Doing Social Research: a Service Book For Preparing Dissertation

Language: English. About The Book: The book Doing Social Research: A Source Book for Preparing Dissertation meets the long felt need of a comprehensive and uptodate book on preparing dissertation. The book provides for the basics of social research and highlights the intricacies of various stages of preparation of dissertation for a postgraduate and doctoral degree. The focus of the book is on operational aspects of dissertation. The book answers well to the related questions to meet the quality of a dissertation at length the following questions about Doing Social Research: How to select a research Problem? How to identify objectives of the study? How to formulate hypothesis? How to select a sample? How to construct a research instrument? How to process data? How to analyse data? How to write a research report? About The Author: Dr. D.K. Lal Das, is Director, Research Centre, R.M. College of Social Work, Hyderabad. Prior to the present assignment, Dr. Lal Das was Principal at the College. Dr. Lal Das, a social work research educator, has had a career long interest in research education and practice. He has been teaching research courses to graduate, postgraduate and research students for over three decades. Dr. Lal Das has a number of books and research papers to his credit. He has authored six books so far in the areas of personnel management and research. His first fullscale venture into social research was "Practice of Social Research: A Social Work Perspective." The book has received widespread adoption at both the graduate and the postgraduate levels. Dr. Lals Das published more than 20 research papers in major referred journals including Indian Journal of Social Work, Indian Journal of Industrial Relations, Social Change, Loyola Journal of Social Sciences, and Contemporary Social Work. In addition, he has also presented numerous referred articles in the major national and international Conferences. He has directed more than 30 research projects sponsored by national and international governmental and nongovernmental organizations including UNICEF, AusAID, NAAP, World Bank, CARE ministry of Social justice and Empowerment, Government of India, Ministry of Women and Child Welfare, Government of A.P. Many of the examples in this text come from these research projects. CONTENTS: Preface Acknowledgments List of Tables List of Figures List of Boxes Introduction to Social Research Formulation of Research Problem Selection of Research Design Seletion of Sample Selection of Tools of Data Collection Data Processing Analysis of Data Selection and Application of Statistical Measeres Writing of Research Report Appendices Bibliography Index. The Title 'Doing Social Research: a Service Book For Preparing Dissertation written/authored/edited by D.K. Lal Das', published in the year 2024. The ISBN 9789357229104 is assigned to the Paperback version of this title. This book has total of pp. 384 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Kalpaz Publications. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Sociology. Size of the book is 13.34 x 21.59 cms Vol: 384.…