The practice of social research / (Record no. 2515)
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| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 1133049796 |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9781133049791 |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 1133050093 (pbk.) |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9781133050094 (pbk.) |
| DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 300.721 |
| MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Babbie, Earl R. |
| TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The practice of social research / |
| EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | Thirteenth edition. |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xxiii, 584 pages : |
| Other physical details | illustrations ; |
| GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Previous edition: 2010. |
| FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Note continued: Evaluating the Quality of Qualitative Research -- Ethics and Qualitative Data Analysis -- ch. 14 Quantitative Data Analysis -- Introduction -- Quantification of Data -- Developing Code Categories -- Codebook Construction -- Data Entry -- Univariate Analysis -- Distributions -- Central Tendency -- Dispersion -- Continuous and Discrete Variables -- Detail versus Manageability -- Subgroup Comparisons -- "Collapsing" Response Categories -- Handling "Don't Knows" -- Numerical Descriptions in Qualitative Research -- Bivariate Analysis -- Percentaging a Table -- Constructing and Reading Bivariate Tables -- Introduction to Multivariate Analysis -- Sociological Diagnostics -- Ethics and Quantitative Data Analysis -- ch. 15 The Logic of Multivariate Analysis -- Introduction -- The Origins of the Elaboration Model -- The Elaboration Paradigm -- Replication -- Explanation -- Interpretation -- Specification -- Refinements to the Paradigm -- Elaboration and Ex Post Facto Hypothesizing -- ch. 16 Statistical Analyses -- Introduction -- Descriptive Statistics -- Data Reduction -- Measures of Association -- Regression Analysis -- Inferential Statistics -- Univariate Inferences -- Tests of Statistical Significance -- The Logic of Statistical Significance -- Chi Square -- t-Test -- Some Words of Caution -- Other Multivariate Techniques -- Path Analysis -- Time-Series Analysis -- Factor Analysis -- Analysis of Variance -- Discriminant Analysis -- Log-Linear Models -- Odds-Ratio Analysis -- Geographic Information Systems (GIS) -- ch. 17 Reading and Writing Social Research -- Introduction -- Reading Social Research -- Organizing a Review of the Literature -- Reading Journals versus Books -- Evaluating Research Reports -- Using the Internet Wisely -- Some Useful Websites -- Searching the Web -- Evaluating the Quality of Internet Materials -- Citing Internet Materials -- Writing Social Research -- Some Basic Considerations -- Organization of the Report -- Guidelines for Reporting Analyses -- Going Public -- The Ethics of Reading and Writing Social Research -- Appendixes -- A. Using the Library -- B. GSS Household Enumeration Questionnaire -- C. Random Numbers -- D. Distribution of Chi Square -- E. Normal Curve Areas -- F. Estimated Sampling Error. |
| SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | A straightforward, comprehensive, and approachable guide to research as practiced by social scientists, the Thirteenth Edition of Babbie's "gold-standard" text gives you the tools you need to apply research concepts practically, as both a researcher and a consumer. Babbie emphasizes the process by showing you how to design and construct projects, introducing the various observation modes in use today, and answering critical questions about research methods--such as how to conduct online surveys and analyze both qualitative and quantitative data -- |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Social sciences |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Social sciences |
| ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1506/2011925964-t.html |
| ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1506/2011925964-d.html |
| ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1506/2011925964-b.html |
| ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Permanent Location | Current Location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Gabriel Afolabi Ojo Central Library (Headquarters). | Gabriel Afolabi Ojo Central Library (Headquarters). | 02/01/2023 | H62 .T44 2013 | 0161531 | Books |