The SAGE Handbook of Applied Social Research MethodsThe Second Edition of The SAGE Handbook of Applied Social Research Methods provides students and researchers with the most comprehensive resource covering core methods, research designs, and data collection, management, and analysis issues. This thoroughly revised edition continues to place critical emphasis on finding the tools that best fit the research question given the constraints of deadlines, budget, and available staff. Each chapter offers guidance on how to make intelligent and conscious tradeoffs so that one can refine and hone the research question as new knowledge is gained, unanticipated obstacles are encountered, or contextual shifts take place. Each chapter has been enhanced pedagogically to include more step-by-step procedures, more practical examples from various settings to illustrate the method, parameters to define when the method is most appropriate and when it is not appropriate. The editors also include numerous graphs, models, tip boxes to provide teaching and learning tools. Key Features of the Second Edition
Intended Audience This Handbook is appropriate for introductory and intermediate research methods courses that focus intently on practical applications and a survey of the many methods available to budding researchers. |
Contents
Part I Approaches to Applied Research | 1 |
A Practical Approach | 3 |
Statistical Power for Applied Experimental Research | 44 |
Chapter 3 Practical Sampling | 77 |
Chapter 4 Planning Ethically Responsible Research | 106 |
Part II Applied Research Designs | 143 |
Chapter 5 Randomized Controlled Trials for Evaluation and Planning | 147 |
Chapter 6 QuasiExperimentation | 182 |
Part III Practical Data Collection | 371 |
Chapter 12 Design and Evaluation of Survey Questions | 375 |
Chapter 13 Internet Survey Methods | 413 |
Chapter 14 Concept Mapping for Applied Social Research | 435 |
Chapter 15 Mail Surveys | 475 |
Chapter 16 Methods for Sampling and Interviewing in Telephone Surveys | 509 |
Chapter 17 Ethnography | 543 |
Focus Group Research | 589 |
Chapter 7 Designing a Qualitative Study | 214 |
With Illustrations From 20 Exemplary Case Studies | 254 |
Chapter 9 Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches to Research | 283 |
Chapter 10 Organizational Diagnosis | 318 |
Chapter 11 Research Synthesis and MetaAnalysis | 344 |
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About the Editors | 651 |
About the Contributors | 652 |
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The SAGE Handbook of Applied Social Research Methods Leonard Bickman,Debra J. Rog Limited preview - 2008 |