Approaches to Social Research is a leading resource for the teaching of social research methods to graduate students and advanced undergradutes in the social sciences, while providing important guidelines and "literacy" for researchers in sociology and related disciplines. Striking a balance between specific techniques and the underlying logic of social scientific inquiry, this book provides a lucid treatment of the four major approaches to research -- experimentation, survey research, field research, and the use of ...
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Approaches to Social Research is a leading resource for the teaching of social research methods to graduate students and advanced undergradutes in the social sciences, while providing important guidelines and "literacy" for researchers in sociology and related disciplines. Striking a balance between specific techniques and the underlying logic of social scientific inquiry, this book provides a lucid treatment of the four major approaches to research -- experimentation, survey research, field research, and the use of available data. While advocating a multiple-methods strategy that treats the approaches as complimentary rather than mutually exclusive, it furnishes a detailed account of the advantages and disadvantages, as well as the actual process, of carrying out research with each approach.
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