The Research Imagination研究想象力
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作者： Paul S. Gray著
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出版时间： 2007-8-1字数：版次： 1页数： 456印刷时间： 2007/08/01开本： 16开印次： 1纸张： 铜版纸I S B N ： 9780521705554包装： 平装编辑推荐
作者简介
Professor Paul S. Gray (BA Princeton, MA Education, Stanford) received his Ph.D. from Yale and has taught at Boston College for 32 years. In addition to teaching, Gray also works as a business consultant specializing in leadership development and corporate citizenship. Gray is the Faculty Chair of Leadership for Change associated with Boston College's Carroll School of Management. Gray has conducted research on topics as diverse as higher education in Massachusetts and labor unions in Africa. His research has been published in Symbolic Interaction, Industrial Relations, and the Journal of African Studies.
Professor John B. Williamson (BS Humanities and Science, MIT, Ph.D. Social Psychology, Harvard) has taught at Boston College since 1969. He has written or co-written 15 books and over 100 journal articles and book chapters, and his writing has appeared in American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Social Problems, Social Forces, Demography, International Social Security Review, the Gerontologist, Journal of Aging Studies, the International Journal of Aging and Human Development, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, and Sociological Quarterly. He is on the board of multiple journals and societies related to the study of sociology and aging. His current research concerns the comparative international study of social security systems.
Professor David A. Karp (BA Harvard, PhD New York University) has taught sociology at Boston College for 30 years. Karp's 1996 work, Speaking of Sadness was the 1996 winner of the Charles Horton Cooley Award from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. His most recent research uses qualitative methods to explore the moral boundaries of caring in emotional illness and conflict, and seeks to discover the cultural resources people draw upon when confronted with this dilemma.
Professor John R. Dalphin received his undergraduate degree from Holy Cross College and both his MA and PhD in sociology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has taught at Merrimack College for over 30 years, teaching courses in population problems, research methodology, social class, and social inequality. He is also the author of a book on the perpetuation of class inequality entitled The Persistence of Social Inequality in America. Professor Dalphin is a member of the American Sociological Association and the New England Sociological Association.
内容简介
The idea that science is a blueprint for research, and imagination gives research its life and purpose inspired this comprehensive explanation of research methodology. This book covers a wide variety of data-collection techniques, but presents them as reinforcing, rather than competing with, one another, thus striking a balance between qualitative and quantitative methods.
目录
1 RESEARCH PROCESS
2 THEORY AND METHOD
3 RESEARCH DESIGN
4 MEASUREMENT
5 ETHICAL AND POLITICAL ISSUES
6 SAMPLING
7 SURVEY RESEARCH
8 INTENSIVE INTERVIEWING
9 OBSERVATIONAL FIELD RESEARCH
10 FEMINIST METHODS
11 HISTORICAL ANALYSIS
12 EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH
13 CONTENT ANALYSIS
14 AGGREGATE DATA ANALYSIS
15 COMPARATIVE RESEARCH METHODS
16 EVALUATION RESEARCH
17 INDEXES AND SCALES
18 BASIC STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
19 MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS AND STATISTICAL
SIGNIFICANCE
EPILOGUE: THE VALUE AND LIMITS OF SOCIAL
SCIENCE KNOWLEDGE
