Understanding and Doing Successful Research

Research Methods is an essential guide to carrying out a research project. Each of the focused chapters introduces and explains an aspect of social research to readers who may have no experience or knowledge of this subject. The emphasis is on 'how to do' various different methods, how to decide which is the most appropriate, and how to analyse the data. The book also includes examples of good practice from a range of social science disciplines.Chapter 1: Getting Started Chapter 2: The Ethics of Social Research Chapter 3: Searching and reviewing the literature Chapter 4: Secondary Analysis - research using other people's data Chapter 5: Interviews Chapter 6: The Case Study Chapter 7: Ethnographic Approaches Chapter 8: Observation, Participant Observation and Observational Inference Chapter 9: Biographical and Auto-Biographical Research Chapter 10: Documentary and Narrative Analysis Chapter 11: Measurement and Statistical Inference Chapter 12: What is a sample survey? Chapter 13: Mixed Methods Research Chapter 14: Evaluation Research and Experiments Chapter 15: Successfully completing the project