Guide to the Book
Special Features of the Book
Acknowledgments
Preface
PART I Fundamental Issues in Social Research
1. General Research Orientations
2. Research Designs
3. Research Ethics
Appendix to Part I The Ideal Stages of Research
PART II
Quantitative Research
4. The Nature of Quantitative Research
5. Survey Research: Interviews and Questionnaires
6. Structured Observation
7. Quantitative Sampling
8. Quantitative Data Analysis
PART III Qualitative Research
9. The Nature of Qualitative
Research
10. Ethnography and Participant Observation
11. Interviewing in Qualitative Research
12. Content Analysis
13. Qualitative Data Analysis
PART IV Transcending the Quantitative/Qualitative Divide and Some Practical Advice
14. Bridging the Quantitative/Qualitative
Divide
15. Conducting a Research Project
Appendix Using IBM SPSS Statistics and NVivo Software
Glossary
References
Index
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Edward Bell is a professor in the division of sociology and family studies at Brescia University College at Western University, where he teaches research methods, quantitative research, and statistics for sociology. He has published journal articles on topics as wide-ranging as personality,
religion, and politics. In addition to his work as the Canadian adaptor on three editions of Social Research Methods, he has published an academic book, Social Classes and Social Credit in Alberta, with McGill-Queen's University Press.
Steven Kleinknecht is the Acting Chair, School of
Behavioural and Social Sciences Coordinator, Family Studies and an associate professor of sociology at Brescia University College at Western University. He is the author of a number of publications, including The Craft of Qualitative Research: A Handbook. (Canadian Scholars Press © 2018).
The Research Process - Lori Wilkinson, Gary D. Bouma and Susan Carland
Making Sense in the Social Sciences - Margot Northey, Lorne Tepperman and Patrizia Albanese
Social Statistics in Action - Andrea M. Noack
An Introduction to Statistics for Canadian Social Scientists - Michael Haan and Jenny Godley
Writing in the Social Sciences - Jake Muller
Understanding Social Statistics - Lance W. Roberts, Jason Edgerton, Tracey Peter and Lori Wilkinson
SPSS Virtual Teaching Assistant - Hannah Scott