1. How Do We Know What We Know? Science as a Superior Way of Knowing
2. The Language of Science and Research: Learning to Talk the Talk and Walk the Walk
3. Ethics: It’s the Right Thing To Do
4. Designing Ideas: What Do We Want to Know and How Can We Get There?
5. Measure by Measure: Developing Measures—Making the Abstract Concrete
6. All That Glitters Is Not Gold: Assessing the Validity and Reliability of Measures
7. One Thing Leads to Another. . . or Does it? Tackling Causal Analysis
8. The Questionnaire: Would You Mind Taking the Time to Answer a Few Questions?
9. Having the Talk: Person to Person Information Exchanges
10. Field Research: Welcome to My World
11. Sample This! How Can So Few Tell Us About So Many?
12. Show Me the Numbers: Descriptive Statistics and Inferential Statistics
13. Pulling it Together: A Final Synthesis
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Introducing social research methods : essentials for getting the edge by Janet M. Ruane. ISBN 9781118874233. Published by Wiley Blackwell in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
