Strategies of social research : the methodological imagination / H.W. Smith.
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Englewood Cliffs, N.J. :
Prentice-Hall,
[1975]
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| Series: | Prentice-Hall methods of social science series.
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Table of Contents:
- Ethics of research
- Ethical commitments in social and behavioral research
- Formulating a research problem
- Relations of theory to research
- Generating testable theory
- Improving data quality
- Basic considerations
- Reliability, validity, and operationalization
- Experimental principles, variations, and approximations
- Sampling: the search for typicality
- On measurement and scaling
- The production of data
- Surveys: use and misuse of the interview and questionnaire
- Structured observation
- Strategies of field research
- Simulation and gaming
- Triangulation: the necessity for multimethod approaches
- Evaluation research
- Analysis and presentation of data
- Strategies and logic of data analysis.