The Practice of Social Research - Hardcover

Babbie, Earl

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0534574742 ISBN 13: 9780534574741

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc, 2000

Synopsis

In this edition of the most comprehensive, authoritative research methods text on the market, Earl Babbie offers the most cutting-edge and thorough revision ever. The new edition retains the strengths that made it the best-selling text in the market while seamlessly integrating qualitative material throughout and adding an additional chapter on Qualitative Data Analysis (13). The book is known for being straightforward, with a broad set of topics. It has great illustrations, comprehensive overviews, detailed discussions, brief outlines, and a concrete, well-defined chapter structure. Its reputation for being very readable continues through its use of minimum jargon and math, along with use of humor throughout.

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"My students are impressed with Babbie's clear style of writing. For me, the greatest strengths of the book are the early chapters on conceptualization, measurements, and operationalization. No one else comes close to Babbie in handling this material properly."

Synopsis:

A text for an undergraduate course. Learning features include main points, key terms, review questions and exercises, and Internet activities, as well as unique "holographic overviews," presenting the whole book in one sentence, in a paragraph, in a page, and finally with a few paragraphs per chapter. This ninth edition strengthens treatment of qua

About this edition

• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0534574742
• ISBN 13: 9780534574741
• Binding: Hardcover