Practical Social Research: Project Work in the Community

✍ Scribed by David Hall, Irene Hall (auth.), Jo Campling (eds.)

• Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 317
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction and Acknowledgements....Pages 1-5
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Philosophy and Practice of Applied Social Research....Pages 9-27
Issues in Methodology....Pages 28-55
Negotiating an Agreement....Pages 56-75
From Agreement to Research Brief....Pages 76-94
Front Matter....Pages 95-95
Producing Data: the Questionnaire....Pages 97-128
Data Analysis: the Questionnaire....Pages 129-155
Recording Data: Ethnography....Pages 156-188
Analysing Ethnographic Data....Pages 189-211
Documentary and Other Sources....Pages 212-227
Front Matter....Pages 229-229
Presenting the Client Report....Pages 231-256
Presenting the Methodology or Reflexive Report....Pages 257-278
Back Matter....Pages 279-305

✦ Subjects

Methodology of the Social Sciences; Politics of the Welfare State; Social Policy; Social Work; Sociology, general