About the Book

A straightforward, comprehensive, and approachable guide to research as practiced by social scientists, the Thirteenth Edition of Babbies "gold-standard" text gives you the tools you need to apply research concepts practically, as both a researcher and a consumer. Babbie emphasizes the process by showing you how to design and construct projects, introducing the various observation modes in use today, and answering critical questions about research methods--such as how to conduct online surveys and analyze both qualitative and quantitative data. This gives students the tools they need to apply research concepts practically, as both researchers and consumers.

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Contents

Part 1: An Introduction to Inquiry

1. Science and Social Research

2. Social Inquiry: Ethics and Politics

3. Inquiry, Theory, and Paradigms

Part 2: The Structuring of Inquiry: Quantitative and Qualitative

4. Purpose and Design of Research Projects

5. Sampling Logic

6. From Concept of Measurement

7. Typologies, Indexes, and Scales

Part 3: Modes of Observation: Quantitative and Qualitative

8. Surveys

9. Experiments and Experimentation

10. Unobtrusive Measures

11. Paradigms, Methods, and Ethics of Qualitative Field Research

12. Evaluation Research: Types, Methods, and Issues

Part 4: Analysis of Data: Quantitative and Qualitative

13. Analyzing Qualitative Data

14. Analyzing Quantitative Data

15. Origins and Paradigm of the Elaboration Model

16. Methods of Statistical Analysis

17. Consuming and Creating Social Research

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About the Author / Editor

Earl R. Babbie graduated from Harvard University before enlisting in the U.S. Marine Corps. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and began teaching shortly thereafter. Credited with defining research methods for the social sciences, Dr. Babbie has written several texts.

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