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Introducing Social Research Methods: Essentials for Getting the Edge

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Table Of Contents

Chapter 1: How Do We Know What We Know? Science as a Superior Way of Knowing

Chapter 2: The Language of Science and Research: Learning to Talk the Talk and Walk the Walk

Chapter 3: Ethics: It’s the Right Thing To Do

Chapter 4: Designing Ideas: What Do We Want to Know and How Can We Get There?

Chapter 5: Measure by Measure: Developing Measures—Making the Abstract Concrete

Chapter 6: All That Glitters Is Not Gold: Assessing the Validity and Reliability of Measures

Chapter 7: One Thing Leads to Another. . . or Does it? Tackling Causal Analysis

Chapter 8: The Questionnaire: Would You Mind Taking the Time to Answer a Few Questions?

Chapter 9: Having the Talk: Person to Person Information Exchanges

Chapter 10: Field Research: Welcome to My World

Chapter 11: Sample This! How Can So Few Tell Us About So Many?

Chapter 12: Show Me the Numbers: Descriptive Statistics and Inferential Statistics

Chapter 13: Pulling it Together: A Final Synthesis

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