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Introducing Research Methodology Uwe Flick

Introducing Research Methodology By Uwe Flick

Introducing Research Methodology by Uwe Flick


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Provides the fundamental data collection and analysis skills that first time researchers need, as well as a good understanding of the research process as a whole.

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Introducing Research Methodology: A Beginner's Guide to Doing a Research Project by Uwe Flick

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In the Second Edition of this textbook designed for new researchers, Uwe Flick takes readers through the process of producing a research project. The book 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. It covers both quantitative and qualitative methods, and contains plenty of real-life examples from the author's own research.

The book will help readers to answer questions such as:

  • why do social research in the first place?
  • how do I develop a researchable question?
  • what is a literature review and how do I conduct one?
  • how could I collect and analyze data?
  • what if I want to do my research online?

Introducing Research Methodology Reviews

What a wonderful guidebook for social science research. It leads the student from basic reflection on why to conduct social research, through epistemological tensions and ethical issues to the logistics of conducting different forms of social research. It is carefully structured with lots of examples of contemporary research coupled with details of classic work. It should both enthuse and guide the beginning researcher while providing support to the more experienced scholar. A required textbook for the social science bookshelf.

-- Michael Murray

This is a clearly written, step-by-step guide that will help those carrying out a first social research project a great deal, and which will also be used by more experienced practitioners to supplement their knowledge. The author's own experience of research projects, and of teaching methods, is extensive. He draws on this to provide invaluable guidance, covering all the main approaches likely to be of use in carrying out a project, at a level that is at once accessible and impressively practical. I look forward to recommending this book to my students.

-- Clive Seale
This book provides an extremely useful guide to the basics of research, such as the fundamental characteristics of quantitative and qualitative research and their associated research questions. It is written in an accessible style without the complicated use of terms and details that often shroud research methods books. It is orientated toward the beginner who may not be familiar with the language of quantitative and qualitative research and who may be an undergraduate in the social sciences. It balances nicely attention to both quantitative and qualitative research, providing legitimacy for both approaches.
-- John Creswell

About Uwe Flick

Uwe Flick is Senior Professor of Qualitative Research in Social Science and Education at the Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany. He is a trained psychologist and sociologist and received his PhD from the Freie Universitat Berlin in 1988 and his Habilitation from the Technical University Berlin in 1994. He has been Professor of Qualitative Research at Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, Germany and at the University of Vienna, Austria. Previously, he was Adjunct Professor at the Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's, Canada; a Lecturer in research methodology at the Free University of Berlin; a Reader and Assistant Professor in qualitative methods and evaluation at the Technical University of Berlin; and Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Medical Sociology at the Hannover Medical School. He has held visiting appointments at the London School of Economics, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, Cambridge University (UK), Memorial University of St John's (Canada), University of Lisbon (Portugal), Institute of Higher Studies in Vienna, in Italy and Sweden, and the School of Psychology at Massey University, Auckland (New Zealand). His main research interests are qualitative methods, social representations in the fields of individual and public health, vulnerability in fields like youth homelessness or (forced) migration. He is the editor of The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Data Analysis (Sage, 2014), The SAGE Qualitative Research Kit (Sage, 2nd edn, 2018), A Companion to Qualitative Research (Sage, 2004), Psychology of the Social (Cambridge University Press, 1998). His most recent publications are Doing Grounded Theory (Sage, 2018), Doing Triangulation and Mixed Methods (Sage, 2018), The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Data Collection (editor, Sage, 2018), the third edition of Introducing Research Methodology - Thinking Your Way through Your Research Project (Sage, 2020) and Doing Interview Research - The Essential How To Guide (Sage 2021), The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research Design (editor, Sage, 2022), and the seventh edition of An Introduction to Qualitative Research (Sage, 2022). In 2019, Uwe Flick received the Lifetime Award in Qualitative Inquiry at the 15th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.

Table of Contents

Part I: Orientation Chapter 1: Why Social Research? Chapter 2: Worldviews in Social Research Chapter 3: Ethical Issues in Social Research Chapter 4: From Research Idea to Research Question Part II: Planning and Design Chapter 5: Reading and Reviewing the Literature Chapter 6: Planning Social Research: Steps in the Research Process Chapter 7: Designing Social Research Chapter 8: Deciding on Your Methods Part III: Working with Data Chapter 9: Collecting Quantitative and Qualitative Data Chapter 10: Analyzing Quantitative and Qualitative Data Chapter 11: E-Research: Doing Social Research Online Chapter 12: Triangulation and Mixed Methods Part IV: Reflection and Writing Chapter 13: What is Good Research? Evaluating Your Research Project Chapter 14: Writing Research and Using Results

Additional information

GOR006674549
9781446294246
1446294242
Introducing Research Methodology: A Beginner's Guide to Doing a Research Project by Uwe Flick
Used - Very Good
Paperback
SAGE Publications Ltd
20150330
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