This book is designed to introduce doctoral and graduate students to the process of conducting scientific research in the social sciences, business, education,
Providing an introductory overview of the process of social research, and including classic readings in research methods that all students and researchers shoul
Recently, social science has had numerous episodes of influential research that was found invalid when placed under rigorous scrutiny. The growing sense that ma
Quantitative social science research has been expanding due to the ava- ability of computers and data over the past few decades. Yet the textbooks and supplemen
This introductory text presents basic principles of social science research through maps, graphs, and diagrams. The authors show how concept maps and mind maps