Test Bank for Research Methods in the Social Sciences 8th Edition by Frankfort Nachmias, Chava ISBN 1464187800 9781464187803

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ISBN 10: 1464187800
ISBN 13: 9781464187803
Author: Frankfort Nachmias, Chava

With its clear presentation and integration of detailed real-world examples, the acclaimed Research Methods in the Social Sciences accessibly illustrates the relevance of social sciences research without sacrificing key content. The eighth edition includes engaging new studies and examples that explore the use of Twitter feeds in social sciences research, the effect of climate change on human conflict, the use of rational intuition in explaining the Chelyabinsk meteor explosion, and much more. The eighth edition also includes new and expanded coverage of conducting qualitative research, as well as conducting research in our digital age, including the use of the Internet and various computer software packages for retrieving, cleaning, coding, and analyzing “big data.”

Research Methods in the Social Sciences 8th Table of contents:

PART I: FOUNDATIONS OF EMPIRICAL RESEARCH

• CHAPTER 1: THE SCIENTIFIC APPROACH

  • What is Science?
  • Approaches to Knowledge
  • Basic Assumptions of Science
  • Aims of the Social Sciences
  • The Roles of Methodology
  • Scientific Revolutions
  • The Research Process
  • The Plan of this Book

• CHAPTER 2: CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS OF RESEARCH

  • Concepts
  • Definitions
  • Theory: Functions and Types
  • Models
  • Theory, Models, and Empirical Research

• CHAPTER 3: ELEMENTS OF RESEARCH

  • Research Problems
  • Units of Analysis
  • Variables
  • Relations
  • Hypotheses
  • Research Questions and Hypotheses: An Example

• CHAPTER 4: ETHICS IN SOCIAL SCIENCES RESEARCH

  • Why Research Ethics?
  • Balancing Costs and Benefits
  • Informed Consent
  • Privacy
  • Professional Codes of Ethics

PART II: DESIGN AND STRUCTURE OF RESEARCH

• CHAPTER 5: RESEARCH DESIGNS: EXPERIMENTS

  • Classic Experimental Research Design
  • Causal Inferences
  • Components of a Research Design
  • Design Types

• CHAPTER 6: RESEARCH DESIGNS: CROSS-SECTIONAL AND QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNS

  • Types of Relations and Designs
  • Cross-Sectional Designs
  • Quasi-Experimental Designs
  • Combined Designs
  • Pre-Experimental Designs
  • A Comparison of Designs

• CHAPTER 7: MEASUREMENT

  • The Process of Measurement
  • Levels of Measurement
  • Data Transformation
  • Measurement Error
  • Validity
  • Reliability

• CHAPTER 8: SAMPLING AND SAMPLE DESIGNS

  • Aims of Sampling
  • The Population
  • Sample Designs
  • Sample Size
  • Non-Sampling Errors

PART III: DATA COLLECTION

• CHAPTER 9: OBSERVATIONAL METHODS

  • Triangulation
  • Roles of Observation
  • Types of Behavior
  • Timing and Recording
  • Inference in the Course of Observation
  • Controlled Observation

• CHAPTER 10: SURVEY RESEARCH

  • Mail Questionnaire
  • Personal Interview
  • Telephone Interview
  • Online Surveys, Live Feeds, and Big Data
  • Comparing the Four Survey Methods
  • Conclusion

• CHAPTER 11: QUESTIONNAIRE CONSTRUCTION

  • The Question
  • Content of Questions
  • Types of Questions
  • Question Format
  • Sequence of Questions
  • Avoiding Bias: Pitfalls in Questionnaire Construction
  • Introductions
  • Instructions
  • Constructing a Questionnaire: A Case Study

• CHAPTER 12: QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

  • Field Research
  • Participant Observation
  • Ethnography
  • The Practice of Qualitative Research
  • Blue-Collar Community: Qualitative Research in Practice
  • Ethical and Political Issues of Qualitative Research

• CHAPTER 13: SECONDARY DATA AND CONTENT ANALYSIS

  • Why Secondary Data Analysis?
  • Searching and Sourcing Secondary Data
  • Content Analysis

PART IV: DATA PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS

• CHAPTER 14: DATA PREPARATION AND ANALYSIS

  • Coding Schemes
  • Codebook Construction
  • Computing in Social Sciences Research

• CHAPTER 15: THE UNIVARIATE DISTRIBUTION

  • The Role of Statistics
  • Frequency Distributions
  • Using Graphs to Describe Distributions
  • Measures of Central Tendency
  • Basic Measures of Dispersion
  • Measures of Dispersion Based on the Mean
  • Types of Frequency Distributions

• CHAPTER 16: BIVARIATE ANALYSIS

  • The Concept of Relationship
  • Nominal Measures of Relationship
  • Ordinal Measures of Relationship
  • Interval Measures of Relationship

• CHAPTER 17: MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS

  • Analyzing Multiple Variables
  • Examining Relationships Among Variables
  • Statistical Procedures

• CHAPTER 18: INDEX CONSTRUCTION AND SCALING METHODS

  • Index Construction
  • Scaling Methods

• CHAPTER 19: INFERENCES

  • The Strategy of Testing Hypotheses
  • Null and Research Hypotheses
  • Sampling Distribution
  • Level of Significance and Region of Rejection
  • Parametric and Nonparametric Tests of Significance

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