Bryman, Alan. <br/><br/>
Social research methods / 
Alan Bryman. 
 - 3rd ed. 
 - Oxford ;  New York:  Oxford University Press,  2008. 
 - xlii, 748 p. :  col. ill. ;  27 cm. 
<br/><br/> Text accompanied by a companion web site. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Social research strategies -- Research designs -- Planning a research project and formulating research questions -- Getting started: reviewing the literature -- Ethics and politics in social research -- The nature of quantitative research -- Sampling -- Structured interviewing -- Self-completion questionnaires -- Asking questions -- Structured observation -- Content analysis -- Secondary analysis and official statistics -- Quantitative data analysis -- Using SPSS for windows -- The nature of qualitative research -- Ethnography and participant observation -- Interviewing in qualitative research -- Focus groups -- Language in qualitative research -- Documents as sources of data -- Qualitative data analysis -- Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis: using NVivo -- Breaking down the quantitative/qualitative divide -- Mixed methods research: combining quantitative and qualitative research -- E-research: using the internet as object and method of data collection -- Writing up social research. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780199202959 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2008-003361 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Social sciences--Research.<br/>Social sciences--Methodology.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>H62  / .B787 2008 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>300.72