The SAGE Handbook of Applied Social Research Methods
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The Second Edition of The SAGE Handbook of Applied Social Research Methods provides students and researchers with the most comprehensive resource covering core methods, research designs, and data collection, management, and analysis issues. This thoroughly revised edition continues to place critical emphasis on finding the tools that best fit the research question given the constraints of deadlines, budget, and available staff.
Each chapter offers guidance on how to make intelligent and conscious tradeoffs so that one can refine and hone the research question as new knowledge is gained, unanticipated obstacles are encountered, or contextual shifts take place. Each chapter has been enhanced pedagogically to include more step-by-step procedures, more practical examples from various settings to illustrate the method, parameters to define when the method is most appropriate and when it is not appropriate.
The editors also include numerous graphs, models, tip boxes to provide teaching and learning tools. Key Features of the Second Edition Emphasizes applying research techniques, particularly in "real-world" settings in which there are various data, money, time, and political constraints Contains new chapters on mixed methods, qualitative comparative analysis, concept mapping, and internet data collection Offers a newly developed section that serves as a guide for students who are attempting to translate the content in the chapters into action Intended Audience This Handbook is appropriate for introductory and intermediate research methods courses that focus intently on practical applications and a survey of the many methods available to budding researchers.
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- SAGE Publications, Inc. (US)
- 9781412973311
- 9781412950312
- Page Fidelity (PDF)
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- Leonard Bickman; Debra J. Rog
- English
- 2008-08-27
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- Contents
- Introduction: Why a Handbook of Applied Social Research Methods?
- Part I - Approaches to Applied Research
- Chapter 1 - Applied Research Design: A Practical Approach
- Chapter 2 - Design Sensitivity: Statistical Power for Applied Experimental Research
- Chapter 3 - Practical Sampling
- Chapter 4 - Planning Ethically Responsible Research
- Part II - Applied Research Designs
- Chapter 5 - Randomized Controlled Trials for Evaluation and Planning
- Chapter 6 - Quasi-Experimentation
- Chapter 7 - Designing a Qualitative Study
- Chapter 8 - How to Do Better Case Studies: (With Illustrations From 20 Exemplary Case Studies)
- Chapter 9 - Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches to Research
- Chapter 10 - Organizational Diagnosis
- Chapter 11 - Research Synthesis and Meta-Analysis
- Part III - Practical Data Collection
- Chapter 12 - Design and Evaluation of Survey Questions
- Chapter 13 - Internet Survey Methods
- Chapter 14 - Concept Mapping for Applied Social Research
- Chapter 15 - Mail Surveys
- Chapter 16 - Methods for Sampling and Interviewing in Telephone Surveys
- Chapter 17 - Ethnography
- Chapter 18 - Group Depth Interviews: Focus Group Research
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- About the Editors
- About the Contributors