Introduction to Social Research: With Applications to the Caribbean - Softcover

Ian Boxill (author); Claudia Chambers (author) & Eleanor Wint (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9768125225 ISBN 13: 9789768125224

Publisher: The University of the West Indies Press, 1997

Synopsis

A comprehensive guide to the fundamentals of social research with a Caribbean focus, this publication draws on similar works in the long line of literature by Caribbean social scientists. The areas covered include the research process and conceptual issues in social research; the structure of the enquiry process; different methods of observation; techniques for analysing and presenting data; ethical and political issues in social research.

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About the Authors

Ian Boxill is Lecturer in Research Methods in Sociology at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica. Boxill has published numerous regional and international journals, and is the author of Ideology and Caribbean Integration (1993) and co-editor of Human Resource Management: A Caribbean Perspective (1995). His research interests include culture, development and epistemology.

Claudia Chambers is Research Psychologist and Managing Director of PSEARCH Associates, a private research company based in Jamaica. She has conducted numerous studies related to communication, food and nutrition, health, marketing, and other population and sociocultural issues over the past 15 years. Chambers has special skills in qualitative and participatory methods, which have also been regularly applied to survey questionnaire design.

Eleanor Wint is currently Senior Lecturer at the University of Natal, Durban, South Africa. She was formerly Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Work at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica, where her main focus as coordinator of the Social Work programme at that time was the development of innovative teaching skills and outreach programmes utilizing the discipline of social work.

Edition details

• Publisher: The University of the West Indies Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9768125225
• ISBN 13: 9789768125224
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 167