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This critically acclaimed book serves a timely purpose by addressing the ever-important need to develop critical thinking skills. Major advances in the social sciences in recent years have been incorporated in an explicit discussion of quasi-experimental research design, including an added distinction between equivalent- and nonequivalent-group experiments, and revised explanations of the logic of multiple regression analysis, causal modeling, and meta-analysis, all new to this edition. The authors retain their firm philosophical grounding in the positivist tradition, arguing around the central concepts of "statement of fact" and "scientific evidence."
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Paul C. Stern, Committee of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council. Linda Kalof, Professor of Sociology, George Mason University.
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"I wish I had read this book when I was a first-year graduate student! Rarely have I seen a book that is so explicit about teaching how to distinguish between opinion and scientific evidence. The eight-step method for 'asking an answerable question' (appendix) will be the model for all of my
undergraduate researchers."--Lisa Coates-Shrider, McMurray University
"The straightforward exercises and tables alone make this a useful text for undergraduates."--Michael McWuestion, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Praise for the previous edition:
"Fills a gap in the instructional literature available in research methods. Students come out of most research methods courses long on terms and procedures but short on an understanding of the purpose of social research and bases for evaluating it. This nifty little volume goes a long way
toward overcoming that problem....does a better job of accomplishing its goal than any other book with a similar purpose that I have seen."--Contemporary Sociology
"Charts a new course in teaching research methods by showing students how to distinguish between good-bad and useful-trivial research findings....will be especially useful for those who teach young students in the social sciences the pitfalls and excitement of discovering knowledge about the
human condition."--Contemporary Psychology
undergraduate researchers."--Lisa Coates-Shrider, McMurray University
"The straightforward exercises and tables alone make this a useful text for undergraduates."--Michael McWuestion, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Praise for the previous edition:
"Fills a gap in the instructional literature available in research methods. Students come out of most research methods courses long on terms and procedures but short on an understanding of the purpose of social research and bases for evaluating it. This nifty little volume goes a long way
toward overcoming that problem....does a better job of accomplishing its goal than any other book with a similar purpose that I have seen."--Contemporary Sociology
"Charts a new course in teaching research methods by showing students how to distinguish between good-bad and useful-trivial research findings....will be especially useful for those who teach young students in the social sciences the pitfalls and excitement of discovering knowledge about the
human condition."--Contemporary Psychology
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0195079698
- ISBN 13 9780195079692
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number2
- Number of pages279
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