Research Methods in the Social and Health Sciences Making Research Decisions

• Main Authors: Palys, Ted (Author), Atchison, Chris (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Thousand Oaks, United States SAGE Publications Inc 2021
• Subjects: Research Design; Social Sciences
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Research Methods in the Social and Health Sciences: Research Decisions, by Ted Palys and Chris Atchison, gives students a thorough, thoughtful, and highly readable introduction to the entire research process from start to finish. From its underlying premise that your research questions and objective...

Table of Contents:

• Perspectives on research - Getting started : developing research ideas - Getting specific : what's the plan? - Ethics in social and health - Sampling and recruitment - Eliminating rival plausible explanations : the experiment - From manipulative to analytic control : quasi-experimentation - Case study approaches - Survey and questionnaires - Interviews - Observation, ethnography, and participatory action research - Archival sources - Analyzing nonnumerical data - Analyzing numerical data - Disseminating your research