Researching Social Life - Softcover

 
9780803986824: Researching Social Life
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0803986823 ISBN 13: 9780803986824
Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1993

Inhaltsangabe

This comprehensive and authoritative introductory student textbook covers the most widely used methods of social research, both quantitative and qualitative, emphasizing the connections between these forms of research and their theoretical underpinnings. The contributors draw from their own extensive research experience to illustrate the practical advice offered. A number of research projects are described in detail to illustrate methodological issues covered in the book.

Researching Social Life outlines the main ways in which data are gathered, collated, managed and analyzed. It describes a range of ways to analyze data, such as survey methods, ethnography, documentary research, the secondary analysis of survey data

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Nigel Gilbert is Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey, Guildford, England. He is the author or editor of 34 books and many academic papers and was the founding editor of the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. His current research focuses on the application of agent-based models to understanding social and economic phenomena, especially the emergence of norms, culture, and innovation. He obtained a doctorate in the sociology of scientific knowledge in 1974 from the University of Cambridge and has subsequently taught at the universities of York and Surrey in England. He is one of the pioneers in the field of social simulation and is past president of the European Social Simulation Association. He is a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences and of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

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Verlag
SAGE Publications Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
1993
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0803986823
ISBN 13 
9780803986824
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
366
Herausgeber
Gilbert G. Nigel, Gilbert Nigel
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