Methods: Doing Social Research

In this thoroughly updated new edition of one of the few Canadian research methods texts published for undergraduate courses, sufficient information is provided to give students an inclusive, generous view of the full range of social science approaches and research designs, both quantitative and qualitative.

In this thoroughly updated new edition of one of the few Canadian research methods texts published for undergraduate courses, sufficient information is provided to give students an inclusive, generous view of the full range of social science approaches and research designs, both quantitative and qualitative.

Some features of the 4^th edition:

• Special emphasis is given to helping students ‘learn-by-doing’, with practical steps, rules, and procedures to guide those engaged in small-scale research projects and report writing.
• In the “Social Researchers at Work” boxes and the new “Student Researchers at Work” boxes, the authors provide many relevant and interesting examples of actual research, mostly Canadian, by professional social scientists and by students.
• A new chapter, Critical Approaches to Research, addresses applied research, introducing institutional ethnography, action research and feminist research, and reflecting current academic trends in Canada.
• An appendix explains how to process data using SPSS .

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Value Pack Option

Research Navigator^TM gives excellent advice on searching the Web, writing a research paper, avoiding plagiarism, and following proper citation rules. It also includes online access 24/7 to Ebsco’s Content Select database of articles from leading academic journals. A copy of the PH Guide to Research Navigator^TM , with an access code inside good for 12 months, can be packaged with this textbook at no additional cost–a  $12.00 value.  Instructors who wish to take advantage of this special offer can make package arrangements through a Pearson Canada representative.

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