How It’s Done: An Invitation to Social Research

by Emily Stier Adler, Roger Clark

This text provides balanced coverage of quantitative and qualitative methods of social research with a unique "behind the scenes" approach: chapters are built upon focal research pieces and excerpts from real research projects, and present the insights and perspectives of workers conducting real-world research. The text guides students through the many stages of social research--from selecting a researchable question and designing a study to selecting the best method of data analysis for a particular study--and prepares them for the ethical issues and problems that they may face along the way.

600 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

Reviews

[Toni Garcia]

Not a big fan of this book. I felt like I had to look up more terms online than this book gave me.

[Dominique]

Read this for my Human Development Research Methods class