TY - BOOK AU - Flick,Uwe TI - Introducing research methodology: a beginner's guide to doing a research project SN - 9781849207812 AV - H62 .F45713 2011 U1 - 001.42 FLI/Int 22 PY - 2011/// CY - New Delhi. PB - Sage Publications KW - Social sciences KW - Research KW - Methodology N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [256]-263) and index; PART ONE: ORIENTATION -- Why Social Research? -- From Research Idea to Research Question -- Reading and Reviewing the Literature -- PART TWO: PLANNING AND DESIGN -- Planning Social Research: Steps of the Research Process -- Designing Social Research -- Deciding Your Methods -- PART THREE: WORKING WITH DATA -- Gathering Data: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches -- Analyzing Quantitative and Qualitative Data -- E-Research: Doing Social Research Online -- Integrated Social Research: Combination of Different Approaches -- PART FOUR: REFLECTION AND WRITING -- What Is Good Research? Evaluating Your Research Project -- Ethical Issues in Social Research -- Writing Research and Using Results; Originally published in German: Reinbek bei Hamburg : Rowohlt Verlag, c2009; under title; Sozialforschung : Methoden und Anwendungen N2 - 'Introducing Research Methodology' gives readers the fundamental data collection and analysis skills that they need for their first project, as well as a good understanding of the research process as a whole ER -