TY  - BOOK
AU  - Babbie, Earl
TI  - The Practice of social research
SN  - 9788131520116
U1  - 300.72 BAB(PRA)Ed13 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Delhi
PB  - Cengage
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - SOCIAL RESEARCH
N1  - CONTENTS
Part 1: An Introduction to Inquiry

1. Science and Social Research

2. Social Inquiry: Ethics and Politics

3. Inquiry, Theory, and Paradigms

Part 2: The Structuring of Inquiry: Quantitative and Qualitative

4. Purpose and Design of Research Projects

5. Sampling Logic

6. From Concept of Measurement

7. Typologies, Indexes, and Scales

Part 3: Modes of Observation: Quantitative and Qualitative

8. Surveys

9. Experiments and Experimentation

10. Unobtrusive Measures

11. Paradigms, Methods, and Ethics of Qualitative Field Research

12. Evaluation Research: Types, Methods, and Issues

Part 4: Analysis of Data: Quantitative and Qualitative

13. Analyzing Qualitative Data

14. Analyzing Quantitative Data

15. Origins and Paradigm of the Elaboration Model

16. Methods of Statistical Analysis

17. Consuming and Creating Social Research
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