a beginner's guide to doing a research project Flick, Uwe 1956- creator text bibliography cau Thousand Oaks, Calif Sage Publications c2011 2011 monographic eng ger

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xx, 271 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. 'Introducing Research Methodology' gives readers the fundamental data collection and analysis skills that they need for their first project, as well as a good understanding of the research process as a whole. PART ONE: ORIENTATION -- Why Social Research? -- From Research Idea to Research Question -- Reading and Reviewing the Literature -- PART TWO: PLANNING AND DESIGN -- Planning Social Research: Steps of the Research Process -- Designing Social Research -- Deciding Your Methods -- PART THREE: WORKING WITH DATA -- Gathering Data: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches -- Analyzing Quantitative and Qualitative Data -- E-Research: Doing Social Research Online -- Integrated Social Research: Combination of Different Approaches -- PART FOUR: REFLECTION AND WRITING -- What Is Good Research? Evaluating Your Research Project -- Ethical Issues in Social Research -- Writing Research and Using Results Uwe Flick. Includes bibliographical references (p. [256]-263) and index. Originally published in German: Reinbek bei Hamburg : Rowohlt Verlag, c2009, under title: Sozialforschung : Methoden und Anwendungen. Social sciences Research Research Methodology H62 .F45713 2011 001.42 under title: 9781849207812 184920781X 1849207801 9781849207805 2010936663 BTCTA 100908 20180117090029.0 16450038 eng