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Doing your own research / Eileen Kane and Mary O\'Reilly-de Brún

By: Kane, Eileen.
Contributor(s): Brún, Mary O\'Reilly-de.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Marion Boyars, 2001 (2005 printing)Description: vi, 462 p. ; 22 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0714530433.Subject(s): Social sciences -- ResearchDDC classification: 300.72
Contents:
Part I: Before you begin -- The book, the people, the places -- Social research: the big debate -- Part II: Getting ready to do research -- What will you study? -- Do you want to describe something? -- Do you want to explain or predict something? -- Who will be in your study? -- Part III: Techniques and strategies: the basic tools -- Chosing your techniques and strategies -- Getting help from the library and the internet -- Giving a survey -- Using measures, scales and indices -- Interviewing people -- Using case studies and participant observation -- Trying some other qualitative approaches -- Doing participatory research -- Organizing your qualitative information -- Part IV: Making sense of your results -- Analyzing your qualitative information -- Analyzing your quantitative information -- Sharing your findings.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

New, completely revised second edition .

If you want to do research and aspire to academic ability, this book is for you - it will guide and challenge you, and keep you on the straight and narrow path of academic integrity.

Doing Your Own Research is an essential reference tool for the student researcher. A complete A to Z of research, it explains all stages of a research project; from developing the basic idea to collecting the information and producing the final paper.

In a method unique to this book, the author shows how to convert an idea for research into a researchable statement and from that into a guide to the data to be collected. The technique can be applied to a wide range of descriptive research projects spanning academic, business, community, voluntary and personal interests.

Knowing how to get information is a source of power in modern society. One of the primary aims of the book is to enable individuals and community groups with no previous experience to do their own research in a professional and satisfying way.

"This book should have a wide appeal."? Times Educational Supplement

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Before you begin -- The book, the people, the places -- Social research: the big debate -- Part II: Getting ready to do research -- What will you study? -- Do you want to describe something? -- Do you want to explain or predict something? -- Who will be in your study? -- Part III: Techniques and strategies: the basic tools -- Chosing your techniques and strategies -- Getting help from the library and the internet -- Giving a survey -- Using measures, scales and indices -- Interviewing people -- Using case studies and participant observation -- Trying some other qualitative approaches -- Doing participatory research -- Organizing your qualitative information -- Part IV: Making sense of your results -- Analyzing your qualitative information -- Analyzing your quantitative information -- Sharing your findings.

CIT Module EDUC 8039 - Core reading.

