The SAGE handbook of applied social research methods

"Provides students and researchers with a comprehensive resource that covers core methods, research designs and data collection, management, and analysis issues. The only handbook to focus on the multimethod and interdisciplinary application of social research, it covers both qualitative and qu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bickman, Leornard , 1941- (Author), Rog, Debra J. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications , c2009
Edition:2nd ed
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Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Applied research design : a practical approach
  • 2. Design sensitivity : statistical power for applied experimental research
  • 3. Practical sampling
  • 4. Planning ethically responsible research
  • 5. Randomized controlled trials for evaluation and planning
  • 6. Quasi-experimentation
  • 7. Designing a qualitative study
  • 8. How to do better case studies (with illustrations from 20 exemplary case studies)
  • 9. Integrating qualitative and quantitative approaches to research
  • 10. Organizational diagnosis
  • 11. Research synthesis and meta-analysis
  • 12. Design and evaluation of survey questions
  • 13. Internet survey methods
  • 14. Concept mapping for applied social research
  • 15. Mail surveys
  • 16. Methods for sampling and interviewing in telephone surveys
  • 17. Ethnography
  • 18. Group depth interviews : focus group research