Preparing students to do research and understand what research can do.
Basics of Social Research helps students understand what research can and cannot do, become better consumers of research, and learn why properly conducted research is important.
This text teaches students to be better consumers of research results and understand how the research enterprise works, preparing them to conduct small research projects. Upon completing this text, students will gain an awareness of the capabilities and restrictions of research, and learn why properly conducted research is important. Using clear, accessible language and examples from real research, this text discusses both qualitative and quantitative approaches to social research, emphasizing the benefits of combining various approaches.
Learning Goals
Upon completing this book, readers should be able to:
- Recognize that social research is simultaneously a very important enterprise and one that is not beyond you — you can understand it
- Become better consumers and understand what research can and cannot do
- Learn how to properly conducted research
- Acquire a foundation for further learning about doing research and understand that this activity requires dedication, creativity, and mature judgment
Note: MySearchLab does not come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase MySearchLab, please visit: www.mysearchlab.com or you can purchase a ValuePack of the text + MySearchLab with Pearson eText (at no additional cost). ValuePack ISBN-10: 0205863671/ ValuePack ISBN-13: 9780205863679
- ISBN10 0205085946
- ISBN13 9780205085941
- Publish Date 25 August 2011 (first published 27 August 2003)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 24 June 2013
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Pearson
- Edition 3rd edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 432
- Language English