Qualitative Research Methods for the Social Sciences - Softcover

Berg, Bruce L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0205318479 ISBN 13: 9780205318476

Publisher: Pearson, 2000

Synopsis

This book offers the most comprehensive and straightforward coverage of doing qualitative research on the market, now with a new chapter on Action Research.

The author's central purpose remains a desire to instruct inexperienced researchers in ways of effectively collecting, organizing, and making sense of qualitative data, while stressing the importance of ethics in research and in taking the time to properly design and think through any research endeavor. After reading this book, fledgling researchers should be able to design, collect, and analyze data and then present their results to the scientific community.

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From the Back Cover:

This text uses hands-on activities and real-life examples to show novice researchers how to design, collect, and analyze qualitative data, and then present their results to the scientific community.  It also stresses the importance of ethics in research and taking the time to properly design and think through any research endeavor.

 

The Seventh Edition includes new and expanded discussions of many research strategies, including concept mapping, critical ethnography, action research, and visual ethnography.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0205318479
• ISBN 13: 9780205318476
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 304