Designing social research : the logic of anticipation / Norman Blaikie and Jan Priest.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge: Polity/ c2019.Edition: 3rd edDescription: x, 351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN: - 9781509517404 (hardback)
- 9781509517411 (pbk.)
- 300.72 23 BLA-D 2019 815274
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- About the book -- Focusing research design -- Research questions and purposes -- Framing research design -- Logics for answering research questions -- Selecting research design -- Concepts, theories, hypotheses and models -- Types, forms, sources and selection of data -- Distilling research design -- Methods for answering research questions: data gathering, generation, reduction and analysis -- Researching networked worlds -- Design considerations -- Ethics considerations -- Illustrations -- Sample research designs -- Postscript -- Appendix I: Three research paradigms -- Appendix II: Examples of research topics, problems and questions -- Notes -- References -- Index.