Social Research Methods

The Essentials
Second Edition
Nicholas Stephen Robert Walliman - Oxford Brookes University, UK
Social Research Methods
December 2015 | 264 pages | Sage UK
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Nicholas Walliman is the supervisor in your students' pockets, making sure they understand all the essential methods for successfully carrying out a research project and negotiating the challenges and pitfalls. In this book, he:

· Takes students step-by-step through the research process

· Helps them formulate clear aims and objectives

· Explains all the vocabulary to understand the A – Z of research methods

· Ends each chapter with a reading guide for taking learning further with more resources to help get a deeper understanding of the issues discussed

· Improves research reports with practical advice on presenting findings in great tables, graphs and diagrams

· Opens his office door with reflective questions (and answers)

· Delivers the confidence to get started and get finished!

 Social Research Methods: The Essentials is the perfect starting point and guide for your students' research project.

Contents

PART ONE: PLANNING AND DESIGNING YOUR RESEARCH

  • Chapter 1: Theoretical background
  • Chapter 2: Research basics
  • Chapter 3: Research strategies and design
  • Chapter 4: The nature of data
  • Chapter 5: Doing a literature review
  • Chapter 6: Defining the research problem
  • Chapter 7: Ethics
  • Chapter 8: Writing a research proposal

PART TWO: COLLECTING AND ANALYSING YOUR DATA

  • Chapter 9: Sampling
  • Chapter 10: Data collection methods
  • Chapter 11: Quantitative data analysis
  • Chapter 12: Qualitative data analysis

PART THREE: WRITING UP YOUR RESEARCH

  • Chapter 13: Presenting Data Graphically
  • Chapter 14: Writing up a dissertation or research project

PART FOUR: SUCCEEDING IN YOUR RESEARCH METHODS COURSE

  • Chapter 15: How to get the most out of your lectures and seminars
  • Chapter 16: How to Get the Best out of Reading and Note Taking
  • Chapter 17: How to Write Great Essays

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Description

Nicholas Walliman is the supervisor in your students' pockets, making sure they understand all the essential methods for successfully carrying out a research project and negotiating the challenges and pitfalls. In this book, he:

· Takes students step-by-step through the research process

· Helps them formulate clear aims and objectives

· Explains all the vocabulary to understand the A – Z of research methods

· Ends each chapter with a reading guide for taking learning further with more resources to help get a deeper understanding of the issues discussed

· Improves research reports with practical advice on presenting findings in great tables, graphs and diagrams

· Opens his office door with reflective questions (and answers)

· Delivers the confidence to get started and get finished!

 Social Research Methods: The Essentials is the perfect starting point and guide for your students' research project.

Contents

PART ONE: PLANNING AND DESIGNING YOUR RESEARCH

  • Chapter 1: Theoretical background
  • Chapter 2: Research basics
  • Chapter 3: Research strategies and design
  • Chapter 4: The nature of data
  • Chapter 5: Doing a literature review
  • Chapter 6: Defining the research problem
  • Chapter 7: Ethics
  • Chapter 8: Writing a research proposal

PART TWO: COLLECTING AND ANALYSING YOUR DATA

  • Chapter 9: Sampling
  • Chapter 10: Data collection methods
  • Chapter 11: Quantitative data analysis
  • Chapter 12: Qualitative data analysis

PART THREE: WRITING UP YOUR RESEARCH

  • Chapter 13: Presenting Data Graphically
  • Chapter 14: Writing up a dissertation or research project

PART FOUR: SUCCEEDING IN YOUR RESEARCH METHODS COURSE

  • Chapter 15: How to get the most out of your lectures and seminars
  • Chapter 16: How to Get the Best out of Reading and Note Taking
  • Chapter 17: How to Write Great Essays

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The Essentials

Nicholas Stephen Robert Walliman
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December 2015 | 264 pages | Sage UK

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Nicholas Walliman is the supervisor in your students' pockets, making sure they understand all the essential methods for successfully carrying out a research project and negotiating the challenges and pitfalls. In this book, he:

· Takes students step-by-step through the research process

· Helps them formulate clear aims and objectives

· Explains all the vocabulary to understand the A – Z of research methods

· Ends each chapter with a reading guide for taking learning further with more resources to help get a deeper understanding of the issues discussed

· Improves research reports with practical advice on presenting findings in great tables, graphs and diagrams

· Opens his office door with reflective questions (and answers)

· Delivers the confidence to get started and get finished!

 Social Research Methods: The Essentials is the perfect starting point and guide for your students' research project.


Table Of Contents:

  • PART ONE: PLANNING AND DESIGNING YOUR RESEARCH
  • Chapter 1: Theoretical background
  • Chapter 2: Research basics
  • Chapter 3: Research strategies and design
  • Chapter 4: The nature of data
  • Chapter 5: Doing a literature review
  • Chapter 6: Defining the research problem
  • Chapter 7: Ethics
  • Chapter 8: Writing a research proposal
  • PART TWO: COLLECTING AND ANALYSING YOUR DATA
  • Chapter 9: Sampling
  • Chapter 10: Data collection methods
  • Chapter 11: Quantitative data analysis
  • Chapter 12: Qualitative data analysis
  • PART THREE: WRITING UP YOUR RESEARCH
  • Chapter 13: Presenting Data Graphically
  • Chapter 14: Writing up a dissertation or research project
  • PART FOUR: SUCCEEDING IN YOUR RESEARCH METHODS COURSE
  • Chapter 15: How to get the most out of your lectures and seminars
  • Chapter 16: How to Get the Best out of Reading and Note Taking
  • Chapter 17: How to Write Great Essays

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This text takes a well-balanced view of research in the social sciences and gives the reader a basic theoretical grounding and structure on which to develop their understanding of research and support their practices. The theory and methods discussed in this edition would be of interest to a wide range of disciplines where research considers the thoughts, feelings and actions of people.
Frances Tracy, Education Studies, Liverpool John Moores University

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