How to do social research / Audrey Dunsmuir and Lynn Williams.
By: Dunsmuir, Audrey.
Contributor(s): Williams, Lynn.
Material type: BookSeries: Sociology in action.Publisher: London : Collins Educational, 1991 (1997)Description: 127p : ill, facsims ; 27cm + pbk.ISBN: 000322242X.Subject(s): Sociology -- Methodology | Sociology -- ResearchDDC classification: 301.072Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 301.072 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00015486 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This text provides students with the knowledge, skills and understanding needed both to conduct their own research and to evaluate that of others. Sections include understanding and evaluating sociological research; doing your own sociological research; and study skills for a sociology course.
Originally published: London ; Unwin Hyman, 1990.
Bibliography: (page 124) and index.
Introduction: How to use this book -- Section 1: Understanding and evaluating sociological research -- Method A: Observation -- Method B: Social surveys -- Method C: Informal interviews -- Method D: Secondary data -- Method E: Using more than one method of research -- Section 2: Doing your own sociological research -- Section 3: Skills for a sociology course.