How to do your Social Research Project or Dissertation (1st edn)
Published in Print:01 October 2019 Published Online:October 2019
ISBN:9780198811060
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Abstract
How to do your Social Research Project or Dissertation looks to help readers to navigate research for a project or dissertation. It starts with an introduction to the research process and how to get started. It examines the process of developing an idea. It reviews the available literature. It then considers how to build upon the project idea, the ethical issues, and how to write a proposal. Next it considers sampling, and collecting and analyzing quantitative and qualitative data. Finally, it describes how to evaluate the project and the process of writing up.
Keywords:
research, dissertation, project, ethical issues, proposal, sampling, quantitative data, qualitative dataSubjects:
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Contents
- Front Matter
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Social Research Process
- 3. Getting Started
- 4. Developing a Research Idea
- 5. Conducting a Literature Search
- 6. Reviewing the Literature
- 7. Building Your Project
- 8. Ethics
- 9. Writing a Research Proposal
- 10. Sampling
- 11. Collecting Quantitative Data
- 12. Collecting Qualitative Data
- 13. Analysing Quantitative Data
- 14. Analysing Qualitative Data
- 15. Working with Documents
- 16. Evaluating Your Project
- 17. Writing Up
- End Matter
© Tom Clark, Liam Foster, and Alan Bryman 2019