CIT Module PSYC 7005 - Core reading

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Acknowledgements (p. vi)
  • Part I. Before You Begin
  • 1 The Book, the People, the Places (p. 3)
  • Who Should Use This Book (p. 4)
  • About the Book (p. 5)
  • About the People and the Places in the Book (p. 7)
  • 2 Social Research: the Big Debate (p. 12)
  • How Do We Know About the World? (p. 14)
  • Is Social Science a Science? (p. 21)
  • Where Does Theory Fit In? (p. 23)
  • Part II. Getting Ready to Do Research
  • 3 What Will You Study? (p. 31)
  • Finding Your Research Idea (p. 32)
  • Clarifying the Goals and Purpose of Your Research (p. 33)
  • Choosing Your Perspective (p. 35)
  • 4 Do You Want to Describe Something? (p. 44)
  • Etic Approach (p. 44)
  • Developing a Rough Research Idea and Refining It (p. 45)
  • Creating a Research Statement or Hypothesis (p. 46)
  • Identifying the Sub-topics for Study (p. 48)
  • Putting the Outline in Perspective (p. 53)
  • Making Decisions About Sources of Information (p. 57)
  • Making Decisions About Information-Gathering Techniques (p. 59)
  • Emic Approach (p. 60)
  • 5 Do You Want to Explain or Predict Something? (p. 68)
  • Cause and Effect Studies (p. 69)
  • Experimental Designs (p. 71)
  • Causation (p. 79)
  • Choosing Your Experimental Design (p. 87)
  • Analytical Survey Designs (p. 88)
  • 6 Who Will be in Your Study? (p. 94)
  • Probability Sampling (p. 95)
  • Non-probability Sampling (p. 99)
  • Sample Size (p. 102)
  • Sampling and Non-sampling Errors (p. 103)
  • Part III. Techniques and Strategies
  • 7 Choosing your techniques and strategies (p. 107)
  • Your Research Strategy (p. 107)
  • Your Research Techniques (p. 111)
  • Style (p. 120)
  • Working With 'Insiders' and Learning From Their Knowledge (p. 124)
  • Ethics (p. 124)
  • 8 Getting Help From the Library and the Internet (p. 128)
  • The Library (p. 130)
  • The Internet (p. 132)
  • 9 Giving a Survey (p. 149)
  • Surveys and Questionnaires (p. 150)
  • Mini Surveys (p. 154)
  • Postal Surveys and Drop-off Surveys (p. 176)
  • Telephone Surveys (p. 179)
  • Special Considerations for Non-Western Cultural Groups (p. 180)
  • Looking Back at Our Interview (p. 180)
  • 10 Using Measures, Scales, and Indices (p. 183)
  • Using Scales and Indices (p. 183)
  • Some Warnings (p. 185)
  • Types of Scales (p. 187)
  • 11 Interviewing People (p. 198)
  • Introduction to Qualitative Techniques (p. 198)
  • Unstructured or Informal Interviewing (p. 199)
  • Cultural Bias (p. 208)
  • 12 Using Case Studies and Participant Observation (p. 215)
  • Case Studies (p. 215)
  • Participant Observation (p. 217)
  • 13 Trying Some Other Qualitative Approaches (p. 228)
  • Story Completion or Sentence Completion Devices (p. 228)
  • Pictures (p. 229)
  • Games (p. 230)
  • Traditional Stories (p. 231)
  • Drawing (p. 231)
  • Role-play and Figures (p. 232)
  • Content Analysis (p. 232)
  • 14 Doing Participatory Research (p. 236)
  • Rapid Rural Appraisal and Participatory Learning and Action (p. 237)
  • Uses of RRA and PLA (p. 239)
  • Comparisons With Conventional Methods (p. 239)
  • Stages in an RRA Project (p. 240)
  • Stages in a PLA Project (p. 243)
  • Analyzing RRA and PLA findings (p. 243)
  • A Sample PLA Project (p. 243)
  • Advantages, Disadvantages, and Dangers of RRA and PLA (p. 265)
  • The Philosophical and Ideological Foundations of RRA and PLA (p. 266)
  • How You Can Use RRA and PRA as Part of a Larger Study (p. 267)
  • PLA Sources and Contacts (p. 267)
  • 15 Organizing Your Qualitative Information (p. 270)
  • Written Notes (p. 270)
  • Tape Recording (p. 281)
  • Video Recording (p. 281)
  • Conclusion (p. 282)
  • Part IV. Making Sense of Your Results
  • 16 Analyzing Your Qualitative Information (p. 287)
  • Ways to Look at Your Material (p. 288)
  • Stages of Data Analysis (p. 290)
  • Computer Programs for Qualitative Analysis (p. 308)
  • What Next? (p. 308)
  • 17 Quantitative Analysis (p. 311)
  • Univariate Analysis: Frequency Distributions (p. 313)
  • Bivariate Analysis: Association and Correlation (p. 323)
  • Using Descriptive Statistics (p. 333)
  • Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Data (p. 335)
  • 18 Sharing Your Findings (p. 338)
  • Report, Talk, or Workshop? (p. 339)
  • Length (p. 340)
  • Balancing the Emphases in the Report (p. 340)
  • Format (p. 344)
  • Circulating the Study (p. 349)
  • Using the Results (p. 351)
  • Appendix Grid for Assessing a Problem (p. 354)
  • Index (p. 359)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Eileen Kane established the first department of anthropology in Ireland and is now president of GroundWork
Mary O'Reilly-de Brun is an anthropologist and Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) practitioner and trainer this is the book for you'

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