First Steps: A Guide To Social Research - Softcover

Del Balso, Michael; Lewis, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0176442669 ISBN 13: 9780176442668

Publisher: Nelson Canada, 2007

Synopsis

First Steps: A Guide to Social Research, Fourth Edition, encourages students to recognize the importance in learning about research methods both for academic purposes as well as to be a critical consumer of research results. It leverages students' personal interests, experiences and knowledge as starting points for learning and applying social science research skills. Michael Del Balso and Alan Lewis cover the entire research process, from formulating questions to writing reports. This text also stresses the important role of the Internet on current research, shows students how to search for and use Internet resources and shows how research methods are being adapted to the Internet. The authors emphasize Canadian examples throughout and sustain the reader's interest by using boxes, tables and newspaper excerpts to illustrate a variety of research techniques. With their hands-on, non-technical, multi-disciplined approach, the authors have created a text that actively involves the student in the research methods process.

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About the Author

Michael Del Balso is the Social Science program coordinator at Dawson College and has been chair of the Department of Sociology in the past. He currently serves on the senate at Dawson. He has a PhD from McGill and is currently doing research on the organizational features of ethno cultural minority communities in Montreal. Alan Lewis is the coordinator of Law and Society Profile at Dawson and has been a member of the Sociology Department since 1989. He has co-authored a book on Social Deviance with Michael Rosenberg. His area of research is in the area of post-structuralist and post-modernist debates on sociological theory.

Edition details

• Publisher: Nelson Canada
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0176442669
• ISBN 13: 9780176442668
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 302