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The practice of social research

A text for an undergraduate course. Learning features include main points, key terms, review questions and exercises, and Internet activities, as well as unique "holographic overviews," presenting the whole book in one sentence, in a paragraph, in a page, and finally with a few paragraphs per chapter. This ninth edition strengthens treatment of qualitative methods, with material on major paradigms used today, a new chapter on qualitative data analysis, combined presentation of conceptualization and operationalization, and a new appendix on SPSS 8.0. The author is affiliated with Chapman University. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Print Book, English, ©2004
10th ed
Thomson/Wadsworth, Belmont, CA, ©2004