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Social research strategies
Research designs
Planning a research project and formulating research questions
Getting started : reviewing the literature
Ethics and politics in social research
The nature of quantitative research
Sampling
Structured interviewing
Self-completion questionnaires
Asking questions
Structured observation
Content analysis
Secondary analysis and official statistics
Quantitative data analysis
Using SPSS for windows
The nature of qualitative research
Ethnography and participant observation
Interviewing in qualitative research
Focus groups
Language in qualitative research
Documents as sources of data
Qualitative data analysis
Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis : using NVivo
Breaking down the quantitative/qualitative divide
Mixed methods research : combining quantitative and qualitative research
E-research : using the internet as object and method of data collection
Writing up social research.
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Social research methods by Alan Bryman. ISBN 9780199202959. Published by Oxford University Press in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
