This accessible text presents a comprehensive and integrated scheme
for preparing research designs and research proposals for students
in the social sciences. The book is concerned with planning social
research projects rather than how to conduct them and in the
process it connects the techniques of research with key
methodological issues in the social sciences.
The author places particular emphasis on the formulation of
research questions and the selection of appropriate research
strategies (logics of enquiry) to answer them. He argues that other
design decisions, such as the selection of data sources and methods
of data collection and analysis, must be made in the light of the
particular ontological and epistemological assumptions associated
with each research strategy.
The basic requirements for research designs and research
proposals are laid out at the beginning of the book, followed by
discussion of the major design elements, and the choices that need
to be made about them. Four sample research designs at the end of
the volume illustrate the use of the research strategies. The need
to achieve consistency in design decisions is stressed throughout
the book. The author includes a critical review of some
controversial issues, including the use of quantitative and
qualitative methods, the role of case studies, the appropriateness
of triangulation, the relevance of representative samples, and the
limited role for tests of significance.
This book will be essential reading for all social researchers,
but particularly for postgraduate students. It is a companion to
Blaikie's "Approaches to Social Enquiry,"
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