Social research : issues, methods and process /
Tim May.
- 2nd ed.
- Buckingham : Open University Press, 1997.
- xii, 227 p. : ill. ; 2 5cm. + pbk.
Previous ed.: 1993.
Bibliography: (pages 195-218) and indexes.
Introduction -- Part I: Issues in social research -- Perspectives on social science research -- Social theory and social research -- Values and ethics in the research process -- Part II: Methods of social research -- Official statistics: topic and resource -- Social survey: design to analysis -- Interviewing: methods and process -- Participant observation: perspectives and practice -- Documentary research: excavations and evidence -- Comparative research: potential and problems.
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Social sciences--Research Social sciences--Research--Methodology Sociology--Research. Sociology--Methodology.