Doing Social Research - Softcover

Cargan, Leonard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0742547159 ISBN 13: 9780742547155

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007

Synopsis

Doing Social Research is an easy-to-understand guidebook for readers who have little or no knowledge of the social research process. Written in a clear, straightforward style, this book presents the various topics of social research in the outline form of all sociological research articles, providing a concise overview of the most important elements of social research. As an added bonus, synopses of classical studies introduce readers to the early pioneers of social research.

About this title

About the Author:

Leonard Cargan is emeritus professor of sociology at Wright State University.

Review:

The book is a topical and well thought-out text that is accessible to students. It brings up important ethical and practical issues of interest to anyone doing research (or teaching it), and it has better balance among methods and treats observation in good detail. I look forward to using it myself in the social research methods course for undergraduates and in the first of the required graduate courses. One of the strengths of this book lies in the organization of the material. Cargan builds well thecentral concepts and ideas and then elaborates on the more technical aspects of research in the latter chapters. His ability to skillfully introduce central concepts and then immediately explain what he means by them should put at ease those students whoare fearful or may feel challenged by a methods text .. (Cristina Bodinger-deUriarte, California State University, Los Angeles)

The book is a topical and well thought-out text that is accessible to students. It brings up important ethical and practical issues of interest to anyone doing research (or teaching it), and it has better balance among methods and treats observation in good detail. I look forward to using it myself in the social research methods course for undergraduates and in the first of the required graduate courses.One of the strengths of this book lies in the organization of the material. Cargan builds well the central concepts and ideas and then elaborates on the more technical aspects of research in the latter chapters. His ability to skillfully introduce central concepts and then immediately explain what he means by them should put at ease those students who are fearful or may feel challenged by a methods text . (Cristina Bodinger-deUriarte, California State University, Los Angeles)

About this edition

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0742547159
• ISBN 13: 9780742547155
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 362