TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kane,Eileen
AU  - Brún,Mary O'Reilly-de
TI  - Doing your own research
SN  - 0714530433
AV  - H62 .K274 2005
PY  - 2001///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Marion Boyars
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Research
KW  - Social Sciences
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The Book, the People, the Places --; Social Research: the Big Debate --; How Do We Know About the World? --; Is Social Science a Science? --; Where Does Theory Fit In? --; Getting Ready to Do Research --; Finding Your Research Idea --; Clarifying the Goals and Purpose of Your Research --; Choosing Your Perspective --; Do You Want to Describe Something? --; Etic Approach --; Developing a Rough Research Idea and Refining It --; Creating a Research Statement or Hypothesis --; Identifying the Sub-topics for Study --; Putting the Outline in Perspective --; Making Decisions About Sources of Information --; Making Decisions About Information-Gathering Techniques --; Emic Approach --; Do You Want to Explain or Predict Something? --; Cause and Effect Studies --; Experimental Designs --; Causation --; Choosing Your Experimental Design --; Analytical Survey Designs --; Who Will be in Your Study? --; Probability Sampling --; Non-probability Sampling --; Sample Size --; Sampling and Non-sampling Errors --; Techniques and Strategies --; Choosing your techniques and strategies --; Your Research Strategy --; Your Research Techniques --; Style --; Working With 'Insiders' and Learning From Their Knowledge --; Ethics --; Getting Help From the Library and the Internet --; The Library --; The Internet --; Giving a Survey --; Surveys and Questionnaires --; Mini Surveys --; Postal Surveys and Drop-off Surveys --; Telephone Surveys --; Special Considerations for Non-Western Cultural Groups --; Looking Back at Our Interview --; Using Measures, Scales, and Indices --; Using Scales and Indices
ER  -