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Basic Research Methods: An Entry to Social Science Research
This book offers a comprehensive and rounded view of research as a tool for logical problem-solving. It is built on the philosophical-pragmatic foundation that the value of knowledge and research methodologies lies in their usefulness in engaging with the real world. Synthesizing both positivist and non-positivist methodologies, this book is for students who are undertaking their first social science research course or their first research project. The techniques are basic ones, but many masters and doctoral research studies use them. From an experiential base, students would be able to build a more advanced conceptual and theoretical understanding of research through further reading and practice.
252 pages, Paperback
First published July 8, 2010
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July 24, 2017
I borrowed this from my research partner (he is a whiz at social science research methodology; I wrote a dissertation on the Victorian novel). He said it was probably more basic than I needed but I was feeling the need to start at the beginning.
He was right. This book would be amazing for its intended audience: someone just starting out with social science research. That's not me, though I do appreciate it as a review of things that I seem to have picked up along the way, but didn't know that I knew.
He was right. This book would be amazing for its intended audience: someone just starting out with social science research. That's not me, though I do appreciate it as a review of things that I seem to have picked up along the way, but didn't know that I knew.
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