TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bailey,Kenneth D.
TI  - Methods of social research
SN  - 0029012791 [hardbound]
PY  - 1994///
CY  - New York
PB  - The Free Press
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Methodology
N1  - Contents: Part one: Principles of social research -- 1 The research process -- 2 Choosing the research problem -- 3 Constructing social explanation -- 4 Measurement -- Part two: Survey research methods -- 5 Survey sampling -- 6 Questionnaire construction -- 7  Mailed questionnaires -- 8 Interview studies -- Part three: Nonsurvey data collection techniques -- 9 Experiments -- 10 Observation -- 11 Ethnomethodology -- 12 Document study -- 13 Simulation and games -- Part four: Data reduction, analysis, interpretation and application -- 14 Coding and data reduction -- 15 Scaling -- 16 Analysis, presentation, and interpretation of data -- 17 Exclusionary research methods -- 18 Ethics in social research -- 19 Applications -- 20 Constructing and revising complex theories
ER  -