TY - BOOK AU - Babbie, Earl. TI - The practice of social research SN - 9781305104945 U1 - 300.72 BAB 2016 PY - 2016/// CY - Boston, MA: PB - Cengage Learning, KW - Social sciences -- KW - Methodology KW - Research N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 535-548) and index; An introduction to inquiry: Human inquiry and science ; Paradigms, theory, and social research ; The ethics and politics of social research -- The structuring of inquiry : quantitative and qualitative: Research design ; Conceptualization, operationalization, and measurement ; Indexes, scales, and typologies ; The logic of sampling -- Modes of operation : quantitative and qualitative: Experiments ; Survey research ; Qualitative field research ; Unobtrusive research ; Evaluation research -- Analysis of data : quantitative and qualitative: Qualitative data analysis ; Quantitative data analysis ; The logic of multivariate analysis ; Statistical analyses ; Reading and writing social research ER -