Applied Social Research
A Tool for the Human Services
7th Edition
Published on 12. March 2007
Book
Hardback
576 pages
978-0-495-39246-0 (ISBN)
Description
You may be wondering why you need to study research methods to prepare yourself for a career in human services. This accessible text will help you to better understand the connection between human service research and practice. Find out the growing number of ways that research is being applied to practice today. With "Applied Social Research", you'll see how research and practice are linked and explore how technology devices such as cell phones, PDAs, and computers are affecting research technology.
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Edition
7th Revised ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Belmont, CA
United States
Publishing group
Cengage Learning, Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
ISBN-13
978-0-495-39246-0 (9780495392460)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
1. Research in the Human Services. 2. The Logic of Social Research. 3. Ethical Issues in Social Research. 4. Issues in Problem Formulation. 5. The Process of Measurement. 6. Sampling. 7. Survey Research. 8. Analysis of Available Data. 9. Field Research and Qualitative Methods. 10. Experimental Research. 11. Single-System Designs. 12. Evaluation Research. 13. Scaling. 14. Data Analysis I: Data Preparation and Presentation. 15. Data Analysis II: Descriptive and Inferential Statistics. 16. Analysis of Qualitative Data. 17. Writing for Research: Grant Proposals and Report Writing.