This user-friendly book provides a step-by-step guide to using the five major approaches to research design: quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods, arts-based, and community-based participatory research. Chapters on each approach follow a unique format–they present a template for a research proposal and explain in detail how to conceptualize and fill in every section. Terminology commonly used within each approach is identified, and key moments of ethical decision making are fl...
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I. The Nuts and Bolts of Research Design 1. Introduction to Social Research 2. Ethics in Social Research 3. Getting Started Designing a Project II. Five Approache...
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Patricia Leavy, Ph D, is an independent sociologist and former Chair of Sociology and Criminology and Founding Director of Gender Studies at Stonehill College in Easto...