TY - BOOK AU - Babbie,Earl R. TI - The practice of social research SN - 9781305104945 AV - H62 . B333 2016 PY - 2016///] CY - Boston, MA PB - Cengage Learning KW - Social sciences KW - Research KW - Methodology KW - fast N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 535-548) and index; An introduction to inquiry: Human inquiry and science ; Paradigms, theory, and social research ; The ethics and politics of social research -- The structuring of inquiry : quantitative and qualitative: Research design ; Conceptualization, operationalization, and measurement ; Indexes, scales, and typologies ; The logic of sampling -- Modes of operation : quantitative and qualitative: Experiments ; Survey research ; Qualitative field research ; Unobtrusive research ; Evaluation research -- Analysis of data : quantitative and qualitative: Qualitative data analysis ; Quantitative data analysis ; The logic of multivariate analysis ; Statistical analyses ; Reading and writing social research UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1510/2014944053-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1510/2014944053-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1510/2014944053-t.html ER -