research Proposals ConclusionsCHAPTER 3: RESEARCH ETHICS AND PHILOSOPHIES Historical Background Ethical Principles Philosophical Issues ConclusionsCHAPTER 4: CONCEPTUALIZATION AND MEASUREMENT Concepts Measurement Operations Levels of Measurement Evaluating Measures ConclusionsCHAPTER 5: SAMPLING Sample Planning Sampling Methods Sampling Distributions ConclusionsCHAPTER 6: RESEARCH DESIGN AND CAUSATION Research Design Alternatives Causal Explanation Criteria for Causal Explanations ConclusionsCHAPTER 7: EXPERIMENTS True Experiments Quasi-Experiments Nonexperiments Validity in Experiments Ethical Issues in Experimental Research ConclusionsCHAPTER 8: SURVEY RESEARCH Survey Research in the Social Sciences Writing Survey Questions Combining Questions in Indexes Designing Questionnaires Organizing Surveys Ethical Issues in Survey Research ConclusionsCHAPTER 9: QUALITATIVE METHODS: OBSERVING, PARTICIPATING, LISTENING Fundamentals of Qualitative Methods Participant Observation Systematic Observation Intensive Interviewing Focus Groups Combining Qualitative Methods Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods Ethical Issues in Qualitative Research ConclusionsCHAPTER 10: QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS Features of Qualitative Data Analysis Techniques of Qualitative Data Analysis Alternatives in Qualitative Data Analysis Visual Sociology Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Ethics in Qualitative Data Analysis ConclusionsCHAPTER 11: EVALUATION
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AND POLICY RESEARCH History of Evaluation Research Evaluation Basics Questions for Evaluation Research Design Decisions Ethics in Evaluations ConclusionsCHAPTER 12: HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE RESEARCH Overview of Unobtrusive Methods for Comparative and Historical Research Historical Social Science Methods Comparative Social Science Methods Demographic Analysis Ethical Issues in Historical and Comparative Research ConclusionsCHAPTER 13: SECONDARY DATA ANALYSIS AND CONTENT ANALYSIS Secondary Data Sources Challenges for Secondary Data Analysis Content Analysis Ethical Issues in Secondary Data Analysis and Content Analysis ConclusionsCHAPTER 14: QUANTITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS Introducing Statistics Preparing Data for Analysis Displaying Univariate Distributions Summarizing Univariate Distributions Analyzing Data Ethically: How Not to Lie With Statistics Cross-Tabulating Variables Regression Analysis Analyzing Data Ethically: How Not to Lie About Relationships ConclusionsCHAPTER 15: SUMMARIZING AND REPORTING RESEARCH Comparing Research Designs Writing Research Reporting Research Ethics, Politics, and Research Reports ConclusionsAPPENDIX A: SUMMARIES OF FREQUENTLY CITED RESEARCH ARTICLESAPPENDIX B: QUESTIONS TO ASK ABOUT A RESEARCH ARTICLEAPPENDIX C: HOW TO READ A RESEARCH ARTICLEAPPENDIX D: FINDING INFORMATIONAPPENDIX E: TABLE OF RANDOM NUMBERSBIBLIOGRAPHYGLOSSARY/INDEX
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Autoren-Porträt von Russell K. Schutt
Russell K. Schutt, Ph.D., is Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and Lecturer on Sociology in the Department of Psychiatry (Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center) at the Harvard Medical School. He completed his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. (1977) degrees at the University of Illinois at Chicago and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Sociology of Social Control Training Program at Yale University (1977-1979). In addition to Investigating the Social World: The Process and Practice of Research, now in its 6th edition, Making Sense of the Social World (with Dan Chambliss), and adaptations for the fields of social work (with Ray Engel) and criminology/criminal justice (with Ronet Bachman), he is the author of Organization in a Changing Environment, coeditor of The Organizational Response to Social Problems, and coauthor of Responding to the Homeless: Policy and Practice. He has authored and coauthored numerous journal articles, book chapters, and research reports on homelessness, service preferences and satisfaction, mental health, organizations, law, and teaching research methods. His recent funded research experience includes a National Cancer Institute-funded study of community health workers and recruitment for cancer clinical trials, a large translational research project for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health's Women's Health Network, a National Institute of Mental Health-funded study of housing alternatives for homeless persons diagnosed with severe mental illness, and evaluations of case management programs in the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and in the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health. His publications in peer-reviewed journals range in focus from the effect of social context on cognition, satisfaction and functioning to the service preferences of homeless persons and service personnel, the admission practices of craft unions, and the social factors in legal decisions.
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Autor:
Russell K. Schutt
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2009, Sixth Edition, 728 Seiten, Maße: 18,6 x 23,2 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Sage Publications Ltd.
- ISBN-10: 1412969409
- ISBN-13: 9781412969406
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