The Practice of Social Research - Standalone Book

NOTE: This book is a standalone book and will not include any access codes.

A straightforward, comprehensive, and approachable guide to research as practiced by social scientists, the Fourteenth Edition of this \"gold-standard\" book gives readers the tools they need to apply research concepts practically, as both a researcher and a consumer. The author emphasizes the process by showing readers how to design and construct projects, introducing the various observation modes in use today, and answering critical questions about research methods-such as how to conduct online surveys and analyze both qualitative and quantitative data.

• Applying Communication Theory for Professional Life: A Practical Introduction (NULL)
• Questioning Numbers: How to Read and Critique Research
• Adventures in Social Research: Data Analysis Using IBM SPSS Statistics (NULL)
• Contemporary Sociological Theory and Its Classical Roots: The Basics (NULL)
• Criminological Theory: Past to Present: Essential Readings
• Designing and Managing Programs: An Effectiveness-Based Approach (SAGE Sourcebooks for the Human Services)
• Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory: Text and Readings
• The Essentials of Statistics: A Tool for Social Research
• Criminology: The Core
• Correctional Theory: Context and Consequences (NULL)