Designing social research : the logic of anticipation / Norman Blaikie.

By:

Blaikie, Norman W. H, 1933-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2000.Description: xiv, 338 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0745617662
9780745617664
0745617670
9780745617671

Subject(s):

Social sciences -- Methodology

DDC classification:

300/.7/2 21

Contents:

Introduction -- 1. Preparing research proposals and research designs -- 2. Designing social research -- 3. Research questions and objectives -- 4. Strategies for answering research questions -- 5. Concepts, theories, hypotheses and models -- 6. Sources and selection of data -- 7. Methods for answering research questions -- 8. Sample research designs -- Appendix: Examples of research topics and research questions.

Review: "This accessible text presents a comprehensive and integrated scheme for preparing research designs and proposals for students in the social sciences. The book is concerned with the planning of social research projects rather than how to conduct them, and in the process it connects the techniques of research with key methodological issues in the social sciences." "The author places particular emphasis on the formulation of research questions and the selection of appropriate research strategies (logics of enquiry) to answer them. He argues that other design decisions, such as the selection of data sources and methods of data collection and analysis, must be made in the light of the particular assumptions associated with each research strategy." "This book will be for social researchers, and will be useful for postgraduate students."--Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-329) and index.

"This accessible text presents a comprehensive and integrated scheme for preparing research designs and proposals for students in the social sciences. The book is concerned with the planning of social research projects rather than how to conduct them, and in the process it connects the techniques of research with key methodological issues in the social sciences." "The author places particular emphasis on the formulation of research questions and the selection of appropriate research strategies (logics of enquiry) to answer them. He argues that other design decisions, such as the selection of data sources and methods of data collection and analysis, must be made in the light of the particular assumptions associated with each research strategy." "This book will be for social researchers, and will be useful for postgraduate students."--Jacket.