Methods in social research /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York,
McGraw-Hill,
1952.
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| Series: | McGraw-Hill series in sociology and anthropology
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- The new sociology
- Science: theory and fact
- Values and science
- Science: pure and applied
- Basic elements of the scientific method: concepts
- Basic elements of the scientific method: hypothesis
- Design of proof: testing the hypothesis
- Further problems in research design
- Use of the library / by Joseph S. Komidar
- Observation
- Constructing a questionnaire
- The mailed questionnaire
- The interview
- Probability and sampling
- Scaling techniques: the basic problem
- Scaling techniques: social distance, sociometric, and rating scales
- Scaling techniques: ranking, internal consistency, and scalogram scales
- Research and population
- Some problems in qualitative and case analysis
- The analysis of data
- Preparing the report.